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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values were established in 2000 as a biennial venue for presenting research on Greek and Roman values. Each colloquium focuses on a single theme, which participants explore from a diversity of perspectives and disciplines. Previous colloquia have addressed “Andreia Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity” (2000), “Free Speech in Classical Antiquity” (2002) and “City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity” (2004). Papers from the first two of these colloquia have been published by Brill in separate volumes, edited by the co-organizers, Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen. The third volume will appear in 2006. The topic of the fourth colloquium, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, June 2-3, 2006, will be: KAKOS: Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity In this fourth conference, we will explore the negative foils, the anti- values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. What is it, for example, that people feel that they themselves and others must avoid or repudiate? We have chosen the deliberately broad Greek term kakos as the organizing principle of this colloquium, with the expectation that papers will venture well beyond this lexical starting point. We will be equally interested in its Latin analogue malus, and the many other cognate terms for concepts of ‘badness’ in Roman culture (such as pravus, nequam, or vitiosus). The colloquium will explore the ways in which such terms were applied across Greco-Roman antiquity to such concepts as ‘functional’ badness or low quality, social badness or inferiority, moral badness, and cosmic or theological evil. For this fourth colloquium, therefore, we invite abstracts for papers (30 minutes) on all aspects of our proposed topic, linguistic, literary, historical, philosophical and religious. Selected papers will be considered for publication by Brill Publishers. Those interested in presenting a paper are requested to submit a 1-page abstract, by email (preferable) or regular mail, before October 1st, 2005. Contact (please copy both with email correspondence): Prof. Ralph M. Rosen Department of Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania 202 Logan Hall Philadelphia PA 19104-6304 USA Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: +1 (215) 898 7425 Professor Ineke Sluiter Classics Department/Center for Language and Identity University of Leiden Doelensteeg 16 # 1174 POB 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: +31 (71) 527 3311 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ted Hughes and the Classics School of History and Classics, Edinburgh University Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower 25th-27th November 2005 The provisional programme Friday 25th 6pm wine reception 6.30-8.00 Session 1 Origins and Poetics 1 Michael Silk ‘Ted Hughes: Allusion and Poetic Language’ 2 Christine Finn, ‘‘My first six years shaped everything’: the childscape and pre-history of Ted Hughes’s classical world’ Saturday 26th Session 2 Myth 9-11.30am 1 Keith Sagar on Hughes and myth 2 Neil Roberts, ‘Hughes’s Myth and the Classics’ 3 Vanda Zajko ‘‘Mutilated towards alignment?’: Prometheus On His Crag and the ‘Cambridge School’ of Anthropology’ 4 Sema Taskin on Hughes’ Prometheus 5 Janne Drangsholt, ‘A Mythic Poet’ 11.30-12.00 Coffee Session 3 Tragedy 12.00-1.30pm 1 Lorna Hardwick on Hughes and classical tragedy 2 Felicity Rosslyn, ‘Hughes in search of the tragic’ 1.30pm Lunch Session 4 Oresteia 2.30pm-3.45pm 1 Alison Burke, ‘From Page to Stage: Hughes’ Oresteia at the Royal National Theatre’ 2 Hallie Marshall on Ted Hughes and Tony Harrison 3.45-4.15pm Tea Session 5 Minor Genres 4.15-6.30pm 1 Roger Rees ‘The classical genre in Ted Hughes’s Laureate poetry’ 2 Genevieve Lively, ‘Birthday Letters from Pontus: Hughes, Ovid, and the white noise of elegy’ 3 Elina Dagonaki ‘The Hidden Orestes: A ‘Euripidean’ reading of the Orestes’ myth? 4 David Johansson ‘Of Pictures, the Discloser: Song for Phallus’ Sunday 27th Session 6 Epic 9-11am 1 Jennifer Ingleheart ‘Transformations of the Actaeon myth: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid’ 2 Anne-Marie Tatham, “Passion in extremis”: a study of love, fate and metamorphosis in Hughes’s Tales from Ovid 3 Garrett Jacobsen ‘Ovid Unbound: Ted Hughes and the Metamorphoses’ 4 Stuart Gillespie on Hughes’ Odyssey 11.00-11.30 Coffee Session 7 Seneca 11.30-12.30pm 1 John Talbot ‘Eliot’s Seneca and Lowell’s Senecanism in Hughes’s Oedipus’ 2 Katie Flemming ‘‘That stately horror’: Ted Hughes’ translation of Seneca’s Oedipus 12.30-1.30pm Lunch Session 8 1.30-4pm Alcestis 1 Sarah Brown on Hughes, Alcestis and poetic predecessors 2 David Gervais ‘Ted Hughes, Racine and Euripides’ 3 Lenore Smith, ‘Inner Music - Naked Cadences’: Ted Hughes' Alcestis 4 Nephie Christodoulides, ‘Ted Hughes’s Alcestis: dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit’ For bookings forms, email [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next of the series of summer seminars held under the aegis of the American Society of Papyrologists will be held at Columbia University in June and July, 2006. The faculty members will be Roger Bagnall, Heike Behlmer, and Raffaella Cribiore. The application deadline is December 1, 2005. Full details and an application form are available at <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/classics/>. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Weaver, der im Januar dieses Jahres starb, hat ueber Jahrzehnte an einem Repertorium der servi und liberti Augustorum gearbeitet. Den groessten Teil hat er vollendet. All dieses ist nun postum zugaenglich gemacht und kann unter der Adresse: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/altg/eck/weaver.