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Newcastle University
Classics Research Seminar, 2009-2010 Semester 2

All seminars take place in the Shefton Room, Armstrong Building, 1st floor, Newcastle University, beginning at 5pm. All are welcome.

Wednesday 17 February 2010
THILO RISING, Newcastle University
A Storm in a Teacup: Senatorial Opposition to Pompey’s Eastern Settlement

Wednesday 3 March 2010
DR PENELOPE GOODMAN, University of Leeds
Urbis et Orbis: The Boundaries of the City of Rome

Wednesday 28 April 2010
DR STEPHANO MAGNANI, University of Udine
New Evidence from the Province of Syria

Wednesday 5 May 2010
PROF CATHERINE STEEL, University of Glasgow
Political Cultures and Written Records: Cicero after his Exile

A map of Newcastle University can be found here:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps/printable/

An excerpt from the latest AIA Update of interest:

The AIA’s Spring 2010 Lecture Season has begun, featuring free public lectures by scholars at locations throughout the United States and Canada. Offerings include current research in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Korea; Kublai Khan’s lost fleet; the mosaics of Tunisia; how coins portray the Imperial family drama of Flavian Rome; relations between Native Americans and Spanish colonists; and more. Find a Lecture Program near you. Our Spring Season runs to the end of April. We hope you’ll join us!
Look for a lecture near you at www.archaeological.org/lectures.

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The Alexander Romance in the East
A Conference at the University of Exeter, July 26-29, 2010

The organisers announce the draft programme for this international conference, which sets out to explore issues and growth points in the study of the Greek Alexander Romance and its transformations in the Persian and Arab traditions, as well as aspects of the Hebrew tradition as it impinges on the Muslim world. Sessions will be held in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, one of the University’s architectural gems with up-to-date facilities and a beautiful outlook. Accommodation has been reserved in the nearby Holland Hall and Mardon Hall.

Draft Conference Programme

Monday 26 July 2010

2.00-5.00 pm Arrival and registration; tea
6.00 Reception
7.00 Dinner
8.00 Richard Stoneman: Introduction and Opening paper
Persian Aspects of the Romance Tradition

Tuesday 27 July 2010

1115-1300 Dan Selden, Circulation of Texts in late antiquity
Sulochana Asirvatham, Alexander the Philosopher in Greek,
Persian and Arabic Traditions
9.15-10.45
1045-1115 Coffee
Corinne Jouanno, The Persians in the late Byzantine Alexander Romances: a portrayal under Turkish influences
Hendrik Boeschoten, Adventures of Alexander in medieval Turkish
1245-1415 Lunch
1415-1545 Michael Axworthy, Nadir Shah and Alexander
Warwick Ball, Alexander in Central Asia
1545-1615 Tea
1615-1730 Daniel Ogden, Sikandar Dragon-Slayer
Sabine Muller, Stories of the Persian Bride: Alexander and Roxane
1845 Dinner

Wednesday 28 July 2010

900-1100 Haila Manteghi, Candace and Qaidafa
Mario Casari, The King Explorer: a cosmographic approach to the Persian Alexander
Graham Anderson, Alexander and Arthur
1100-1120 Coffee
1120-1300 Z.David Zuwiyya, ‘Umara’s Arabic Alexander Romance
Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Arabic Alexander
El-Sayed Gad, Al-Tabari’s Tales of Alexander: History and Romance
1300-1330 Lunch
1330-1600 Free time
1600-1800 Firuza Abdullaeva, Alexander’s Flying Machine
Alexandra Szalc, The Water of Life
Alexandra Kleczar, Kingship in the Jewish versions
1900 Party

Thursday 29 July 2010

915-1045 Olga Palagia, Macedonian Aspects of the Art of Central Asia
Emily Cottrell and Kyle Erickson, Did the Arabic Alexander Novel rely on Seleucid Sources?
1045-1115 Coffee
1115-1245 Ory Amitay, Paradise and the Gymnosophists in the Talmud
Yuriko Yamanaka, The Islamized Alexander in Chinese Geographies and Encyclopaedias
1245 Close. Lunch available

Booking Information

For further information, including accommodation and conference booking, please see our website, http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/classics/conferences. The University of Exeter is just over two hours by train from London and is located on a beautiful campus (with an important collection of rare trees!). The department of Classics and Ancient History has been rated third in the UK for research in 2008, while the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is host also to a new Centre for Persian Studies.

