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The University of Birmingham is delighted to announce an international

colloquium on Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City, to be held
at the University of Birmingham, 5-6 July 2010.

The programme for the colloquium is as follows:
‘Myth and Symbol’
‘Romulus’ memorial trees: planting out Rome’s religious history’ Ailsa
McDermid (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge)
‘Roman temples as symbols of emotional memory’ Phoebe Roy (University of
Birmingham)
‘Memory shift: reinventing the mythology, 100 BC – AD 100’ Professor Ken
Dowden (University of Birmingham)
‘Greek and Roman Identity’
‘Religious speech, sea power and institutional change; Athenian idenity
foundation and cultural memory in the Ephebic Naumachia at Piraeus’
Guiseppina Paula Viscardi (University of Naples)
‘Cultural memory and Roman identity in the hymns of Prudentius’ Professor
Dr Peter Kuhlmann (Universität Göttingen)
‘Saints and Goddesses’ ‘Moneta: sacred memory in mid-Republican Rome’
Daniele Miano (University of Manchester)
‘Cultural memory and Isis in the Greco-Roman world’ Dr Juliette Harrisson
(University of Birmingham)
‘Saints in the Caesareum: remembering temple-conversion in Late Antique
Egypt’ Jennifer Westerfeld (University of Chicago)

Private View of "Sacred and Profane: Treasures from Ancient Egypt" at the
Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Evening Lecture: ‘‘The Iseum Campense as a lieu de mémoire’ Dr Martin
Bommas (University of Birmingham)

‘Tombs and Landscapes’
‘A monumental memory: the Great Tumulus at Vergina’ Hallie Franks (New
York University)
‘Landscaping memory: radical transformations on the Capitoline Hill and
the Palatine Hill in the Augustan and early Imperial period’ Lily
Withycombe-Taperell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘The Roman necropolis as a focus and show-case of cultural and social
memory’ Dr Maureen Carroll (University of Sheffield)
‘Silver Latin Literature’
‘Nights of Egeria: Juvenal’s search for Rome’ Professor David Larmour
(Texas Tech University)
‘Tradition, religion and Nero’s Great Fire in Tacitus Annals 15.41-7’
Kelly Shannon (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford)
‘Kings and Emperors’ ‘Marduk’s return: cultural memory and imperial
legitimization at Babylon in 668 BC’ John P. Nielsen (Loyola University of
New Orleans)
‘Remembering our Divine Caesar: religion and power in the Res Gestae Divi
Augusti’ Mark Thorne (Wheaton College, Illinois)

If you would like to attend please copy and paste the booking form below
and return it to us by post by 19th June 2010. There is no conference fee,
but we are asking for a small charge of £10 to contribute to catering
costs. If you have any further questions, please e-mail me:
J.G.Harrisson AT bham.ac.uk

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CONFERENCE
MINOAN ARCHAEOLOGY. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE 21st CENTURY, 23-27 March 2011, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
The archaeology of Minoan Crete can now look back on more than 100 years of intensive research in which this field of scientific enquiry has experienced many changes and developments in quite different academic traditions. The turn of the new century which coincided with the completion of 100 years of archaeological research on the island has triggered several retrospective and prospective looks at the objectives, methods, deficits and potentials of our discipline. We would like to take the occasion of the 625th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg as an opportunity for organising an international conference for early career researchers which shall provide an innovative platform for discussing the past, the present and above all the future of Minoan Archaeology.

The main objective of this meeting will be to provide a common basis for future discussion by consenting to the precise meaning of some important theoretical terms and by identifying collective concerns in an attempt to approach new agendas for future research. Young researchers which will represent the main body of the conference participants shall be given the opportunity to present papers and engage themselves in an intellectual dialogue with some of the most distinguished senior colleagues of our discipline who will be invited to attend the conference as keynote speakers. Approaches focusing on comprehensive objectives, grounded on innovative and promising theoretical and methodological concepts shall be presented with the aim to reflect on the scopes of current research and set forth the trajectories for future Minoan Archaeology.

