CONF: Reading Seminars (Autumn 2010)

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!):

SEMINARS, AUTUMN TERM 2010

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
UNIVERSITY OF READING

VENUE: THE URE MUSEUM OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY (http://www.reading.ac.uk/Ure/index.php) Time: 4pm

Oct 13
Felix Budelmann (Magdalen College, Oxford), “On the Poetics of Alcman 1”

Oct.20
Stephen Colvin (UCL), “Social Dialects of Attic”

Oct 27
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff), “‘Fashions’ and ‘Branding’ in Greek and Roman Pharmacology”

Nov 3
Patrice Rankine (Purdue), “Race and the Reception of the Orpheus Myth in Brazil”

Nov 10
Alan Cromartie (Reading), “Aristotle, Men, and Laws”

Nov 16
Jeremy McInerney (Philadelphia), “A Tale of Two Sanctuaries: Delphi, Kalapodi and the Growth of Phokis”

Nov 17 Peter Pormann (Warwick), “Classical Studies and Twentieth-century Koran Exegesis: The Construction of Modernity”.

Nov 24
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College, Oxford),
“Sacrifice in Late Roman Art”

Dec 1
Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths), “Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue”

Dec 8 Colloquium: “Characterising Ciphers or Deciphering Characteres? Voces Magicae in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri”

Dec 15
Eleanor Robson (Cambridge), “Assyrian and Babylonian Libraries”

All are welcome. Papers are followed by refreshments and in most cases dinner with the speaker. For directions to the University of Reading, please see: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.asp

For online programme, see http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/class-events.aspx