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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Registration is currently open for the 2010 Classical Association Conference in Cardiff. The full programme and booking form are available from the conference website at:
Bookings should be made by 26th February to avoid incurring a late booking fee.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Dear All,
We are pleased to announce that registration for this conference (see the email below) is now open: the registration form and full details of the programme are available at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/research/conferences/mediterranean.aspx. We ask that registration forms be returned to us together with payment not later than Wednesday 10th March. Please note that lunch and refreshments only are included in the conference fee: a list of local accommodation is available on the project website, www.mediterraneanidentities.com.
Student Bursaries
Thanks to the generosity of the Classical Association, we are able to offer six student bursaries covering the full conference fee, which are available to postgraduate students; preference may be given to doctoral students, but students on Masters programmes may also apply. If you would like to be considered for one of these bursaries, please email me (mark.bradley AT nottingham.ac.uk) with details of your affiliation, year of study and research topic, and a statement of how you believe the conference will contribute to the development of your research. It would be most helpful if you could do this by Wednesday 3rd March.
You can also apply to the Thomas Wiedemann Memorial Fund (http://www.thomaswiedemann.org.uk/) for a contribution towards the cost of travel and registration; please note that applications should be made within the next few weeks, and that you should normally seek half of your expenses from your own institution, which, if you are successful, the Wiedemann Trust will aim to meet.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
‘Addressing Dress: Clothing in the Ancient World’
Chairs: Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Ursula Rothe (Edinburgh)CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the session entitled Addressing Dress: Clothing in the Ancient World at the forthcoming Celtic Conference in Classics (University of Edinburgh, 28th-31st July 2010). In recent years, Classics at Edinburgh has become a centre for dress studies with several staff members and postgraduate students working in the field and producing a number of new studies exploring the topic from a variety of angles (e.g. D. Cairns, ‘Anger and the veil in ancient Greek culture’, Greece & Rome 48, 2001; L. Llewellyn-Jones ed., Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World, 2002; L. Cleland/M. Harlow/L. Llewellyn-Jones eds, The Clothed Body in the Ancient World, 2005; L. Cleland/G. Davies/L. Llewellyn-Jones eds, Greek & Roman Dress from A-Z, 2007; U. Rothe, Dress & Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire, 2009).
The session aims to contribute to exciting new developments in dress-related research in Classics by bringing together scholars from a wide range of fields, historical periods and places in the hope of engendering debate and comparison across these lines. As such, we welcome contributions from both text- and material culture-based researchers working on any aspect of dress in
• ancient and classical Egypt
• the ancient Near East
• ancient Greece
• the Roman Empire (Republic/Principate)
• Byzantium & late antiquity in generalWe are also keen to inspire discussion on approaches to dress in the ancient period and hope to address some of the methodological problems inherent in trying to piece together ancient dress practices and their meanings from such a fragmentary source base.
We envisage papers on a wide range of subjects from class, status and gender to ethnicity and cultural identity as well as considerations of links between dress and political institutions or roles, all forms of resistance, and the role of dress in ancient literature. Papers could address very specific topics, such as the use and meaning of a particular garment or the role of dress in a particular classical work, or discuss broader phenomena by looking at wider patterns of social behaviour and their links to dress.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as an email attachment to Ursula Rothe (ursula.rothe AT ed.ac.uk) by the 31st March 2010.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
You may recall the recent email regarding the abolition of the Chair in
Palaeography at King’s College London as part of a large-
scale ‘restructuring’ of the School of Arts and Humanities. It has now
been announced that one member of staff in Classical Art and Archaeology
at King’s will be made redundant before 31st August 2010. This decision is
outrageous for many reasons, not least that the members of staff in
question have been arbitrarily singled out for their subject specialisms,
despite the nature of their research and teaching as integral to the
Classics department as a whole.This proposal is damaging to the Classics Department at King’s and
distressing for the members of staff concerned. Furthermore, it is an
alarming indicator of a growing trend towards coercive and arbitrarily
managed approaches to supposedly ‘sub-critical’ subjects. Academics are
being dismissed not because their work lacks excellence but because of a
lack of ‘fit’ with some strategy devised by administration. This threatens
the very nature of academic freedom. It is vital that researchers and
students in these subjects present a united front to stop this trend from
gathering momentum over the next few years.Please consider offering support to your colleagues at King’s by writing a
letter to the Principal (address below) to oppose the proposed redundancy.
This proposition is part of the same scheme that threatens Professor
Ganz’s position but is a separate and similarly urgent issue. The campaign
to stop these cuts is ongoing, so please consider writing a letter even if
you have already done so for Palaeography.The full document outlining the ‘restructuring’ has recently been released
by King’s and can be accessed at
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/06/80/12/AHConsultationDoc.pdf (details
on the Classical Art and Archaeology cut can be found on p.5, item 5). A
petition has also been established at
http://www.petitiononline.com/kclCAA/petition.html – please do sign this
in addition to sending a letter – and a website with more information and
links has been created at http://stopclassicsfacultycuts.webs.com.Many thanks for your continuing support.
The address to write to is: Professor Rick Trainor, The Principal, King’s
College, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS (principal) and copy to
Professor Jan Palmowski, Head of the School of Arts and
Humanities (jan.palmowski).
… addenda:
Apologies for any confusion my previous message may have caused. It has
not yet been decided which member of staff will be dismissed; this
decision will be made "on the basis of performance" (see p.5 of the
document,
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/06/80/12/AHConsultationDoc.pdf). Any one
of the four current members of staff may lose their job. Please write to
retain all four positions in Classical Art and Archaeology at King’s.
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