ED: Epidaurus Summer School 2010

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Intensive Course on the Study and Performance of Ancient Greek Drama, 2010

The eighth Summer School, organised under the auspices of the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama, will be held at Epidauros from the 27th June – 7th July 2010. The theme will be "Exploring European Identities/Ideologies by means of Media".

Applications are invited from suitably qualified graduate students to attend this unique course, which centres academic and theatrical activities around the performances taking place in the ancient theatre of Epidauros at the time.

Participants also attend lectures by well-known European scholars, rehearsals, and meetings with artists.

The British members of the European Network are Oxford University and the Open University, but applications are invited from all British universities. Since it is likely that at most five places on the Intensive Course will be allocated to applicants from Britain, there are some criteria for selection which will be seriously taken into account:

1. Applicants should be engaged on a postgraduate degree.

2. They should have a special interest in ancient Greek drama and its performance.

3. They should explain why they think that this course will be of particular interest to them.

4. They should ask their supervisor to send an academic reference under separate cover.

The fee for the course is 700 euros, which (thanks to subsidies) will cover accommodation, meals, ticket for performances, and archaeological visits (a deposit of 100 euros will be required on confirmation of a place). Travel to and from Epidauros has to be at the expense of the student. Please would applicants also indicate how likely it is that they will be able to raise sufficient funding to attend the course.

The closing date for applications is 28th February. Please address applications to:
Professor Oliver Taplin
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama,
Stelios Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies,
66 St Giles’
Oxford OX1 2RL.

CFP: the Archaeology of Resistance

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Call for papers

“ROMANES EUNT DOMUS”, or the Archaeology of Resistance

A proposal for an AIA Colloquium

San Antonio January 6-9, 2011

Finding evidence for (cultural) resistance has been a part of archaeological and art historical research since the inception of these disciplines. Despite the application of multiple models and a wide variety of approaches, however, there is little consensus on how to identify resistance in the material record. The purpose of this panel is to continue this discussion from the perspective of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds (ca. 2000 BCE-500 CE). The evidence of this region includes well-documented wars and revolts, but also lesser known settings of potential resistance such as colonies, displaced communities, liminal areas and frontiers, religious groups, andsubaltern identities. Within this framework, we hope that a cross-cultural perspective will allow us to start developing a methodology for identifying resistance in the material record.

For the purposes of this panel we employ a broad definition of resistance, including passive and active rejection of prevailing social norms as well as challenges to ruling powers. We ask: when is persistence of local style or traditions a form of resistance? How can we identify everyday subversive acts through dress, eating habits, and other patterns of consumption? How is architecture used to create alternative spaces? Why do textually documented wars not always appear in the archaeological record? How is the past used in the present? Should unselfconscious counter-narratives be considered resistance? Other areas of inquiry might include religion, the body, space, the everyday, theory, gender politics, ancestors, diasporas, visual culture, historiography, and the post-colonial.

Despite the title, we do not focus only on the Roman Empire but welcome any contributions concerning the Mediterranean and Near East.

Organizers:

Lidewijde de Jong (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Robyn Le Blanc (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Lindsey Mazurek (Duke University)

Please submit your abstract, including your contact information, presentation title, length of time requested (15 or 20 minutes) by March 12 (2010) to archaeology.resistance AT gmail.com. The ab­stract in English must not exceed 250 words and should conform to the AIA Style Guidelines (http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10453). Updates can be found at: http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/deJong/Home. Please send any questions to: archaeology.resistance AT gmail.com.

Journal of Roman Archaeology News

The Humphreys send this along:

We are pleased to announce these new publications:

S75. A CEMETERY OF VANDALIC DATE AT CARTHAGE, by Susan Stevens, Mark Garrison and Joann Freed. 366 pages, 137 figs. + 4 pages of colour and DVD of burial catalogue. This is the final report on a cemetery containing 235 aged individuals tightly dated to the Vandalic era, lying directly outside the Theodosian City Wall. Cloth bound, the list price is $125.00 but the current special offer to individuals is $99.00 plus post.

S76. STUDIES ON ROMAN POTTERY OF THE PROVINCES OF AFRICA PROCONSULARIS AND BYZACENA (TUNISIA). HOMMAGE À MICHEL BONIFAY, containing 9 contributions on North African pottery inspired by Bonifay’s Études. Cloth bound, it has 156 pages and 40 figs. The list price is $69.00 but the current special offer to individuals is $49.00 plus post.

The tables of contents are on our website: www.journalofromanarch.com

Please let us know if you would like either of these and we can give you the totals, including the shipping charges; if you would like to send a British pounds sterling cheque or Canadian dollars, we will give you the conversion rates.

With best wishes and thanks,

John and Laura Humphrey

Journal of Roman Archaeology
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas martias

ante diem xv kalendas martias

  • Parentalia (Day 3) — the festival for appeasing the dead continues
  • Lupercalia
  • 44 B.C. — Julius Caesar is offered — and declines — the title of rex and the diadem to go with it
  • 1515 — death of Aldus Manutius