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Restoring the Acropolis of Athens – a study day at the British Museum

Friday 8 October 2010, 09.30–17.00

BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

£40, Members and concessions £25, includes tea/coffee and buffet lunch

Since its formation in 1975, the Acropolis Restoration Service has studied, conserved, dismantled and restored the world famous monuments of the ancient Acropolis of Athens. The various stages of this colossal task have been meticulously presented and recorded in a series of conferences in Athens and their accompanying publications. Now that the current phase of restoration is in sight of completion, Professor Charalambos Bouras, President of the Service, and prominent members of his team have kindly agreed to share with a British Museum audience their unique experience and knowledge of the
Acropolis buildings.

PROGRAMME

09.30–10.00 Registration in the Clore Education Centre Foyer

10.00–10.10 Welcome by Dr Andrew Burnett, Deputy Director of the British Museum

10.10–10.20 Opening address by Dr Lina Mendoni, Secretary General, Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism

10.20–11.05 Professor Charalambos Bouras, President of the ESMA: 35 years’ restoration works on the Acropolis

11.05–11.20 Coffee

11.20–12.00 Mrs Maria Ioannidou, Director of the Acropolis Restoration Service: Research and technology in the Acropolis restoration project

12.00–12.30 Mrs Evi Papaconstantinou, Chief Conservator of the Acropolis Restoration Service: The surface conservation of the Acropolis monuments

12.20–13.30 Lunch

13.30–14.00 Mrs Dionysia Michalopoulou, Civil Engineer in charge of the restoration of the temple of Athena Nike: The Athena Nike restoration project

14.00–14.30 Dr Tasos Tanoulas, Architect in charge of the restoration of the Propylaia: The Propylaia restoration project

14.30–15.00 Mr Nikos Toganides, Architect in charge of the restoration of the Parthenon: The Parthenon restoration project

15.00–15.30 Mrs Lena Lambrinou, Architect, Parthenon Restoration Project: Interventions past and present on the north side of the Parthenon

15.30–15.45 Tea

15.45–16.15 Professor Fani Mallouchou-Tufano, Member of the ESMA: The restoration of the Erechtheion

Programme subject to change.

Tickets are available online, from the Ticket Desk in the Great Court, or via phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181. For further information and online bookings, see http://blmcmsweb/BritishMuseum/whats_on/events_calendar/october_2010/restoring_the_acropolis.aspx

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Classics Department Research Seminar

Wednesdays at 3pm
Room 101, Parkinson Building
University of Leeds

2010-11

Semester 1

September 29th
David Kovacs    University of Virginia
Horace, Odes 1.1, 2.20 and 3.30

October 6th
Penny Goodman    University of Leeds
Urbis et orbis: the Boundaries of the City of Rome

October 20th
Joshua Katz    Princeton University
Cicero’s Elemental Beginning and other Examples of Greco-Roman Wordplay

October 27th
Jay Kennedy    University of Manchester
The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues

November 15th
David Newsome    University of Birmingham
Imperial Transformations:
Movement and fora in the First Centuries BC and AD

November 24th
Thorsten Foegen    Durham University
Education, Morality and Politics in Vitruvius’ De architectura

Semester 2

February 2nd
Richard Hunter    Trinity College Cambridge
Plato and the Ship of State

February 23rd
Douglas Cairns    University of Edinburgh
A Short History of Shudders

March 2nd
Steven Green    University of Leeds
Manilius and the Politics of Astrological Discretion

March 23rd
Vasiliki Zali    University College London
Myth as Political Argument in Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon:
The Case of Athens

May 4th
Mark Humphries    Swansea University
Exemplary Rome and the Tyranny of Constantius

For more information, please contact Drs. Steven Green (S.J.Green AT leeds.ac.uk) or Regine May (r.may AT leeds.ac.uk). Everybody welcome!

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CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GREEKS

Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference

22-23 October 2010

The University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

CONVENOR

Dr David Pritchard (The University of Queensland)

http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/?page=138090&pid=105822

Registration is now open for the Inaugural Queensland Greek History conference, which will be taking place at The University of Queensland on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 October 2010. The keynote speakers are Professor Vincent Gabrielsen of the University of Copenhagen and Professor Margaret C. Miller of the University of Sydney. The conference will be opened by His Excellency Alexios G. Christopoulos, the Ambassador of Greece to Australia. The theme of this conference is the cultural history of the Greeks and its main sponsor is The University of Queensland Cultural History Project. The other sponsors are the R D Milns Classics and Ancient History Perpetual Fund and the Greek Orthodox Community of St George, Brisbane.

