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Call for Papers for the 2010 Meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association
October 15-16, 2010 at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax NS

The Classics program at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax will be hosting the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association on Friday October 15 and Saturday October 16, 2010.

Papers of 20 minutes duration are invited on any aspect of the Classical World (literature, history, archaeology, art history, philosophy, etc.). Please send an abstract of not more than 200 words and include your name and affiliation, the title of your paper and any A.V. requirements. Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail attachment to Alison Barclay (Alison.Barclay AT smu.ca) or Myles McCallum (Myles.McCallum AT smu.ca) by July 31, 2010.
Conference registration deadline is September 15th, 2010.

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4th Trends in Classics Conference

homer in the 21st century: orality, neoanalysis, interpretation

Thessaloniki, 28-30 may 2010 (Auditorium of the Archaeological Museum)

Friday, 28th May

8.45-9.15 Reception-Registration

9.15-9.30 A. Rengakos: Introduction

9.30-10.00 D. N. Maronitis (U of Thessaloniki) The Iliad: at point-blank range

10.00-10.30 Keynote Lecture: W. Kullmann (U of Freiburg) Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy

10.30-11.00 M. Finkelberg (U of Tel-Aviv) Oral formulaic theory and the individual poet

11.00-11.30 P. Pucci (Cornell University) Iterative syntactical segments and their contextualization

12.00-12.30 G. Nagy (Harvard University) Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry

12.30-13.00 R. Martin (Stanford University) Homegerees: constructing Homer

15.00-15.30 M.L. West (Oxford University) Some pre-Iliadic poems

15.30-16.00 G. Danek (U of Vienna) Troilus and Lycaon

16.00-16.30 C. Due (U of Texas) Maneuvers in the dark of night: Iliad 10 in the twenty-first century

17.00-17.30 J. Marks (U of Florida) αρχους αυ νηων ερέω: Il. 2.493a

17.30-18.00 M. Alden (U of Belfast) The vagrant without status (Il. 9. 648 = 16. 59)

Saturday, 29th May

9.30-10.00 J. Latacz (U of Basel) Fragen an Homers Achilleus

10.00-10.30 A. Kelly (Oxford University) The Mourning of Thetis: ?Allusion’, the Future and the Iliad

10.30-11.00 M. Hirschberger (U of Dusseldorf) The fate of Achilles as told in the Iliad

11.00-11.30 L. Muellner (Brandeis University) Grieving Achilles

12.00-12.30 J. Burgess (U of Toronto) Belatedness in the Travels of Odysseus

12.30-13.00 O. Levaniouk (U of Washington at Seattle) ου χρώμεθα τοις ξενικοις ποιήμασι: Questions about the Evolution and Variability of the Odyssey

15.00-15.30 E. Bakker (Yale University) Paradigmatic Similes in the Odyssey

15.30-16.00 S. Said (Columbia University) Animal Similes: From the Iliad to the Odyssey

16.00-16.30 C.Tsagalis (AUTh) De-authorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199-359)

16.30-17.00 J. Petropoulos (Democritus U of Thrace) The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi

17.30-18.00 A.C. Cassio (U of Rome "La Sapienza") Kypris, Kythereia, and the Latest Phases of the Homeric Epics

18.00-18.30 R. Hunter (U of Cambridge)Testing time: Agamemnon’s peirai and Homeric criticism

18.30-19.00 E. Minchin (Australian National University) Memory and memories: personal memory, collective memory, and interpretation in the poems of Homer

Sunday, 30th May

9.30-10.00 J.M. Foley (U of Missouri)Similes in Homer and South Slavic Oral Epic

10.00-10.30 R. Scodel (U of Michigan) Works and Days and the Homeric/Cyclic Tradition

10.30-11.00 St. West (Oxford University) Some lessons from Alpamysh

11.30-12.00 J. Torres-Guerra (U of Navara) The writing down of the oral Thebais that ?Homer’ knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann

12.00-12.30 A. Debiasi (U of Torino) Omero agonista a Calcide

12.30-13.00 B. Currie (Oxford University) The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis

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UNIVERSITÀ del SALENTO
Dipartimento di Filologia classica e di Scienze filosofiche
Dipartimento dei Beni delle Arti e della Storia

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference: Poesia, musica e agoni nella Grecia antica / Poetry, music and contests in ancient Greece

IV Annual Meeting of MOISA: International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage

Lecce, Italy, 28-30 October 2010

The overall topic of the conference will be ancient Greek music; it will focus particularly on the musical contests, which have rarely been studied in detail. They took place, in various forms, in all parts of the Greek world and through all periods of its history, and interacted in complex ways with literary, political, cultural and religious phenomena.

