Found this one lurking in the bottom of my mailbox because I had vain hopes it might get some coverage in the major English speaking press, what with it being about damnatio memoriae and all that … here’s the basic story from the Bucharest Herald: An inscription carved in stone, proving the political conflict between [...]

Nice coverage of the second ’round’ of the the Classics Renewed conference at Brown last week: For a dead language, Latin showed an awful lot of life at last week’s “Classics Renewed” conference on the poetry and prose of late antiquity. The conference, which ran from Thursday to Saturday, brought 19 speakers from four continents [...]

Michael Helfeld puts an interesting spin  on things in a Southern New Hampshire University press release: It was 7 p.m. on a quiet autumn evening, when I received a call from my alma mater asking me for a donation. When I told the young lady that I had graduated with a degree in Classics, she [...]

The Telegraph seems to be one of the only newspapers mentioning this … the salient excerpts: Severe flooding led to tourists being shut out of the 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre as well as the nearby Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, and the ancient Roman port of Ostia, west of the capital. The Colosseum was particularly badly [...]

This might be a little specialized for some folk (like me) since the presentations are all in Greek … the ASCSA has four talks: “Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library”

A couple days’ worth … some appear to have disappeared amidst computer problems at school and IOS5 installation nuttiness: Freaky Friday: Hannibal vs Ulysses Grant vs Uber Cool Hipster October 21, 2011 Open Access Journal: Iris Online October 21, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones Leigh Hunt on Book Catalogues October 21, 2011 Michael Gilleland Friday Funnies–Ancient [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: ANIMATING ANTIQUITY: HARRYHAUSEN AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Wednesday 9th November 2011, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. National Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ Co-organised by Steve Green and Penny Goodman (Leeds) The conference takes a ‘Janus-like’ approach to the relationship between Ray Harryhausen’s films and the classical world of myth by [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: CALL FOR PAPERS Masks, Echoes, Shadows: Locating Classical Receptions in the Cinema 29 May 2012, Institute of Classical Studies, London Cinema’s fascination with the classical past can take many forms. In recent years, scholarly and popular attention has mostly been directed at films that recreate and reconstruct the narratives of [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: APA 144th Annual Meeting: 3-6 January 2013, Seattle, WA Campanian Cultures: Poetics, Location and Identity Panel Organizers: Ian Fielding (Warwick); Carole Newlands (UC-Boulder) The region of Campania was an important point of intersection between the cultures of antiquity. As the center of the Greek colonial presence in mainland Italy, Campania [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: CALL FOR PAPERS: TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE A panel to be held at the Seventh Celtic Classics Conference, with, and at, L’Université de Bordeaux III and the Ausonius Institute, Bordeaux, 5th-8th September 2012. Confirmed speakers include: James McGlew (Rutgers), Ivan Jordovic (University of Novi Sad), Greg Anderson (Ohio State [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: CALL FOR PAPERS The Long Reach of Antiquity April 27-28, 2012 Columbia University Keynote Speakers: Prof. Leonard Barkan (Princeton University, Comparative Literature) Prof. Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania, Classics) This conference addresses the legacy of Greece and Rome in the literary arts from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity. Graduate students [...]

Seen on the Classics list: Crowned Victor: Competition and Games in the Ancient World 4th Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Friday, March 2 to Saturday, March 3, 2012 Submission Deadline: January 7, 2012 The graduate students of the University of Pennsylvania seek abstracts for the fourth annual Center [...]

Seen on various lists: Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII CALL FOR PAPERS The topic of the seventh colloquium, to be held at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, June 15-16, 2012, will be: Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Call for Papers: "South Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean: Cultural Interactions" 17th ‐ 21st July 2012, Melbourne, Australia Hosted by the Centre for Greek Studies and the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia, this conference will focus on the movement of [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Ancients and Moderns: 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians 5-6 July 2012 Senate House, London With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our own times, and how successive epochs of modernity [...]

Seen on the Classics list: The DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS at the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics, with special interest in the pedagogy of classical languages. We seek a broadly-trained classicist who, in addition to supervising the elementary Latin program, canteach across the classics curriculum at all levels, [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Call for Papers From the Inside Looking Out: Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient History The 1st Annual Graduate Conference in Ancient History of the Joint Collaborative Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman History (University of Toronto and York University=ColPAH) April 27-28, 2012 Keynote Speaker: Sara Forsdyke, University of [...]

I swear I’d looked for coverage of this find at SMU’s site the other day, but it wouldn’t come up and we posted a related item from the Open University (Etruscan Depiction of Childbirth ). In any event, the SMU press release gives a few more useful details: An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the [...]