Seen on the Classicists list Below is a the programme for OIKOS FAMILIA The Family in Antiquity: Framing the discipline in the 21st Century. For more information and registration forms please contact: arachne AT class.gu.se You can also contact us directly: Mary Harlow m.e.harlow AT bham.ac.uk Ray Laurence r.laurence AT bham.ac.uk Lena Larsson Loven lena.larsson [...]
Archive for October 3, 2009
Seen on the Classicists list: Details below of this term’s Classics research seminars, including KYKNOS seminars (www.kyknos.org.uk). All welcome. KYKNOS seminars begin at 6pm; all others at 5.15pm. All seminars are in the Roderick Bowen seminar room. 15/10 Prof. Judith Mossman (Nottingham) : ‘Plutarch and the Philosophy of Language: The Case of Naming.’ KYKNOS 22/10 [...]
Seen on Agade: The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the annual Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies, “XENOPHON IN A NEW VOICE,” Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 5:30PM. The conference will take place in Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102, Silver Center for Arts and Science, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible), New York, [...]
JOB: Generalist @ Macalester College (tenure track)
Posted: October 3, 2009 by rogueclassicist in JobsSeen on Aegeanet: Macalester College invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of Classics at the level of Assistant Professor. Candidates must be able to teach Greek and Latin language and literature at all levels. Areas of research and pedagogical interest should add to a thriving and interdisciplinary undergraduate Classics department. Our foremost [...]
CFP: Engendering Reception: From Penelope to Atwood’s Penelopiad
Posted: October 3, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen on various lists: Call For Papers: Engendering Reception: From Penelope to Atwood’s Penelopiad University of Toronto, April 24-25 2010 The Classics Graduate Student Association of the University of Toronto invites abstracts for a graduate conference on the theme Engendering Reception, to be held in Toronto on April 24-25, 2010. Our keynote speaker will be [...]
Seen on the Classicists list: Rome in Bloomsbury Fall 2009: Water, water, everywhere Dr Zena Kemash, Magdalen College, Oxford October 6th, 2009, 1pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street room 153 The Social Meanings of Water Technology in the Roman Near East Dr Eleanor Ghey, British Museum October 20th, 2009, 1pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street room 153 Immersed in [...]
CONF: Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 11-13 November 2009
Posted: October 3, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen on the Classicists list: The eighth Keeling colloquium, on Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, will take place on 11-13 November 2009. Provisional timetable: Wednesday 11 November 10.30-1 M.M. McCabe (King’s College London) From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic? Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York) 3-6 Aryeh Kosman (Haverford) Self-knowledge and [...]
Seen on Aegeanet: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, WI The Department of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in Latin literature, with an emphasis on prose, to begin fall semester, 2010. Applicants should have a Ph.D. at the time of the appointment, demonstrated excellence in scholarly research and publication, and [...]
Seen on Aegeanet: The Department of History at Northern Illinois University invites for an anticipated tenure-track assistant professorship in Ancient Mediterranean History beginning August 16, 2010. Ph.D. required at time of appointment; teaching experience preferred. Ability to teach upper-division undergraduate courses in Ancient Greece, Ancient Near East, and Ancient Rome; survey course in Western Civ [...]
CONF: Edinburgh Classics Research Seminars
Posted: October 3, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesEdinburgh Classics Research Seminars Seen on the Classicists list: Semester 1 Week 1 23 Sep 09 7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Faculty Room South: PROF. ELIZABETH MOIGNARD (Glasgow) ‘Homecomings and departures’ Week 2 30 Sep 09 DR. SHELLEY HALES (Bristol) ‘The ghosts of Pompeii’ Week 3 7 Oct 09 PROF. JOHN MARINCOLA (Florida State/Edinburgh ‘Contextualising [...]
Booking is now open for the fifth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature. AMPAL 2009 will be held at the University of Birmingham on 14-15 November 2009. There will be almost 50 papers presented on the theme of ‘Crossing Boundaries’, from dramatic boundaries to language boundaries, from moral and cultural boundaries to inter- and [...]
CONF: Newcastle University Classics Research Seminars
Posted: October 3, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen on the Classicists list: Newcastle University Classics Research Seminar, 2009-2010 Semester 1 All seminars take place in the Shefton Room, Armstrong Building, 1st floor, Newcastle University, beginning at 5pm. All are welcome. Wednesday 7 October 2009 PROF. JOHN MOLES, Newcastle University What’s in a name?’ Χριστός/Χρηστός and Χριστιανοί/Χρηστιανοί in the first century AD Wednesday [...]
Seen on the Classicists list: SEMINAR PROGRAM, MICHAELMAS TERM 2009 Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham Ritson Room, 5.30 All visitors welcome! Wednesday 14 October Prof. Françoise Létoublon (Grenoble) Memory games – Odysseus and Penelope Wednesday 21 October Dr Diego Machuca (University of Buenos Aires) The Pyrrhonist’s Attitude to the Modes of [...]
Seen on the Classicists list: WORK-in-PROGRESS Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham (Wednesdays 1pm – Seminar Room – sandwiches welcome) MICHAELMAS TERM 2009 All visitors welcome 14 October: Johanna Hannink (Cambridge University) Anecdote and narrative in the pseudo-Euripidean epistles 21 October: Andreas Hartmann Objects, relics, and memory in classical antiquity 28 October [...]
CFP: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World IX
Posted: October 3, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen on the Classicists list: ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD IX ‘Orality and Literacy, Composition and Performance’ CALL FOR PAPERS The Classics and Ancient History Program at the Australian National University invites all classicists, historians, and scholars with an interest in oral cultures to participate in the Ninth Conference on Orality and Literacy [...]
Seen on the Classicists list: Lecturer (Roman History) Department of Classics and Ancient History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts The University of Sydney Reference No. 560/0909 The School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) is seeking a Roman Historian for a continuing post, starting as a Lecturer (Level B) in the [...]