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The British Epigraphy Society and Oxford University are pleased to announce the 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, to be held in Oxford 2-8 September 2007, on the subject of 'Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences'. Details of the programme, of accommodation arrangements, and of the pre-registration procedure can be found in the attached document and at the web-site: http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml . Academics and students with interests in inscriptions and the history of Classical Antiquity are warmly invited to pre-register. Scholars are invited to make proposals for (i) delivering individual papers of 15 minutes, and (ii) perhaps the organising of thematic panels comprising four individual papers, or (iii) for presenting posters in any one of the conventional languages of AIEGL (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish). A proposal is not essential at this stage however, since you can return and modify your pre-registration at a later date. A bursary scheme is also available. Please note that we have already received numerous proposals for thematic panels and, therefore, because the number of slots for these is somewhat limited, we would urge those who wish to organise a thematic panel to pre- register (and submit their panel proposal) before 1 December 2005. The Organising Committee [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Era Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, 22- 23 September 2006 The symposium will explore the complex, and sometimes troubled, relationship between humanism and medicine from the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries. The father of humanism, Francesco Petrarca, famously attacked the medical profession in Against the Doctors (1352). Humanism spoke a new language – theoretically a natural, classical Latin, as opposed to the ‘barbaric’ scholastic idiom of the philosophers and the Galenist gobbledygook of the doctors. But the cultures of humanism and medicine inevitably enriched one another: doctors and humanists shared a professional interest in the ancient texts (from Dioscorides to Lucretius), and a vested interest in preserving Latin as a professional argot. Humanism had its own healing pretensions through poetry and moral philosophy. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, doctor and humanist sometimes co-existed in the same person such as Girolamo Fracastoro, Girolamo Cardano, Julius Caesar Scaliger, François Rabelais, and Pierre Petit. The symposium’s keynote speakers include Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford) and Professor Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London). Papers (30 minutes) should consider various aspects of this broad theme, including but not limited to the interface between learned and non-learned medicine, vernacular humanism and medicine, the evolution of the identity of the humanist physician over the early modern era, and the extent to which a consciousness of ‘two cultures’ prevailed in different local and institutional contexts. Please send a 300-word abstract before 1 December 2005 to the conference organisers A/Professor Yasmin Haskell and Dr Susan Broomhall at [log in to unmask] (We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research, and the Cassamarca Foundation.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A couple of years ago I circulated the list with news that the historical journal, the European Review of History/ Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, was planning to extend its chronological range to embrace the ancient world. This plan is now developing strongly. The latest issue (Vol. 12.1, March 2005) includes a two-article 'Dossier' on 'The Trial in Ancient Greece' (by Paul Millett and Stephen Todd). Future issues will include ancient contributions to the journal's recent conference on 'War, Culture and Humanity', and a special issue on 'Greek archaeology and modern European culture and politics' is in preparation. There is also a regular section of ancient history book reviews. The journal sponsors regular multi-period conferences which generate themed groups of articles: the next conference on 'Pleasures in History' will take place in Florence in spring 2006. But the journal would also welcome further unsolicited contributions on antiquity: either individual articles or dossiers containing two or more articles on a common subject. In future, two of our four issues per year will be special issues of 6-10 articles on a shared theme edited by a guest editor, and we welcome proposals from prospective guest editors for thematic issues focused on or including the ancient world. Contributions should be informed by a commitment to communication to historians of other periods. The journal publishes articles in English or French and is available to individuals and institutions both in print and online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13507486.asp Stephen Hodkinson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY Call for papers: The Sixth International ISOS Conference "Slavery, Citizenship and the State" This conference will take place in Nottingham from 4th to 6th September 2006. Those interested in participating should send one-page abstracts of papers on any aspect of the above theme in any geographical area, and all periods to Prof Dick Geary (address below). Established by the late Thomas Wiedemann as the International Centre for the History of Slavery in 1998, ISOS now seeks to pursue and develop research on contemporary, as well as historical, slavery in all parts of the globe and through all historical periods. Director: Professor Dick Geary, School of History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; e-mail: [log in to unmask] Deputy Director: Professor Stephen Hodkinson, Department of Classics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oxford Classics A one-day conference on the study and teaching of classical subjects in Oxford in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, convened by Chris Stray and Stephen Harrison. The conference will be held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on Saturday, 4 February 2006, 9.30-c.6.00. Speakers will include Heather Ellis, Stephen Harrison, Isobel Hurst, August Imholtz, James Morwood, Chris Stray and Graham Whitaker. Offers of papers on any aspect of the topic are invited. The programme allows for 30-minute papers, but offers of shorter papers are also welcome. Please send a title and a summary (maximum 100 words) by 30 October to Chris Stray: [log in to unmask] Bookings for attendance are also now invited. The cost of the conference, to include tea, coffee and light lunch, will be £10. Please send payment to Professor Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford OX1 4JF. Cheques should be made payable to 'Corpus Christi College, Oxford'. 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]