seen on the Classicists list:

We are pleased to announce this session’s schedule of research and
outreach events at Leeds. It includes both one-off research seminars and
colloquia, as well as local CA talks and the continuation of last year’s
successful ‘Classics in Our Lunchtime’ series at Leeds City Museum.

Enquiries may be directed by email to me or by phone to the Department
Office (0113-343-3537). All welcome!

Dr E.J. Stafford
Senior Lecturer and Director of Research,
Department of Classics, University of Leeds

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SEMESTER 1

SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER Classics in Our Lunchtime series by Leeds Classics
Last Thursday of the month, 1.15-1.45pm Leeds City Museum
(see http://classicstalks.wordpress.com/museum/ for details, and podcasts
of previous talks)
*September 27th Eleanor OKell and Tim McConnell: Finding Justice in Leeds
*October 25th Rick Jones: Seeing Pompeii: from royal playground to mass
tourism
*November 29th Edmund Richardson: A Classical Con in Old New York:
classics and spiritualism

Wednesday 26th SEPTEMBER
3pm Michael Sadler 101
Prof. Ruurd Nauta (Groningen): The Identity of ‘Meliboeus’ and the date of
Calpurnius Siculus

Thursday 27th SEPTEMBER’ (Harrogate Astronomical Society)
7.30pm Harlow Community Centre, Harrogate
Prof. Malcolm Heath (Leeds): Greek astronomy, Ptolemy and the ‘Leeds
Almagest’

Friday 5th OCTOBER 2011: LIGHT NIGHT: DEAD OF NIGHT
5pm-close Ancient Worlds Gallery, Leeds City Museum
Classical Stories Live in Leeds event, featuring staff and students from
Leeds Classics Department: all ages welcome!
For details, see http://www.classicalstoriesliveinleeds.wordpress.com

Wednesday 24th OCTOBER
3pm Michael Sadler 101
Prof. Angie Hobbs (Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy,
Sheffield): Transformations: the Daimonic Power of Eros in
Plato’s ‘Symposium’

Friday 2nd NOVEMBER (Leeds Classical Association lecture)
5.30pm Michael Sadler 101/Parkinson 116 (tea from 5pm in Parkinson 119)
Dr Felix Budelmann (Magdalen College, Oxford): Greek lyric

Friday 16th NOVEMBER CLASSICAL THEMES IN MUSIC
10am-3.30pm Michael Sadler 101 (coffee, lunch and tea in Parkinson 119)
Dr Roger Brock (Leeds, Classics): Dido’s lament: classical Latin poetry in
Renaissance music
Anastasia Belina (Leeds, School of Music): TBC
Jonathan Tobutt (Leeds, School of Music): Britten’s 6 metamorphoses
after Ovid

Tuesday 4th December (Leeds Classical Association lecture)
5.30pm Michael Sadler 101/Parkinson 116 (tea from 5pm in Parkinson 119)
Dr Steve Green (Leeds): Roman Responses to the Ending of the Aeneid

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SEMESTER 2

JANUARY-AUGUST Classics in Our Lunchtime series by Leeds Classics
Last Thursday of the month, 1.15-1.45pm Leeds City Museum
(see http://classicstalks.wordpress.com/museum/ for details, and podcasts
of previous talks)
*January 31st Penny Goodman: 2000 years of Augustus: the view from Leeds
*February 28th Malcolm Heath: Ptolemy’s compost: a history of piracy,
marketing, and fraud
*March 28th TBC
*April 25th Eleanor OKell/Sue Hamstead: Sophocles’ Antigone in the
twentieth century
*May 30th Emma Stafford: Hercules’ Choice: from ancient Greece to Temple
Newsam
*June-August title TBC

Wednesday 30th JANUARY 3pm Michael Sadler 101
ὁι ἀνάριθμοι: Subordinates and subordination in the ancient Greek world
The first in a three-part series running January to March, with speakers
including Dr Konstantinos Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-
Jones (Edinburgh).

Wednesday 6th FEBRUARY (Leeds Classical Association lecture)
5.30pm Michael Sadler 101/Parkinson 116 (tea from 5pm in Parkinson 119)
Mark Bradley (Nottingham): Obesity, corpulence and emaciation in Roman art

Wednesday 27th FEBRUARY (Leeds Classical Association lecture)
5.30pm Michael Sadler 101/Parkinson 116 (tea from 5pm in Parkinson 119)
Michael Fulford (Reading): Silchester: Iron Age to Roman. The making of
the town in the light of continuing excavations

Wednesday 6th MARCH Joint PCI/ Classics Schools Day
9:30-15:30, Centenary Gallery, Parkinson Building
Interpreting Sophocles’ Antigone in modern, theatrical and Athenian
contexts

Wednesday 6th MARCH 3pm Michael Sadler 101
Dr Andrew Morrison (Manchester) Clio and Calliope: Apollonius, Herodotus
and Historiography

Friday 15th MARCH CURRENT RESEARCH IN CLASSICS AT LEEDS
10am-3.30pm MS 101 (coffee, lunch and tea in Parkinson 119)
Including papers by Owen Hodkinsonand Ed Richardson (details TBC).

