The Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Liverpool will
be hosting the following talks in Sem 1 2004/2005 as part of the on-going
PORTUS research seminar.
25 Oct Bruce Gibson (Liverpool) 'To the Gods': Statian Approaches
16 Nov Matthew Leigh (Oxford) Polybian polupragmosunê
7 Dec Patrick Hurley (Liverpool) Perceptions of Crisis in the Roman
Empire in the Third Century AD
Unless otherwise stated, the seminars take place at 5pm in Lecture Room 1,
12 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool. All are welcome.
PORTUS is an on-going research seminar on ancient literature, history and
philosophy run by the Department of Classics and Ancient History,
University of Liverpool.
For further information or to offer papers for future sessions, contact
Dr Alexey V Zadorozhnyy, (0151) 794 2453, [log in to unmask] or
Dr Bruce J. Gibson, (0151) 794 2443, [log in to unmask], Department
of Classics & Ancient History, 12 Abercromby Square, University of
Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7WZ.
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Here is the Autumn programme for the Dublin Classics Seminar:
9 November
Dr Mark Humphries, NUI Maynooth
Elites, Audiences and Urban Change in Late Antiquity
18 November
Prof Wilfried Nippel, Humbolt-U, Berlin
Marx and Weber on Classical Slavery
(Joint meeting with Department of Sociology UCD)
23 November
Dr Adam Bartley, UCC
What's fishing like? The role of similes in Oppian's Halieutica
(Wednesday 1 December: The UCD Classical Society Auditor's
Inaugural Lecture will be given by Seamus Heaney)
7 December
Prof Nicholas Rauh, Purdue U, Indiana
Lineage Society in Roman Rough Cilicia
All papers will be on Tuesdays at 5.30 in room K217 of the Arts
Building at University College Dublin, EXCEPT for the special joint
meeting with the UCD Sociology Department, which will be on
Thursday 18 November at 3.00pm (venue to be announced).
For further information contact Dr Philip de Souza, Classics
Department, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel. + 353 1 716 8170
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Dr Philip de Souza FRHistS
Department of Classics
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel + 353 1 716 8170
Fax + 353 1 706 1176
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Edinburgh Research Seminars, Autumn 2004
All seminars take place on a Wednesday, 1pm in the David Hume Tower, room
4.01.
All welcome!
6/10/04 Roger Rees (Edinburgh):
Without reservation: letters of reference in the Roman world
20/10/04 David Fitzpatrick (OU):
More bloody Sophocles' Tereus
3/11/04 Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)
Walking on broken glass: the gold glass project
17/11/04 Alastair Small (Edinburgh)
The Vagnari project: new developments from the 2004 season
24/11/04 Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh)
Three linear barriers and one beheaded skeleton
1/12/04 Gordon Howie (Edinburgh)
The evangelist and the revisers: Matthew 27-28
Dr U. Roth
School of History and Classics
University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9JX
SCOTLAND
fon: +44 (0)131 650 3586
fax: +44 (0)131 651 1783
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Sibylle Haynes will give an illustrated lecture in the Fraenkel Room,
Corpus Christi
College, Oxford at 5.00 pm on Friday 12 November on
'Recent excavations at La Foce: new light on the early Etruscans'
under the auspices of the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of
Greek and
Roman Antiquity.
The lecture will be followed by discussion and then drinks. All are welcome.
Ewen Bowie
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SEEING THE PAST:
Building knowledge of the past and present through acts of seeing
A conference hosted by the Archaeology Center at Stanford University
February 5 - 6, 2005
Abstract deadline: November 15, 2004
Seeing the Past is a conference designed to explore the act of seeing
and how observation leads to certain types of knowledge. This conference
explores how visual media are used to construct our knowledge of the past.
It will engage in a discussion of a wide range of forms, practices and
theories of perception and the subsequent formation of knowledge in both
the past and the present.
The objective of this conference is to promote productive dialogue and
provide a forum for discussion in moderated sessions. Papers will be
pre-circulated and posted on a conference website. All participants are
encouraged to read papers and participate in an online forum. The
presentation of papers will be limited to a 5-10 minute 'provocative
statement' intended to stimulate discussion. Following the conference,
the papers will be published in Stanford's Archaeology Journal.
1) Seeing the Past (in the present)
This category encompasses the ways in which we present the past through
visual technologies and media to other scholars, the public and ourselves.
The objective is to explore how different media present different pasts.
Possible topics in this area may include (but are not limited to)
GIS/Digital rendering of sites and monuments, visual modeling, the
commercialization/packaging of the past, the past through photography/other
media, how modern sites are used (i.e. heritage/ tourism), and how the past
is represented in museums.
2) Seeing the Past (in the past)
This category includes studies on how past peoples used visual culture to
understand their past and present. What can an image, sculpture or monument
convey that a text cannot? How did people see? What did people see?
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) temporal and spatial
development of settlements and cemeteries, rock art, textual and artistic
representations, monumentality, spatial re-use, ritualized architecture,
and landscape studies.
