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Details below of this term’s Classics research seminars, including KYKNOS seminars (www.kyknos.org.uk). All welcome.

KYKNOS seminars begin at 6pm; all others at 5.15pm. All seminars are in the Roderick Bowen seminar room.

15/10 Prof. Judith Mossman (Nottingham) : ‘Plutarch and the Philosophy of Language: The Case of Naming.’ KYKNOS

22/10 Prof. Christopher Pelling (Christ Church, Oxford) : ‘Learning from that violent schoolmaster….: Thucydidean intertextuality and some Greek accounts of Roman civil war.’ KYKNOS

29/10 Dr Marta Garcia Morcillo (Leicester/Lampeter) : ‘The Roman Estate Market: Economic Strategies between Politics and Morality.’

05/11 Evelien Bracke (Maynooth/Lampeter) : ‘Male Power, Treason, and Plot: Argonautic metis in Euripides’ Medea 1-48.’ KYKNOS

12/11 Estelle Strazdins (Balliol, Oxford) : ‘Arrian as self-commentator.’

19/11 Dr Tony Keen (Open University) : ‘From Constantine to Palpatine: Classics, Science Fiction and Reception.’

26/11 Glenn Lacki (St Hugh’s, Oxford) : ‘Exile and the Double Heroides.’

03/12 Philippa Bather (Manchester) : ‘Ancestry as Literary Tradition in Horace and Ovid.’

10/12 Dr Steven Green (Leeds) : ‘Astrological Discretion in Augustan Literature.’

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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the annual Rose-Marie
Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies, “XENOPHON IN A NEW VOICE,”
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 5:30PM.

The conference will take place in Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102, Silver
Center for Arts and Science, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place
(wheelchair accessible), New York, NY.

The event is free of charge and open to the public, and seating is by
general admission.

Welcome
MATTHEW S. SANTIROCCO, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and
Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York
University

Discussants
PAUL CARTLEDGE
Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and
Theory of Democracy, NYU

DAVID THOMAS
Independent Scholar, Contributor, “The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika”

ROBERT B. STRASSLER
Independent Scholar, Editor, “The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika”

PHIL TERRY
Chief Executive Office, Creative Good; Founder, Reading Odyssey

For more information about the event, please see details below, visit
http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/page/events, or contact the College

Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100;
kenkidd AT nyu.edu.

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Call For Papers: Engendering Reception: From Penelope to Atwood’s Penelopiad

University of Toronto, April 24-25 2010

The Classics Graduate Student Association of the University of Toronto
invites abstracts for a graduate conference on the theme Engendering
Reception, to be held in Toronto on April 24-25, 2010. Our keynote
speaker will be Susanna Braund, Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry
and its Reception, University of British Columbia.

This conference aims to consider the role gender plays in reception
both within antiquity and beyond. What does it mean when Catullus and
Horace imitate Sappho? How are epic heroines and villains portrayed in
other genres? How is gender played out in later imitations of Greek
and Roman literature (e.g. Racine’s Phèdre)? What are the issues
facing contemporary women writers (such as Margaret Atwood or Anne
Carson) who deal with classical topics? Our conference hopes to
explore these questions, as well as more broadly theoretical issues.

Potential topics could include, but are not limited to:
• Intertextual heroines in antiquity
• The reception of female authors in the ancient world
• The use of a “female voice” by male authors
• The interaction of historical and literary female characters
• Women and the history of classical scholarship
• Women and the acquisition of Classical education in the 19th
and early 20th centuries
• Gender and the contemporary reception of the classics
• Masculinity and reception

Papers should last between 15-20 minutes. Abstracts of c.200-300 words
(excluding bibliography) should be sent as attachments (in .doc or
.pdf form) to engenderingreception AT gmail.com. As all abstracts will be
reviewed anonymously, no identifying information should appear on the
abstract itself.

We welcome submissions from students of all areas of classical
studies, as well as students from other disciplines, including art
history, history, archaeology, philosophy, comparative literature,
religious studies, women’s and gender studies, drama, and politics.

The deadline for submissions is 8 JANUARY 2010. Please note that
submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend.
Accepted presenters will be notified by email by 29 January.

Interested students are invited to join the conference’s Facebook
group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112388917878. Queries and
indications of interest should be directed to the conference
coordinators:
Cillian O’Hogan, cillian.ohogan AT utoronto.ca
Melanie Racette-Campbell, melanie.racette.campbell AT utoronto.ca

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Rome in Bloomsbury Fall 2009: Water, water, everywhere

Dr Zena Kemash, Magdalen College, Oxford
October 6th, 2009, 1pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street room 153
The Social Meanings of Water Technology in the Roman Near East

Dr Eleanor Ghey, British Museum
October 20th, 2009, 1pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street room 153
Immersed in the Gods: Bath Houses on Temple Sites

Dr Andy Merrills, University of Leicester
November 3rd, 2009, 1pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street room 153
Roman Nile-ism: Describing and Depicting the Nile in the Late Republic and Early Principate

Dr Hannah Friedman, Oxford Roman Economy Project
November 17th, 2009, 1pm, Birkbeck, Malet Street room 153
Canals and Connectivity: Infrastructure Costs in the Roman Empire

All welcome. Seminars are an hour in length, including time for discussion.
For further information contact Jen Baird, j.baird AT bbk.ac.uk or Meredith Wiggins,
meredithwiggins AT hotmail.co.uk

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The eighth Keeling colloquium, on Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, will take place on 11-13 November 2009.

Provisional timetable:

Wednesday 11 November
10.30-1 M.M. McCabe (King’s College London) From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic?
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)
3-6 Aryeh Kosman (Haverford) Self-knowledge and self-control in the Charmides: the self as object and companion
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)

Thursday 12 November
10-1 Melissa Lane (Princeton) Weakness of virtue, not will: Plato on self-knowledge and akrasia
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (UCL)
3-6 Tad Brennan (Cornell) Reading Plato’s Mind
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (UCL)

Friday 13 November
10-1 Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris) Self-perception and perception of one’s body in Stoicism
Respondent: Chris Gill (Exeter)
3-6 Gwenaëlle Aubry (Paris) An alternative to Cartesianism? Plotinus’s theory of the Self and its posterity in Ralph Cudworth
Respondent: Chris Gill (Exeter)

The meetings on Wednesday and Thursday will be in room 106, first floor, Gordon House (entry from Gordon Street). The Friday meetings will be in the Garden Room on the ground floor of the Bernard Katz building; entry is simplest from Gower Street, and when you reach the "auto-icon" of Jeremy Bentham, it’s through the doors just beside him.

No registration or prior notification is required from those attending; please just turn up. Apart from speakers and respondents, those attending are asked to make their own arrangements for meals, and for accommodation if required.