All Roads Lead From Rome : The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture
9th April 2010
Department of Classics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick.
Keynote speaker: Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania.The aim of this conference is to bring together papers that consider the
many ways that classics informs the world around us. What is reception?
Where does it fit within the discipline? Where do we find Classical
influence in modern culture? How do modern uses of the ancient world
change the way we think about antiquity? The Classics Graduate Student
Organization at Rutgers University is delighted to invite submissions for
papers that explore and expand ideas of classical reception from graduate
students in the fields of classics and related fields, such as film
studies; comparative literature; English; cultural studies; history;
American studies; women’s and gender studies; philosophy and art history.The organizers especially encourage papers that examine forms of reception
in popular culture, broadly construed, such as song lyrics; modern
literature; modern art; architecture; furniture and decorative objects;
toys; poetry; theatre and performance; politics and political rhetoric;
computer and video games; texts (lost) in translation; opera; the history
of classical scholarship; science fiction; uses of the classics in
education; television; fashion design; YouTube; comics and cartoons.Papers should last twenty minutes; abstracts are limited to 300 words.
Please specify in your cover e-mail whether you will need any presentation
aids, such as a projector.The deadline for abstracts is 30th November 2009. Abstracts and queries
should be sent to lizgloyn AT eden.rutgers.edu. Authors of accepted papers
will be notified by 31st December 2009.
Year: 2009
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas octobres
ante diem x kalendas octobres
- Mercatus — the Romans continue the shopping spree
- 479 B.C. — the Persian general Mardonius is killed in the Battle of Plataea (source? … seems a little late)
- 36 B.C. — the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus agrees to retire after losing all his military support to Octavian
- 19 B.C. — another (less likely) date for the death of Virgil
- 130 (129?) A.D.– birth of Galen (still not sure of the ultimate source for this date)
- 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Digna and Emerita at Rome
- 287 A.D. — martyrdom of Maurice and companions
- 1999 — death of Chester Starr
CONF: London Ancient History/Roman Art Seminars
Seen on various lists:
In autumn of 2009 the London Roman Art and Ancient History Seminars are
joining forces to host the following seminars (there will be no Roman art
seminars in the spring). If you have any queries, please feel free to get
in touch with Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe or myself. I can provide illustrated
notices as an attachment for anyone who wishes. PSLondon Ancient History/
Roman Art Seminar
Autumn 2009All seminars on Thursdays at 4.30pm,
in the Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN.1 October Blair Fowlkes Childs (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)
The Dolichenum on the Aventine: Archaeological
Evidence, Cult Rituals, and Topographical Considerations8 October Dr Elizabeth Macaulay Lewis (University of Oxford)
Architecture and Garden: A study in Roman space15 October Prof Marc Waelkens (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Sagalassos and Rome29 October Dr Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
The Colour Purple in Ancient Rome5 November Dr Jane Fejfer (Copenhagen)
Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus19 November Dr Jon Coulston (University of St Andrews)
Still Life in Stone? Roman Triumph and Barbarian Defeat
on the Pedestal Reliefs of Trajan’s Column26 November Prof Paul Zanker (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Living with Myths in Pompeii and BeyondAll are welcome!
Enquiries: contact sophie.lunn-rockliffe AT kcl.ac.uk or
peter.stewart AT courtauld.ac.uk
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminars 2009-2010
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University of Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar Series 2009/2010
All meetings in Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower (ground floor), unless otherwise stated. For further information please contact Ursula Rothe (ursula.rothe AT ed.ac.uk) or Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (l.llewellyn-jones At ed.ac.uk).
