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SENECA PHILOSOPHUS

An international conference hosted by the American University of Paris and GANPH Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie

16 and 17 May 2011

The American University of Paris
31 avenue Bosquet, 75007 Paris
Grand Salon, 9:00‐19:00

Program: http://aupcomplit.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/senphil-poster-with-program1.pdf

Contact: Jula Wildberger (jwildberger AT aup.fr)

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COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL

MAY 26, 2011, Room 201A, 11AM

The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is pleased to announce the organization of a colloquium on the Ancient Novel to be held on Thursday, May 26 2011, in Room 201A, at 10.00 am. The topic of this colloquium will be:

Greek and Roman Novel: Narrative Tensions, Plot and Themes

PROGRAM

Genre, Ideology and Motifs, Chair: Prof. Antonios Rengakos

Prof. David Konstan (Brown, Emeritus; New York University): “Erôs and Oikos.”

Prof. Marí­lia P. Futre Pinheiro (University of Lisbon): “Satire and Philosophy in Lucian.”

Prof. Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University): “The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus.”

Ass. Prof. Maria Plastira Valkanou (Aristotle University): “Lampon’s Episode in Xenophon’s Ephesiaca.”

Break

Petronius and Apuleius, Chair: Prof. Katharina Volk

Prof. John Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal): “The Theme of Shipwreck on (In)hospitable Shores in Acts, the Satyricon, Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica.”

Prof. Gareth Schmeling (University of Florida): “Size Matters: It is the Little Things that Count in Petronius’ Satyrica.”

Prof. Stephen J. Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford): “Interpreting the anteludia: Apuleius Met.11.8.”

For further information please contact: Stavros Frangoulidis (frangoulidis AT gmail.com)

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Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Studies
La Trobe University

Melbourne, Australia

Full-time, continuing dual position in the Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and the Research Centre for Greek Studies.

La Trobe University is an internationally recognised leader in tertiary education and training, with strong research and teaching programs and student exchange networks across more than 40 countries. We are committed to providing undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of the highest quality, supported by an outstanding research profile.

An exciting new opportunity has been created for a level B academic, with excellent teaching, research, and administrative skills, in the field of Ancient Mediterranean Studies. The position will be responsible for the ongoing administration of the Trendall Research Centre and will also make a major contribution to teaching and research within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Candidates with the relevant teaching and research expertise in the ancient Greek world of South Italy and Sicily are strongly encouraged to apply.

The position will be available from 1 January 2012.
Remuneration: Aus$ 73,444 – $87,212 (plus 17% super)
Position Reference no: 50033267
Closing date: Sunday 1 May, 2011

Position Enquiries: Professor Chris Mackie, Director, Research Centre for Greek Studies,
t: +61 3 9479 2418, e: c.mackie@latrobe.edu.au<mailto:c.mackie ATlatrobe.edu.au>.

For further information, see

http://jobs.latrobe.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=544974&lCategoryID=2835&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=7389&stp=AW&sLanguage=en

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La Trobe University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Context

The Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Studies will be a joint appointment that is co-funded by the Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and the Research Centre for Greek Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The position will be responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Trendall Centre and will also contribute to teaching and research within the Faculty.

The A. D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies was established in 1998 from the Estate of the late Professor A. D. Trendall with the aim of contributing to our understanding of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, particularly the material culture of the Greeks colonists and native populations in South Italy and Sicily. The Trendall Centre, located at present in Trendall’s former apartment at Menzies College on the Melbourne (Bundoora) campus, includes among its resources a large library of books and periodicals in the general area of Greek and Roman culture, and an outstanding archive of some 40,000 photographs of South Italian red-figure vases of the Classical period.

The Lectureship is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and will be supervised by the Director of the Research Centre for Greek Studies. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research programs. It is guided by the core values identified by the University in the operation of its research, scholarship, teaching and organisational practices. The Research Centre for Greek Studies is closely connected with the School of Historical and European Studies, which includes the discipline programs of Art History, Archaeology, European Studies, French Studies, Greek Studies, History, Italian and Spanish, across five campuses of the University.

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PARATEXTUALITY AND THE READER IN LATIN COLLECTIONS

March 19, 2011 – School of Classics, University of St Andrews

Organiser: Laura Jansen (lij AT st-andrews.ac.uk)

This workshop explores the interplay between paratextuality and reception in
Latin verse and prose collections. Amongst critical and methodological
issues, it will probe the role indices, book numbers, inscriptions, titles,
false prefaces, and editorial postscripts have in our reading of collected
letters and poems, works of historiography and the commentary tradition.
Discussion aims to develop a new direction in the criticism of the structure
of Latin collections, and a new understanding of how this literature signals
the construction of its own readers through the lens of the paratext.

Speakers and papers:

Duncan Kennedy, University of Bristol
"’The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of paratextuality: theoretical reflections"

Laura Jansen, University of St Andrews
"Ovidian Paratexts: Editorial Postscript and Readers in ex Ponto 1-3"

Roy Gibson, University of Manchester
"Starting with the index in the Letters of Pliny the Younger"

Roger Rees, University of St Andrews
"Texts and Paratexts as deliberate misinformation in Ammianus"

Monica Gale, University of Dublin, Trinity College
" ‘aliquid putare nugas’: literary filiation, critical communities and
reader-response in the Catullan paratext"

Donncha O’Rourke, University of Oxford
"Paratext and Intertext in Propertius"

Bruce Gibson, University of Liverpool
"Commentary as Paratext: Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and the Eclogues of
Virgil"

For more details, please see:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/paratextuality/index.shtml

For further information, please contact:

Dr Laura Jansen(lij AT standrews.ac.uk)

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Call for papers – Postgraduate Conference

Ancient Ideas in the Modern World: Reinventing the Legacy of Greece
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Friday 8th July 2011

This postgraduate conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary
forum for those working on the reception of classical Greek thought,
specifically vis-à-vis the conceptual life of the polis in modern
theory and practice.

Why does Greek political thought continue to fascinate western
political theorists from wildly divergent ideological traditions?
Why have the ideas behind the Athenian paideia and Spartan agoge had
so strong an influence across so many different societies?
How significantly have our own perceptions of the ancient world been
coloured by the interpretations of 19th century Classicists?
Why are classical foundations so important in the work of post-modern
critics such as Derrida and Kristeva?

We welcome contributions in any of these areas, both from Classicists,
and from those working in other relevant humanities disciplines.
Interested students are invited to submit titles and abstracts (c. 300
words) for 20 minute papers to Helen Roche (hber2) and Carol
Atack (cwa24 AT cam.ac.uk) by Friday March 25th 2011.

We envisage there being two panels – one more focused on theory and
theorists, the other on political actors and cultural history. In
addition, there will be a keynote address given by Professor Paul
Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Faculty of
Classics, Cambridge University.

For further information please contact the organisers: Carol Atack
(cwa24) or Helen Roche (hber2 AT cam.ac.uk).