8th-11th MAY 7pm stage@Leeds
A series of pre-performance talks on Sophocles’ Antigone by Classics staff
(details TBC).

Monday 13th MAY (Leeds Classical Association presidential address)
5.30pm Michael Sadler 101/Parkinson 116 (tea from 5pm in Parkinson 119)
Malcolm Heath (Leeds): Aristotle’s chimpanzees

Monday 24th-Wednesday 26th JUNE
HERCULES: A HERO FOR ALL AGES: international conference, details to follow.
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seen on the Classicists list (note that the registration date has passed)

Full information on the day, including registration forms, can be found at:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/research_environment/research_dialogues/care/

‘Care in the Past: Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives’

One of the major social challenges faced today is the provision of care for the elderly, the disabled and the young within society, with contemporary debates dominating local, national and global agendas. The importance of the study of care has been recognised by all research councils, resulting in the formation of the cross-council programme on Lifelong Health and Well-Being. Until recently the study of care has been shied away from in archaeological thought. However, cutting-edge research in both archaeology and bioarchaeology has begun generating questions that implicate care, particularly with regards to the social identity of those who required it. Such research, whilst promising, is still incipient, and the ways in which archaeology can contribute to and interact with other disciplines studying historical care have yet to be realised. This one day multidisciplinary conference aims to further this agenda and will cover perspectives on:childhood care, attitudes towards the disabled and elderly, and methods of treatment from across prehistoric and historical contexts.

Sessions will include keynote speeches by:

Session 1 – Childhood – Dr. Mary Lewis (University of Reading)

Session 2 – Disability– Dr. Irina Metzler (Independent Researcher)

Session 3 – Treatment and Care – Dr. Rebecca Gowland (Durham University)

seen on the Classicists list:

This term, Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent
offers another exciting and varied research events programme: details below.

The programme includes our own research seminar at 4pm on Monday afternoons,
as well as other lectures on classical antiquity taking place in the
university. All interested parties are very welcome to attend.

Best wishes,

Dunstan Lowe (d.m.lowe AT kent.ac.uk)

(Abbreviations:
SECL = School of European Culture and Languages
KIASH = Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities)

CLASSICAL & ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINARS, AUTUMN 2012:

Monday, September 24th, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Dr. Tony Keen, Open University
‘Two Graphic Interpretations of the Matter of Troy: Eric Shanower’s Age of
Bronze and Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey’

Monday, October 1st, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Staff work-in-progress seminar:
Dr. Patty Baker, University of Kent
‘Greco-Roman Images of Doctors and Cupping Vessels: A Reciprocal Visual
Dialogue Between the Patient and Healer’

Monday, October 8th, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Dr. Kelli Rudolph, University of Oxford
‘The Science of Flavour in Ancient Greek Philosophy’

Wednesday, October 10th, 5-6pm, Grimond Lecture Theatre 1
SECL Popular Lecture:
Dr. Luke Lavan, University of Kent
‘Ostia, Port of Rome, in Late Antiquity: Excavations by the University of
Kent 2008-2011′

Monday, October 22nd, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Dr. Patrick James, Cambridge University
‘Town and Countryside: An Introduction to the Linguistic Landscape of
Athens, Attica, and Atticism’

Monday, October 29th, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Student work-in-progress seminar:
Jo Stoner & Joe Williams, University of Kent
‘Papyri as an Archaeological Source: Household Objects in Private Letters
and Inventories of Late Antiquity’

Thursday, November 8th, 6pm [for venue, check SECL Events Calendar]
KIASH Professorial Inaugural Lecture:
Prof. Ray Laurence, University of Kent
‘Pompeii, Roads and the Spatial Turn: Was the Roman Empire an Early Form of
Globalisation?’

