Booking is now open for the fifth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in
Ancient Literature.AMPAL 2009 will be held at the University of Birmingham on 14-15 November 2009.
There will be almost 50 papers presented on the theme of ‘Crossing
Boundaries’, from dramatic boundaries to language boundaries, from moral
and cultural boundaries to inter- and intra-textuality. A provisional
programme is now available online.Weekend delegate rates start at only £50 (which includes all accommodation
and meals, as well as the conference fee) for those booking before Friday
2 October. Day delegate rates are also available from £10. It is possible
that we will be able to provide bursaries for those attending, depending
upon final costs.AMPAL 2009 will also feature a research poster competition, with a first
prize of £50. We are still taking entries, so please check the website for
more details.Further details and booking forms can be downloaded from
www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/AMPAL<http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/AMPAL>Please book before Friday 2 October in order to take advantage of the
special offer; any bookings received after Friday 23 October will be
subject to a late fee.Please send any queries to ampal AT contacts.bham.ac.uk<mailto:ampal AT contacts.bham.ac.uk>
Day: October 3, 2009
CONF: Newcastle University Classics Research Seminars
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Newcastle University
Classics Research Seminar, 2009-2010 Semester 1All seminars take place in the Shefton Room, Armstrong Building, 1st floor, Newcastle University, beginning at 5pm. All are welcome.
Wednesday 7 October 2009
PROF. JOHN MOLES, Newcastle University
What’s in a name?’ Χριστός/Χρηστός and Χριστιανοί/Χρηστιανοί in the first century ADWednesday 14 October 2009
PROF. A.J. WOODMAN, University of Virginia
Making History. The Heading of the Res GestaeWednesday 4 November 2009
PROF. JOHN MORGAN, Swansea University
Love Beyond the Grave. The Epistolary Ghost-Story in Phlegon of TralleisWednesday 2 December 2009
PROF. PETER PARSONS, Oxford University
Calligone in the CrimeaA map of Newcastle University can be found here:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps/printable/
Durham Seminars
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SEMINAR PROGRAM, MICHAELMAS TERM 2009
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
Ritson Room, 5.30
All visitors welcome!
Wednesday 14 October
Prof. Françoise Létoublon (Grenoble)
Memory games – Odysseus and Penelope
Wednesday 21 October
Dr Diego Machuca (University of Buenos Aires)
The Pyrrhonist’s Attitude to the Modes of Agrippa
Wednesday 28 October
CA slot (Durham)
Wednesday 4 November
Professor Philip van der Eijk (Newcastle)
Some ancient thoughts on the hardware of memory
Wednesday 11 November
Dr Alex Long (St Andrews)
The lure of the past in Plato’s Menexenus
Wednesday 18 November
Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh)
Remembering the Past in Achaemenid Iran: Reading Ctesias’ Persica
Wednesday 25 November
Dr Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
Socrates Polutropos and the figure of Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium
Wednesday 2 December
Prof. Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)
Ἄτη in the Homeric poems
Wednesday 9 December
Dr Lara Nicolini (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
In spite of Isis: word games in Apuleius 11
CONF: Durham Work in Progress Seminars
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WORK-in-PROGRESS
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
(Wednesdays 1pm – Seminar Room – sandwiches welcome)
MICHAELMAS TERM 2009
All visitors welcome
14 October: Johanna Hannink (Cambridge University)
Anecdote and narrative in the pseudo-Euripidean epistles
21 October: Andreas Hartmann
Objects, relics, and memory in classical antiquity
28 October Johannes Haubold
The grammar of the bard
4 November Donald Murray
‘As was my wish’ – Darius and the crossing of the Bosporus
11 November Lilah-Grace Fraser
Women and memory in the Iliad and the Kossovo cyle
18 November Valentina di Lascio
Aristotle’s linguistic fallacies in the Sophistical Refutations
25 November: John Marincola (Florida State University)
Towards a new interpretation of Hellenistic historiography
2 December: Paola Ceccarelli
Topical Identities
9 December Mark Woolmer
Intelligence networks and the exchange of information in ancient Phoenicia
CFP: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World IX
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ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD IX
‘Orality and Literacy, Composition and Performance’
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Classics and Ancient History Program at the Australian National University invites all classicists, historians, and scholars with an interest in oral cultures to participate in the Ninth Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, to take place in Canberra from Tuesday 29 June to Saturday 3 July 2010.
The conference will follow the same format as the previous eight conferences, held in Hobart (1994), Durban (1996), Wellington (1998), Columbia, Missouri (2000), Melbourne (2002), Winnipeg (2004), Auckland (2006), and Nijmegen (2008). It is planned that the refereed proceedings once again be published by E.J. Brill as Volume 9 in the Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World series. The anticipated publication date would be early 2012.
Location: The Australian National University, Canberra
Dates: Tuesday 29 June (registration that evening) to Saturday 3 July 2010
Theme: Composition and performanceKeynote speaker: Professor Richard Martin (Classics, Stanford)
Further information as it becomes available will be posted on the Classics site at: http://cass.anu.edu.au/humanities/programs/classics.php
The theme for the conference is ‘Composition and Performance’, and papers in response to this theme are invited on topics related to the ancient Mediterranean world or, for comparative purposes, other areas. Also welcome are papers that engage with the transition from an oral to a literate society, or which consider the topic of reception.
A range of accommodation options for your stay in Canberra and further details of other activities will be circulated in January 2010.
Abstracts of 250 words should be sent by 31 December 2009 by mail or email as Word attachments to:
Elizabeth Minchin
Classics and Ancient History Program
A.D. Hope Building (#14)
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIAElizabeth.Minchin AT anu.edu.au
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