Conferences
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seen on various lists: See also our website at www.scapat.ca ; a poster (pdf) can be downloaded at http://www.scapat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Affiche.pdf Call for papers, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity X, The Transformation of Literary and Material Genres in Late Antiquity The tenth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference will take place at the University of Ottawa,…
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Seen on the Classicists list: PRAISE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHARACTER IN LATE ANTIQUITY A conference to be held at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 10–11 May 2013 Imperial panegyrics, funeral speeches, liturgical hymns, saints’ lives: the act of praise was deeply woven into the literary and cultural fabric of late Antiquity. As these…
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… seen on the Classicists list: THEATRUM MUNDI: LATIN DRAMA IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE 12-14 September 2013 Magdalen College, University of Oxford Organized by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies in tandem with the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford, the conference will bring together scholars to discuss early modern Latin drama, a form pivotal to the…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Aeneid Six and its Cultural Reception The Villa Vergiliana in Cumae, Italy June 25-27 2013 Outside of the Bible, no text has had as profound an impact on Western Culture as the Aeneid, and within the Aeneid, no book has been as influential as Aeneid Six. Ovid was perceptive enough…
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Seen on the Classicists list: EXETER CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH EVENTS, TERM 1 2012-13 Time: Thursday 5-7 pm. Venue: Amory 105. Research Seminars are followed by drinks in the Leventis Room (Amory 271) and, in the case of outside speakers, by dinner in a local restaurant. All are welcome to attend the seminars, and…