Seen on the Classicists list (I’m a bit late with this one):

Booking closes tomorrow, Wednesday 7th March, for places on the following international conference:

Classical Beauty: reflections on ancient aesthetics, at Durham University on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March 2012, generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study, and the Department of Classics & Ancient History at Durham University

Thursday 22nd March 2012

The College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham

12.45-1.00 p.m. Registration

1.00-2.15 p.m. Lunch

2.15-2.20 p.m. Introduction and welcome

Session 1: Beauty and the Greeks
2.20-3.20 Professor David Konstan (New York University): The Greek Idea of Beauty

3.20-3.45 Tea and coffee

Session 2: Aesthetics in Literature
3.45-4.45 Professor Pierre Destree (University of Louvain-la-Neuve): Beauty and Aesthetic Pleasures
4.45-5.45 Professor Malcolm Heath (University of Leeds): Unity

6.00-7.00 Drinks reception

7.30-10.00 Conference dinner

10.00 Bus shuttle to Van Mildert College

Friday 23rd March 2012

The Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College, Durham

Session 3: Beauty in Painting
9.30-10.30 Professor Agnès Rouveret (University of Paris X-Nanterre): Painting and private art collections in Rome

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Session 4: Aesthetics in Architecture
11.00-12.00 Professor Catherine Saliou (University of Paris VIII): Architectural Beauty and Society, 4th century B.C. to 4th century A.D.
12.00-1.00 Dr Edmund Thomas (Durham University): Reflections on Architectural Beauty and Aesthetics

1.00-2.30 Lunch

2.30-3.30 Table Ronde. Respondent: Professor Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee

4.00-7.00 Excursions (Durham Cathedral, Palace Green Library)

There is no conference fee, but a small charge is made for lunch (£5.50, students or unwaged £4.50) and dinner (£25 + wine, students £20 + wine).

Anyone interested in attending the conference should please email me at e.v.thomas AT durham.ac.uk by Wednesday 7th March.

A small number of rooms are available at Van Mildert College for those requiring overnight accommodation at the following rates:
Single ensuite: £42
Single, shared bathroom: £31
Twin, ensuite: £76
Enquiries regarding accommodation should be sent to Mrs Janet Dawson, Van Mildert College at jan.dawson AT durham.ac.uk.

Seen on the Classicists list:

CALL FOR PAPERS: WOMEN AS CLASSICAL SCHOLARS
The brilliant Hellenist JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY, the first woman nominated
to the Collège de France, and only the second to enter the Académie
Française, was born on 26th March 1913.

In order to celebrate her achievements on the centenary of her birth,
alongside those of other women pioneers in the study of the languages,
literature, history and culture of ancient Greece and Rome, Rosie Wyles
(Post-Doctoral Associate, APGRD, and specialist in Early Modern French
scholarship, esecially the work of Madame Anne Dacier) and Edith Hall
(KCL) are organising a thoroughly festive one-day interdisciplinary
conference, ‘Women as Classical Scholars’.

The date is Saturday March 23rd 2013 and the venue will be the University
of Notre Dame in London, 1 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG (just off
Trafalgar Square). A book or online resource will result from the
proceedings of the day.

We are truly delighted to announce that Ruth Webb, Professor of Greek at
the Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, who knew de Romilly personally
and professionally, has agreed to deliver the keynote address.

Further papers are invited on any aspect of women’s relationship with
classical learning and the classical world from antiquity to the present
day. Those interested in offering a paper should submit an abstract of
about 300 words to rosiewyles AT gmail.com by the end of April 2012.

Here’s a teaser from deep within the press kit:

THE GREAT ROMAN GAMES. THE TROJAN WAR

The 3rd edition of the Great Roman Games are coming back to the Amphitheatre of Nîmes to relive the “Ludi” games, famous throughout the Roman Empire.

New for 2012: the Emperor Hadrian offers you a re-enactment of an event in Greek history: the Trojan War with the portrayal of the combat between Achilles and Hector and the arrival of the famous horse.

… you have to check out the website … this would be the coolest class trip evah!

Not sure how I missed this one … Mary Beard talks at Stanford on the difficulties identifying the subjects of Roman sculptures and the cultural implications thereof:

cf:

• Caesar in the Rhone (rogueclassicism)

• The face of Julius Caesar? Come off it! (Mary Beard)