Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, who died in May of 2007, was one of the most
influential Hellenists of her generation, and one of the strongest voices
in the study of Greek religion. The focus of much of her work was the
religious system of the Greek polis, or more precisely the ways in which
the political structure of the Greek city-state shaped religious practices
and representations, and within this field she devoted special attention
to myth and ritual, adolescent transitions, representations of the
afterlife, variations of panhellenic religion found in specific cities
("divine
personalities") and the articulation of polis religion in Greek tragedy.
Her work in these areas drew on a methodology which she called "reading",
applicable equally to iconographical and archaeological sources as to
literature and epigraphy.
As a tribute to Dr. Sourvinou-Inwood's scholarly achievement, and as a
contribution to the ongoing debate, the Classics Department at the
University of Reading will host on July 4-6 2008 a symposium exploring
central themes in the area of polis-religion and its interpretation.
Keynote speakers are Jan Bremmer (Groningen), Julia Kindt (Sydney) and
Froma Zeitlin (Princeton). Other speakers include Joan Connelly (NYU),
Esther Eidinow (Oxford), Radcliffe Edmunds (Bryn Mawr), Milette Gaifman
(Yale), Alexander Herda (CHS/Munich), Sarah Hitch (Bristol), Athene
Kavoulaki (Rethymno), Johannes Mylonopoulos (CHS/Erfurt), Fred Naiden
(UNC), Petra Pakkanen (RHUL), André and Ivana Petrovic (Durham), Julia
Shear (Glasgow) and Hannah Willey (Cambridge).
Full details of the conference, including booking forms and information on
accommodation and travel, may be obtained from the conference website:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/PolisReligion/PolisReligion
InsideOutside.asp
For booking inquiries contact Nina Aitken ([log in to unmask]).
We particularly bring to your attention the fact that, thanks to generous
funding from the Classical Association, we are able to offer a few
bursaries to eligible postgraduate students. Please encourage them to
contact one of the organizers directly and as soon as possible.
Sarah Hitch (Bristol), [log in to unmask] Milette Gaifman (Yale),
[log in to unmask] Ian Rutherford (Reading),
[log in to unmask]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted on behalf of Dr. Tony Todd: [log in to unmask]
“In anticipation of…”: History, texts and texts in waiting
5-6 September 2008
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication
Keynote speakers:
Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication and
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at
Austin, “Genre Expectations and Affective Reception”
Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of
Wales, Aberystwyth, “The peculiar character of ancillaries: thinking anew
about merchandising, licensed properties and other such materials”
Since the late 1960s a philosophical wisdom has prevailed that insists
that texts be understood as open sign carriers where meanings and values
are written into them on the individual impulses of the reader. But in the
desire to make sense of the text for oneself, it is often overlooked that
our cultural consumption is not usually a neutral business. Rather, our
encounters with texts come with certain expectations that are generated by
external - historical, industrial and cultural - influences. In current
times, modern media systems, which spawn myriad promotional and critical
materials, have taken up an increasingly discursive role as dialogic go-
betweens in the interaction between texts and their readers. Yet the
influence of such ephemera - reviews, fanzines, web-sources, posters,
trailers, printed advertisements, commercials and other forms of publicity
and criticism - has been often overlooked in reflections on the
hermeneutic act.
The conference will take the form of an international, inter-disciplinary
forum falling under the umbrella themes of marketing, publicity,
criticism, aesthetic value and experience. The conference will consist of
two strands. One of these will provide a critical focus on issues of
marketing and authorship; the other will offer a more discursive approach
to the themes of ephemera and cultural exchange. We welcome discussions on
topics in the domains of visual culture that address the expectations and
experiences at play in the interaction between the general public, the
fan, the connoisseur and the texts themselves.
Papers will be of 20 minutes in length with 10 minutes allotted for
discussion.
Abstracts (in the region of 250 words, by May 30th) and general enquires
to Dr. Tony Todd: [log in to unmask]
Conference Website: http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/anticipation.htm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There is no registration fee for this conference, and all are welcome.
