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Call for Papers
Cross-cultural Influence in the Roman World, McMaster University
3 October 2009
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Emma Dench, Harvard University
Abstracts for papers on cross-cultural influence in the Roman world are sought for the Classics Graduate Conference at McMaster University on Saturday, 3 October 2009. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words, to be submitted to the address provided below. We encourage papers exploring both the acclimatization of foreign peoples to Roman culture and the impact of those indigenous cultures on the Romans themselves. A wide range of subjects are acceptable, including, but not limited to, material culture, religion, linguistics, dress, warfare, and political practices.
Papers delivered at the conference should be 15-20 minutes in length.
Submit abstracts electronically to Patricia White at whitepl At mcmaster.ca.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2009

Announcement of acceptances of abstracts: 15 August 2009

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The Faculty of Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is pleased to
announce an international conference on ‘Episcopal Elections in Late
Antiquity’, 26-28 October 2009. The conference programme will include
fourteen keynote lectures and eleven short paper sessions. Registration,
travel and accommodation information is available on the conference website,
and further information can be requested from the conference secretary.

Scientific Committee
Pauline Allen (ACU Brisbane), Jean-Marie Auwers (Louvain-la-neuve),
Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Leuven), David Engels (Bruxelles), Hans Hauben
(Leuven), Mathijs Lamberigts (Leuven), Johan Leemans (Leuven), Hartmut
Leppin (Frankfurt), Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter), Andrea Schmidt
(Louvain-la-neuve), Stefan Schorn (Leuven), Ewa Wipszycka (Warsaw)

Organising Committee
Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Leuven), Shawn Keough (Leuven), Johan Leemans
(Leuven), Carla Nicolaye (Leuven-Aachen), Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter)

URL: http://theo.kuleuven.be/page/esla
Secretary: shawn.keough AT theo.kuleuven.be

It is well known that episcopal elections in the later Roman Empire were
often a complicated and complicating event, as the controversy (and even
violence) attendant upon the elections and successions of many bishops
indicates. This conference will approach the phenomenon of episcopal
elections and succession from the broadest possible perspective, examining
the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that
played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific
candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The many diverse and
even conflicting aspects of this phenomenon will be addressed: the influence
of doctrinal conflicts, the relationship between Church and State,
patronage, local habits and regional differences, chronological
developments, ethnic identity. Also relevant is the development of images of
the ideal bishop, especially the manner in which such idealized
representations shaped the outcome of contested elections and affected the
character and exercise of episcopal authority in late antique society.

All those interested in conference registration and other information are
encouraged to contact the conference secretary, Dr. Shawn Keough
shawn.keough AT theo.kuleuven.be.

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Hengstberger Symposium 2009

Political Communication and Public Opinion in the Ancient World

Dates: Friday, 10 July — Sunday, 12 July 2009

Venue: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg (http://www.iwh.uni-hd.de/index.html)

Numbers are restricted. There are only a few places left. If you would like to attend, please register by email to christina.kuhn AT classics.ox.ac.uk

Programme:

Friday, 10 July 2009

09.15: Welcome: Dr. Klaus-Georg HENGSTBERGER and Dr. Christina KUHN

09.30: Dr. Christina KUHN (Classics Department, University of Oxford): "Einfuehrung: Politische Kommunikation und Oeffentliche Meinung in der Antike"

Section I: Theories and Concepts
Chair: Prof. Dr. Tonio HOELSCHER (Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg)

10.00: Prof. Dr. Kurt IMHOF (Department of Sociology, University of Zuerich): "Oeffentlichkeitssoziologische Konzepte fuer das Altertum?"

10.45: Coffee

11.15: Dr. Thomas PETERSEN (Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research): "Die moralische Komponente oeffentlicher Meinung — Was Historiker und Sozialwissenschaftler voneinander lernen koennen"

Section II: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Chair: Prof. Dr. Angelos CHANIOTIS (Classics Department, University of Oxford)

12.00: PD Dr. Christian MANN (Department of Ancient History, University of Freiburg): "Imagekonstruktionen und oeffentliche Meinung im demokratischen Athen"

12.45: Lunch

14.15: Dr. Gunther MARTIN (Classics Department, University of Oxford):
"Demokratiekritik vor der athenischen Oeffentlichkeit?"

