Defining citizenship in archaic Greece

Thursday 7th May 2009

10.00 – 11.00: Registration in the Department of Classics
(1st Floor, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds)

11.00 onwards: Papers in the Beechgrove Room, University House

11.00 – 11.15: Introduction: Alain Duplouy (Paris)

11.15 – 11.45: John Davies (Liverpool) ‘The emergence and consolidation of the polis- state’.
11.45 – 12.15: Josine Blok (Utrecht) ‘Retracing steps: finding ways into archaic Greek citizenship.’
12.15 – 12.45: Discussion

12.45 – 14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 14.30: Paulin Ismard (Paris) ‘Archaic Associations and Citizenship in Athens.’
14.30 – 15.00: James Whitley (Cardiff) ‘Citizenship and commensality in Archaic Crete: Searching for the Andreion.’
15.00 – 15.30: Discussion

15.30 – 16.00: Tea

16.00 – 16.30: Paul Cartledge (Cambridge) ‘The Spartan contribution to Greek citizenship theory.’
16.30 – 17.00: Alain Duplouy (Paris) ‘Mass and elite: Civic versus aristocratic strategies?’
17.00 – 18.00: Discussion

The colloquium is open to all academic participants; postgraduate and undergraduate students are especially welcome. The conference fee, which includes tea/coffee and a buffet lunch, is £10, payable on the day. Directions to the University of Leeds and campus maps may be found at the following address: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/getting_here.htm. For any queries, please contact Roger Brock (r.w.brock AT leeds.ac.uk; 0113 343 6785).

RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CLASSICS
RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAMME EASTER TERM

With the exception of KYKNOS papers which start at 6.00pm (www.kyknos.org.uk), all papers start at 5.00pm. All seminars are held in the Roderick Bowen Research Centre. For more information please contact Mirjam Plantinga (m.plantinga AT lamp.ac.uk) or Owen Hodkinson (o.hodkinson AT lamp.ac.uk). All very welcome.

Thursday 23 April: Dr. Tina Chronopoulos (KCL), ‘A reading of an Horatian Ode with a 12th-cent. medieval Latin commentary in hand’, 5.00pm.

Thursday 30 April: Dr. Angelo Giavatto (Cologne), ‘How to write to yourself: structure and argumentation in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius’, 5.00pm.

Thursday 7 May: Dr. Lindsay Allen (KCL), ‘At home in Persepolis’, 5.00pm.

Thursday 14 May (KYKNOS paper): Nora Goldschmidt (Magdalen College, Oxford), ‘Virgil, Ennius, and the Site of Rome’, 6.00pm.

Thursday 28 May (KYKNOS paper): Dr. Johanna Akkurjarvi (Lund), ‘Narrating Athens. Genres in Pausanias’ Attika’, 6.00pm.

Thursday 4 June (KYKNOS paper): Dr. Koen de Temmerman (Ghent), ‘Less than ideal paradigms in the ancient Greek novel’, 6.00pm.

COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
6-9 JULY 2009

Organisers: Dr Claire Taylor, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Kostas Vlassopoulos, University of Nottingham

This conference will examine the networks of interaction within and between
different groups in the classical and early hellenistic periods. Questions for
exploration include:
• What constituted a ‘community’ within the Greek world?
• What networks did people create, belong to, and destroy?
• How were different groups of people interconnected, and how did they
negotiate the ‘boundaries’ between them?
• How did communities change in response to social, political, economic
impulses?
• How can we use network theory to access the lives and activities of people
for whom little traditional evidence survives?

PROGRAMME
Paulin Ismard (Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée; Equipe Phéacie): Networks
of communities in classical and hellenistic Athens: cultural aspects.
Claire Taylor (Trinity College, Dublin): Social networks and social hierarchies:
towards a model of social mobility in Athens.
Ben Gray (All Souls, Oxford): Exile communities and the citizen ideal in the
later classical and hellenistic Greek world.
Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Nottingham): Free spaces: contexts of
interaction between citizens, metics and slaves in classical Athens.
Ben Akrigg (University of Toronto): The metic population in Athens.
Peter Hunt (University of Colorado, Boulder): Ethnic identity among slaves at
Athens.
Barbara Kowalzig (Royal Holloway, London): Trading gods and trading networks:
economies of trust in ancient Greece.
Vincent Gabrielsen (University of Copenhagen): Naval and grain networks at
Athens.
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck, London): Beyond the polis: island koina and
other non-polis entities in the Aegean.
Esther Eidinow (Newman College, Birmingham): Networks, narrative and
negotiation: magical practices and polis religion.

If you would like to attend, or require further information, please contact Dr
Claire Taylor (claire.taylor@tcd.ie), Dr Kostas Vlassopoulos
(konstantinos.vlassopoulos AT nottingham.ac.uk), or see the website:
http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/cnagw/index.php.

