The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the annual Ranieri
Colloquium on Ancient Studies, WRITING SCIENCE: MATHEMATICAL AND
MEDICAL AUTHORSHIP IN ANCIENT GREECE, Thursday, April 23rd and Friday,
April 24th.

The conference will take place in Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102, Silver
Center for Arts and Science, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place
(wheelchair accessible), New York, NY. The event is free of charge and
open to the public, and seating is by general admission. There will be a
wine reception after Thursday?s evening session.

For more information about the event, please see details below, visit
http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/page/events#WS, or contact the College
Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100; kenkidd AT nyu.edu

*****Thursday, April 23, 2009
5:30 P.M. Welcome
MATTHEW S. SANTIROCCO, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science,
and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University

5:45 P.M. Keynote Talk: Authorship in Science, Ancient and Modern
REVIEL NETZ, Classics, Stanford University
MARIO BIAGIOLI, History of Science, Harvard University

7:00 P.M. RECEPTION

*****Friday, April 24, 2009
9:00 A.M. GREEK MEDICINE
Writing the Animal
HEINRICH VON STADEN, School of Historical Studies, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton

Ways of Organizing (Medical) Knowledge and Questions of Authorship in
Late Antiquity: Synopsis, Synagoge, Paraphrase, Epitome
PHILIP J. VAN DER EIJK, Classics, Newcastle University

Chair: DAVID SIDER, Classics, New York University

11:00 A.M. GREEK MATHEMATICS
Hellenistic Introductions to the Science of the Heavens: Three
Definitions of Astronomy in the First Century BC
ALAN C. BOWEN, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and
Science, Princeton

Who Were the Authors of the Athenian Accounts? Between Authorship and
Anonymity
SERAFINA CUOMO, History, Birkbeck College, London University

Chair: ALEXANDER JONES, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
New York University

12:30 P.M. Lunch Break

2:00 P.M. SCIENCE WRITING AND/AS LITERATURE
In Strange Lands: Situating Knowledge in Odyssey 10 and Airs, Waters,
Places
BROOKE HOLMES, Classics, Princeton University

The Name and Nature of Science
PAUL KEYSER, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Chair: MARKUS ASPER, Classics, New York University

Wealth in the Ancient World

Gregynog Classics Colloquium
Gregynog Hall, Gregynog
21-22 May 2009

with the support of UWICAH
and the Research Institute of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter

Organisers: Errietta Bissa (Lampeter) and Federico Santangelo (Lampeter).

Thursday 21 May 2009

1.30-2.30 Registration
2.30-2.35 Welcome

2.35-3.00 J. Davies (Liverpool), Wealth and the Power of Wealth in Classical Athens Revisited

3.00-3.25 S. Lambert (Cardiff), Wealth and the Attic Gene

3.25-3.40 Discussion

3.40-3.55 Coffee Break

3.55-4.20 C. Taylor (Dublin), Wealth in Fourth Century Athens

4.20-4.45 B. Keim (Cambridge), Non-Material but not Immaterial: Demosthenes’ Reassessment of the Wealth of Athens

4.45-5.00 Discussion

5.00-5.20 Coffee Break

5.20-5.45 I. Petrovic (Durham), Wealth and the Greek Gods

5.45-6.10 M. Plantinga (Lampeter), Wealth in Roman elegy

6.10-6.25 Discussion

7.00-8.00 Dinner

Friday 22 May 2009

9.15-9.40 M. Cobb (Swansea), Eastern ‘Luxuries’ and Roman Society

9.40-10.05 C. Greenacre (London), Rome in the Provinces: Private Citizens and Imperial Expansion

10.05-10.20 Discussion

10.20-10.35 Coffee Break

10.35-11.00 R. Evans (Cardiff), Tacitus Annals 1.15 and Wealth Regained

11.00-11.25 K. Verboven (Ghent), Ad exemplum rei publicae: the wealth of Roman collegia

11.25-11.40 Discussion

11.40-11.55 Coffee Break

11.55-12.20 J. Paterson (Newcastle), The eye of the needle: the morality of wealth in the ancient world

12.20-12.45 M. Humphries (Swansea), Elites, status and wealth in late antiquity

12.45-13.00 Discussion
1.15-2.15 Lunch

For further information see the webpage http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/conferences/wealth_ancient_world.html

Those who wish to attend should contact email Errietta Bissa (e.bissa AT lamp.ac.uk) or Federico Santangelo (f.santangelo AT lamp.ac.uk). There will be a fee of £ 72.50 covering accommodation, dinner, breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks; students of Welsh institutions are entitled to a subsidised rate of £ 32.50.

OIKOS – FAMILIA:

THE FAMILY IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD.
Framing the discipline in the 21st century

5-7 November 2009
University of Gothenburg & University of Birmingham

The fifth ARACHNE conference is organised collaboratively by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. The conference will take place at the University of Gothenburg 5-7 November 2009. The conference aims to bridge some of the gaps in the study of the family in antiquity: from Archaic Greece to the later Roman world.

The conference will focus on :

· Family structures and relationships 500 BCE to 500 CE (betrothal, marriage, divorce, parents and children, step-families, dynastic families, grandparents, gender roles within the family, family economy etc)

· New directions in the study of the family in antiquity

Sessions will run on thematic and chronological lines and we welcome papers from all disciplines: classics, ancient and early medieval history, archaeology, art history.