15.00: Prof. Dr. Eftychia STAVRIANOPOULOU (Department of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg): "Tou dikaiou tuchein, oder: Die Macht der Bitte"

15.45: Coffee

16.15: Peter KATO (Department of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg): "Heftige Winde ueber das stille Meer: Aeusserungsformen und Beeinflussung der oeffentlichen Meinung in den hellenistischen Staedten"

17.00: Dr. Ruth BIELFELDT (Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University): "Oeffentlichkeit als Offensichtlichkeit: Zur Kultur des Erscheinens in der hellenistischen Stadt"

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Section III: Republican and Imperial Rome
Chair: Dr. Christina KUHN (Classics Department, University of Oxford)

09.15: Dr. Nikolaus JACKOB (Department of Communication Studies, University of Mainz): "Cicero’s Perception of the Nature, Role and Power of Public Opinion in the Late Roman Republic"

10.00: Prof. Dr. Gert UEDING (Rhetoric Department, University of Tuebingen): "Das Konzept des Redners als Meinungsfuehrer in der roemischen Rhetorik"

10.45: Coffee

11.15: Prof. Dr. Robert MORSTEIN-MARX (Classics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara): "Political Communication, Public Opinion and the Power of the ‘Populus’ in the Late Roman Republic"

12.00: Christian BECHTOLD, M.A. (Department of Ancient History, University of Frankfurt): "Die Versetzung unter die Sterne in der politischen Kommunikation der roemischen Kaiserzeit"

12.45: Lunch

Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian WITSCHEL (Department of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg)

14.15: Prof. Dr. Clifford ANDO (Classics Department, University of Chicago): "Empire, State, and Communicative Action"

15.00: Prof. Dr. Aloys WINTERLING (History Department, Humboldt University Berlin): "Oeffentliche Geheimnisse: Die Doppelboedigkeit der Kommunikation zwischen Kaiser und Aristokratie im Rom des 1. und 2. Jahrhunderts"

15.45: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan STENGER (Free University of Berlin): "Libanios und die oeffentliche Meinung in Antiochia"

16.30: Coffee

17.00: Public Lecture: Prof. Dr. Juergen WILKE (Department of Communication Studies, University of Mainz): "Die Kommunikationswissenschaft und die Antike"

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Section IV: Ancient Egypt, China and Israel
Chair: Prof. Dr. Andrea JOERDENS (Institute of Papyrology, University of Heidelberg)

09.15: Dr. Thomas ROESSING (Department of Communication Studies, University of Mainz): "Oeffentliche Meinung in der Philosophie des Alten China aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Sicht"

10.00: Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedrich QUACK (Department of Egyptology, University of Heidelberg): "Pharao und Hofstaat, Palast und Tempel. Entscheidungsfindung, Oeffentlichkeit und Entscheidungsveroeffentlichung im Alten Aegypten"

10.45: Coffee

11.15: PD Dr. Erich LAMP (Department of Communication Studies, University of Mainz): "Oeffentliche Meinung im Alten Testament"

12.00: Final Discussion

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The Epigraphic Culture(s) of Late Antiquity

Dates: Friday 26 – Saturday 27 June, 2009

Venue: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, Hauptstrasse 242 – Heidelberg (http://www.iwh.uni-hd.de/index.html)

Programme:

Friday, 26th of June 2009

9.00 Christian WITSCHEL/Carlos MACHADO: Welcome and Introduction

I – The Late Antique Epigraphic Habit in the Western and Eastern Parts
of the Roman Empire – Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects

9.10: Christian WITSCHEL (Heidelberg): “Spätantike Inschriftenkulturen
im Westen des Imperium Romanum – ein Überblick”

10.10: Charlotte ROUECHÉ (London): “Late Antique Inscriptions in the
East: Evidence and Problems”

11.10 – 11.30: Coffee Break

II – Late Antique Inscriptions in their Social and Physical Context

11.30: Carlos MACHADO (São Paulo/Heidelberg): “Dedicated to Eternity?
The Re-Use of Statue Bases in Late Antique Italy”

12.30 – 14.00: Lunch Break

14.00: Dennis FEISSEL (Paris): “Elites et magistratures municipales dans
l’épigraphie protobyzantine”

15.00: Silvia ORLANDI and Mara PONTISSO (Rome): “Discorsi su pietra:
oratoria ed epigrafia nel Tardo Impero”

16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break

16.30: Rudolf HAENSCH (Munich): “Zwei unterschiedliche epigraphische
Praktiken: Kirchenbauinschriften in Italien und im Nahen Osten”

III – Regional Studies

17.30: Judit VÉGH (Heidelberg): „Inschriftenkultur(en) und Christentum
im spätantiken Hispanien“

