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Gods in Ruins: The archaeology of religious activity in Protohistoric,

Archaic, and Republican central Italy

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Gods in Ruins is a two-day conference to be held over March 20-22, 2011 at
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

This conference invites presentation of the results of current or ongoing
work on archaeological evidence for religious activities in central Italy,
with a particular view to advancing scholarly debate on periods, places,
and phenomena under-represented in the literary sources. We aim to bring
together researchers across a range of fields including archaeology, art
history, history, anthropology, archaeozoology, and religious studies; and
to stimulate discussion of shared methodological concerns as well as
sharing new results.

Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to:
• Methodologies for an archaeology of religion
• Cult sites
• Ritual objects and their cultural biographies
• Votives and dedicators
• Religious landscapes

We welcome abstracts from advanced postgraduate students, postdoctoral
researchers, and early career academics whose work engages in whole or in
part with the material remains of religious activities – sanctuaries,
religious architecture, votives, and organic and inorganic residue of
ritual practices – from any period or region in central Italy prior to
c.200 B.C. The language of the conference will be English. Presentations
will be limited to 20 minutes and followed by time for questions and
discussion. Abstracts of approximately 300 words should be sent to
charlotte.potts AT lmh.ox.ac.uk by September 30, 2010 with ‘Gods in Ruins’ as
the email’s subject.

Please note that this will be a residential conference at Lady Margaret
Hall, Oxford. Generous support from Oxford’s Craven Committee means that we
hope to subsidise accommodation for speakers with accepted papers on a pro
rata basis.

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Second Qumran Institute Symposium, 21-22 October 2010

Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

The Jewish War against Rome (66-70/74): Interdisciplinary Perspectives

For more information on the conference, short abstracts and to register, please go to www.rug.nl/qumraninstitute

Programme

Thursday, 21 October 2010

8.30 Coffee and tea

9.15-9.30 Opening

9.30-10.15 1. Steve Mason: History as Narrative or Argument? Using Josephus for the History of Roman Judaea
10.15-11.00 2. Jan Willem van Henten: Rebellion under Herod the Great and Archelaus: Analogies, Tropes and Josephus’ Reliability
11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.15 3. Julia Wilker: Josephus, the Herodians and the Jewish War
12.15-13.00 4. Daniel Schwartz: Josephus on Albinus: The Eve of Catastrophe in Changing Retrospect
Lunch

14.30-15.15 5. Robert Deutsch: The Coinage of the First Jewish Revolt, 66–73 c.e.
15.15-16.00 6. Donald Ariel: Identifying the Mints, Minters and Meanings of the First Jewish Revolt Coins
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.15 7. Jodi Magness: A Reconsideration of Josephus’ Testimony about Masada
17.15-18.00 8. Pieter van der Horst: Philosophia epeisaktos: Some Notes on Josephus, A.J. 18.9
18.00 Reception

19.30 Dinner

Friday, 22 October 2010

8.30 Coffee and tea

9.15-10.00 9. Andrea Berlin: Identity Politics in Early Roman Galilee

10.00-10.45 10. Jonathan Price: The Jewish Population of Jerusalem from the First Century b.c.e. to the Early Second Century c.e.
10.45-11.15 Break

11.15-12.00 11. Werner Eck: Die römischen Repräsentanten in Judaea: Provokateure oder Vertreter der römischen Macht?
12.00-12.45 12. Brian Schultz: Not Greeks but Romans: Changing Expectations for the Eschatological War in the War Texts from Qumran
Lunch

14.30-15.15 13. George H. van Kooten: The Earliest Literary Witnesses to the Jewish War: Mark, 2 Thessalonians and the Revelation of John
15.15-16.00 14. James McLaren: Going to War against Rome: The Motivation of the Jewish Rebels
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.15 15. Uriel Rappaport: Who Were the Sicarii: Terrorists? Urban Terrorists? A Suicidal Sect (Group)? Religiously Motivated? Dynastic? Messianic? Territorial?
17.15 Reception

19.00 Dinner

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The Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greece and Rome,

The Norwegian Research Council and The Norwegian

University of Science and Technology, Trondheim present:

AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: THE RECEPTION OF SAPPHO AT ROME

Corpus Christi College, Oxford,

Saturday October 9th 2010.

Speakers: Chiara Elisei (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa,

Italy), Lars Gram (University of Bergen, Norway), Stephen Harrison

(University of Oxford, UK), Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford,

UK), Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge, UK), Jennifer Ingleheart

(Durham University, UK), Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham University, UK),

Olivier Thevenaz (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Thea S.

Thorsen (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

If you would like to attend (no charge, lunch included)

please contact Thea S. Thorsen at thea.thorsen AT hf.ntnu.no.

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‘The Texts of the Medical Profession in Antiquity: Genres and Purposes’

University of Oslo, 16th-18th September 2010

Speakers: Philip van der Eijk, Rebecca Flemming, Ann Ellis Hanson, Vivian Nutton, Heinrich von Staden, Laurence Totelin, Isabella Andorlini, Elizabeth Craik, Anastasia Maravela, Brooke Holmes, Caroline Petit, Pilar Pérez Canizares, Maria Rosaria Falivene, Chloe Balla, Florence Bourbon, M. Erica Couto-Ferreira, Louise Cilliers, Barbara Böck, Magali de Haro Sanchez, Nóra Zergi, Dimitrios Mantzilas, Ido Israelowich, David Leith, Alexander Arweiler, Aileen Das.

For full programme and practical details, see the conference website at:

http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser-seminarer/greekmedicine.html

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Workshop: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography

Durham University
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 11:00 to 17:30
Ritson Room, Department of Classics & Ancient History

Sponsored by the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition

From 11 am: Late Morning Coffee and welcome

11.30 – 12.30: James Powell (Durham)
The Donatus Auctus Life of Virgil

12.30 – 13.30: Andrew Laird (Warwick):
Virgil and authorial identity in the Latin writings of Dante and Petrarch

13.30 – 14.30: Lunch break (provided)

14.30 – 15.30: Ingo Gildenhard (Durham) & Andrew Zissos (University of
California/ Irvine)
Ovid and the Shrew: some comments on the de vetula

15.30 – 15.45: Coffee Break

15.45 – 16.45: Johanna Hanink (Cambridge/ Brown)
Giovanni Boccaccio’s ‘Trattatello in laude di Dante’ and ancient poetic ‘vitae’

16.45: Concluding Discussion, chaired by Barbara Graziosi (Durham)

All welcome. There is no official registration, but for catering purposes,
anyone interested in attending is asked to contact me by 10 July at
ingo.gildenhard AT dur.ac.uk.

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