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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Long Reach of Antiquity

April 27-28, 2012

Columbia University

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Leonard Barkan (Princeton University, Comparative Literature)
Prof. Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania, Classics)

This conference addresses the legacy of Greece and Rome in the
literary arts from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity. Graduate
students and post-doctoral fellows in Departments of Classics,
Comparative Literature, Italian, French, Spanish, German, English, and
Philosophy, among others, are invited to submit abstracts of up to 250
words for papers of approximately twenty minutes to
reachofantiquity AT columbia.edu by November 1, 2011. Abstracts should be
formatted as either Word or PDF documents and should include
departmental and institutional affiliation.

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Crowned Victor: Competition and Games in the Ancient World
4th Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Friday, March 2 to Saturday, March 3, 2012
Submission Deadline: January 7, 2012

The graduate students of the University of Pennsylvania seek abstracts
for the fourth annual Center for Ancient Studies graduate student
conference. This conference aims to explore the theme of competition
in the ancient world. Competition was a key component of many aspects
of life in the ancient world and was found in areas people in the 21st
century might not expect. We plan to focus on the role of competition
and its associations with society at large, be it in the form of games
or sports, interactions between members of a community, rivalries
between communities, or the way culture and literature channeled
competition. Our goal in presenting this conference will be to compare
how competition manifested itself in the disparate societies of the
ancient world and highlight similarities across cultures.
The conference invites papers on topics involving competition such as
(but, of course, not limited to):

Conspicuous consumption and status competition
Games as education
Competition as a structural force in society
Political competition
Ancient theories of competition
Competition and literature
Ideologies of competition
Sports and diplomacy
Place of athletes in the community

Submissions are welcome from graduate students working on ancient
topics in such fields as: Ancient History, Anthropology, Archaeology,
Art History, East Asian Studies, Classics, Egyptology, Linguistics,
Middle Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies,
Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit a 250-word
abstract for a 15 minute talk by January 7, 2012 including your
contact information (including name, institution, and e-mail) to
Arthur T. Jones at ancient AT sas.upenn.edu. Speakers will be notified of
the status of their submissions by January 15, 2012.

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Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII
CALL FOR PAPERS

The topic of the seventh colloquium, to be held at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, June
15-16, 2012, will be:

Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity

The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the
privileging of the ancient over the present and future played an integral role in social and cultural
discourses of every period. In this colloquium we want to examine this temporal organization of value
and the mechanisms by which it was produced and sustained—in other words, ancient valuations of
antiquity as expressions of lived value-systems. How did specific Greek and Roman communities use
notions of antiquity to define themselves or others? What models from the past proved most
acceptable or desirable (or not) for political practice or for self-fashioning? What groups were the
main agents, or audiences, of such discourses on the value of antiquity, and what were their priorities
and their motivations? What were the differences between Roman and Greek approaches, or between
antiquarianism, genealogy, classicism, nostalgia, canonization and their opposites? How did temporal
systems for ascribing value intersect with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the
espousal and application of aesthetic criteria?

For the seventh Penn-Leiden colloquium, we invite abstracts for papers (30 minutes) that address ‘the
past in the past’ along these lines. We hope to bring together researchers in all areas of classical
studies, including literature, philosophy, linguistics, history, and visual and material culture, and hope
to discover the significant points of intersection and difference between these areas of focus.

Selected papers will be considered for publication by Brill Publishers. Those interested in presenting a
paper are requested to submit a 1-page abstract, by email (preferable) or regular mail, by Friday
November 18th, 2011.

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Call for Papers: "South Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean: Cultural Interactions"
17th ‐ 21st July 2012, Melbourne, Australia

Hosted by the Centre for Greek Studies and the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia, this conference will focus on the movement of people and interactions of culture in the region of Southern Italy and Sicily from antiquity until the present. The conference will run from 17th to the 21st July 2012. The program will include exhibitions at the Hellenic Museum and the Museo Italiano of ancient Greek vases from Southern Italy and Sicily as well as other pieces from the collection of the Trendall Research Centre. It will also include a tour of the world-class resources held at the A.D. Trendall Research Centre at La Trobe University. The inter-disciplinary nature of this conference seeks to foster critical analysis of geographical and chronological interconnections in Southern Italy and Sicily. It is intended that consideration of cultural interaction, population movements, and changing religious and philosophical ideas over a period of approximately 3000 years will prompt scholarly discussion of continuity and change over time in this region of the Mediterranean.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor David Abulafia, Professorial Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University.
Professor Roger Wilson, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Sicily at the University of British Columbia.
Associate Professor Mia Fuller, Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkely.

Please submit abstracts no longer than 300 words to Sarah Midford at s.midford AT latrobe.edu.au before 6th February 2012. Papers will be programmed into 30-minute time slots and should be no longer than 20-minutes. 10-minutes will be scheduled for questions.

Papers that focus on the region of Southern Italy and Sicily are invited from any discipline and postgraduates are most welcome to present.

For more information go to:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/events/cultural-interactions-conference

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Ancients and Moderns: 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians

5-6 July 2012
Senate House, London

With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our own times, and how successive epochs of modernity since the Renaissance have situated themselves in relation to the various ancient civilisations. From political theory to aesthetics, across the arts of war and of peace, to concepts of education, family, gender, race and slavery, it is hard to think of a facet of the last millennium which has not been informed by the ancient past and through a range of media, including painting, poetry, film and the built environment. The Institute’s 81st Anglo-American conference seeks to represent the full extent of work on classical receptions, welcoming not only those scholars who work on Roman, Greek and Judaeo-Christian legacies and influences, but also historians of the ancient kingdoms and empires of Asia and pre-Colombian America. Our plenary lecturers include: Paul Cartledge (Cambridge), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Mark Lewis (Stanford), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) and David Womersley (Oxford).

Proposals for individual papers, panels (of up to three papers and a session chair) and roundtables are invited. Please send a half-page abstract to the Events Officer, Institute of Historical Research at AncientsandModerns AT lon.ac.uk by 1 December 2011. Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed by 31st December and the full conference programme published at the end of January. Registrations open on 1 March 2012. Further information on the conference can be found at www.history.ac.uk/aach12.

On behalf of the 2012 Anglo-American Conference Programme Committee:
Hugh Bowden, King’s College, London
Catherine Edwards, Birkbeck College, London
Mike Edwards, Institute of Classical Studies
Rosemary Sweet, University of Leicester
Miles Taylor, Institute of Historical Research
Giorgios Varouxakis, Queen Mary University of London