SUGGESTED THEMES
The topics of the conference focus on theoretical and methodological approaches. The design of the sessions is deliberately not based on material categories. Instead, the focus is on questions/issues pertaining to recent concerns of social and cultural studies. Thus, a de-contextualised approach to the different object groups shall be avoided and a re-integration of the respective objects into their original context is prompted. The key issues include but are not limited to materiality, practices, and discourses and shall be explored within the following fields:

Social Interaction/Communication: pictorial media, written media, administration, rituals, feasts, spaces/places of communal practice, self-representation, ideology, religion
Social Structures: gender, social boundaries, political institutions, households, social stratification
Cultural Processes: diachronic development of palatial society, emergence of palatial Institutions, influence of foreign cultures
Foreign Contacts: cultural interaction, emulation, trade, travel, diplomatic relationships, economic expansion
Environment/Living space: architecture, settlements, landscapes, seascapes, natural resources, geomorphology, climate, natural disasters
Economic Strategies: modes of production, modes of exchange, subsistence, storage
Technologies: lithic industries, metallurgy, ceramic production, processing of raw materials, mining, tools
Legacy of Minoan Culture: antiquity, modern times

CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference addresses young researchers (Post-Docs and PhD candidates at an advanced stage of their dissertation) who will have the opportunity to present and discuss perspectives and methodical approaches applied in their own work in an international setting. Each paper will be allotted a 30 minute time slot: 20 minutes for reading the paper and 10 minutes dedicated to discussion. For the last day a final discussion in the form of a round table will be organised. Conference language is English.

It is intended to make the conference also accessible as a live-stream on the web. More information on this will follow soon on:
http://www.propylaeum.de/klassische-archaeologie/fachservice/MinArch2011.html

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The conference will invite keynote speakers to give an introductory lecture to each session and chair the Round Table discussion. Information about invited speakers will be available soon.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
We are intending to prepare an edited volume of conference papers for publication, within one year after the conference. Thus, participants are strongly encouraged to submit their publication-ready version of their paper already during the conference (March 2011). The ultimate deadline is 31 May 2011. Guidelines for publication will be made available soon on our conference website:
http://www.propylaeum.de/klassische-archaeologie/fachservice/MinArch2011.html

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Please submit the application form and paper proposal of 300 words to MinArch AT zaw.uni-heidelberg.de until 15 July 2010. If you do not plan to give a paper, but would like to register your interest, please get in touch! For further questions or comments regarding the conference, please contact us at the same address.

FEES AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Participation in the conference is free. Accommodation expenses will be covered. Travel expenses cannot be covered.

ORGANISERS
Prof. Dr. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Sarah Cappel, Ute Günkel-Maschek, Torben Keßler, Yasemin Leylek, Noach Vander Beken, Eva Wacha

CONTACT
Ute Günkel-Maschek, M.A. & Sarah Cappel, M.A.
Institut für Klassische Archäologie
Universität Heidelberg
Marstallhof 4
69117 Heidelberg
Email: MinArch AT zaw.uni-heidelberg.de

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IX International Meeting of the IPS (International Plutarch Society)
Ravello, Villa Rufolo, September 29 – October 1, 2011

Plutarch’s writings:
transmission, translation, reception, commentary

Organized by Paola Volpe Cacciatore, University of Salerno

The aim of the Meeting is to examine Plutarch’s works from different
viewpoints. We welcome papers on the following topics:
a)Plutarch’s text, manuscript tradition, ecdotic questions;
b)Latin translations of Plutarch’s writings;
c)Methodologies of commentary and interpretation of the Plutarchean text;
d)Plutarch as reader of ancient texts

Titles and Abstracts (minimum 80 / maximum 350 words), planned for
papers that have to take no more than 20 minutes to deliver, should be
sent electronically to the official Meeting e-mail address
(ipsmeeting2011 AT unisa.it); the deadline is September 30, 2010. The
same e-mail address can be used for all requests about the Meeting.

