CFP: Classical Association Annual Conference, Durham 2011

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Classical Association Annual Conference 2011
Durham University, Friday 15 April – Monday 18 April 2011

Call for Papers

The Classical Association Annual Conference 2011 is to be hosted by Durham
University. The presidential address and plenary lectures will be held in
the Calman Centre (on the Science site); the panels will take place nearby,
in Collingwood College.

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes long followed by discussion) and
coordinated panels (comprising either 3 or 4 papers) from academic staff,
graduate students, and school teachers on the topics suggested below, or on
any aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a
broad range of classical, historical, and archaeological perspectives.

Suggested topics: attitudes towards the future in Greece and Rome; memory
and forgetting; archives and libraries; Greek epigraphy; display practices
and public space; beauty; concepts of authorship and forgery; the identity
of the artist; the disciples of Socrates; Greek and Roman historiography;
Greek law; Greece and the Near East; Greek epigram; the reception of
Augustan poetry; the Œlong¹ third century AD; iconicity of materials; sites
of heritage; regionalism in Roman art and architecture; landscape and the
environment; reconstruction of ancient remains; e-learning.

Title and an abstract (no more than 300 words), and any enquiries should be
sent to the address below (preferably by e-mail) not later than 31 August
2010:

Paola Ceccarelli, CA 2011,
Department of Classics & Ancient History,
Durham University,
38 North Bailey,
Durham DH1 3EU, UK.
Email: CA.2011 AT durham.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)191 3341686

Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/ca_conference2011/

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