February 14, 2009
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Wow … what bills itself as “Canada’s National Newspaper” (we Westerners were always skeptical of such) incipits a piece thusly: Word play occurs in unexpected places. Diane Lane, while promoting her recent movie Nights in Rodanthe, branched into a brief discussion of “cide.” “To decide is a great word,” she said, “because it’s like fratricide,…
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COMIC INTERACTIONS: COMEDY ACROSS GENRES AND GENRES IN COMEDY Friday 17 – Saturday 18 July 2009 Department of Greek and Latin, UCL, and the Institute of Classical Studies A conference sponsored by the British Academy, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Department of Greek and Latin. Speakers: Eric Csapo, Chris Carey, Edith Hall, Stephen…
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INSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR USES IN ANCIENT LITERATURE: A CONFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 25-26TH JUNE 2009 Booking is now open for this conference, which aims to explore the possibilities which the literary record of ancient inscriptions offer both to those interested in understanding ancient attitudes towards inscriptions and to those…
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Supplementary Call for Papers Identity and Identification in Antiquity International conference organised by: Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University College of Law, Florida International University SECL, Classical and Archaeological Studies, University of Kent Where? College of Law, Florida International University, Miami, USA When? Tuesday 7 April to Thursday 9 April 2009 Deadlines? Supplementary call for…
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