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The Centre for Classical Studies at Yaroslavl State University (Russia) is currently conducting a web-conference «Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation» .

Everyone is welcome to read and comment (after easy registration) the following 15 papers:

PAPERS IN ENGLISH:

1. Giarelli L. “Res publica Camunnorum”: a small Roman Republic in the Alps.
2. Varga R. Constitutio Antoniniana. Law and Individual in a Time of Change.
3. Filonik J. Athenian Laws on Impiety – Some Notes on the Procedures.
4. Zacharski M. The Normative Aspect of the Concept of φύσις and the Origin of the Naturalistic Fallacy.

SUMMARIES OF THE PAPERS (full text is available in Russian):

1. Voloshin D. Gladiatorial Combats as Political Mass Spectacle and Instrument of “Social Training”.
2. Gouschin V. Ephialtes versus Areopagus.
3. Danilov E. Tranquility of the Soul in Interpretation of the Roman Citizens.
4. Dementyeva V. Die Legaten-Proquästoren in der Römischen Republik am Ende 3. Jh. -1 Jh. V. Chr.
5. Malyugin O. Administrative Division of Late Roman Britain and the Problem of the Province of Valentia in Anglo-American Historiography.
6. Nefedkin A. Recruitment and Organization of Cavalry in Aetolian League.
7. Nikolayev N. On Reconstruction of the Dedication Formula of the Olbian Molpoi
8. Surikov I. What was the Name of the Supreme Government Body in the Democratic Athenian Polis?
9. Frolov R. The Designations of the Roman Non-Voting Public Meetings in Livy’s Work: the contio and Its Derivatives
10. Tsimbal O. The Theoric Board in the System of Athenian Financial Offices in the 4th Century B.C.
11. Shmeleva L. The Formation of the ius fetiale in the Ancient Rome (8th-6th Centuries B.C.).

Approximately at the end of May it is planned to start preparation of the conference proceedings, where some of the comments may be included (by agreement with their authors) in order to present discussion of the papers in print form. However after the end of May the opportunity to submit new comments will be preserved.

All authors are informed of new comments to their papers. All messages are premoderated.

If you have any questions, please, contact us via this email address:

yar.antik.center AT gmail.com.

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Causing Health and Disease:
Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity

International conference organized by the

Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologiesproject

21– 22 September 2012

Corpus Christi College

Rainolds room

Oxford

Invited Speakers

Roger Batty (Keio University, Tokyo)

Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin)

Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)

Geoffrey Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

Roberto Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

Popa Tiberiu (Butler University)

Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway University of London)

Registration, accommodation and opening dinner

Registration is £10, but free for students.

Rooms in Corpus Christi College are available to those attending the conference. The cost is £49.50 per night (single occupation, with shared toilet facilities). Registration for rooms and shared meals will be available shortly via the online registration system, which will be accessible here.

Please also note that the conference will open with a dinner and program (details tbc) on the evening of 20th September. Participation

is open to all (the cost is £35, with space for 15 participants), and registration will also be available through the online system.

Graduate students seeking assistance with the costs of attending this conference may wish to apply to the The Thomas Wiedemann Memorial Fund. Its trustees are ‘particularly keen to support attendance by individuals or groups at seminars or conferences.’

Thanks are due to:

The Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
The European Research Council

If you have a query about the conference, please email Anna Marmodoro at:
powers AT philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989

Thursday & Friday, 5 & 6 July 2012
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

This unprecedented conference will bring together a global team of
practising novelists and scholars to discuss the importance of ancient Greek
myths in the recent fictional narration of war. Novels from every continent
will be discussed, including works by Maori, Chinese, African, Brazilian and
Japanese authors. The conference will ask whether it is the very
difficulties involved in addressing
large-scale trauma that have elicited this new ‘mythical turn’ in the
medium; it will also explore the tensions involved in the use of canonical
ancient Greek texts central to the western ‘colonial’ curriculum in
selfconsciously anticolonial and postcolonial writing.

Convenor:
Professor Edith Hall, King’s College London, Classics

Timings:
9.30am-4.30pm, Thursday, 5 July 2012
9.30am-6.00pm, Friday, 6 July 2012

Fees:
Please note that there is a fee for this event:
£50 Standard fee
£25 Discounted rate for students, unemployed and retired delegates.

Places are limited and registration is essential. Please click here for a
copy of the programme and to register or visit our website:
www.britac.ac.uk/events.

Performance Event: Ancient Myth and the Modern Novel

5.00pm-7.30pm, followed by a reception
Thursday, 5 July 2012
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

This public event features talks by Tom Holland, a prominent author of both
history and fiction, including Persian Fire, Rubicon and Sleeper in the
Sand. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. The other
speakers who will discuss the uses of Greek myth in fictional evocations of
modern conflict will include the Serbian Aleksandar Gatalica, whose Death of
Euripides addresses the tragic 20th-century history of eastern Europe.

The professional performance ensemble Live Canon and Friends will then
deliver selected highlights from novels by writers from all over the
worldwho have used ancient Greek myths in witnessing modern history,
including Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Littell, and Elizabeth Cook.

Attendance to the performance event only is free but places are limited and
regisration is essential. Please click here to register or visit our
website: www.britac.ac.uk/events. Please note that attendees for the
conference must register separately for the evening event.

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Masks, Echoes, Shadows: Locating Classical Receptions in the Cinema
29 May 2012
Institute of Classical Studies, London

Cinema’s fascination with the classical past can take many forms. In recent
years, scholarly and popular attention has mostly been directed at films
that recreate and reconstruct the narratives of ancient history and
mythology, such as Gladiator and Clash of the Titans. Alongside these
high-profile titles, though, are a wide range of other films whose
relationship to antiquity may be much more intangible and ephemeral. Whether
identifying Homeric references in O Brother, Where art Thou? or Mike Leigh’s
Naked, assessing Star Wars’ debt to Roman history, or examining the
recurrence of the Oedipus story in the cinema, there are a multitude of ways
in which shadows of the past can be detected, classical motifs can be masked
and unmasked, and echoes of ancient texts or events can reverberate. Recent
publications by scholars such as Martin Winkler and Simon Goldhill have
advanced this area of classical reception studies, but the underlying
theoretical issues require further attention. This one-day colloquium will
bring together scholars and students of classics and film in order to
discuss new research in this area.

Programme

10.30-10.45 Introduction
10.45-11.45

Anastasia Bakogianni, ‘ Masked celluloid classics: ancient shadows in Theo
Angelopoulos’ The Weeping Meadow (2004)’

Kristen Gunderson, ‘ A Lacanian reading of the Theseus myth in Inception ‘s
mental labyrinth’

11.45-12.00 Refreshments

12.00-13.00

Ricardo Apostol, ‘ From Album Alitem to Black Swan : Horace and Aronofsky on
Poetic Perfection and Death’

David Scourfield, ‘A Classical Lens for Eyes Wide Shut’

13.00-13.45 Lunch

13.45-14.45

Trevor Fear, ‘ Cleopatra in the 26th century: the long reach of a historical
icon’

Tom Garvey, ‘Reaping the benefits of Serenity’

14:45-15.15 Refreshments

15.15-16.15

C. W. Marshall, ‘The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker’

Amanda Potter ‘Who’s Monsters? The Sirens and the Minotaur rewritten
in Doctor Who episodes ‘The Curse of the Black Spot’ and ‘The God Complex’’.

16.15-16.30 Final thoughts

Registration fee: £10 which includes a sandwich lunch and refreshments

To book a place or for more information please contact Joanna Paul, Open
University Joanna.Paul AT open.ac.uk