The conference theme is designed to enable productive dialogue across a
range of disciplines including, but not limited to: Anthropological
Sciences; Architecture; Art and Design History; Classics; Cultural and
Social Anthropology; Biology; Cultural Studies; Education; Film Studies;
Dramatic and Performance Studies; Fine Art; Geography; Geology and Earth
Sciences; History; Literary Studies; Museum Studies; Photography;
Psychology; Sociology; Visual Culture.
Abstracts of 300 words (approx.) should be sent to:
Stanford Archaeological Center
Stanford University
Building 60, Main Quad
Stanford, CA 94305-2170
-OR-
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Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity and the
Centre for Roman Provincial Archaeology, University of Durham present
Spades and Stages
A one-day colloquium
Friday 17th December 2004
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
The topic is the confrontation between classics, as an area of cultural
studies, and material goods, as represented by archaeological and
antiquarian discoveries, and the ways that material objects (including
archaeological finds) impact upon 'representations' of the classical world.
Papers will last thirty minutes.
Programme
10.30 Coffee and registration
11.00-12.30 First Session (chair : Richard Hingley)
Stephen Harrison (Oxford) Lytton and Pompeii : Archaeology and Fiction
Phiroze Vasunia (UNC, Chapel Hill/Oxford) 'Rome in Hindostan: Architecture
and the Classical Revival in British India'
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Second Session (chair : Stephen Harrison)
Edith Hall (Durham) Sophocles and Stonehenge in the 18th century
Richard Hingley (Durham) Influence of antiquarian studies on images of
ancient Britons from the C16 to C19/20.
3.00-3.30 Tea
3.30-5.00 Third Session (chair : Edith Hall/Oliver Taplin)
Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) Mounet-Sully and the classical ideal
Debby Challis (Birkbeck) The British Museum and Greek theatre in Victorian
London
5.00 Round-up session and close (by 5.30).
Those wishing to attend should book a place with Stephen Harrison at Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, OX1 4JF by 1st December 2004, enclosing a
conference fee of £10 (cheques payable to ‘Corpus Christi College, Oxford’,
please). Any enquiries to
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Dear All,
Following the merger between Manchester University and UMIST, the new
university - still called the University of Manchester - has a new
website (http://www.manchester.ac.uk). The website of the Department
of Classics & Ancient History at Manchester, like that of all other
departments in the Faculty of Arts, has not yet been "migrated" to
this new location. So if you search for us on the new website, you
won't find us there yet. If you - or your undergraduate or
postgraduate students - are trying to find us, please go to
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/classics
Best,
Roy Gibson
Head of Department
Classics & Ancient History
University of Manchester
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NEH FELLOWSHIPS 2005-2006
AT THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS
Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the
most significant resource in Greece for American scholars in the fields of
ancient and post-classical studies in Greek language, literature, history,
archaeology, philosophy, and art, from pre-Hellenic times to the present.
It offers two major research libraries: the Blegen, with 86,500 volumes
dedicated to the ancient Mediterranean world; and the Gennadius, with
110,500 volumes and archives devoted to post-classical Hellenic
civilization and, more broadly, the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean.
The School also sponsors excavations and provides centers for advanced
research in archaeological and related topics at its excavations in the
Athenian Agora and Corinth, and it houses an archaeological laboratory at
the main building complex in Athens. By agreement with the Greek
government, the School is authorized to serve as liaison with the Greek
Ministry of Culture on behalf of American students and scholars for the
acquisition of permits to excavate and to study museum collections.
In the eleven years since its inception, the NEH Fellowship program at the
American School has demonstrated its effectiveness by supporting projects
for eighteen scholars with distinguished research and teaching careers in
the humanities.
Those Eligible: Postdoctoral scholars and professionals in relevant fields
who are U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have lived in the U.S. for
the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Applicants
must have completed their professional training but do not have to hold the
Ph.D.
Terms: Two to four fellowships, five to ten months in duration. Maximum
stipend for a five-month project, $17,500; for a ten-month project,
$35,000. Term must coincide with American School's academic year, September
to June.
Application: a) Cover sheet is attached or at www.ascsa.edu.gr. b) A
statement of the project (up to five pages), including desired number of
months in Greece, a timetable, explicit goals, a selected bibliography, and
the importance of the work, the methodologies involved, where applicable,
and the reasons it should occur in Athens at the American School of
Classical Studies. c) Curriculum vitae with list of publications. d) Three
letters of reference from individuals familiar with the applicant's work
and field of interest who can comment on the feasibility of the project and
the applicant's ability to complete it successfully.
Full application information and requests for further information on the
American School of Classical Studies or the Fellowship may be obtained from:
NEH Fellowships
American School of Classical Studies
6-8 Charlton Street
Princeton, NJ 08540-5232
Tel: 609-683-0800 Fax: 609-924-0578
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Website: www.ascsa.edu.gr
POSTMARK DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2004.
The awards will be announced March 1, 2005; acceptance of the award
required by March 15, 2005.
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