The Scientific Commettee (made up by Prof. Frederick Brenk, Angelo Casanova,
Pierluigi Donini, Gennaro D’Ippolito, Franco Ferrari, Anna Maria
Ioppolo, Giuseppe Lozza, Paola Volpe) will give preference to papers
that shed light on original matters. The fee for the conference
participation is 120 euros (80 euros for students)

We would appreciate if you could diffuse the above-mentioned
informations about the
meeting among the different national sections’ members.

Dr. Marianna Vigorito
Organising commettee member of the IX International Meeting of the IPS.

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Dining & Death
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the ‘Funerary Banquet’ in art, burial and belief

Conference at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 September 2010

When is a ‘funerary banquet’ a funerary banquet?

Depictions of banquets on tombstones and in tombs are widespread in antiquity, from Ancient Egypt to Roman Britain. The term ‘funerary banquet’ is sometimes used to refer to such images, but what does it mean, and is it useful? The banquets shown differ in format, and their meanings are debated by scholars. Do some images memorialize the dead in terms of the best that life could offer, and would people actually have experienced this in reality? Do others, in contrast, refer to ceremonial events, such as funerary rites, or even the pleasures they can expect in the afterlife? Are these images best used to gain insights into beliefs about death, or to assess cultural differences in banqueting, its manners and accoutrements? And are such aims mutually exclusive?

Answers to these questions can differ within and between disciplines, but these differences are rarely explicitly addressed. This conference will provide a forum for that purpose, bringing together archaeologists specialising in ancient Egypt, China, the Near East, and the Greek and Roman worlds, to compare images and interpretations. Focussing on this particular interpretative problem, conference speakers and audience members can also consider broader issues about the interpretation of images and archaeological evidence more generally.

Confirmed Speakers

Keynote address: Johanna Fabricius (Freie Universität Berlin)
Closing comments: Oswyn Murray (University of Oxford)

Amann, Petra (University of Vienna, Bankett und Grab Projekt): ‘Banquet and Grave.’ Methods, aims and first results of a recent research project.
Baughan, Elizabeth P. (University of Richmond): Burial Klinai and ‘Totenmahl’?
Harrington, Nicola (University of Oxford): The 18th Dynasty Banquet: ideals and realities.
Hartwig, Melinda (Georgia State University): Life and Death in Ancient Egyptian Banqueting.
Kalaitzi, Myrina (KERA, National Hellenic Research Foundation): The Theme of the Banqueter on Hellenistic Macedonian Tombstones.
Lockwood, Sean (Trent University): Family Matters: The interpretation of Lycian “funerary banquet” reliefs.
Mitterlechner, Tina (University of Vienna, Bankett und Grab Projekt): The Banquet in Etruscan Funerary Art and its Underlying Meaning.
Nickel, Lukas (SOAS): Banquets and Tombs in Han Dynasty China: Luoyang as a case study.
Nylan, Michael (Berkeley): Funerary Banquets in Classical-era China.
Rawson, Dame Jessica (University of Oxford): Painting Afterlife Banquets in Han Dynasty Tombs (100 BC – AD 200).
Robins, Gay (Emory University): Meals for the Dead: the image of the deceased seated before a table of offerings.
Stamatopoulou, Maria (University of Oxford): Banquets in the Painted Stelai of Demetrias
Stewart, Peter (Courtauld Institute of Art): Image and Reality in the Roman Totenmahl.
Struble, Eudora, (University of Chicago): Ritual Engraved: Rethinking the Meanings of Syro-Hittite Mortuary Feasts.
Tuck, Antony (University of Massachusetts): Dining with the Dead: Practice and Symbol in Etruscan Funerary Ritual.

Website: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/dininganddeath.html

Inquiries: dininganddeath.conference AT arch.ox.ac.uk

Organisers:

· Catherine M. Draycott, Katherine and Leonard Woolley Junior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
· Maria Stamatopoulou, University Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford

Sponsored by: the John Fell Fund, Somerville College, the Craven Fund, the Faculty of Classics, the School of Archaeology and the Griffith Egyptological Fund, Oxford.