Graduate student bursaries are available to cover the cost of campus
accommodation: please contact Dr Claire Taylor (claire.taylor AT tcd.ie) if you
wish to apply, or download the form from the website:
http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/cnagw/index.php

THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
‘THE END OF ANCIENT EMPIRES’

University of Edinburgh, 19-21 June 2009

The Classical Association of Scotland (founded 1902) is proud to present its first annual conference in a new format. Papers will be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. All sessions will take place in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, High School Yards, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh.

Full programme, abstracts, directions, and booking forms for registration and accommodation are available at: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mg/conferences/programme.shtml

Please address booking enquiries to Dr Gavin Kelly (Gavin.Kelly AT ed.ac.uk) and all other enquires to Dr Costas Panayotakis (C.Panayotakis AT classics.arts.gla.ac.uk).

Outline programme:

Keynote address: Professor T. D. Barnes (Toronto/Edinburgh).

Confirmed speakers:

G. Longley (Oxford), The Causes of Imperial Decline in Ancient Authors from Herodotus to Polybius.

C. A. Farrell (KCL), The Afterbirth of the Seleucid Empire? Re-examining Imperial Ideology and Stateless Monarchs

E. Almagor (Jerusalem), The Decline and Fall of the Persian Empire in Plutarch’s Writings

A. Nagel/R. Sheikoleslamy (Ann Arbor/Tehran), Eternal Flames or The End of Antiquity’s Largest Empire – New Evidence from the Hall of Hundred Columns in Persepolis, Iran

L. Gregoratti (Udine), Vologeses’ “New Deal” and the transformation of the Parthian Empire

A. Collar (Exeter/Ankara), Understanding Fracture in the Roman Empire through Cult: Jupiter Dolichenus and the Power – and Fragility– of Military Networks

K. Petrovicová/J. Bednarikova (Brno), Martianus Capella’s questionable relation to the Vandals

G. Kelly (Edinburgh), tba

H. Ziche (Antilles and Guyane), Decoupling Economic and Institutional Development in the Fifth-century Roman Empire

F. Haarer (KCL), Cities in Transition: Change and Continuity in the Late Roman World

M. S. Bjornlie (Claremont McKenna), Assessing Decline and Fall in Ostrogothic Italy: The Fiscal Profile from Cassiodorus’ Variae

P. Wynn, Where are the Barbarians? Reframing the ‘Enemy’ after the Empire’s Fall in the Vita Germani

A. Roberts (KCL), George Grote, the Destruction of Ancient Empires, and British imperialism

R. Bryant Davies (Cambridge), Marius amidst the Ruins of Carthage: a Nineteenth-Century Understanding of Empire

D. Engels (Brussels), “Ist nicht mit Actium und der pax Romana die antike Geschichte zu Ende?” Oswald Spengler on the Transformation and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece:
Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Altertums
Interdisciplinary and international conference,
Johannes Gutenberg University, 27-29 July 2009

The historiography of the sciences in antiquity (including Egyptian
and Mesopotamian cultures) has changed fundamentally during the past
40 years. Changing methodologies and aims have led to a focus on
recognition and reconstruction of ancient scientific concepts, which
can differ significantly from “similar” modern concepts. As a way of
bringing these changes to light in a useful way, the conference will
focus on the problem of translations.

Translations are directly affected by respective cultural beliefs of
the translator. How then can ancient concepts that differ from our
modern ones be expressed in modern languages? And how can these
differences be understood by a modern reader?

Currently, some translations which are likely to mislead a historian
of science, a scientist or a mathematician may still be accepted as
correct by the philologists of the individual cultures.

The conference aims to explore problems involved in translating
ancient scientific texts and to create a methodological framework to
improve the quality of future translations. To achieve this goal, we
aim to bring together leading representatives and junior researchers
with a philological background or a background in history of science
(Egyptology, Assyriology, Classics, editors of ancient scientific
texts and scholars using them).

After an attempt to determine characteristic features of individual
sciences in antiquity, and how they can be distinguished from
non-scientific texts, specific examples will be used to enable
interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion.

The preliminary programme can be found at
http://www.aegyptologie-altorientalistik.uni-mainz.de/443.php

We invite interested participants to join the conference and
contribute to the discussions.
Please register by 31 May 2009 at wissenschaftssprache@mathematik.uni-mainz.de.
The conference fee of 15 € to compensate for expenses is to be paid in
advance (registration).

Organized by:
Prof. Dr. Annette Imhausen (am Historischen Seminar der Universität Frankfurt)
Dr. Tanja Pommerening (am Institut für Ägyptologie und
Altorientalistik der Universität Mainz)
Conference webpages:
http://www.aegyptologie-altorientalistik.uni-mainz.de/460.php

Funded by the Thyssen Foundation and the ZIS (Center for Intercultural
Studies) of Mainz university.