CONFERENCE THEME

The Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference showcases the diversity of research on the cultural history of the Greeks which is currently being undertaken in the universities of our region. Thus the program of this conference includes papers on, among other topics, mentalities and collective identities of the Greeks; the impact of these cultural constructions on politics and foreign policy; representations and reminiscences of migration, war and war atrocities; and the reception of the recent or ancient past in subsequent periods of Greek or European history. The conference also seeks to consolidate the ties of solidarity between professional historians of the Greek world and those outside of the research sector with a stake in the language, history or culture of the Greeks from antiquity to the present day.

The writing of the history of the Greeks from ancient to modern times has been profoundly altered by the recent cultural turn in the Humanities. For much of the previous century historians had commonly viewed culture as the product of relations between social classes or of economic conditions, which, they believed, were the primary determinants of reality and historical change. From the early 1970s this primacy of social history began to be challenged. Historians of the ancient and modern worlds showed how conceptions of, for example, social class, national character or sexuality helped to constitute the human behaviours which they purportedly only described. Today many historians widely accept that social reality is largely discursively constituted and turn to the realm of culture for their historical explanations. Historians of the ancient and modern Greeks have been at the forefront of this moving of cultural history from the periphery to the centre of our discipline.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Vincent Gabrielsen is Professor in the SAXO Institute at the University of Copenhagen and holds Denmark’s only Chair of Ancient History. His research interests have ranged over the economic, fiscal and social history of classical and hellenistic Greece; the institutional and military history of the classical Athenian democracy; and the histories of Rhodes and the Black Sea in ancient times. Among his books are Remuneration of State Officials in Fourth Century BC Athens (Odense, 1981), Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations (Baltimore, 1994), The Naval Aristocracy of Hellenistic Rhodes (Aarhus, 1997) and The Black Sea in Antiquity: Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges (Aarhus, 2007), which he co-edited with J. Lund.

Margaret C. Miller is Arthur and Renee George Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Her research interests lie in the social culture of archaic and classical Greece with special attention to exchange between Greece, Anatolia and the ancient Near East in the Achaemenid period. Among her books are Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC (Cambridge, 1997) and The Origins of Theatre in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama (Cambridge, 2007), which she co-edited with E. Csapo. She is at present completing a book on the representation of Persians in Attic art.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The full program of the Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference is now available at http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/conference-program-138090. Registration for paper-givers and other delegates is now open. There is a heavily subsidised registration fee for postgraduate and undergraduate students and all of those who register online before 31 August 2010 pay only reduced early-bird rates. Delegates can obtain a hard copy registration form at http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/conference-registration-138090.

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You are cordially invited to attend the conference ‘EPIDEMICS IN CONTEXT’, to be held on 12 and 13 November at the Warburg Institute in London.

Please download the poster here: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/colloquia/posters/epidemics.pdf . I would be grateful, if you could put it on your noticeboards.
We are also making our first draft texts and translations available to you, as previously announced. They can be downloaded here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/dept_projects/epidemics/papers

Even if you cannot come to the conference, I hope that you will find the material of interest to you.

KInd regards,

Peter E Pormann, D.Phil.

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In the week of its official DVD release, the Classics Department at the University of Leeds is pleased to ‘Release the Kraken’ with a half-day colloquium on Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans on Friday, 29 October 2010.

Schedule and details of speakers are given below:

12.00 – 12.30 p.m.: Coffee in Staff Common Room (Parkinson 119)

12.30 – 12.40 p.m.: Welcome (Steve Green)

12.45 – 1.30 p.m.: Steven Green ( Leeds)

Between Heaven and Earth: Perseus and the Triumph of Humanity

1.45 – 2.30 p.m.: Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham)

God Mode: Unlocking Clash of the Titans with Sony’s God of War

2.45 – 3.30 p.m.: Dunstan Lowe (Reading)

"What do we need the gods for?" Olympian Mythology in 21st century

3.45 – 4.30 p.m.: Concluding Discussion and Future Developments

4.30 – 6.30 p.m.: Drinks and Early Dinner

There is no fee for attendance, but those interested in attending should notify Steven Green (s.j.green) so that I can ensure adequate seating/ coffee provision.