However, if you are planning to attend, please notify Professor Maria Wyke
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) in advance, as space may be
limited. A few bursaries are still available to support the costs of
attendance by postgraduate students.
*CLASSICAL EMPIRES IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE *
*ONE-DAY CONFERENCE*
Friday 23 May 2008
Rm 106, Gordon House, University College London
/Sponsored by the Classical Reception Studies Network, the Institute of
Classical Studies, and the Department of Greek and Latin at University
College London./
Programme
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome & Introduction
Maria Wyke & Chiara Thumiger (University College London)
Lorna Hardwick (Open University & CRSN)
11.00-12.30 Panel 1- Chair David Hudson (Political Science, UCL)
- ‘Reviving classical knowledge while writing about globalization’,
Richard Hingley, (University of Durham)
- ‘Writing empires: neo-liberalism and the ends of civilization’
Richard Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London)
-’Empire, States of Exception, and Iustitium. Augustus and Agamben'
Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway, University of London)
12.30-2.00 Lunch Break
2.00-3.30 Panel 2 – Chair Lindsay Allen (Classics, Kings)
- ‘The last Shah at Persepolis: The Iranian use of the Persian past 1960-
2007’,
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
- ‘Hollywood versus Ahmadinejad: conquering the east in the third-
millennial western cinema’,
Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- ‘Xena versus the Romans: Anti-imperialism in /Xena Warrior Princess/’,
Amanda Potter (Open University)
3.30-4.00 Tea and Coffee
4.00-5.30 Panel 3 – Chair Adam I.P. Smith (American History, UCL)
- ‘Athens and America: Comparing Empires in /The New York Times/’,
Adam Goldwyn (City University of New York)
- ‘The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in American
political discourse’
Leslie Dodd (University of Glasgow)
- ‘Greeks and Persians all over again? The intellectualisation of imperial
metaphors in contemporary politics’
Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Cambridge)
5.30-6.00 Round Table Discussion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Time and space in early Greek elegiac, iambic and lyric poetry
A colloquium whose principal theme is to be ‘Time and space in early Greek
elegiac, iambic and lyric poetry’ will take place in Corpus Christi
College, Oxford on 20 and 21 June 2008. The colloquium is the first of a
series which will be held every second year by the core group of the
recently founded network for the study of archaic and classical Greek song
(www.let.ru.nl/greeksong):
large conferences, preceded by calls for papers, will be held in 2009,
2011 etc.
On June 20 and 21 2008 papers will be given as listed below by members of
the core group, but interested scholars (including graduate students) in
the UK are very welcome to participate in discussion, and we have some
funding (underwritten by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic
Studies) for graduate bursaries to enable graduates in UK Universities
other than Oxford to attend.
Some rooms have been reserved for such graduates, and it should be
possible to book some more rooms in Colleges (at various prices).
We are grateful to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO) and to the John Fell Fund of Oxford University for generous funding.
The format will be: 9.30-11.00, 11.30-1.00, 2.30-4.00, 4.30-5.15 papers.
11.00-11.30 coffee; 1.00-2.30 sandwich lunch; 4.00-4.30 tea.
Friday 20 June dinner (in Corpus Christi College); Saturday 21st dinner
(in a restaurant).
Attendance for papers and for coffee, tea and sandwich lunch is free:
scholars are also welcome to join in the dinners, but will be asked to pay
(£35 for the dinner on Friday in Corpus Christi College; their share of
the bill for the dinner at a restaurant on Saturday 21st) unless they are
graduate students.
There is, however, a limit on numbers, so anyone wanting to attend should
register with me, using the form below (first come, first serve!).
