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THE CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS
with, and at,
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
July 28-31 2010

The next Celtic Conference in Classics, the sixth, will meet at the University of Edinburgh from Wednesday 28th to Saturday 31st July 2010. The Conference is open to all.

It is expected that there will be between eight and ten panels, to include the following:

‘Epic Poetry and Flavian Culture’ – Chairs: Emma Buckley (St Andrews), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham) and Gesine Manuwald (UCL).

‘Hindsight: or, The Importance of Unfulfilled Expectations in Greek and Roman History’ – Chairs: Kai Brodersen (Erfurt) and Anton Powell (Classical Press of Wales).

‘Addressing Dress: Anthropology and Sociology of Clothing in the Ancient World’ – Chairs: Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Ursula Rothe (Edinburgh).

‘The Presocratics’ – Chair: Simon Trépanier (Edinburgh), in association with the International Association of Presocratic Studies.

SUGGESTIONS for papers and panels. The above panels are at various stages of completeness, but all panel chairs would be happy to receive offers of relevant papers from home or abroad. Chairs’ e-mail addresses are listed below. The Conference Organiser would also be glad to receive suggestions for additional panels.

The venue of the Conference is Pollock Halls, an elegant campus of the University of Edinburgh in a pleasant setting, close to but sheltered from the city centre. The dates of the conference have been chosen in part because they immediately precede the Edinburgh Festival.

Conference members may be able to stay on, if they wish, into the Festival period – using the campus’ inexpensive accommodation.

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The Celtic Conference meets every two years, and rotates between Ireland and Scotland, Brittany and Wales. It promotes collective work from scholars world-wide, in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Many of its panels come to publication as books.

The languages of the Conference are English and French.

Chairs’ e-mail addresses:
eb221 AT st-andrews.ac.uk (Emma Buckley) ;
kai.brodersen AT uni-erfurt.de;
powellanton AT btopenworld.com;
G.M.Davies AT ed.ac.uk (Glenys Davies);
lljones AT staffmail.ed.ac.uk (Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones);
ursula.rothe AT ed.ac.uk;
Simon.Trepanier AT ed.ac.uk
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Founder and Organiser: Anton Powell powellanton AT btopenworld.com
Organiser in Edinburgh: Richard Rawles Richard.Rawles AT ed.ac.uk