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Classics in the Subject Centre is pleased to announce a new day in its calendar of events: the TEACHING ANCIENT HISTORY DAY, a day aimed at promoting and supporting the teaching of Ancient History in Higher Education and providing a forum for discussion. Ancient History faces unique challenges in teaching a diverse range of materials, and this event aims to address those challenges and present practical solutions.

This FREE event will be held at the University of Leicester on June 1st 2010 in collaboration with the School of Ancient History and Archaeology. We are delighted to have four respected ancient historians who will each give a presentation on a different area of Ancient History teaching. We hope that this event will be of interest to all those who teach Ancient History at all levels.

The programme for the day is as follows:

10.15 – 10.30 Registration and Welcome
10.45-11.45 Epigraphy: Graham Oliver
11.45-12 Coffee
12 -1 Incorporating Archaeology: Janett Morgan
1-2 Lunch
2-3 Using Translations: Robin Osborne
3-3.15 Coffee
3.15-4.15 Numismatics: Constantina Katsari
4.15-4.30 Closing remarks and end

The event is free of charge and travel subsidies are available for delegates. If you are interested in attending please email me on classicshea AT liverpool.ac.uk stating your name, institution, and any access or dietary requirements.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries [Sarah Francis].

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Classical Association Annual Conference 2011
Durham University, Friday 15 April – Monday 18 April 2011

Call for Papers

The Classical Association Annual Conference 2011 is to be hosted by Durham
University. The presidential address and plenary lectures will be held in
the Calman Centre (on the Science site); the panels will take place nearby,
in Collingwood College.

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes long followed by discussion) and
coordinated panels (comprising either 3 or 4 papers) from academic staff,
graduate students, and school teachers on the topics suggested below, or on
any aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a
broad range of classical, historical, and archaeological perspectives.

Suggested topics: attitudes towards the future in Greece and Rome; memory
and forgetting; archives and libraries; Greek epigraphy; display practices
and public space; beauty; concepts of authorship and forgery; the identity
of the artist; the disciples of Socrates; Greek and Roman historiography;
Greek law; Greece and the Near East; Greek epigram; the reception of
Augustan poetry; the Œlong¹ third century AD; iconicity of materials; sites
of heritage; regionalism in Roman art and architecture; landscape and the
environment; reconstruction of ancient remains; e-learning.

Title and an abstract (no more than 300 words), and any enquiries should be
sent to the address below (preferably by e-mail) not later than 31 August
2010:

Paola Ceccarelli, CA 2011,
Department of Classics & Ancient History,
Durham University,
38 North Bailey,
Durham DH1 3EU, UK.
Email: CA.2011 AT durham.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)191 3341686

Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/ca_conference2011/

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Belief and its Alternatives in Roman Religion
School of Classics, University of St Andrews, 2-3 July 2010

Organiser: Ralph Anderson (St Andrews)

Speakers: Robert Parker (Oxford), Tom Harrison (Liverpool), John Cottingham
(Reading), Peter Harrison (Oxford), John Scheid (Collège de France), Hugh
Bowden (King’s College London), Pramit Chauduri (Dartmouth College), Esther
Eidinow (Newman University College, Birmingham), Ido Israelowich (Tel Aviv),
George van Kooten (Groningen), Jennifer Knust (Boston), Jacob Mackey
(Stanford), Teresa Morgan (Oxford), Peter van Nuffelen (Ghent), Ivana and
Andrej Petrovic (Durham), Shaul Tor (Cambridge), Ralph Anderson (St Andrews)

Full details, including a booking form, are available at the conference
website http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/Belief/ and
registration is now open.

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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: the Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World

British Museum, 16 – 17 December 2010

The British Museum’s Department of Greece and Rome is pleased to announce its 2010 Classical Colloquium on Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: the Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World, organized jointly with the British Museum’s Department of Conservation and Scientific Research and the ‘Tracing Networks’ Research Programme (Universities of Leicester, Exeter and Glasgow), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and to be held at the British Museum in London 16-17th December 2010.

This conference is dedicated to the cross-disciplinary interpretation of ancient ‘kitchen pottery’, i.e. utilitarian wares used as food containers or for food processing in a broad sense. By bringing together established scholars and young researchers from a wide range of academic backgrounds, including archaeologists, material scientists, historians, and ethnoarchaeologists, Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture will stimulate an international and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches.

Themes will include:

science, archaeology and society – how scientific techniques can reveal technological choices, cultural preferences and knowledge transfer
production, consumption and the social biographies of utilitarian pottery – debates on the interplay of social and technological factors, social networks of production and consumption, development of specialist technologies (e.g. resistance to thermal shock), lifespan, re-use and recycling of kitchen pottery
cuisine, culture and social hierarchies – the impact of context and status on food processing and storage, the significance of ritual, feasting, funerary and other ‘special’ contexts
changing habits: cuisine on the move – innovations and adaptations in food processing and cooking in new or changing cultural settings, food and cultural identity, the impact of trade and migration

The conference aims to set this ubiquitous category of artefacts in its wider social, political and economic contexts, in order to exploit it more effectively for understanding ancient societies. The proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume.

Abstracts for 20 minute papers and posters are invited for submission by 30 May 2010.

For further information and submission of abstracts, please contact the organizing committee at kitchenpottery AT googlemail.com

The organizing committee: Alexandra Villing (BM), Michela Spataro (BM), Lin Foxhall (Leicester)

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MYTHMAKING: CELEBRATING THE WORK OF FROMA I. ZEITLIN

International Conference
Princeton University
Saturday, 8 May 2010

http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/conferences/2010/mythmaking

Invited Speakers:

Page duBois (University of California, San Diego)
Jas’ Elsner (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Cambridge)
Edith Hall (Royal Holloway University of London)
Daniel Mendelsohn (Author and Critic)
Tim Whitmarsh (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Nancy Worman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

In 1976, an already distinguished Froma I. Zeitlin arrived at Princeton in the
Department of Classics. Thirty-four years later, it is hard to imagine the University
without her. Over five decades, she has transformed the field of Classics, opening
it up to fertile interactions with post-War French thought and feminist theory and
imprinting it with her own extraordinary vision. During these years, and since
1992 as the Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, she has helped
make Princeton one of the leading centers for the innovative scholarship that
she pioneered.

The impact of her vibrant presence, creativity, and intellect extends even
more widely, however. Professor of Comparative Literature, early and staunch
supporter of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and the
visionary force behind the Program in Jewish (later Judaic) Studies, as well as its
longtime Director, she has been extraordinarily influential both here and on the
international stage. The affection and esteem of her colleagues is evident in the
unprecedented support from across the University for this celebration of one of
our great mythmakers.

In honor of her remarkable contributions, this conference gathers seven friends,
renowned scholars all, whose work carries on her wide-ranging legacy.