The papers will be as follows: Lucia Athanassaki ‘Tragic ways of looking
at archaising sculptures: Bacchylides 18 and the Athenian Treasury’;
Egbert Bakker Time & Space in Theognis (precise title tbc); Anton
Bierl ‘New Thoughts on the New Sappho’; Ewen Bowie ‘The birth of the
Theognidea, time and place?’; Claude Calame ‘Poetics of memory: time and
space in Sappho’s poetry’; Willy Cingano ‘The construction of civic and
mythical space in Pindar's Pythians 4 and 5’; Bruno Currie: ‘Time and
Space in Bacchylides 11’; André Lardinois ‘New Philology and the Classics:
accounting for variations in the textual transmission of Greek lyric
poetry’; Richard Martin, ‘Then and there: micropoetics of a Pindaric
topos’; Greg Nagy tbc; Dirk Obbink tbc; Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi ‘Here as
there:
the phantasmagoria of dance’; Ian Rutherford ‘The Songs of the Zintuhis:
Choral Performance and Space-Time from Bronze Age Anatolia to Iron Age
Greece’.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Application to attend the colloquium on ‘Time and place in archaic and
classical Greek song’ which will take place in Corpus Christi College,
Oxford on 20 and 21 June 2008.
NAME
INSTITUTION AND POSTAL ADDRESS
EMAIL ADDRESS
I AM / AM NOT A GRADUATE STUDENT?
I WISH TO APPLY FOR A BURSARY TO CONTRIBUTE TO COSTS OF TRAVEL AND
ACCOMMODATION
I WISH TO ATTEND
PAPERS ON FRIDAY 20 AND SATURDAY 21 JUNE COFFEE/SANDWICH LUNCH/TEA ON
FRIDAY 20 JUNE COFFEE/SANDWICH LUNCH/TEA ON SATURDAY 21 JUNE DINNER FRIDAY
20 JUNE DINNER SATURDAY 21 JUNE
I WOULD LIKE ACCOMMODATION TO BE ARRANGED IF POSSIBLE FOR THURSDAY 19 JUNE
FRIDAY 20 JUNE SATURDAY 21 JUNE
PLEASE RETURN TO [log in to unmask]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Symposium on Horace in Honour of Margaret Hubbard: St. Anne's College,
Oxford, Saturday 17 May, 2008.
The St. Anne’s College Classics Society invites you to attend the
following event to be held in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech
Building, St. Anne’s College.
10.45 a.m.: Arrival and Coffee
11. 15 a.m. Greeting
11. 25 a.m. Dr. Llewelyn Morgan (Brasenose College, Oxford): ‘Odes 3. 13:
The One and Only Fons Bandusiae’
12. 45 p.m. Lunch
2 p.m. Dr. Victoria Moul (Queen’s College, Oxford): ‘Horatian Genres in
Jonson and Donne’
3. 15 p.m. Tea
Those wishing to attend are asked to notify Prof. Matthew Leigh (St.
Anne’s) on [log in to unmask]
There will be no charge for refreshments.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS - University College Cork, 9-12 July 2008
This summer's Celtic Conference, in Cork, will begin from 2pm on Wednesday
9th July, and will end at midday on Saturday 12 July.
A provisional list of panels, speakers and topics is given below. Some of
the panels are open to further recruitment of speakers. If you are
interested in giving a paper, please contact the relevant panel chair(s).
Attendance at the Celtic Conference is open to all. The cost of the event
to each member will be 260 Euros, payable on arrival. This includes 3
nights' bed-and-breakfast close to the Cork campus, two lunches, two
dinners and various refreshments. There is no registration charge.
Speakers will receive booking forms in the near future, and some travel
information later. Others wishing to attend are invited to contact the
Organiser as soon as possible: [log in to unmask]
For students attending the Conference a limited number of small travel
grants are available, thanks to the generosity of learned societies. Those
wishing to apply should contact the organiser, as above.
Accommodation (b&b) is available for those wishing to stay (an) extra night
(s) before or after the event; if you require this, please give the
organiser early notice.
Anton Powell, Organiser, CCC
[log in to unmask]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cambridge Craven Seminar 2008
Sikelia: Multilingualism and cultural interaction in ancient Sicily An
interdisciplinary seminar
There is evidence for a rich diversity of languages spoken in Sicily in
the first millennium BC. The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is
to bring together historians, archaeologists and linguists to examine
issues of language and identity, multilingualism and language shift,
colonization and cultural interaction in Sicily from the advent of writing
to the first century BC.
The seminar will be held in Room G21, The Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick
Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, England.