The subject will be addressed from a wide variety of perspectives, with contributions from invited scholars in fields including philology, archaeology, iconography and epigraphy.

Scientific Committee:
Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham)
Bruno Gentili (University of Urbino)
Pietro Giannini (University of Salento – Lecce)
Daniela Castaldo (University of Salento – Lecce)
Alessandra Manieri (University of Salento – Lecce).

Members of MOISA who wish who wish to offer a short paper (15/20 mins) on any aspect related to the main topic are invited to send an abstract of max. 500 words, by 30 April 2010, to Daniela Castaldo (dcastaldo) and to Alessandra Manieri (alessandra.manieri).

We need to inform you that we will be able to cover only partially the fees for your accomodation during your stay in Lecce. More details will be available as soon as possible.

Anyone who wishes to offer a paper, but is not already a member of MOISA, can join the society by going to the MOISA website (address below) and following the appropriate links.

More detailed information on the conference will be published soon on the website of MOISA (http://www.moisasociety.org).

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The Journal of Hellenic Religion’s (ISSN 1748-7811) Editorial Panel decided
to pursue a fourth volume of the Journal, which will be forthcoming in March
2011.

A brief Journal’s statement: The JfHR is a peer-reviewed annual periodical.
It has as a main theme the original multidisciplinary study of ancient Greek
Religion (i.e. theology, history, philosophy, politics-sociology and
archaeology-anthropology).

The theme / subject of the forthcoming Volume 4 will focus on the concept of
divination in the ancient Greek religious praxis and theology. The article
should include a full bibliography and endnotes. The deadline is due to the
25th of December 2010.

The editorial panel may request editions and small alterations and a summary
of the peer-reviewed process will be send after the author’s request. The
authors hold their copyright. The contributors should sign a License for
Publish based on the standards of good academic research practice for
publications by the Surf Foundation and JISC.

Submissions should be in an electronic form (doc, rtf), accompanied with the
legal name and a current email and postal address of the author and emailed
to the Editor at info [at] markoulakispublications [dot] org [dot] uk –
please place in the title of your message the following: Article Submission
for the JfHR Vol. 4.

Please review the author’s contribution guide at :

http://www.journalofhellenicreligion.markoulakispublications.org.uk/about/guide

Thank you in advance of your contributions.

Nikolaos Markoulakis
School of Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane,
Nottingham NG11 8NS
United Kingdom

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QUEENSLAND GREEK HISTORY CONFERENCE

Brisbane, 22-23 October 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference will be taking place at The University of Queensland on 22 and 23 October 2010. The two keynote speakers will be Professor Vincent Gabrielsen (The University of Copenhagen) and Professor Margaret Miller (The University of Sydney). The keynote-speaker session will take place on Friday afternoon and will be followed by a formal reception for invited diplomats and politicians, members of the University’s executive, VIPs from the Greek community, conference delegates and members of the general public. The following day will consist of 10 papers of 20 minutes. The conference will showcase the diversity of research which is being undertaken on Greek history, language and culture from ancient to modern times at universities in Queensland and northern New South Wales. In addition it will help consolidate ties between our institutions and researchers, on the one hand, and those outside of the university sector who have a stake in Greek history, culture and language on the other. The theme of the inaugural conference is cultural history and one of its financial sponsors is The University of Queensland Cultural History Project. There are still a handful of speaking spots for the 23rd. Offers of papers on Greek cultural history (broadly defined) should be sent directly to the conference’s convenor, Dr David Pritchard (The University of Queensland).

Dr David Pritchard

Cultural History Project

Centre for the History of European Discourses

Discipline of Classics and Ancient History

School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics

Faculty of Arts

University of Queensland

Brisbane

QLD 4072

Australia

Telephone: +61 7 3365 3338

Fax: +61 7 3365 1968

Email: d.pritchard AT uq.edu.au