JOBS
Roman Art and Archaeology
Brock University, Department of Classics
The Department of Classics at Brock University invites applications for a
probationary tenured position at the rank of Associate Professor to begin
1 July 2008. The Department seeks a person with an outstanding research
profile in the visual and material culture of the Roman world. Applicants
whose interests lie in northern Africa, Cyprus, or the Western Empire are
especially encouraged to apply. The appointee should be actively involved
in the direction of archaeological fieldwork and expect to participate in
the Brock University Archaeological Practicum. Responsibilities will
include teaching two courses per semester in Roman art and archaeology,
senior and graduate level specialty seminars, supervising M.A. theses, and
may include teaching classical civilization and Latin courses. Applicants
should have a strong record of teaching and scholarly achievement.
Classics at Brock is currently a department of nine permanent faculty, and
almost 100 majors, teaching on a 2:2 load a variety of courses towards
pass and honours degrees in Classical Studies, Classical Languages, and
Ancient Art and Archaeology. In addition to these major programs, we offer
introductory courses in mythology and civilization to satisfy a general
requirement and first year language courses to satisfy a language
requirement (as well as Greek and Latin at all levels). The department
offers an M.A. degree in Classics and is active in Brock’s new Medieval
and Renaissance Studies program.
Review of applications will begin on 10 December 2007 and will continue
until the position is filled. Candidates should include a letter of
application accompanied by a curriculum vitae, evidence of successful
teaching, and a sample of scholarly writing. Please arrange for three
confidential letters of reference to be sent to: Dr Michael J. Carter,
Chair, Department of Classics, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Ave., St
Catharines, Ontario, CANADA. L2S 3A1. (905) 688-5550 x 3796 or x 3575;
fax: (905) 984-4859; email: [log in to unmask]
Members of the department will be available to meet with candidates at the
2008 Annual Meetings of the American Philological Association and the
Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago.
Brock University is actively committed to diversity and the principles of
Employment Equity and invites applications from all qualified candidates.
Women, Aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities, and people with
disabilities are especially encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self
identify as a member of a designated group as part of their application.
Candidates who wish to have their application considered as a member of
one or more designated groups should fill out the Self-Identification Form
available at
http://www.brocku.ca/humanrights/images/selfIdentification.doc and include
the completed form with their application.
More information on the Department of Classics can be found at
www.brocku.ca/classics. The position is subject to final budgetary
approval.
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The Department of Classics at UCLA invites applications for two positions,
a tenure-track assistant professor and a distinguished senior colleague.
Both positions are open to applicants with interests across the range of
classical studies; applications would be especially welcome from scholars
with special expertise in Hellenistic poetry, Greek literature of the
Imperial period, and Greek and Roman historiography. The University of
California, Los Angeles is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. The two positions are:
Position 1: The Joan Palevsky Chair in Classics. We are seeking a
colleague with a distinguished record of teaching and scholarship for this
newly endowed chair. Candidates should submit a letter of application and
curriculum vitae along with the names and contact information of five
references. Please send applications to David Blank, Chair of the Search
Committee, Department of Classics, UCLA, 100 Dodd Hall, Los Angeles, CA
90095. We will begin to review candidates December 3, 2007, but there is
no deadline for applications. Informal inquiries may be sent to
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Position 2: Assistant Professor of Classics (tenure-track). Candidates
should be prepared to teach a variety of courses at all levels of our
active undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as to produce research
of high quality and originality. Please send applications, including a
curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and a sample of work no more
than 20 pages in length, to David Blank, Chair of the Search Committee,
Department of Classics, 100 Dodd Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095. We
will begin to review applications December 3, 2007, and we will meet with
candidates at the APA Annual Meeting in Chicago (January 3-6, 2008). The
successful applicant should have the Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2008.
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CONFERENCE
Announcing the first meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group
> (TAG) in the USA
>
> For the past three decades TAG has organized an annual UK meeting
> dedicated to promoting debate and discussion of issues in
> archaeological theory. 2008 marks the inauguration of a North American
> TAG, with TAG-NYC being held at Columbia University in the City of New
> York from May 23rd to 25th.
