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University of London School of Advanced Study

INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

joint ancient history — classical archaeology seminar

Thursdays 4.30 pm
Senate House South Block G22/26
Spring term – Organizers: Alexandra Villing (BM) and Hans van Wees (UCL)
Contacts: AVilling AT thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
ucrahvw AT ucl.ac.uk

PROGRAMME SUMMER 2010

ANCIENT TRADE: textual and material evidence

This seminar series brings together ancient historians and classical archaeologists to discuss questions of evidence and method, focused on the topic of trade in the ancient world. In order to stimulate discussion, we propose an artificially strict separation of textual and material evidence. In each session, a historian will discuss what the textual evidence (literary and epigraphical) can and cannot tell us about a range of aspects of trade, and an archaeologist will do the same for the material evidence. We hope that this approach will serve to identify the most significant differences between the pictures which emerge from each kind of source, to determine the extent to which these pictures are complementary or mutually exclusive, and to explore the implications for our interpretation of the evidence.

13 May Archaic Greece

Errietta Bissa (Lampeter) and Thomas Brisart (Oxford / Brussels)

20 May Classical Greece

Robin Osborne (Cambridge) and Alan Johnston (UCL / ICS)

27 May The central Mediterranean 600–300

Tim Cornell (Manchester) and Gabriele Cifani (Rome)

3 June Imperial Rome

Neville Morley (Bristol) and Kris Lockyear (UCL)

10 June Indo-Roman trade

Dominic Rathbone (KCL) and Roberta Tomber (BM)

Academic Events Office, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House South Block 245A

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CALL FOR PAPERS
ASGLE FIRST NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS OF GREEK AND LATIN EPIGRAPHY
5 January 2011, San Antonio, Texas

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) invites
abstracts for the First North American Epigraphical Congress, to be
held on January 5th, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas at the Marriott
Riverwalk, over the course of a single day, immediately before the
Joint Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA)
and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The topic will be
broadly defined as Greek and Latin Epigraphy.

Abstracts will be adjudicated anonymously by a committee of ASGLE;
they should include the title but not the author?s name and they
should not be longer than one double-spaced page. There is a limit of
one abstract per person. The abstracts themselves, along with a
completed abstract submission form, should be sent electronically as
pdf files to: Nora Dimitrova, Vice-President, ASGLE, at
nmd5 AT cornell.edu. The deadline is June 15, 2010.

Registration for the Congress must be made online here. The
registration fee before December 1, 2010 is $35 for student and $50
for non-student participants, which includes a group dinner. After
December 1, 2010 the rate will be $50 for students and $70 for
non-students. ASGLE full members receive a $10 discount and ASGLE
student/retirees a $5.00 discount. To become a member of ASGLE, see
here. There will be a stipend available for at least one student
whose abstract is accepted.

In the future, these congresses are expected to be held immediately
before the APA/AIA meetings. This should have the additional benefit
of attracting a large number of Classicists and archaeologists to the
audience of the congress and promoting epigraphy among graduate
students attending the meetings.

Interested scholars from all countries are encouraged to participate.

Call for Papers: 2010 CAAS Annual Meeting.

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Laughter in the Library: a colloquium on Old Comedy for Penny Bulloch

Ioannou Classics Centre, Oxford

Saturday 5th June 2010

10.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.

To mark the retirement of Penny Bulloch and her contribution as Fellow Librarian at Balliol College,

Oxford, and earlier in Cambridge, and as a mainstay of all things Aristophanic and Old Comic in

the Classics Faculty of Oxford University, there will be a day of papers on Old Comedy in her

honour by friends, colleagues, and former students.

Speakers:

Edith Hall (RHUL): “The Aesopic in Old Comedy”

Angus Bowie (Queen’s, Oxford): narratology of space in Old Comedy (title TBC)

Matthew Wright (Exeter University): “Pea Soup and Old Jokes”

Peter Brown (Trinity, Oxford): Walter Braunfels’ opera Die Vögel (title TBC)

Matthew Leigh (St Anne’s, Oxford): topic TBC

All are welcome and there will be no fee for attendance, though for the purposes of planning it

would be very much appreciated if you could let the organizers know that you plan to come by

Friday 21st May. Tea and coffee will be served, and a small reception held afterwards. There will

also be an optional buffet lunch at a cost of £6. Please let the organizers know if you would like

lunch, by the same date, and make cheques payable to Dr. R.W. Cowan.

Any enquiries may be addresses to Bob Cowan (bob.cowan AT balliol.ox.ac.uk) or Adrian Kelly

(adrian.kelly AT balliol.ox.ac.uk).

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Conference on ‘Integrity and Corruption in Antiquity’
Unisa Classics Colloquium, 21-22 October 2010)

Proposals for papers are hereby solicited on topics related to the
conference theme that might contribute to a multi-faceted discussion. Of
concern is not merely proving corruption to be common to ancient and modern
societies, but rather to elucidate both notions in the theme from a
historical distance and to grapple with the real issues (social,
historical, personal) involved. The organizing committee will be interested
in papers dealing with definitions of corruption, philological analyses of
the Greek and Roman terms within the field, to what extent the two notions
were juxtaposed, philosophical discussions of personal morality and power
abuse, root causes, responses, remedies and counter-measures. Scholars
working on historical, literary, oratorical, religious, philosophical,
epigraphical and other material are welcome to contribute.

The Unisa Classics Colloquium is hosted by the Department of Classics and
World Languages at the University of South Africa. We have invited two
quest speakers to this year’s conference: Proff. Clifford Ando of the
University of Chicago and Emily Greenwood from Yale.

Papers will be limited to 45 minutes. Please submit abstracts of appr. 200
words via e-mail attachment to bosmapr AT unisa.ac.za by the end of June 2010.

More on the conference
The Unisa Classics Colloquium is a pleasant and intimate conference in a
relaxed atmosphere with ample opportunity for discussion. Over two (and a
half days), approximately 14 papers from scholars around the world are
presented.We try to avoid parallel sessions to promote unity and focus in
the conference, and delegates get to know each another properly. We also
try to show guests from abroad a little of the country during the
conference.

Venue
The colloquium takes place on the Muckleneuk Campus of the University of
South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria.

Dates
The conference is to be held on 22-23 October, to which another half day
might be added, depending on interest. We start on Thursday morning,
meaning that participants should arrive in Pretoria on the 21st at the
latest, and only book a flight out from the afternoon of the 23rd.

Programme
A preliminary programme will be compiled from the received proposals and
will be published on the Departmental website after the final date for
submissions. Previous conference programmes may be viewed at
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=18743.

Conference Fee
More detail on the conference fee will follow at a later stage. As an
indication, the 2009 conference fee was $150 for overseas visitors,
inclusive of transport (from and to the airport and during the conference)
and meals during the conference.

Postgraduates, other students and interested parties not able to claim
their conference fees back from their institutions should please contact
the organizers for a discount.

Accommodation
We will provide more information on accommodation in due course. Pretoria
offers a variety in this regard. During past conferences, guests stayed at
the Brooklyn Guest Houses (http://www.brooklynguesthouses.co.za/ ) situated
in a safe and attractive neighbourhood close to Unisa, the University of
Pretoria, and the Brooklyn and Hatfield shopping centres. A group booking
with discount for delegates is planned.

Excursions
We plan a trip for Sunday 24 October to the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, a 1½
hours drive west of Pretoria. Transport will be provided.

Possible publication
Depending on interest and quality, the possibility exists of publishing the
colloquium papers in an edited volume on the theme. Submitted papers are
subject to a refereeing process. If you would consider submitting your
paper for publication, please indicate that to us via return mail for
further guidelines on style.