Monday, November 12th, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Dr. Clare Coombe, University of Bristol
‘Monstrous Regiments: Gigantomachy and the Poetry of Claudian’

Monday, November 19th, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Student work-in-progress seminar:
Signe Barfoed, University of Kent
‘From Mainland Greece to South Italy: Miniature Pottery as Evidence for
Religious Practice in the Archaic-Hellenistic Period’
Celine Murphy, University of Kent
‘Miniaturism, Three-Dimensionality and Tactility: A Study of Minoan Peak
Sanctuary Anthropomorphic Figurines’

Monday, November 26th, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Dr. Lacey Wallace, Independent Scholar
‘Planning, Power, and Building Londinium’

Monday, December 3rd, 4-5pm, Maths Lecture Theatre
Prof. William Fitzgerald, King’s College London
‘Variety: Scenes from the Life of a Roman Concept’

Wednesday, December 5th, 5:15pm [for venue, check SECL Events Calendar]
SECL Distinguished Lecture:
Prof. Christopher Carey, University College London

Seen on the Agade list:

Ancient Greece and Ancient Israel: Interactions and Parallels
(10th-4th Centuries BCE)
October 28-30, 2012
Room 496, Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University

Collaboration between the European Network for the Study of Ancient
Greek History and Tel Aviv University

Conference Organizers: Irad Malkin, History Department, Tel Aviv
University and a member of the European Network
(malkin.irad AT gmail.com); Alexander Fantalkin, Department of
Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University
(fantalk AT post.tau.ac.il)

The world of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament, has often been
studied against the background of Near Eastern civilizations. Yet,
aside from the enormous hinterlands of the Near East, the ancient land
of Israel also neighbored the Mediterranean. As a collaborative
conference between the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek
History and Tel Aviv University, we wish to concentrate on
interactions and parallels between the ancient Greek world and the
Eastern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on the period before the
Hellenistic and Roman periods.

How do we, at the start of the third millennium CE, perceive and
interpret the almost simultaneous arrival of the two cultures whose
self-definitions still mark out the meaning of western civilization?
We wish to discuss the key concepts of "parallels, similarities, and
influences" in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean. Are they due
to general human reaction to comparable historical situations or do
they depend on actual contacts and influences, directly or via third
parties? Drawing on specific case-studies we will discuss the
usefulness of these key terms and analyze the likely contexts for
interaction and/or the evidence of actual contacts.

The question of what is comparable as such and what is owed to actual
influence is often debated. Whereas former approaches tended to regard
the issue of influence literally, "in-fluence," "flowing into," as if
cultural contacts are necessarily uni-directional; their "source,"
therefore, needed to be identified and located in a hierarchy that is
either temporal ("who was first?") or spatial ("first from where?").
Such approaches may indeed be valid at times. Today the cutting edge
of the discourse of civilizational parallels and contacts seems rather
to consist in a multi-directional, non-hierarchical perspective, which
may hopefully find its expression in the conference.

Program

October 28th

09:45 Coffee & Gathering

10:00-10:15 Greetings

Eyal Zisser (Dean, Faculty of Humanities, TAU)
Irad Malkin (European Network/TAU)

Constitutive Narratives and Comparative World-views

Session I Chair: Israel Finkelstein (TAU)

10:15-11:15

Oswyn Murray (Balliol College, Oxford): The Western Tradition of Ancient History

Hans-Joachim Gehrke (University of Freiburg): Between ‘Clash of
Civilisations’ and Hybridity: Conceptualizing Historical Comparison

11:15-11:30: Pause

11:30-12:30

Irad Malkin (TAU): Foreign Founders: Greek and Hebrew Colonization

Alexander Fantalkin (TAU): Comparable Chronologies: The Contexts of Interaction

12:30-13:45: Discussion Panel: Shlomo Bunimovitz (TAU), Bernard M.
Levinson (University of Minnesota), Doron Mendels (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)

13:45-15:15: LUNCH

Session II Chair: Jonathan Price (TAU)

15:15-16:15

Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): The Despotic Template: Authority,
Politics and Religion in Early Greek and Hebrew Thought

Josine Blok (Utrecht University): The Greek and Hebrew Concepts of the
Covenant: A Comparative View

16:15-16:30: Pause

16:30-17:00

François de Polignac (EPHE/ANHIMA, Paris): Did the Greeks Feel at the
Margins of the Ancient Near East?