18:30: Lennart HILDEBRAND (Heidelberg): „Die Entwicklung der spätantiken
Epigraphik Südgalliens – Inschriften als Indikator für gesellschaftliche
Veränderungen?“

Saturday, 27th of June 2009

09:00: Ignazio TANTILLO (Rome): “Some Observations on the Evolution of
the Epigraphic Habit in Late Roman Africa (with special reference to
Tripolitania)”

10.00: Stephen MITCHELL (Exeter): “The Epigraphy of Asia Minor in Late
Antiquity”

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11:30: Leah DI SEGNI (Jerusalem): “Late Antique Epigraphy in the
Provinces of Palaestina and Arabia: Realities and Change”

12.30 – 14.00: Lunch Break

IV – The New World of Christian Epigraphy

14.00: Claire SOTINEL (Paris): “How Christian is Christian Epigraphy?”

15.00: Lucy GRIG (Edinburgh): “Cultural Capital and Christianization:
the Metrical Inscriptions of Late Antique Rome”

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30: Final remarks

For further information, visit http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/sag/workshop_epigraphic_culture.html

Or contact Carlos Machado: carmachado AT gmail.com

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APPROACHES TO ANCIENT MEDICINE
Newcastle University, 24-25 August 2009

Programme

Monday 24 August
12.00-13.00 Lunch and Registration
13.00-13.30 Erica Couto-Ferreira (University of Heidelberg)
The Anatomy of Birth in Mesopotamian Incantations and Literary Texts
13.30-14.00 Marzia Soardi (University of Palermo)
How to achieve good offspring: Aristotle’s Prescriptions
14.00-14.30 Jaroslav Danes (Charles University, Prague)
Are there any true theories of inheritance in the classical period?

14.30-14.45 Short break

14.45-15.15 Ca—ta—lin Enache (University of Vienna)
Fire and water as principles of the world in the Hippocratic treatise De victu
15.15-15.45 Hynek Bartos (Charles University, Prague)
Medicine without doctors? – The Hippocratic treatise De victu and its audience
15.45-16.15 Pilar Pérez Canizares (Newcastle University)
The sources of the Hippocratic treatise Affections

16.15-16.45 Tea/Coffee

16.45-17.15 Valeria Andò (University of Palermo)
Erotic dreams and female semen
17.15-17.45 Sylva Fischerová (Charles University, Prague)
The Europe-Asia antithesis in the Peri aeron hydaton topon as a scientific image and mythic heritage
17.45-18.15 Roberto Lo Presti (University of Palermo)
Origins of Knowledge: ‘Visible’ and ‘Invisible’ as categories of thought in the Hippocratics
18.15-18.45 Annette Frölich (University of Copenhagen)
Terra Sigillata – a drug in use for millenniums!

19.00- Drinks and Dinner

Tuesday 25 August
9.00-9.30 Robert Maltby (Leeds University) and
Maryanne Maltby (Anglia Ruskin University)
Celsus on Ears and Hearing
9.30-10.00 Aurélien Gautherie (University of Strasbourg)
An approach to Celsus’ transmission of medical knowledge in the De Medicina: the example of the figure of Asclepiades of Bithynia
10.00-10.30 Uwe Vagelpohl (Warwick University)
Reconfiguring Galen: Hunayn ibn Ishaq and the adaptation of Galenic medicine in the Arabic tradition
10.30-11.00 Anna Corrias (Warburg Institute, London)
Subtle bodies: ochêma, bile and images in the writings of Porphyry and Marsilio Ficino

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.00 Nadine Metzger (Newcastle University)
Not a daimon, but a severe illness’ – looking for the demon behind Ephialtes
12.00-12.30 Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway College, London)
Compiling texts – Ps. Alexander de oculis and its sources
12.30-13.00 Val Knight (University of Manchester)
Humoral theory and the De podagra of Alexander Trallianus

13.15-14.30 Lunch in the Courtyard Restaurant (ground floor)

14.30 Departure

The conference is supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Classical Association and the School of Historical Studies at Newcastle University.

For further information and online booking please visit the conference website http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/AncientMedicine2009/index.htm

For information on booking please contact:
Melanie Kidd
Conference Support Officer
NIASSH
7th Floor, Daysh Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel: +44 (0)191 222 5807
Email: Melanie.Kidd AT ncl.ac.uk

For further conference information please contact:
Professor Philip van der Eijk
Northern Centre for the History of Medicine
School of Historical Studies
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Tel. (+)44.191.2228262
Fax: (+)44.191.2228262 / 6484
email: philip.van-der-eijk AT ncl.ac.uk