June 4, 2012
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About a month ago we first caught wind of and shared a summer Latin course ad created by Serena Witzke and Ted Gellar-Goad … in subsequent conversations, it turns out the ad was part of a series, so for the next few days we’ll be featuring a couple of them a day for your enjoyment…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Registration is now open for the conference ‘Structure and scale of Roman urban economies: the case of Pompeii’ that will take place in Oxford on 29-30 June, co-organized by the Oxford Roman Economy Project and the Network on Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World (Flandres). The conference…
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Seen on the Classicists list: The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland presents A Conference on Olympic Athletes: Ancient and Modern Date: (Friday-Sunday) 6-8 July 2012 Place: University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. Speakers include: Prof. Mark Golden (Winnipeg), Prof. Christoph Ulf (Innsbruck), Prof. Matthew Trundle (Auckland) Second…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Thucydides our Contemporary? An international and interdisciplinary conference, Burwalls, University of Bristol, 28th-29th June The full programme is now available at http://www.bris.ac.uk/classics/thucydides/conference/ There are still a few places available for colleagues or postgraduate students to attend; please contact Neville Morley (n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk) as soon as possible, and certainly by…
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Seen on the Classicists list: "Philology and Empire, 1700-1900". University of Reading Wednesday 27 June 2012 The years from 1700 to 1900 are a crucial period for the development of scholarly philology and imperial expansion. This relationship between philology and empire was studied anew in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and the time…
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