>
> We encourage participation from academic faculty, students and
> archaeologists working outside of academic setttings, and are
> soliciting both session proposals and paper proposals. More
> information can be found on the TAG website at:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology/conference/tag
>
> We will have space available for exhibits, art installations, or
> performance pieces should participants wish to experiment with
> presentation format or style.
>
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CONFERENCE CFP
Call for papers: APA January 8-11, 2009, Philadelphia
Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance
Modern Performances of Ancient Drama: Theory and Practice
For the past three years, the CAMP panels have focused on ideology and
performance. This year we will address ourselves to the theory and
practice of performance, as well as the ways in which it may shape our
pedagogy. There are many ways as well as many reasons to produce an
ancient play, and as many ways to study and to teach from the perspective
of performance.
In the reviews of contemporary productions, a basic division seems to
emerge between “faithfulness” to the past (often pejoratively called the
museum approach) and “relevance” to the present. Edith Hall has argued
that since 1968 the Greek tragedies, in particular, have been performed
with a critical edge (Dionysus Since 69 [Oxford 2004] 1). The prophets of
doom and gloom, the Allan Blooms and Lynne Cheneys of the U.S. culture
wars seem to have been proven wrong if we look at performances of ancient
drama. Their fears that postmodernism, multiculturalism, and feminism
would be the death of classics have not been realized, and instead there
has been a bumper crop of new productions, especially of Greek tragedy, at
the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries.
This seeming expansion of productions has been accompanied by increased
scholarly attention to productions and reception, as can be seen in the
development of the Oxford archive of Ancient Performance of Greek and
Roman Drama, and the series of publications from that research group, e.g.
Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004; Medea in Performance 1500-
2000; Dionysus Since 69.
We invite practitioners and scholars to address pragmatic or theoretical
issues in the performance of ancient drama. We welcome papers from
directors or actors discussing a specific performance, or a style of
performance. Questions to be considered might include: Was the mask used?
The chorus? In what ways did the performance attempt to replicate ancient
performance conditions or experiment with “making it new” and relevant?
How did you arrive at your conception for the production?
We also welcome papers addressing the importance and value of teaching
ancient drama with attention to the ways it was performed. Finally, papers
might well investigate aspects of reception theory as it applies to
ancient drama. In the end we envision a wide-ranging panel that reveals
the many ways in which performance contributes to our understanding of
ancient drama.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically to Nancy S. Rabinowitz
([log in to unmask]) by Feb. 1, 2008. The abstract should follow the
APA guidelines (one page in 11 pt type; title in upper right-hand corner
in 12 pt type) and be anonymous. Papers will normally be no longer than 20
minutes long. Please include requests for audio-visual equipment and allow
for the screening of clips in your estimate of time needed. After papers
are accepted by the readers, a complete panel will be submitted to the APA
Program Committee for its approval.
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PHD OPPORTUNITY
An excellent opportunity for fully-funded doctoral study has opened up
recently at Manchester. As part of a Project on ancient Jewish texts
surviving in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac, Ethiopic, etc., the
AHRC is providing two PhD studentships, covering maintenance and fees.
If you know of good students who have recently completed or are about to
complete postgraduate (or even undergraduate) training in one of these
languages, you might encourage them to apply.
The Project is called "Typology of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish
Literature in Antiquity, c. 200 BCE to c. 700 CE", and runs for the next 4
years.
The PhD topics are defined as constituting a comprehensive literary study
of any major work from the pseudepigrapha/apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, or
rabbinic literature. Students are not tied into the Project's objectives
directly; rather the Project discussions provide part of the context for
their training.
Details of the PhD projects are available from:
<http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/>
Funding: The AHRC covers fees and subsistence (the latter at c. £12,600
p.a.) for 3 years. For full grants (fees plus maintenance) there is a
prior 3-year UK residence requirement, the details of which are in the
AHRC Guide:
<http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/postgrad/doctoral_awards_scheme.asp> .
