**Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars** Institute of Classical
Studies
Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June
20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar
room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street)
**ALL WELCOME**
6 June (NG16)
Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford), The Lexicon of Greek
Personal Names and classical web services
13 June (NG16)
Brent Seales (University of Kentucky), EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for
classical materials
20 June (STB3)
Dot Porter (University of Kentucky), The Son of Suda On Line: a next
generation collaborative editing tool
27 June (UCL Chadwick 218)
Bruce Fraser (Cambridge), The value and price of information:
reflections on e-publishing in the humanities
4 July (STB3)
Andrew Bevan (UCL), Computational Approaches to Human and Animal Movement
in the Archaeological Record
11 July (STB3)
Frances Foster (KCL), A digital presentation of the text of Servius
18 July (STB3)
Ryan Bauman (University of Kentucky), Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D
imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets
25 July (NG16)
Charlotte Tupman (KCL), Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman
Libya
1 Aug (NG16)
Juan Garcés (British Library), Digitizing the oldest complete Greek
Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus project
8 Aug (NG16)
Charlotte Roueché (KCL), From Stone to Byte
15 Aug (NG16)
Ioannis Doukas (KCL), Towards a digital publication for the Homeric
Catalogue of Ships
22 Aug (NG16)
Peter Heslin (Durham), Diogenes: Past development and future plans
**ALL WELCOME**
We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the
application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to
come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar series is the
interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results at the interface of
expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer Science.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
(Sponsored by the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London,
and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London.)
For more information please contact [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask], or visit the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html
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ICS Ancient History Seminar
Summer Term 2008
Broadening Horizons: Explorations in the Late Antique World
Thursdays, 4.30, in Senate House, North Wing, room 336
1 May: Benet Salway (UCL): The study of geography in (and of) late
antiquity (Andrew Merrills (Leicester), respondent)
8 May: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (KCL) & Fiona Haarer (KCL): Late antique
panegyricists and their cultural and political contexts
15 May: Neil McLynn (Oxford): The Horizons of Hippo Regius: Exploring
Augustine's Fussala
22 May: Peregrine Horden (RHUL): The late antique origins of the lunatic
asylum? (Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge), respondent)
29 May: Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh) & Lucy Grig (Edinburgh): Rome and
Constantinople in Poetry and Pictures
12 June: Monica White (Stanford): The Art and Science of Dragon-Slaying
(Judith Herrin (KCL), respondent).
For further information, contact:
Fiona Haarer ([log in to unmask])
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe ([log in to unmask])
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READING UNIVERSITY CLASSICS DEPARTMENT: RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES,
SUMMER TERM 2008
Visitors are most welcome at all the events below. For enquiries and
further details: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Wednesday 30 April, 4 pm, Carrington Building 201
Matthew Nicholls, Reading
Virtual Rome (on large screen).
Wednesday14 May, 4pm, Carrington Building 201
Virginia Lewis-Campbell, Reading
Stopping to Smell the Roses: Garden Tombs in Roman Italy.
Jo Brown, Reading
'No Harem Slave': the Construction of Athenian Women in Nineteenth Century
Social Histories.
Wednesday 28 May, 4 pm, Carrington Building 201
Ittai Gradel, Reading
Imperial Portraits.
Wednesday 11 June, 4pm, Palmer 103
Michele Lucchesi, Lincoln College, Oxford
Plutarch and the Enigma of Lysander.
CONFERENCES
Thursday 8 May-Sat 10 May
Aphrodite Revealed: A Goddess Discolosed
(www.reading.ac.uk/ure/aphrodite)
Friday July 4-Sunday July 6
Perceptions of Polis-Religion: Inside/Outside:
A Symposium in Memory of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
(http://www.rdg.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/PolisReligion/PolisReligion
InsideOutside.asp).
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With apologies for cross-posting, below please find details of the
remaining sessions in the Leeds Classics department's research seminar
series this academic year. All sessions take place in the Parkinson
Building, University of Leeds, and all are very welcome to attend. Please
contact myself or Dr. Regine May ([log in to unmask]) if you need any
further information.
May 7th (5.30 for 6 pm in Room 116)
Niklas Holzberg (University of Munich, Germany) A Sensitive, Even Weak and
Feeble Disposition? The Elegist C. Valgius Rufus
May 8th (CA Talk – starting at 5 for 5.30 pm) Ika Willis (University of
Bristol) Science Fiction and the Romans
May 28th (3 pm in Room 116)
Stratis Kyriakidis (University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Ancient Mirrors:
Literary and Literal
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SEMINAR PROGRAM, EASTER TERM 2008
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
Wednesday 23 April, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Dr Sandra Ducic (Honorary
Research Fellow at Durham) Turning points in the reception of Classical
Antiquity: Hölderlin's Pindar and the second Renaissance
Friday 25 April, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Andreas Schwab (University of Trier)
The 'new' Thales of Miletus: an approach to the history of his
presentations
Wednesday 30 April, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Professor John North (UCL) Caesar
at the Lupercalia
Saturday 3 May, 10.30am - 6pm [Ritson room] Spring Colloquium of the
British Epigraphy Society: 'Religion and politics in Greek and Roman
epigraphy in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean'
(under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient
Mediterranean and the Near East) Full programme:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/?eventno=3265
Tuesday 6 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Irmgard Männlein-Robert (University of Tübingen) Voices from the
Underworld - Callimachus' poetics in frg. 64 Pf
Wednesday 14 May, 5.30pm [Seminar room] - Classical Association Professor
Alison Sharrock (University of Manchester) Ovid and epic
Wednesday 21 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Carry Vout (Christ's College, Cambridge) The art of damnatio memoriae
Friday 4 July, 9.30am - 6pm [Ritson room] Workshop on The Image of the
Author (under the auspices of the Durham Centre for the Classical
Tradition and the Durham Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Programme details will be distributed in due course. Please contact Dr
Ingo Gildenhard at [log in to unmask] for information about this
workshop
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