Booking closes on June 30th 2010, but reserved accommodation is limited, so book early to be sure of a place in one of the halls of residence overlooking the Exe Valley.

In case of difficulty contact

Richard Stoneman
c/o Dept of Classics and Ancient History
University of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter EX4 4RJ
UK

richard14stoneman AT btinternet.com

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CFP: 2010 European Association of Archaeologists
Meeting in the Hague, September 1-5, 2010,
http://www.eaa2010.nl/

Session Title: Aspects of Embodiment: Tattoos
and Body Modification in Antiquity

From Oetzi the Iceman to today’s full-sleeved and
pierced urbanite, it seems that body modification
has always formed an integral part of the human
animal’s relationship to its body. Some
adornments are temporary or purely situational,
such as particular body paints, jewelry or hair
treatments, while others are quite permanent and,
when we are very lucky, preserved in the
archaeological record.
The archaeologist’s arsenal in studying preserved
tattoos and other body modifications has expanded
in recent years. At the same time,
anthropological interest in "the body" and
embodiment has greatly increased theoretical
interest in practices that "inscribe" upon the
body. Few still see tattooing simply as a display
of art; they look instead for distinctions of
status, rank, age or gender, for medicinal uses,
for punitive or laudatory uses, for manifestos or
other propagandistic uses, as marks of belonging
or exclusion, as marks of transition or
transformation … As the body arts of, e.g.,
Oceania and Asia, are better understood, the
ideas have cross-pollenated with European
archaeology. In fact, the serious and scientific
attention accorded to body modification today
contrasts starkly with earlier dismissal by
Europeans of tattooed "barbarians." We feel
that, in the current atmosphere of acceptance, it
is time for a multidisciplinary session on the
archaeology of body modification.

We invite papers from all relevant disciplines,
but particularly welcome bioarchaeologists who
work with the detection and analysis of ancient
tattoos; archaeologists who work with preserved
tattoos and/or modifications; and all those whose
reconsiderations of ancient tattooing practices
promise to expand our field and contribute to
richer understanding of the ancient body and mind.

Please send abstracts as soon as possible in the following format to :

prof. dr. philippe della casa
universität zürich, abt. ur- und frühgeschichte
karl-schmid-str. 4, CH – 8006 zürich
tel. +41 (0)44 6343831, fax (0)44 6344992
<>http://www.prehist.uzh.ch

Session Papers
All fields below marked with a * must be completed

Name of presenter*:

Name(s) of co author(s):

Title*:

Content*: (with a maximum of 300 words)

Thank you very much!
Constanze Witt, co-organizer

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KYKNOS

Swansea and Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World

[www.kyknos.org.uk]

Below is given the KYKNOS programme for Michaelmas term 2009. For more information about the various activities of the research centre, please visit our website (www.kyknos.org.uk) or contact Professor John Morgan (John.Morgan AT swansea.ac.uk) or Dr Magdalena Öhrman (m.ohrman AT lamp.ac.uk).

All KYKNOS seminars commence at 6 pm.

22 January 2010: Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130.

Liz Dollins (University of Exeter)

"Guilty Pleasure: The Greek novel and the reader’s veiled gaze."

28 January 2010: University of Wales Lampeter, Roderic Bowen Research Centre

Dr Angus Bowie (The Queen’s College, Oxford)

‘The Odyssey looks at the Iliad’

5 February 2010: Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130.

Dr Emily Pillinger (University of Bristol)

‘Prophetic voices in myth-historical narratives: making sense of "hindsight as foresight"’

9 February 2010: Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130.

Professor Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh)

‘Narrative and Narrator in Bacchylides’

19 March 2010: Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130.

Dr Magdalena Öhrman (University of Wales Lampeter)

‘Italiam non sponte sequor: Narrative Departures in Verg. Aen. 4 and 5’

3 April 2010: University of Wales Lampeter, Roderic Bowen Research Centre

Greta Hawes (University of Bristol)

‘Pausanias and the idea of Crete’