Candidates not eligible for full grants may apply for fees-only awards.
Informal inquiries and applications should be addressed to:
Prof. A. Samely
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures University of Manchester
Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL
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SEMINAR SERIES
The Dublin Classics Seminar meets on Tuesdays at 5.30 in room K217 of the
Newman Building at University College Dublin's Belfield Campus. The
programme for this term is:
9 October - Felix Budelmann (Open University)
'Bringing together nature and culture: on the uses and limits of cognitive
science for the study of performance reception'
23 October - Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
'Translation and Creativity: Classical poetry and drama in the work of
Michael Longley, Brian Friel and Colin Teevan'
6 November - Katie Fleming (Queen Mary, University of London)
'"It was all so unimaginably different": antiquity in Louis MacNeice's
Autumn Journal'
27 November - Clare Guest (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway)
'Chorus, garland, triumph and mosaic: themes and influence of Italian
Renaissance Commentaries on classical poetry'
All interested parties are welcome. Seminars are followed by drinks,
usually in the UCD Common room, and then a meal with the speaker at a
nearby restaurant.
For further information contact Dr Alexander Thein, School of Classics,
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (tel. + 353 1 716
8662).
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RECEPTION WORKSHOP
Reception, disciplinarity and academic careers
Classical Reception Studies Network workshop for research students
10am -5pm, 7th November 2007
Birkbeck, University of London (Room 152, Malet Street)
The study of classical receptions has come to occupy an assured place
within many undergraduate programmes in Classics and Classical Studies,
while some institutions offer MAs in the reception of antiquity and an
increasing number of research students are working on projects in this
area.
This workshop will offer a forum to explore the relationship of reception
to Classics, but also to other disciplines such as History, English
Literature and Art History. Reception projects are by their very nature
inter-disciplinary but how does this affect the disciplinary identity of
research students in particular? The theoretical issues at stake here are
important in themselves but they also have a bearing on the more practical
questions faced by research students in the reception of antiquity who
would like to pursue an academic career. How can I convince prospective
colleagues that what I do is a fundamental part of Classics? If Classics
doesn’t seem the obvious home for my long-term future, how should I best
approach departments of e.g.English or History or Art History? This
workshop will offer the opportunity to share concerns and to learn from
the experiences of distinguished academics with an interest in reception
working in a variety of different institutional contexts.
No fee will be charged but space is limited. Those interested in
attending should contact Catharine Edwards to book a place
([log in to unmask]).
Reception, disciplinarity and academic careers
programme
10.15am coffee and registration
10.45 Prof.Catharine Edwards (School of History, Classics & Archaeology,
Birkbeck): welcome and introduction
11.15 am Prof.Edith Hall (Departments of Classics and Drama, Royal
Holloway) ‘Never apologise, always explain: what to say to traditional
classicists'
12.05 Prof.Maria Wyke (Department of Greek and Latin, UCL) ‘From Roman
love poetry to computer games - researching classical reception in popular
culture’
12.55pm lunch
2pm Dr. Joanna Paul (Department of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology,
Liverpool) ‘When I grow up, I want to be a receptionist’: Graduate
research, early career planning, and identity crisis
2.50 tea
3.10 pm Dr. Isobel Hurst (Dept of English and Comparative Literature,
Goldsmiths) ‘Thoughts on creating a career in reception studies’
4pm Round table discussion
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SEMINARS
Epigraphy North
Peter Liddel, ‘Before and After the Epigraphic Explosion: The
Historiography of the Athenian Empire’
Tuesday, 9th October, 5.30 pm, A 112 Samuel Alexander Building (formerly
Humanities Lime Grove), Oxford Road, Manchester
Graham Oliver, Commemoration and war: new Hellenistic material from
central Greece
Tuesday 11th December, 5.30 pm Bosanquet Seminar Room, 12-14 Abercromby
Square, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool.
All welcome. Further details, contact [log in to unmask]
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