CONF: Queensland Greek History Conference

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INAUGURAL QUEENSLAND GREEK HISTORY CONFERENCE

Cultural History of the Greeks
22-23 October 2010
CONVENOR

Dr David Pritchard (The University of Queensland)

FINANCIAL SPONSORS

The University of Queensland Cultural History Project
The R D Milns Classics and Ancient History Perpetual Endowment Fund
The Greek Orthodox Community of St George, Brisbane

LIST OF SPEAKERS

Friday 22 October

1. Professor Margaret Miller (The University of Sydney) ‘‘I am Eurymedon’: Tensions and Ambiguities in Athenian War Imagery’
2. Professor Vincent Gabrielsen (The University of Copenhagen) ‘Brotherhoods of Faith: Private Clubs in the Ancient World’

Saturday 23 October

3. Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis (The University of Sydney) ‘Autobiography as Cultural Critique: Some Observations on Michael Psellos’ Chronographia’
4. Martyn Brown (The University of Sydney) ‘Greek Blood in Italy: The Reception and Politics of the Battle of Rimini in 1944’
5. Dr Matthew Trundle (Victoria University of Wellington) ‘Coinage and Greek Culture’
6. Dr Amelia Brown (The University of Queensland, HPRC) ‘Residents and Tourists in Roman Corinth, Capital City of Southern Greece’
7. Associate Professor Rick Strelan (The University of Queensland, HPRC) ‘Encircling the Corpse: Ritual Pollution and Purity in Acts 14:20’
8. Mark Chou (The University of Queensland, POLSIS) ‘Postmodern Dramaturgy, Premodern Drama: The Global Resurgence of Greek Tragedy Today’
9. Anna Efstathiadou (The University of Queensland, EMSAH) ‘Representations of History in Greek War Posters’
10. Dr Bronwen Neil (The Australian Catholic University) ‘The Earliest Greek Understandings of Islam: Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronographia’
11. Dr Rashna Taraporewalla (The University of Queensland, HPRC) ‘Fighting as Greece’s Champions: Athenian Commemoration of the Persian Wars’
12. Dr Peter Londey (The Australian National University) ‘Memories of Thermopylae, Ancient and Modern’
13. Dr Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Monash University) and Dr Alexandros Giannadakis (Monash University) ‘The Evolution of Greek in the Diaspora: Australia from the 1960s to the 1980s’.

Dr David Pritchard
Cultural History Project
Centre for the History of European Discourses
Discipline of Classics and Ancient History
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics
Faculty of Arts
University of Queensland
Brisbane
QLD 4072
Australia
Telephone: +61 7 3365 3338
Fax: +61 7 3365 1968
Email: d.pritchard AT uq.edu.au