Blogging Pompeii: Conference: Subterranean Archaeology in Italy.

This is the sort of thing I wish would happen with most conferences/panels … a month or so ago  the University of Southampton was the host for a conference called the Connected Past, which somehow slipped through the cracks at rogueclassicism in terms of an announcement of some sort. The focus, broadly speaking, was on [...]

Seen on various lists: Centre for the Greek Language International Conference: "Panhellenes at Methone: graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE)" Thessaloniki, June 8-10, 2012 Pavlos Zannas Hall, Olympion Theatre, 10 Aristotelous Square Organizing Committee: Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Yannis Tzifopoulos, Aristotle University [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Durham University Department of Classics and Ancient History is pleased to announce the international conference CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS IN EARLY HEXAMETER POETRY 2nd to 4th July 2012 This conference aims to examine Conflict and Consensus in Early Hexameter Poetry from two main perspectives: as thematic concerns in the poems themselves [...]

Seen on the Classics list: Conference: Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome Sponsored by Research Group Classical Philology – USC Organizers: José Virgilio García Trabazo / Ángel Ruiz Pérez Thursday, May 31st / Friday, June 1st 2012 Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago. Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Thursday 05.31. 2012 PLENARY SESSION 9:30-10:20 [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Iambus and Elegy Conference, 11th-13th July 2012 Full conference programme and registration information The study of Greek elegy and iambus has been transformed in recent years by new papyrological finds, most notably the new Simonides elegy in 1992 and the new Archilochus elegy in 2005, while scholarship on early Greek [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: The Centre for Classical Studies at Yaroslavl State University (Russia) is currently conducting a web-conference «Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation» . Everyone is welcome to read and comment (after easy registration) the following 15 papers: PAPERS IN ENGLISH: Giarelli L. “Res publica Camunnorum”: a small Roman Republic in [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity International conference organized by the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologiesproject 21– 22 September 2012 Corpus Christi College Rainolds room Oxford Invited Speakers Roger Batty (Keio University, Tokyo) Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Jim Hankinson (University of Texas [...]

Seen on the Classicists list Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989 Thursday & Friday, 5 & 6 July 2012 The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH This unprecedented conference will bring together a global team of practising novelists and scholars to discuss the importance of ancient Greek [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: 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 ancient history and [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: The Fantastika and the Classical World. A Science Fiction Foundation Conference 29 June – 1 July 2013 At The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool Guests of Honour/Plenary Speakers: Edith Hall, Nick Lowe, and Catherynne M. Valente Call for papers The culture of the Classical world [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Further details below of the two-day interdisciplinary conference Sport and competition in Greece and Rome at the British Museum to celebrate the return of the Olympics to Britain. All welcome. Date 14-15 June 2012 Speakers Laura Ambrosini, ISCIMA: Sports in ancient Etruria Filippo Canali De Rossi: Sport in Rome Chris [...]

American Philological Association: APA Blog : CONF: Flavian Literature And Its Greek Past.

Seen on the Classicist list: Death of Drama or Birth of an Industry? the Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC Conference 19-20 July, 2011 The Centre for Classical & Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) University of Sydney, Australia Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Some limited financial assistance in the form of bursaries [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Call for Papers Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies Conference August 12-13th 2011 in University College Dublin, Ireland The study of ancient warfare is a broad and well established subject that stretches across a range of disciplines. However, persistent controversies regarding interpretations of and approaches to the subject matter remain. [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: What Catullus Wrote. An international conference on the poems of C. Valerius Catullus 20-21 May 2011. Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany Speakers include: Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi (Parma): Catullo, Sabellico (e dintorni) e … Giorgio Pasquali David Butterfield (Cambridge): ‘cui uideberis bella’: the influence of Baehrens and Housman [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: What Catullus Wrote. An international conference on the poems of C. Valerius Catullus 20-21 May 2011. Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany Speakers include: Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi (Parma): Catullo, Sabellico (e dintorni) e … Giorgio Pasquali David Butterfield (Cambridge): ‘cui uideberis bella’: the influence of Baehrens and Housman [...]

Seen on Classicists (please respond to the folks mentioned below, not rogueclassicism): ANCIENT ROME AND EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS Interdisciplinary conference, Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011 Speakers include David Norbrook and Blair Worden CALL FOR PAPERS Ancient Rome was a source of endless fascination to the early moderns. Historians, politicians, divines, [...]

Seen on Classicists (please respond to the folks mentioned below, not rogueclassicism): HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011 University of Sydney, Australia CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011 This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, [...]

Seen on Classicists (please respond to the folks mentioned below, not rogueclassicism): Great, Greater, Gloriosus: Constructions of Greatness and Delusions of Grandeur in Antiquity University of Virginia, Department of Classics The Classics Graduate Student Association of the University of Virginia is pleased to welcome abstracts for its fifteenth annual Graduate Student Colloquium, to be held [...]

Seen on various lists (please respond to the folks mentioned below, not rogueclassicism): Call for papers for the Women’s Network/Réseau des femmes panels at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, 10-12 May 2011, in Halifax, NS: WOMEN, GENDER AND LAW IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN The Women’s Network/Réseau des femmes of the CAC [...]

Seen on various lists (please respond to the folks mentioned below, not rogueclassicism): The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics (ASPROM) will be holding its winter symposium at King’s College London on Saturday 4th December, 2-5.30 pm. All are welcome to attend. Please note that bookings for lunch close this Friday (19th [...]

Seen on Classicists (please respond to the folks mentioned below, not rogueclassicism): Please find below the Semester 2 programme of Classics Research Seminars at Edinburgh. All seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5.10pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Medical School, Teviot Place, Doorway 4, unless otherwise stated. All are welcome to attend. For [...]

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!): The Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies cordially invites you to a colloquium on “Visions of Leadership in the Ancient World”, which will be held on the 4th and 5th of November in the [...]