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‘Addressing Dress: Clothing in the Ancient World’
Chairs: Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Ursula Rothe (Edinburgh)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited for the session entitled Addressing Dress: Clothing in the Ancient World at the forthcoming Celtic Conference in Classics (University of Edinburgh, 28th-31st July 2010). In recent years, Classics at Edinburgh has become a centre for dress studies with several staff members and postgraduate students working in the field and producing a number of new studies exploring the topic from a variety of angles (e.g. D. Cairns, ‘Anger and the veil in ancient Greek culture’, Greece & Rome 48, 2001; L. Llewellyn-Jones ed., Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World, 2002; L. Cleland/M. Harlow/L. Llewellyn-Jones eds, The Clothed Body in the Ancient World, 2005; L. Cleland/G. Davies/L. Llewellyn-Jones eds, Greek & Roman Dress from A-Z, 2007; U. Rothe, Dress & Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire, 2009).

The session aims to contribute to exciting new developments in dress-related research in Classics by bringing together scholars from a wide range of fields, historical periods and places in the hope of engendering debate and comparison across these lines. As such, we welcome contributions from both text- and material culture-based researchers working on any aspect of dress in

• ancient and classical Egypt
• the ancient Near East
• ancient Greece
• the Roman Empire (Republic/Principate)
• Byzantium & late antiquity in general

We are also keen to inspire discussion on approaches to dress in the ancient period and hope to address some of the methodological problems inherent in trying to piece together ancient dress practices and their meanings from such a fragmentary source base.

We envisage papers on a wide range of subjects from class, status and gender to ethnicity and cultural identity as well as considerations of links between dress and political institutions or roles, all forms of resistance, and the role of dress in ancient literature. Papers could address very specific topics, such as the use and meaning of a particular garment or the role of dress in a particular classical work, or discuss broader phenomena by looking at wider patterns of social behaviour and their links to dress.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as an email attachment to Ursula Rothe (ursula.rothe AT ed.ac.uk) by the 31st March 2010.

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States
Call for Papers.

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British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting, 2010

Saturday 24 April, 2010
Trinity College Dublin

(In)formal epigraphy
The spring meeting will examine formality and informality within epigraphic
culture. What different types of formality and informality can we detect in
epigraphic material and to what extent is this affected by the survival and
recording of material? How does the use of space (where do we find
epigraphic writing?), agency (who writes? who publishes?), or interaction
with the inscriptions (who views them and why?) construct notions – or
undermine them – about formality/informality? How do these ideas affect the
reuse and reception of inscriptions, ancient and modern?

The meeting will also include a trip to University College Dublin for a tour
of the epigraphic collection of the Classical Museum.

10.30-11.00: Coffee & registration
11.00-11.45: Dr Graham Oliver (University of Liverpool): Formality &
informality in Attic inscriptions
11.45-12.30: Dr Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck College, London): Graffiti &
inscriptions in Dura-Europos
12.30-1.00: Lunch
1.00-1.45: Dr Amanda Kelly (NUI Galway): Informal invective: inscriptions on
sling shots
1.45-2.30: Short reports
2.30-3.30: Travel to UCD
3.30-5.00: Prof. Andrew Smith (UCD): Tour of the epigraphic collection in
the UCD Classical Museum

Colloquium fees
Registration including tea, coffee, and the sandwich lunch:
€15.00 (BES/AIEGL members), €10.00 (BES student members), €25.00 (non-members).

Registration without lunch:
€10.00 (members), €5.00 (student members), €20.00 (non-members).

Taxi fare from TCD to UCD (for museum trip)
Between €5 and €20 one way (depending on how many people share a taxi.
Please bring cash to pay the taxi driver).

For further information, or to reserve a place at the colloquium and a
sandwich lunch, please contact Dr Claire Taylor (claire.taylor AT tcd.ie). The
deadline for registration is 9 April 2010.

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CFP INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM “Twenty Centuries of Greek Science (4th cent. BC – 16th cent. AC)”, Madrid, 19-21 May 2010

The Institute of Classical Studies “Lucius Annaeus Seneca” (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and the Departament of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (UNED) are organizing an International Colloquium on Greek science and its reception under the title: “Twenty Centuries of Greek Science (4th cent. BC – 16th cent. AC)”.

This meeting, to be held in Madrid next 19-21 May 2010, aims at gathering some of the most relevant international specialists on these issues in order to discuss the last research trends and results in the fields of Classical Studies and History of Science. A provisional program with the invited speakers is available at the Institute’s webpage (http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/inst_lucio_anneo_seneca).

Additionally some shorter papers (about 20 min.) shall be selected by the Scientific Committee. Please send your proposal before March 8th (title, 300 words abstract and short CV) to seneca AT hum.uc3m.es. We beg you help spreading this call for papers among scholars interested on the subject.

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Department of Classics, University of Nottingham

Research Workshops, Spring semester 2010

2 February Dr Roger Rees (St Andrews): The artful text of Pacatus

9 February Dr Gesine Manuwald (UCL): Terences Eunuchus and the conventions 
of Roman comedy

16 February Dr Ted Kaizer (Durham): Continuity and change: religious identities in Dura-Europos

23 February Evert van Emde Boas (Oxford): Linguistic characterisation in Greek literature’

2 March Professor Peter Heather (KCL): Predatory Migration and the First Millennium

9 March (with the Nottingham Branch of the Classical Association and the Roman Society): Professor John Prag (Manchester) Faces from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae: Stamatakis, Schliemann and Grave Circle A faces

16 March Kristis Sergidis (Nottingham): An Athenian Strategic Triangle: Rhodes, Euboea and the Hellespont; Jane Draycott (Nottingham): Worship Like an Egyptian? A Reappraisal of the Temple of Soknebtunis and its Library

23 March Dr Valentina Arena (UCL): ‘A Pantheon with restricted access: religious liberty in the late Roman Republic’

30 March Professor Duncan Kennedy (Bristol): ‘Sums in verse or mathematical aesthetic? Manilius’ Astronomica’

All are welcome. Papers begin at 5.00pm in the Archaeology and Classics Building room C6. Tea will be available from 4.30pm in room B7, drinks and dinner with the speaker afterwards are available by arrangement.

For more information, please contact:

Dr S.J.V. Malloch simon.malloch AT nottingham.ac.uk

Dr T. Badnall toni.badnall AT nottingham.ac.uk