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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

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The DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS at the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics, with special interest in the pedagogy of classical languages.

We seek a broadly-trained classicist who, in addition to supervising the elementary Latin program, canteach across the classics curriculum at all levels, including courses in translation. The teaching load is six courses over two semesters: two of the courses are in pedagogy. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct independent research and publish on pedagogy and student engagement and to participate fully in departmental activities.

The Ph.D. in Classics or any related field is required at the time of appointment (1 August 2012).

Interested candidates should send a letter of application and a complete dossier, including CV, a writing sample (maximum 40 pages), and three letters of reference by email to classrch AT uga.edu. All documents should be in PDF format if possible.

Candidates who cannot apply by email may post hard copy materials to:

Chair, Classics Search Committee
Department of Classics
Park Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6203
USA

Applications received by November 15th are assured of consideration (receipt of email or postmark for regular or express mail); however, dossiers will be accepted until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews of selected candidates will be conducted at the APA/AIA meeting in Philadelphia in January.

The University of Georgia is located in Athens, Georgia, about an hour and a half northeast of Atlanta.

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, its many units, and the University of Georgia are committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and students, and sustaining a work and learning environment that is inclusive. Woman, minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University is an EEO/AA institution.

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Call for Papers

From the Inside Looking Out: Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient History

The 1st Annual Graduate Conference in Ancient History of the Joint Collaborative
Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman History (University of Toronto and York
University=ColPAH)

April 27-28, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Sara Forsdyke, University of Michigan

The historical record is full of places, people, and practices characterized as
strange or somehow different from the predominant cultural groups of any given
time. Most often these reputations are created by those within the mainstream
as they attempt to articulate how these outsider groups are distinctive from
themselves. This conference will focus on how the identities of such groups are
created, communicated, and disseminated to become something that is considered
strange, alien or in some way peculiar. How did people in the ancient world
perceive people, places and practices that were "strange" to them? How are
these perceptions manifested and transmitted in the historical record? Finally,
since the creation of such identities affects our own modern perception of these
"others", what lasting effects and prejudices do these portrayals engender in
the treatment of such marginalized groups within contemporary scholarship?

We welcome and encourage submissions from all areas and aspects of ancient
history, including but not limited to history of religion, material culture,
social history, anthropology, iconography and historiography. Interested
graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are invited to submit titled
abstracts of up to 250 words for papers of approximately 15-20 minutes in
length to colpah AT gmail.com before December 1, 2011. For more information on the
Joint Collaborative Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman History please visit
http://www.yorku.ca/gradhist/collaborative/.