May 2009
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The National Post has a lengthy feature on the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the eccentricities of the participants (sort of) which includes this: Not all professors are strange, but Brian Little admits that enough of his peers and colleagues are quirky, eccentric and flighty to hold up the profession as representative…
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from the Classicists list: A few places are still available for the symposium below. For information on registration and for other details about the symposium, please visit the website at: http://www.reading.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/SymposiumforTessaRajak/Symposium.asp JEWS, CHRISTIANS, GREEKS, ROMANS: CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS INTERACTIONS A symposium in honour of Professor Tessa Rajak University of Reading Thursday, 25…
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Interesting item in the Examiner in regards to the Phaistos Disk and questions of its authenticity. Here’s a bit in medias res: Since there’s only one disk, the scholar Jerome Eisenberg suggests it’s nothing but a fake. He published a long article spelling out why he thought this, concluding that the thing ought to be…
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from the Classicists list: A reminder that the last date for registration for this conference (which takes place at the University of Manchester on 6 and 7 July) is *31st May*. Booking forms, and further details about the conference, can be downloaded from: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/classicsancienthistory/eventsnews/lucretius/ The final programme is pasted below. Andrew Morrison & Alison Sharrock…
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… making the rounds of various lists: Dear colleagues, The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) and the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences at LMU Munich organises an international symposium on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" in Munich, 3/4 July 2009. Please find a brief description below and more information including the…
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