Semester 1
23 Sep 09
7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Faculty Room South:
PROF. ELIZABETH MOIGNARD (Glasgow)
‘Homecomings and departures’30 Sep 09
DR. SHELLEY HALES (Bristol)
‘The ghosts of Pompeii’7 Oct 09
PROF. JOHN MARINCOLA (Florida State/Edinburgh)
‘Contextualising Hellenistic historiography’14 Oct 09
DR. ELIZABETH BARTMAN (AIA)
‘Ethnicity in Roman portraiture’21 Oct 09
DR. SCOTT SCULLION (Oxford) ‘Maenads and Men’28 Oct 09
7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Faculty Room South:
PROF. JOHN MARINCOLA (Florida State/Edinburgh)
‘Plutarch and the Persian wars: myth, history and identity in Roman Greece’4 Nov 09
DR. JON COULSTON (St Andrews)
‘Credible triumph? Presenting barbarian defeat on the pedestal reliefs of Trajan’s Column’11 Nov 09
DR. ST JOHN SIMPSON (British Museum)
‘Ancient Iran in the British Museum: collections, displays and research’18 Nov 09
PROF. YAN SHAOXIANG (Capital Normal University Beijing)
‘Greek and Roman History in China’25 Nov 09
PROF. CATHARINE EDWARDS (Birkbeck)
tba2 Dec 09
DR. EMMA BUCKLEY (St Andrews)
‘Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: an Ovidian play?‘9 Dec 09
7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Conference Room:
DR. RICHARD MILES (Cambridge)
‘Hannibal, Heracles and the Second Punic War’Semester 2:
13 Jan 10
7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Faculty Room South:
PROF. T.P. WISEMAN, FBA (Exeter)
‘Ariadne in Ovid and Catullus’20 Jan 10
DR. MICHAEL KULIKOWSKI (Tennessee)
‘Murranus the Pannonian: civilizing the provincial barbarian’27 Jan 10
PROF. HELEN KING (Reading)
tba3 Feb 10
PROF. IAN HAYNES (Newcastle)
‘Recent excavations at Birdoswald on Hadrian’s Wall’10 Feb 10
DR. BRUNO CURRIE (Oxford)
‘The Pindaric first person in flux’17 Feb 10
7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Faculty Room South:
PROF. LAWRENCE KEPPIE (Hunterian Museum, Glasgow)
‘Searching for Trimontium on the map of Roman Scotland’24 Feb 10
PROF. STEPHEN HARRISON (Oxford)
‘Some Problems in Ovid’s Poetic Career’3 Mar 10
DR. JASON KOENIG (St Andrews)
‘Landscape and the representation of reality in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses’10 Mar 10
DR. IPHIGENEIA LEVENTI (Volos)
‘Architectural sculpture in Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian
War’17 Mar 10
DR. RICHARD RAWLES (Edinburgh)
‘Ibycus and epic’24 Mar 10
PROF. JUDITH MOSSMAN (Nottingham)
‘Sophocles’ Antigone and Electra and civic identity’21 Apr 10
7pm: CAS Meeting – DHT Conference Room:
PROF. C.J. TUPLIN (Liverpool)
‘Marsyas meets the Great King: the mythic landscape of classical Celaenae’5 May 10
DHT Conference Room:
PROF. FERGUS MILLAR (Oxford)
‘Jerome and Palestine’
CONF: Dublin Classics Seminars 2009-2010
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All seminars are held in K217, Newman Building, Belfield, UCD, Dublin, on Tuesdays at 5.30pm.
29 September 2009
Dr Kathryn Welch, University of Sydney
Dealing with Caesar: Augustus and the Republicans6 October 2009
Dr. Anthony Harvey, Royal Irish Academy
Frankenstein in the scriptorium: bringing Latin to life in early medieval Ireland20 October 2009
Professor Monica Gale, Trinity College Dublin
Piety, Justice and Labour in Lucretius and Hesiod3 November 2009
Professor Michael Lloyd, University College Dublin
Sophocles the Ironist17 November 2009
Dr Aude Doody, University College Dublin
Rambles and Studies in Greece: Oscar Wilde and John
Pentland MahaffySecond semester
2 Feb 2010
Dr David Woods, University College Cork
Some Notes on the Iconography of
Late Republican Coinage16 Feb 2010
William Desmond, NUI, Maynooth
Herodotus, Happiness and World-History2 March 2010
Professor Wilfried Nippel, Humboldt University Berlin
From Niebuhr to Mommsen. Roman History and 19th century German
Historiography30 March 2010
Professor Timothy Barnes
History and Fiction in Sulpicius Severus’ Life of Martin of Tours.
6 April 2010
Professor Michael Clarke, NUI, Galway
The sons of Noah and the men of Troy: ancient Greek and medieval
Irish perspectivesFor further information please contact Theresa Urbainczyk, urbain AT ucd.ie
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