Conferences
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seen on the Classicists list: A THREE-DAY CONFERENCE “Subversion and Censorship from Plato to Wikileaks” October 2-4, 2013 Papers are invited from scholars and researchers in all areas of the Humanities and all periods of history to explore important themes on the limitations of freedom of expression (in act, thought or speech). Instead of the…
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[deadline extended] APA Link: http://apaclassics.org/index.php/world_of_classics/calls_for_papers_full/cfp_beyond_words_translation_and_the_classical_world/ Beyond Words: Translation and the Classical World Friday, March 8th, 2013 The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Keynote address: Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania Translation played an important role in the ancient Mediterranean, with its lively interaction of cultures and languages, and translated texts have long…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Tracking Hermes/Mercury: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Virginia, March 27–29, 2014 Keynote speakers: Henk Versnel (Leiden), H. Alan Shapiro (Johns Hopkins), Joseph Farrell (Penn), and Deborah Boedeker (Brown). Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (= Roman Mercury) is the most versatile, complex, and ambiguous.…
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seen on the Classicists list: The Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric (COR), Royal Holloway, University of London, announces an international conference entitled From Antiphon to Autocue: Speechwriting Ancient and Modern to take place at RHUL’s central London venue in Bedford Square on 25 and 26 of April 2013. Confirmed speakers include experts on ancient Greek…
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seen on the Classicists list: The Reception of Greek and Roman Culture in East Asia: Texts & Artefacts, Institutions & Practices Thursday, 4 July 2013 – Saturday, 6 July 2013 Venue: Freie Universität Berlin Over the past decade, scholars have examined the reception of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures around the globe. This has…
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