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CALL FOR PAPERS for the Work-in-Progress seminar series at the Institute of Classical Studies, London.
The series organisers would like to invite postgraduates to present a paper at one of our weekly seminars, beginning in October and running through early December and resuming in January 2010.
The Work-in-Progress series:
The primary aim of these seminars is to provide a friendly and stimulating forum in which postgraduates, with interests in any aspect of the Classical world or the ancient Near East, Archeology or Reception studies may present papers drawn from their ongoing research. Audiences are comprised exclusively of fellow students, mostly from among the large postgraduate community within the University of London. All papers are followed by open and relaxed discussion of the issues raised. We aim to attract speakers and audience members with diverse research interests and, in so doing, we hope to provide a valuable opportunity for academic and social networking, and for the exchange of ideas and techniques across disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
Recently presented papers include:
* Nostra memoria: social memory in the late Roman Republic
* Sexy beasts: sexuality, animals and humour in Middle Comedy
* In self-defence? Brutus and Cassius’ ascent of the Capitol in 44 BC
* Anahita and Achaemenid colonisation in Lydia
* Kinship in Thucydides: Sparta and its kinship ties with the Greeks of the West
* Mother love in Slavery: Andromache and her Sons in Euripides
* Aristotelian and non-Aristotelian elements in Aristotle’s account of voluntary action
* Martial’s mala lingua: connecting the Epigrams with os impurum
* Music to the ears: Playing the lyra on Attic late black-figured lekythoi from Thessaly.Please consult our website http://www.pgwip.org.uk/ for a full list (including abstracts) of the papers given in the previous series and for an updated program in early October.
Practicalities:
Seminars take place on Friday afternoons in term time, at Senate House in London. Funds are available to reimburse speakers for reasonable traveling expenses. Returning speakers are always welcome.
Contacts:
If you would like to discuss presenting a paper (of between thirty and forty-five minutes in length), please contact Andrew Roberts (King’s College London) at Andrew AT pgwip.org.uk and Chris Farrell (King’s College London) Chris AT pgwip.org.uk
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