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„Flavian Epic and a World of Ideas” – An international conference at the
University of Warsaw, May 24-25 2012.

After a series of Flavian Epic Network conferences culminating in the
Flavian Epic Interactions conference in London, we would like to invite
all interested in Flavian poetry to participate in the first FEN
conference to be held in Warsaw on May 24-25, 2012 under the
title “Flavian Epic and the World of Ideas”. We would like to concentrate
on relationships between Flavian epic and a bright spectre of what is
called the history of ideas. Therefore we welcome particularly papers
discussing such topics as: ethics and morality, justice, state and
society, education, gender, nature of things etc. positioning the epic
poetry in a broader cultural, philosophical as well as anthropological
context. This includes also the reception of Flavian epic in culture up to
modern times.

Titles of papers (20-30 min.) should be submitted with abstracts of about
300 words by November the 30th so that participants could be notified by
the end of December. The conference fee of 150 Euro will cover the
accommodation (from 23 to 25 May) as well as lunches, dinners and coffee
breaks during the conference.

Please feel free to contact the organiser with any questions or requests:

Mariusz Zagórski
University of Warsaw
Institute of Classical Studies
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 1
00-927 Warszawa
mzagorski AT uw.edu.pl

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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference: ‘HOMO PATIENS: Approaches to the patient in the
ancient world’
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 29.06.2012-01.07.2012

This meeting aims at bringing together not only classicists and historians
of medicine but also medical anthropologists and medical practitioners to
discuss the figure of the ‘patient’ in ancient medicine. In particular,
this meeting aims at shifting the focus from the ancient doctors’
authoritative discourses about their profession, knowledge, theories and
practices to reconstruct, to whatever extent this is possible, the role,
position and experience of the patient.
The focus of this meeting is primarily the classical and post-classical
medical texts and artifacts of Greece and Rome. However, we would also
like to receive papers on comparative aspects of the role and the position
of the patient in the classical and post-classical worlds with reference
to, for instance, Chinese or Near Eastern medical texts and artifacts
(although always with Greece and Rome as comparandum). Our definition of
medical text and artifact is a broad one: any piece of text (to include
papyri and inscriptions) or pieces of material culture which can throw
light on the underrated part of the patient in the healing experience is
of relevance here. We welcome contributions (ca. 30 minutes) primarily
(but not exclusively) on the following issues:

1. The role of the patient in ancient medical texts and artifacts
2. The role of consolation (paramythía) in ancient medicine
3. The patient’s responsibility for choosing the best physician and
the criteria for this choice
4. Case histories and “characters”: patients in Hippocratic and
Galenic texts, their similarities and differences
5. The patient as ‘argument’: patients and their illnesses in the
Hippocratic and Galenic corpus
6. Ready obedience (eupeítheia-hypakoê) and the patient’s admiration
for the doctor as factors of (un)successful treatment
7. Ancient ‘autopathographies’
8. Ethics, etiquette and bed-side manners and their role in the
therapeutic process
9. The emotions of the patient about their own illnesses: depression,
hope and despair, shame and embarrassment, guilt, etc.
10. Material aspects of the patient-doctor relationship: the fees of
the doctor and his professional accountability
11. Gender issues and social status in the patient-doctor relationship
12. Empathy with the patient in the medical writers
13. The patient’s self-image (e.g. the ‘hypochondriac’ patient, and so
on)

Our confirmed keynote speakers are Prof. Manfred Horstmanshoff
(Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, University of Cologne, DE), Prof.
Helen King (Open University, UK), Prof. Susan Mattern (University of
Georgia, USA), and Prof. John M. Wilkins (University of Exeter, UK).

We welcome titles and abstracts of 300 words maximum on any of the listed
topic (or other related subjects). The deadline is 1st November 2011 at
the latest. Please send your abstracts or enquiries, along with a short
bio, to the organizers:

Chiara Thumiger (chiara.thumiger AT hu-berlin.de)
Georgia Petridou (georgia.petridou AT hu-berlin.de)

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The seventh A. G. Leventis Conference in Greek will be held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh from 27-30 October 2011. The conference is held in conjunction with Professor Ruth Scodel’s tenure of the Edinburgh Leventis Chair in Greek, and generously supported by the A. G. Leventis Foundation.

A draft programme is available at http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/TheSeventhA.G.LeventisConference.htm. Booking forms for registration and accommodation will shortly go live on the same page. All are welcome.

Speakers and titles are as follows:
Lucia Athanassaki, Greek Occasions, Greek Sung Narratives

Douglas Cairns, Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition

Erwin Cook, Structure as Interpretation in the Homeric Odyssey

Pat Easterling, Narrative on the Tragic Stage

Stephen Halliwell, Narrative, Contingency, and the Limits of Understanding

Lisa Hau, Stock-events and Set-pieces: Greek Historiography as Variations on a Set of Themes

Johannes Haubold, Beyond Auerbach: the Poetics of Visualisation in the Gilgamesh Epic and Homer

Simon Hornblower, Herodotean Narrative

Richard Hunter, ‘Where do I begin?’ An Odyssean Strategy and its Afterlife

Irene de Jong, ‘If on a winter’s night a traveller’: Greek Heritage or Narrative Universal?

Adrian Kelly, Homeric Battle Narrative and the Ancient Near East

Nick Lowe, In Search of Narrative Universals

John Morgan, Heliodorus the Hellene

Andrew Morrison, Pamela and Plato: Ancient and Modern Epistolary Narratives

Damien Nelis, Untrodden Paths? Catullus 64, the Labyrinth and Hellenistic Narrative Forms

René Nünlist, Greek Scholia on Plot

Dennis Pausch, Livy Reading Polybius: Adapting Greek Narrative to Roman History

Alex Purves, Sappho: Narrative in Short Form

Patricia Rosenmeyer, Personal Narratives, Public Spaces: Autobiographical Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus

Ruth Scodel, Narrative Focus and Elusive Thought in Homer

Meir Sternberg, Reticence and Redundancy in Ancient Narrative

Tim Whitmarsh, What’s Greek about the Greek novel?

Trying this one for the umpteenth time (I wonder how you’d say that in Latin)… there’s something about it that WordPress doesn’t seem to like … some recent reviews of Classical Drama performances:

• #ancientdrama ~ PHAEDRA (DVD) October 2, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ An epic ‘Electra’ takes the O’Reilly stage October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ Electra’ less than sizzling at Remy Bumppo October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ REVIEW: A Bold ‘Medea’ Opens in Shawnee October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ Sirens and Thrill as ‘Odyssey’ Opening Nears October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ Bergenn turn Greek mythology into a rock opera (Cyclops) October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ Public Theater returns to drama’s ancient roots with ‘Electra’ October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ “‘Cyclops’ a Rollicking Pansexual Romp – Glen Rock, NJ Patch” October 1, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ “”The Odyssey”: Ship Sails Through the Bay While Giving a Show ” September 28, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ “Pittsburgh Public Theater Opens with ‘Electra’ – Peters, PA Patch” September 27, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ “‘Iphigenia in Tauris’ review: Play’s passion is a double-edged sword | OregonLive.com” September 27, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ “SBCC Theatre Arts Department Presents TROJAN BARBIE 10/12” September 27, 2011
• #ancientdrama ~ “‘Phaedra’ review: Fatal attraction in the ‘burbs” September 27, 2011

• #classicalexhibit ~ Bringing Mesopotamia to life in New York City [Dura Europos] October 2, 2011
• #classicalexhibit ~ Museum of Science presents A Day in Pompeii October 2, 2011
• #classicalexhibit ~ Pergamon.Panorama of the Ancient City October 1, 2011