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The Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association will once
again be sponsoring a session on CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POPULAR
CULTURE at the 31st Annual meeting to be held February 10-13, 2010 at
the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico
(330 Tijeras, Albuquerque NM 87102; tel. 505.842.1234).

Papers on any aspect of Greek and Roman antiquity in contemporary
culture are eligible for consideration. Papers focused on the following
themes are particularly welcome:

-Classics on the internet
-Classics and Western film
-Classic sword and sandal films
-Classical themes in contemporary art
-Classical references in popular music
-Classical references in advertising and marketing
-Roman history in contemporary literature and film
-Classical representations in popular culture and pedagogy
-Contemporary representations of Greek and Roman women

Other possible topics include (but are not limited to): film versions of
ancient myths; modern adaptations of Classical material in film,
television, music, or literature; the Classical heroic figure in modern
film or literature; Classical period historical fiction in modern film
or literature; Greek epic or drama in popular culture; and Greek and
Roman mythology in children’s film, television, or literature.
Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes.

Submit abstracts of 500 words or fewer to Kirsten Day at
kirstenday AT yahoo.com. The priority deadline for abstract submissions is
NOVEMBER 1, 2009, and the final deadline is DECEMBER 15, 2009.

Information about the site, travel, graduate student awards, guest
speakers, special events, a complete list of areas, and other conference
matters can be found on the conference website: http://swtxpca.org.

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In autumn of 2009 the London Roman Art and Ancient History Seminars are
joining forces to host the following seminars (there will be no Roman art
seminars in the spring). If you have any queries, please feel free to get
in touch with Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe or myself. I can provide illustrated
notices as an attachment for anyone who wishes. PS

London Ancient History/
Roman Art Seminar
Autumn 2009

All seminars on Thursdays at 4.30pm,
in the Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN.

1 October Blair Fowlkes Childs (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)
The Dolichenum on the Aventine: Archaeological
Evidence, Cult Rituals, and Topographical Considerations

8 October Dr Elizabeth Macaulay Lewis (University of Oxford)
Architecture and Garden: A study in Roman space

15 October Prof Marc Waelkens (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Sagalassos and Rome

29 October Dr Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
The Colour Purple in Ancient Rome

5 November Dr Jane Fejfer (Copenhagen)
Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus

19 November Dr Jon Coulston (University of St Andrews)
Still Life in Stone? Roman Triumph and Barbarian Defeat
on the Pedestal Reliefs of Trajan’s Column

26 November Prof Paul Zanker (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Living with Myths in Pompeii and Beyond

All are welcome!
Enquiries: contact sophie.lunn-rockliffe AT kcl.ac.uk or peter.stewart AT courtauld.ac.uk

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The Oxford Roman Economy Project will be hold a confererence on Trade, Commerce and the State on 1-3 October, 2009 at the Stelios Ioannou Centre for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford.
For the programme and instructions of registration, please see:

http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=41

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Department of Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Seminars are held in the Classics Seminar Room, G37, 11 Woodland Road, and start at 4.10 p.m. except where noted. All welcome, especially postgraduate students; any queries, please contact n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk.

6th October: Neville Morley (Bristol): ‘Thucydides and the Idea of History’

13th October: Mercedes Aguirre (Complutense, Madrid): ‘The Greek Flood Myth: Deucalion and Pyrrha’

20th October: Ellen O’Gorman (Bristol): ‘Myth, History and Vergil’s Dido’

3rd November: Emily Pillinger (Institute Fellow): ‘Prophetic voices in mythic narratives: making sense of "hindsight as foresight".’

17th November: 4.30pm: Charles Martindale (Bristol): ‘Performance, Reception, Aesthetics’

25th November: 4 pm: half-day conference on ‘Hildegard of Bingen: music, poetry, and medieval monastic tradition’, organised by Steve D’Evelyn. Victoria Rooms.

1st December: John Sellars (UWE): ‘The Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius’

8th December: Peter France (Edinburgh) on Translation. Event organised by the Penguin Archive project, time and venue tbc.

9th December: half-day conference on Translation, organised by the Penguin Archive project.

12th January: Bella Sandwell (Bristol): ‘A cognitive approach to John Chrysostom’s homilies on Genesis’

27th January: 2 pm: half-day conference on Myths and their Variants, organised by Richard Buxton; featuring Emma Aston (Reading), Daniel Ogden (Exeter), Alberto Bernabe (Madrid), Ken Dowden (Birmingham)

All Roads Lead From Rome : The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture
9th April 2010
Department of Classics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick.
Keynote speaker: Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania.

The aim of this conference is to bring together papers that consider the
many ways that classics informs the world around us. What is reception?
Where does it fit within the discipline? Where do we find Classical
influence in modern culture? How do modern uses of the ancient world
change the way we think about antiquity? The Classics Graduate Student
Organization at Rutgers University is delighted to invite submissions for
papers that explore and expand ideas of classical reception from graduate
students in the fields of classics and related fields, such as film
studies; comparative literature; English; cultural studies; history;
American studies; women’s and gender studies; philosophy and art history.

The organizers especially encourage papers that examine forms of reception
in popular culture, broadly construed, such as song lyrics; modern
literature; modern art; architecture; furniture and decorative objects;
toys; poetry; theatre and performance; politics and political rhetoric;
computer and video games; texts (lost) in translation; opera; the history
of classical scholarship; science fiction; uses of the classics in
education; television; fashion design; YouTube; comics and cartoons.

Papers should last twenty minutes; abstracts are limited to 300 words.
Please specify in your cover e-mail whether you will need any presentation
aids, such as a projector.

The deadline for abstracts is 30th November 2009. Abstracts and queries
should be sent to lizgloyn AT eden.rutgers.edu. Authors of accepted papers
will be notified by 31st December 2009.