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Call for Papers for the 2011 Meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association
October 14-15, 2011 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL

The Department of Classics and the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s will be hosting the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association on Friday October 14 and Saturday October 15, 2011.

Papers of 20 minutes duration are invited on any aspect of the Classical World (literature, history, archaeology, art history, philosophy, etc.). Please send an abstract of not more than 200 words and include your name and affiliation, the title of your paper and any A.V. requirements. Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail attachment to Milo Nikolic (aca.memorial AT gmail.com) by July 31, 2011.

Conference registration deadline is September 15th, 2011.

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Annual Meeting of the CAC / Congrès annuel de la SCÉC

Subscribers are reminded that the Annual Meeting of the CAC-SCEC will take place from Tuesday, May 10 – Thursday, May 12 at Dalhousie University in Halifax. On-site registration will begin in the afternoon of Monday, May 9, and paper sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. on May 10.

Pre-registration on the conference website is required. Regular registration fees will be collected until April 8. After April 8, a surcharge will apply. The online registration process requires you (1) to log on to the conference site (if you have not already done so, you’ll need to create an account); (2) to click the "registration" tab, where you will find registration categories and options. (3) Please note that after completing online registration, you must finish the process manually by making out a cheque to "Dalhousie University” and sending it to the following postal address:

CAC-SCEC Registration
Department of Classics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
CANADA B3H 4P9

Remember that after April 8, late surcharges apply!

We very much look forward to welcoming many to Nova Scotia in May! You will find useful information about our conference and your stay in Halifax on the conference website. A full preliminary programme will be posted by March 18. Please direct any queries to peter.obrien AT dal.ca or cachfx AT dal.ca.

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Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar

Institute of Classical Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London

s.royston-davies AT ucl.ac.uk
alexander.millington AT ucl.ac.uk
http://www.pgwip.org.uk

REPRESENTATIONS OF POWER

These seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. in room G35, Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

4 March 2011
Victoria Györi, King’s College London
A role model for Augustus? The Augustus/Numa asses and the Roman mint of
23–12 BC

11 March 2011
Hannah Cornwell, Brasenose College, Oxford
Viewing the pacification of the Alps: the Augustan arch at Segusio

18 March 2011
Adrastos Omissi, St John’s College, Oxford
The representation of usurpation in imperial panegyric, AD 284–395

25 March 2011
Sushma Jansari, University College London
Megasthenes and Mauryan–Seleucid relations: fact or fiction?

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ENDURING MONSTERS: HARRYHAUSEN AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

Wed 9 November 2011 at the National Media Museum in Bradford

co-organised by Steve Green (Leeds) and Penny Goodman (Leeds)

Classics at Leeds, in collaboration with the National Media Museum at Bradford, is pleased to announce a one-day conference this November based around the film work of Ray Harryhausen.
Harryhausen’s distinctive brand of film animation of classical myth has captured the imagination of generations of viewers – his animation of skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Medusa in Clash of the Titans (1981) are of course legendary.

This one-day conference seeks to explore reciprocal issues: the creative ways in which the Harryhausen films engage with the classical tradition and, conversely, the influence that the Harryhausen films have had on the visualisation of the classical world in more recent culture.

The conference will take place at the National Media Museum at Bradford to coincide with, and mark a celebration of, the arrival of the Harryhausen animation collection to the Museum. Classically-themed items from the Harryhausen collection will be available for viewing on the day. Moreover, as this date also marks the opening of the Bradford Animation Festival at the Museum, the conference will finish with a drinks reception to mark the occasion.

At this point, the co-organisers of the conference are putting out a call for papers. Confirmed speakers so far are: Penny Goodman (Leeds), Steve Green (Leeds), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Dunstan Lowe (Reading) and Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham).

The following areas of focus have been identified as particularly relevant and of interest to both Classics at Leeds and the National Media Museum:

* classical v. contemporary influence in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Clash of the Titans (1981)
* the creation of classical landscape/ architecture in Jason and the Argonauts (1960) and Clash of the Titans (1981)
* classical engagement in less-obvious/ less well-known Harryhausen outputs
* the influence of Harryhausen’s classical animations on subsequent visualisations of the classical world in (sub-) culture, esp. art, film, video/computer games
* the ‘remake’ of Clash of the Titans (2010)

Papers should last 20-25 minutes; abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Please send abstracts to both Steve Green (s.j.green AT leeds.ac.ukp.j.goodman AT leeds.ac.uk by Friday 29 April 2011. If you have any further queries, please feel free to contact the co-organisers.

A dedicated webpage for the conference will be constructed shortly.

and Penny Goodman (

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6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel

30-31 May 2011, Student Cultural Center ‘Xenia’

The Department of Philology (Division of Classics), University of Crete, is pleased to announce the organization and hosting of the 6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel on 30 and 31 May 2011 at the Student Cultural Center ‘Xenia’ (16 Sofokli Venizelou Street) in Rethymnon. The topic of RICAN 6 is:

‘Holy Μen/Women and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel’

PROGRAMME

Monday 30 May 6:00 p.m.

Maaike Zimmerman (Groningen), Chair

Ken Dowden (Birmingham): “The Lies of Tiresias: Authority and its Enemies”
Gareth Schmeling (Florida): “The Small World of the Holy Man: To Travel (work the lecture circuit) and To Tell Stories (act the part of someone who knows). A Beginning in the Satyrica”
Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow): “Encolpius and the Charlatans”
Ian Repath (Swansea): “Cleitophon the Charlatan”

Tuesday 31 May 10:00 a.m.

Patrizia Liviabella-Furiani (Perugia), Chair

Ewen Bowie (Oxford): “A Land without Priests? The Religious Roles of Philetas and Dionysophanes in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe”
Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (Göttingen): “Fickle Coloured Religion: Priests or Performers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses?”
Ilaria Ramelli (Milano): “Lucian’s Peregrinus as Holy Man and Charlatan, and the Construction of the Contrast between Holy Men and Charlatans in the Acts of Mari”
Alain Billault (Paris-Sorbonne): “Holy Man or Charlatan? The Case of Calasiris in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika”

Tuesday 31 May 6:00 p.m.

Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins), Chair

Michael Paschalis (Crete): “The Philostratean Sophist as Proteus: Holy Man and Master of Deceit?”
Mario Andreassi (Bari): “Portrait of a Holy Man: Aesop in The Life”
John Morgan (Swansea): “The Monk’s Story: The Narrationes of Pseudo-Nilus of Ancyra”

Summation and Closing Remarks
by Silvia Montiglio

For further information please contact:
Michael Paschalis, michael.paschalis ATgmail.com
Stelios Panayotakis, panayotakis AT phl.uoc.gr

All welcome