October 3, 2009

  • 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…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: Newcastle University Classics Research Seminar, 2009-2010 Semester 1 All 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 AD Wednesday…

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  • Durham Seminars

    Seen on the Classicists list: 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…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: 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…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: 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…

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