Clash of Titans in 3D decision coming soon | Reuters
Haven’t been keeping up with all the Clash of the Titans gossip of late … this incipit from Reuters is very interesting: Warner Bros. will decide in the next 10 days whether to release Louis Leterrier’s remake of action fantasy “Clash of the Titans” in 3D.FilmThe studio has ordered a 3D test of the film [...]
CFP: Classics Ireland
Seen on Classics (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Classics Ireland is the journal of the Classical Association of Ireland whose members consist of those with a general interest in the Classical World including students, teachers and academics. It is published on an annual basis and [...]
CALLING MUSICAL CLASSICISTS
Seen on Classics (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): The APA Division of Outreach and the APA Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance are creating a list of classicists with backgrounds in musical performance and the history of music. We are especially eager to identify colleagues [...]
Citanda: All Greek: St John’s T-Shirt Dismays Expert
Imagine Tom Palaima’s dismay (tip o’ the pileus to John McMahon) … All Greek: St John’s T-Shirt Dismays Expert.
Citanda: What We Can Learn From Cicero
An excerpt in medias res from a lengthy item in Forbes: “Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards. There’s no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum. Al-Qaida has not reemerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their [...]
NEH Summer Seminar: “The Falls of Rome.” Call for Participants
Seen on various lists quite a while ago (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar “The ‘Falls of Rome’: The Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity” CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS NEH Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome 28 June [...]
Citanda: Classics in Peril at UIC?
Cleaning up some email, I came across this item from the Chicago Flame: Will the Classics Department survive?.
Cradle Snatching Cleopatra?
hmmmmmmmmm, he grumbled, Marge Simpson-like: In a “cougars we love” photo essay, the Women on the Web internet site champions Cleopatra for cradle snatching her younger brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. via Long in tooth but sharp in claw | The Australian.
CFP: Ancient Demography, Annual Meeting Social Science and History Association, Chicago, November 18-21, 2010
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): This fall, the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Social Science and History Association will take place from 18-21 November in Chicago. This year’s theme is "Power and Politics". The Annual Meeting of the Social Science and [...]
CONF: Oxford Ancient History Seminar: Roman Republican Seafaring
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Spring Term 2010, Ancient History Seminar Series, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford Roman Republican Seafaring Tuesdays 5pm, Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford 19 January Christa Steinby (BA Visiting [...]
CFP:Greek memories: theory and practice
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Greek memories: theory and practice Durham, 27-28 September 2010 The Conference will conclude the annual research project on ancient memory at the Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University Call for papers: The concepts of memory, [...]
CONF: Durham University Classics Department Seminars This Term
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): We have two regular seminars at Durham: a Work In Progress Seminar and an evening Research Seminar. Please see below for details of the speakers and their papers. 1) Work In Progress Seminar: Wednesdays 1.00-2.00 Seminar Room [...]
CFP: 2010 EAA Mtg Session: Tattoos and Body Modification in Antiquity
Seen on rome-arch (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): CFP: 2010 European Association of Archaeologists Meeting in the Hague, September 1-5, 2010, http://www.eaa2010.nl/ Session Title: Aspects of Embodiment: Tattoos and Body Modification in Antiquity From Oetzi the Iceman to today’s full-sleeved and pierced urbanite, it seems [...]
ED: Greek and Latin Summer School Bologna 2010
(please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Bologna University Greek and Latin Summer School (28th June – 16th July 2010) The Department of Classics (http://www.classics.unibo.it ) of Bologna University welcomes applications to its Greek and Latin Summer School. The teaching will be focused both on language and [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xi kalendas januarias
ante diem xi kalendas januarias ludi palatini (day 2/5) – the theatrefest continues