17:00-18:00: Discussion Panel: Maurizio Giangiulio (University of
Trento), Konrad Schmid (University of Zurich)

October 29th

Session III Chair: Oded Lipschits (TAU)

10:00-11:00

Amir Gilan (TAU): A Bridge or a Blind Alley? Hittites and Neo Hittites
as Cultural Mediators

Marek Wecowski (Warsaw University): The Greek Symposion and the
Biblical Marzeah: Contrasts and Parallels

11:00-11:15: Pause

11:15-12:15

Jacob L. Wright (Emory University): Aegean War Commemoration and the
Composition of Biblical Writings

Martti Nissinen (University of Helsinki): Prophets and Kings: A
Comparison between Greece and Mesopotamia

12:15-13:15: Discussion Panel: Nadav Na’aman (TAU), Thomas Römer
(Collège de France/University of Lausanne)

13:15-14:45: LUNCH

Session IV Chair: Sylvie Honigman (TAU)

14:45-15:45

Christian Mann (University of Mannheim): Body and Sports in Israel and
Greece: A Comparative View

Bruce Louden (University of Texas at El Paso): Jason, Medea, and
Aietes: Jacob, Rachel, and Laban: Argonautic Myth and Genesis 27-32

15:45-16:00: Pause

16:00-17:00

Thomas Römer (Collège de France/University of Lausanne): Hebrew Bible
and Greek Mythology: Some Case Studies

Robin Lane Fox (New College, Oxford): Mixed Marriages: Nehemiah,
Pericles and Others….

17:00-18:00: Discussion Panel: Margalit Finkelberg (TAU), Israel
Finkelstein (TAU)

October 30th

Session V The Phoenicians between Greeks and Hebrews

Chair: Moshe Fischer (TAU)

10:00-11:00

Benjamin Sass (TAU): The First Adaptations of the Semitic Alphabet to
Indo-European Languages: Some New Evidence for Phrygian and Greek
Writing ca. 800 BCE

Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford): Phoenicians in the Old
Testament and in Greek Writers: A World Apart?

11:00-11:15: Pause

11:15-12:15

Assaf Yasur-Landau (University of Haifa): From Canaanites to
Israelites and Phoenicians: Cultural Trajectories in Mediterranean
Settings

Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol): Mediation and Multi-Directional
Exchanges: The Phoenicians

12:15-13:15: Discussion Panel: Ayelet Gilboa (University of Haifa),
Gunnar Lehmann (Ben- Gurion University)

13:15-14:45: LUNCH

Session VI Human Connectors

Chair: Oren Tal (TAU)

14:45-15:45

James D. Muhly (University of Pennsylvania/ASCSA): Traveling Craftsmen?

Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck/University of Helsinki):
Craftsmen and Specialists between East and West

15:45-16:00: Pause

16:00-16:30

Nino Luraghi (Princeton University): Fighting for the Other:
Mercenaries, Culture Contact, and Ethnicity

16:30-17:30: Discussion Panel: Maurizio Giangiulio (University of
Trento), Ran Zadok (TAU)

17:30-17:45: Pause

Envoi & Reflections: Margalit Finkelberg (TAU), Irad Malkin (TAU)

Final Discussion

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"HIP SUBLIME: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition"

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 16th and 17th 2012

An interdisciplinary conference on the intersections between avant-garde practice and the cultural
legacies of ancient Greece and Rome in Post-war America; hosted by the University of
Pennsylvania’s Department of Classical Studies, in collaboration with the School of Classics at the
University of St Andrews.

Friday’s program (starting at 1:30 PM): Kevin Batton ("Landscape, Classicism, and the Californian
Sublime"), Loni Reynolds ("Myth and Quest in the Early Work of William S. Burroughs"), Netta Berlin
("The Bardic Voice of Allen Ginsberg”), Matthew Pfaff ("Classical Languages and Literatures in Howl
and Other Poems"), and poet Bob Perelman (poetry reading and remarks).

Saturday’s program (starting at 9:00 AM): Gideon Nisbet ("Kenneth Rexroth, Greek Anthologist"),
William Lawlor ("Homer’s Place in Rexroth, Snyder, and Ferlinghetti"), Nick Selby ("Robert Creeley
and Gary Snyder"), Jaap van der Bent (“The Case of John Clellon Holmes”), Marguerite Johnson
("Brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the Racetrack"), Jane Falk ("Philip Whalen and the Classics"),
Richard Fletcher ("Charles Olson’s Second Sophistic"), Christopher Gair ("Literary Circulations:
Xenophon, Joyce, Kerouac"), and Stephen Dickey (“Beat Katabasis and Big Sur”).

Paper sessions will take place on the University of Pennsylvania campus, in the Terrace Room,
Claudia Cohen Hall, and will be free and open to the public. For more information, see the Penn
Classical Studies website (http://www.classics.upenn.edu/) or contact the organizers: Sheila
Murnaghan (smurnagh AT sas.upenn.edu) and Ralph Rosen
(rrosen AT sas.upenn.edu).