December 2012
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From the ASCSA: Renowned art historian Evelyn Byrd (Eve) Harrison died peacefully in her New York City apartment on November 3. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1920, Eve Harrison received her A.B. from Barnard College in 1941 and her M.A. from Columbia University in 1943, but her graduate studies were interrupted by the Second World…
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From the Guardian: My friend Glenys Lloyd-Morgan, who has died aged 67 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, devoted her career to the appreciation and understanding of Roman archaeology. She was born in Halifax and brought up in Caernarfonshire; her father was a merchant sea captain and her mother was an entomologist and teacher. Glenys graduated…
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Alas … after going over a year without catching an example of the egregious misuse of the word, Will Self in an opeddish thing in BBC Magazine (of all places): For what I think we require, as a society, is some sort of collective vomitorium. Not, you appreciate, that I expect you – like those…
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seen on the Classicists list: The Department of Classical Studies at The Open University warmly invites you to a one-day seminar on the theme of The Classical Body, to be held on Saturday February 2nd 2013 at the OU Regional Centre in London (Camden Town) 10am-4.30pm. The conference charge will be 7 pounds (for catering…
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seen on the Classicists list: TRANSLATING MYTH Date: 5-7 September, 2013 Venue: firstsite, Colchester, UK An international conference organized by the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex, supported by the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. The Centre for Myth Studies at the University of…
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