March 2011
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Richard Campbell sent this one along; really a series of lectures rather than a conference per se … from a page at the National Gallery of Art: The Sixtieth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the National Gallery of Art’s…
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Seen on the Classicists list: We invite offers of papers for the forthcoming workshop: “Burial and social change in ancient Italy, 9th-5th century BC: approaching social agents”. The workshop will be held at the British School at Rome on June 7th 2011. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, Italy…
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Over the past while I’ve accumulated a few doorworthy comics … some will embed and some won’t, so I’ll just provide links … enjoy: Via Elizabeth H on Twitter and Dan Diffendale … SMBC on the ‘Paradox of the Court’: Source: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2148 Via Liz Gloyn on Twitter … Plato gets a rejection letter (blogpost, not…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Deadline approaches: March 25 European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting Oslo, Norway — September 14-18, 2011 — http://www.eaa2011.no/ Tattoos and Body Modification in Antiquity – Part II Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt Session Abstract: From Oetzi the Iceman to today’s full-sleeved and pierced urbanite, it seems that body modification…
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Seen on the LatinTeach list: Summer is in sight, and summer means conversational Latin conventicula! On June 27-29, Neil Coffee and I will be hosting the Conventiculum Buffaloniense at the University of Buffalo, SUNY campus. More information about the conventiculum is available at http://classics.buffalo.edu/events/buffaloniense/. On this website, you will find a description<http://classics.buffalo.edu/docs/ConventiculumBuffaloniense2011.pdf>of this year’s Underworld-themed…
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