Year: 2009

JOB: Generalist @ UGlasgow

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University of Glasgow
Faculty of Arts
Classics

Lecturer
Ref: 00049-3
Salary: £31,513 – £35,469

Classics at the University of Glasgow is a vibrant and growing department
within the Faculty of Arts. We currently have eight academic staff, an active
and lively community of postgraduates, and teach a range of courses to a
substantial number of undergraduates. Our research is focused on the
literature, history and culture of Greco-Roman antiquity and the ways in which
the subsequent cultural traditions have used and understood the ancient world.
We are inter-disciplinary in our approach, actively engaged in exploring
research collaborations across the disciplines. Our teaching combines an open-
ended enquiry-led pedagogy with traditional rigour in its approach to
disciplinary skills; the strength of our teaching is reflected in outstanding
NSS results.

We are looking to recruit someone with outstanding potential as a researcher.
You will be in a position to make a major contribution to the discipline
through actual and forthcoming publications and to develop your research
through successful research grant applications. You will be enthusiastic in
exploring the possibilities for research collaboration with colleagues in
other institutions and other disciplines and will have a clear understanding
of your research’s potential for Impact. You will grasp opportunities to
enhance the department’s overall research profile. Preference in this aspect
may be given to an ancient historian (broadly conceived), but applicants from
any area of the discipline are invited to demonstrate the intersection between
their own research and existing strengths.

Your teaching will demonstrate a consistent engagement with student learning
and an understanding of the range of pedagogical approaches to the discipline.
You will be willing to co-operate in team-taught courses and to teach flexibly
across a broad range of areas to support the department’s overall provision.
Details of our activities can be found on our website:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/classics/

Informal enquiries about this post are welcome: please contact the head of
Department, Prof. Matthew Fox

Apply online at www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs

Closing date: 30th October 2009

CFP: Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City

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The University of Birmingham would like to invite papers from postgraduate
students and early career researchers for Day One of a colloquium, taking
place from the 5th to the 6th of July 2010 on:

Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City

The possibilities offered by Cultural Memory as a methodological tool for
reading and understanding modes of behaviour in antiquity have been
steadily gaining currency in recent years. The aim of this
interdisciplinary colloquium is to bring together scholars and research
students working on the texts and material culture of the ancient world in
order to exchange ideas and approaches relating to using Cultural Memory
to analyse religion in various ancient urban contexts.

The colloquium will be arranged over two days; papers given on the first
day will explore new research by postgraduates and early careerists
currently working on Cultural Memory in ancient societies. On the second
day we will turn our gaze on Rome as a case study for lieux de mémoire
with papers given by invited scholars.

We warmly welcome papers from postgraduate or early career researchers on
any aspect of the theme of cultural memory and religion in the ancient
city. We encourage abstracts relating to any area of the ancient
Mediterranean from the third millennium BC to Late Antiquity. Potential
topics for papers could include but are not limited to:

• Religious traditions and the role of memory in their conception
and performance
• Architectural conceptions
• Geographical places of memory
• Memory and myth
• Religious commemoration of historical events

It is hoped that a combination of speakers from a variety of disciplines
and at different stages in their work and careers will generate some
fascinating and stimulating discussion that will be of use both to
individual research projects and to those who are interested in taking
more collaborative approaches. Our keynote speaker is Professor Karl
Galinsky (who is leading the Memoria Romana project at Ruhr University,
Bochum), and provisionally agreed invited speakers include Thomas
Kuhlmann, David Larmour, Maureen Carroll and Alain Gowing. It is
anticipated that selected papers will be published as part of a series of
Birmingham volumes on Cultural Memory.

Please send abstracts of c.300 words to Phoebe Roy (prr320) and
Juliette Harrisson (JGH139) by Friday, 8th January 2010.

CONF: Housman Revisited

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HOUSMAN REVISITED

The Departments of English and of Greek & Latin

at University College London

warmly invite you to

an evening celebration of

the 150th Anniversary of A. E. Housman’s Birth

on Friday 20th November 2009.

Admission is FREE. No registration is required.

5-7 pm Cruciform Building (Lecture Theatre 2)

Talks by David Butterfield, Stephen Harrison, Peter Howarth and Norman Vance, followed by discussion.

7-8pm South Cloisters, Main UCL Building

Refreshments

The celebration is generously supported by the Housman Society and the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

For further information, see

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/about/news.htm

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/newsandevents/events

or contact Antony Makrinos at the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London (Tel. 020 7679 7490, Email: a.makrinos AT ucl.ac.uk)

CONF: Reception within Antiquity, University of Nottingham

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One-Day Colloquium on Reception within Antiquity
University of Nottingham
31 October 2009

The colloquium is under the auspices of the Classical Reception Studies Network, the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham and the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception. It will take place at the Staff club conference rooms.

PROGRAMME
Arrival, registration and coffee: 10h00 – 10h30
Opening: 10h30

Keynote address: Prof Pat Easterling: Greek Tragedy and its Transformations

11h30-12h15: Dr Barbara Graziosi: The encounter between Hector and Andromache: ancient and modern receptions

12h15-13h00: Dr Susanna Phillippo: Andromache’s ‘vel umbra satis es’; Seneca (and Virgil) and the recreation of Greek tragedy

13h00-14h15 LUNCH

14H15-15H00: Dr Sarah Miles: Comic Quotations: The Reception of Euripidean Drama in [Plato’s] Theages

15h00-15h45: Nick Wilshere: Lucian’s Achilles: melancholy shade, vainglorious soldier and cross-dressing lesbian.

15h45-16h30: Dr Tim Rood: ‘Polybius, Thucydides and the First Punic War’

Tea and Departure

The conference fee is £30, (£15 for students).

The Classical Association has kindly sponsored a limited number of travel bursaries for postgraduate students wishing to attend. To apply for these or to register for the conference, please contact the organiser, Betine van Zyl Smit at the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (Tel. 0115-8467249; email:abzbv ATnottingham.ac.uk.