PROGRAMME
Saturday 31st May
Morning session: 9.30 - 12.30
Languages and peoples of Sicily 1: Sicel and Elymian (9.30-10.50) Chair:
Torsten Meissner
Paolo Poccetti (Univ. Rome "Tor Vergata")
Evidence for and Problems of the Sicel Language: A Survey
Simona Marchesini (Univ. Verona)
Hints for the Identity of the Elymian Language
Coffee break (10.50-11.15)
Languages and peoples of Sicily 2: Punic (11.15 - 12.30) Chair: Geoffrey
Khan
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (Univ. Rome "La Sapienza")
Punic in Sicily
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University)
Translating Gods and Heroes: Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily
Lunch (12.30 - 2.00)
Afternoon session: 2.15 - 5.15
Greek in Sicily 1 (2.15-3.30) Chair: Geoffrey Horrocks
Susana Mimbrera (Univ. Complutense de Madrid / Cambridge)
Sicilian Greek
Giovanna Rocca (Univ. Milan "IULM")
Cults and Rites from Greece to Sicily (new inscriptions from Selinus)
Tea (3.30 - 4.00)
Greek in Sicily 2 (4.00 - 5.15) Chair: Richard Hunter
Albio Cesare Cassio (Univ. Rome "La Sapienza")
Intimations of Koine in Epicharmus' Sicilian Doric
Andreas Willi (Univ. Oxford) "We talk Peloponnesian" - Tradition and
Linguistic Identity in Postclassical Sicilian Literature
7pm: Drinks reception
7.30pm: Seminar dinner
Sunday 1st June 2008 9.30 - 12.30
Historical and archaeological background: new perspectives (9.30-10.50)
Chair: Robin Osborne
Matthew Fitzjohn (Univ. Liverpool)
Building Identities in Sikelia
Franco De Angelis (Univ. British Columbia) The Language of Conquest and
the Dialect of Complexity: Rethinking Land and Labour in Early Greek Sicily
Coffee break (10.50-11.15)
Bilingualism and language contact (11.15-12.30) Chair: James Clackson
Gerhard Meiser (Univ. Halle)
Traces of Language Contact in Sicilian Onomastics
Olga Tribulato (Univ. Cambridge)
Siculi bilingues? A glimpse into Early Roman Sicily
End of seminar
There will be a small registration fee (£10) for those from outside
Cambridge. For any further queries please contact Dr Olga Tribulato
([log in to unmask])
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica: Work in Progress
Monday 19th May 2008 in the School of Classics, StAndrews
BURSARIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Classical Association is generously providing two bursaries (up to
£100) for postgraduate attendance. The bursaries will contribute towards
or cover the costs of travel to St Andrews.
Applications for these bursaries should be sent to Dr Emma Buckley
electronically ([log in to unmask]) or in writing to the School of
Classics, Swallowgate, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL.
Applications should include
1) a statement of your research interests and a short explanation of why
attendance at the workshop would benefit your research
2) an estimate of your travel expenses
3) a brief letter/email in support of your application from your
supervisor.
The deadline for applications is 5th May 2008.
A booking form is available at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/Argonautica%20booking%
20form.doc
[NB this link has wrapped across the line end]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PLATONIC COLLOQUIA, IX (2008), PHAEDRUS
The conference will take place in the Kłodzka Valley in OCTOBER 2008. The
papers should be submitted in one of the following languages: English,
German, Polish. They will be qualified the ground of the abstracts. Papers
written in Polish should be accompanied by the abstract translated into
another language, preferably English. The texts will be published in the
Conference Proceedings. The abstracts should be sent no later than 30th
April 2008. All participants will be notified by mail and e-mail before
31th May 2008. The registration fee is 350 PLN (about 80€).
The abstracts please send to:
dr. Artur Pacewicz
University of Wroclaw
Institute of Philosophy
ul. Koszarowa 3
51-149 Wrocław
[log in to unmask] Ten e-mail jest chroniony przed spame, włącz obsługę
Javascript w przeglądarce, by go zobaczyć
Archive of list messages may be found at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/classicsgrads
Visit the same site to change your subscription settings.
All queries regarding the list should be directed to:
[log in to unmask]
|
