Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):

Classics Department and KYKNOS research seminars Lent Term 2010.

KYKNOS seminars (marked as such below) begin at 6pm; all others at 5.15pm. All seminars take place in the Roderic Bowen Seminar Room. All welcome. For further information o.hodkinson AT lamp.ac.uk

21/01 Dr Jennifer Ingleheart, Durham ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here: the reception of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid’s Exile Poetry’

28/01 Dr Angus Bowie, The Queen’s College, Oxford ‘The Odyssey looks at the Iliad’ KYKNOS

04/02 Dr Pauline Hanesworth, Lampeter ‘The Eleusinian Heracles: myth and ritual … again’

11/02 Dr Serafina Cuomo, Birkbeck College London ‘Accounts in inscriptions: who counted in classical Athens?’

18/02 No seminar

25/02 Greta Hawes, Bristol ‘Pausanias and the idea of Crete’ KYKNOS

04/03 Dr Luca Larpi, Manchester TBC (Late Antiquity topic)

11/03 Dr Christer Henriksen, Uppsala TBC (on Epigraphical Poetry)

18/03 TBC

25/03 Dr Steven Green, Leeds ‘Astrological Discretion in Augustan Literature’

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):

The Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network will meet, 10am-5pm in the Board Room at the Wilberforce Institute, Hull. All are welcome.

Location: WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation), University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE. 10 mins walk from the Hull Railway Station. Link to map below.

Further details at our website/blog, "Sullogismos":
http://sullogismos.wordpress.com/

Programme:

10:00-12:30 Reading Group
Plato Republic IV, 428-435 (in English, using Grube/Reeve translation, publ. Hackett)

12:30-13:30 Lunch (own arrangements)

13:30-15:00 Malcolm Heath (Leeds)
"’Why are humans poetical animals? An experiment in Aristotelian anthropology."

15:00-15:15 Coffee

15:15-16:45 Amber Carpenter (York)
"Does Plato think it is good for us to aim at happiness?"

All academics and postgraduates with an interest in Ancient Philosophy are warmly welcomed.
Lunch: own arrangements.

No booking is required, but an email to indicate attendance would enable us to circulate the papers to participants in advance.

Contact: Amber Carpenter (adc503 AT york.ac.uk), Jamie Dow (j.dow AT leeds.ac.uk) or Antony Hatzistavrou (A.hatzistavrou AT hull.ac.uk)

Map for Wilberforce Institute:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=HU1+1NE&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hull+HU1+1NE,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ei=q8pFS7jmKofw0wSI1tj0AQ&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&ll=53.742214,-0.336199&spn=0.011751,0.027294&z=15

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):

STAGE, the Postgraduate Classical Association of the Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh, announces its annual Postgraduate Conference for 2010 to be held on the 13th of February at the University of Edinburgh, and invites the submission of abstracts.

The conference will be held on the 13th of February in the David Hume Tower. Location details and campus maps can be found here: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/contact

Registration begins at 10AM and would anyone interested in participating please email STAGECONFERENCE2010 AT GMAIL.COM or click REPLY with the word ATTEND in the subject box to give us an idea of numbers. Details to follow soon.

The purpose of the STAGE conference is to allow postgraduates in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology in the UK and Europe to interact and exchange ideas, get feedback on their work in a receptive and low-pressure environment, and develop future directions for research. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers making developed arguments, as well as for posters summarising developing research. It is our hope that postgraduates at all stages of their degrees will attend.

Abstracts for papers should be no longer than 200 words and should outline the paper?s argument. Proposals for posters should be no longer than 100 words and should describe what will be presented. In either case, applicants should also include details of their current degree, including institution, supervisor, and research topic. Papers and posters in any area of Classics, Ancient History or Archaeology are welcome. All proposals should be sent within the body of an email to stageconference2010

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