An abstract of a maximum of 300 words should be submitted preferably by email attachment to the conference address arachne At class.gu.se or to:

Arachne, University of Gothenburg, Department of Historical Studies, Box 200, SE 405 30 Gotheburg, Sweden.

The deadline for abstracts is 15 June 2009. Papers should be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes and decisions of acceptance will be made in July.

The official language of the conference is English.

Registration fee is 70 euros for non-speakers, 60 euros for speakers, and 30 euros for students. The fee includes coffee Thursday-Saturday and dinner on Saturday night.

Organizing committee:
University of Birmingham: Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence
University of Gothenburg: Lena Larsson Lovén, Agneta Strömberg

The Classics department at Leeds is pleased to announce the Leeds International Classical Seminar for 2009. The theme for the conference this year is ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’, and our programme of papers will explore the negotiation, display and maintenance of public images both of and within the city of Rome.

The conference will take place on Friday May 15th between venues in the department of Classics and the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (see programme for details). Directions to the University of Leeds and campus maps may be found at the following address: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/getting_here.htm.

The meeting is open to all academic participants; postgraduate and undergraduate students are especially welcome. The conference fee, which includes tea / coffee and a buffet lunch, is £15 (or £10 for students and unwaged), payable on the day. Participants are requested to notify Penny Goodman (p.j.goodman AT leeds.ac.uk) of their intention to attend at least a week in advance in order to secure lunch.

A full programme of papers follows. Do please circulate it to interested parties who may not see it here.

Programme for LICS 2009 – ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’:

10.30 – 11.30: Registration in the Department of Classics
(1st Floor, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds)

11.30 onwards: Papers in Seminar Rooms 3 and 4 of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI)
(29-31 Clarendon Place)

11.30 – 12.15: Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham)
Towards a new (space) syntax: Varro’s de Lingua Latina
12.15 – 13.00: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
Horace and Augustan monuments

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
(Room 119, Dept. of Classics, 1st Floor Parkinson Building)

14.00 – 14.45: Stratis Kyriakidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Rome and the fata Asiae, (Manilius, 1.512)
14.45 – 15.30: Andrew Zissos (University of California, Irvine)
Terra sub Augusto est: Augustan Rome and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee (in LHRI)

16.00 – 16.45: Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Augustus’ house on the Palatine
16.45 – 17.30: Alison Cooley (University of Warwick)
Contextualising Augustus’ Res Gestae

After Demosthenes: Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Oratory
2nd – 3rd July 2009, London.

Organisers: Christos Kremmydas (Royal Holloway) and Kathryn Tempest
(Roehampton).

The conference will take the form of an international, inter-disciplinary
forum that proposes to bring together scholars with different
specializations in order to stimulate discussion on the development of
oratory in the Hellenistic period. By looking for common elements of
performative speech in literary as well as documentary and epigraphical
evidence, it is hoped that this two-day conference will lead to a broader
understanding of Hellenistic oratory, assess its debt to the Classical
oratorical paradigms and examine its impact and influence upon the emerging
rhetorical culture at Rome

Thursday 2nd July

Mike Edwards (ICS) ‘Dionysius and Isaeus’
Laszlo Horvath (Budapest) ‘Hyperides and Hellenistic Oratory’
Thanasis Efstathiou (Corfu) ‘The virtue of clarity (σαφήνεια) in
hellenistic oratory and rhetoric: the case of [Demetrius] On Style.’
Christos Kremmydas (Royal Holloway) ‘The evidence of early Hellenistic
rhetorical exercises’
Lene Rubinstein (Royal Holloway) ‘The use of written documentation in real-
life orations, delivered in connection with embassies.’
Angelos Chaniotis (Oxford) ‘Theatricality and emotion in Hellenistic
decrees: rhetorical strategies in the popular assembly’
Efrem Zambon (Venice): ‘Tyrants and Pirates: two topics for the Hellenistic
orator’
Gunther Martin (Oxford): ‘Praise and persuasion: rhetorical technique in
Theocritus’ poetry’
Eleni Volonaki (University of Peloponnese, Kalamata) ‘The art of persuasion
in Jason’s speeches: Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica’

Friday 3rd July

Edith Hall (Royal Holloway) ‘Hellenistic oratory and the Hellenistic
tragōidos’
Christopher Carey (UCL)‘The evidence for oratory in Hellenistic Drama’
Gesine Manuwald (UCL) ‘Oratory on the stage in Republican Rome’
Jonathan Powell (Royal Holloway) ‘The embassy of the three philosophers to
Rome in 155 BC’
Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton) ‘Hellenistic oratory at Rome: Cicero’s Pro
Marcello’
Jula Wildberger (Paris) ‘Stertinian Rhetoric’
Stanley Porter (McMaster Divinity College, Canada) ‘Paul and the
Rhetoricians.’

Full Conference fee: £20
Day rate: £10.

The deadline for registration is Monday 15 June 2009

Thanks to a limited amount of funding from the Classical Association, we
are pleased to be able to offer some bursaries for postgraduate students.
Please contact Dr Kathryn Tempest(k.tempest AT roehampton.ac.uk) explaining
how attendance at the conference will advance your research plans.

The full programme, abstracts and a booking form are available at the
following webpage:

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/classics/news-and-events/HellenisticOratoryConference/index.html