PCA Institute, Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, 2009.

Friday, March 27:
3:00-5:00 p.m. Reading the Latin Hexameter Workshop, Stephen Daitz
6:30-7:00              Welcoming reception
7:00-8:00              Buffet Dinner. Report from the Governor’s Institute for World Language Teacher, Mary Redline and Eleanor Brinker

Saturday, March 28:
8:00-10:00 a.m.  Mythology and Multiple Intelligence, Carrie Kennedy; Podcasting and the Latin Classroom, Chris Francese
10:30-12:00 Latin is a Dead Language — So Why Speak It? Some Historical and Practical Considerations, Terence Tunberg; Workshop on Active Latin in the Classroom: Strategies for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Students,Terence Tunberg
12:30-1:30           Buffet Luncheon

Questions? Contact Mark Clauser at clauserm AT eastonteachers.org

Download registration forms and further information at http://alpha.dickinson.edu/prorg/pca/Meetings.htm

CAM Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 4, 2009

CAM is pleased to offer its annual spring meeting, entitled “Nunc Te,
Bacche, Canam”, at Westport Rivers Vineyards in Westport, MA. The tentative
schedule is as follows:

9:30 ­ 10:00 Arrival and Continental Breakfast

10:00 Tour of the Vineyards led by Westport Rivers Staff

10:45 Wine Tasting (Not Falernian or Livia¹s favorite from Pucinum, but an
opportunity to taste what Massachusetts produces!)

11:15 Docens Cibum, Cenam, et Dapem: Food in the Latin Classroom

This open discussion will include topics of classroom lessons, projects,
sources, Latin Banquets and classroom logistics. Please bring with you
either a banquet-related lesson, recipe from the ancient world or hints and
ideas about how you present culinary topics in your classroom.

12:15 Lunch and Business Meeting: Katy Ganino Reddick, CAM President

Questions? Contact Katy Ganino Reddick at atyganino AT yahoo.com

Download the registration form and find more information at
www.massclass.org

TELEOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
The Dispensation of Nature

Venue: The University of Exeter, 8-11 July, 2009
Organisers: Dr. Julius Rocca and Prof. Christopher Gill

An international conference which will discuss the ways teleological arguments were used in medicine and philosophy in antiquity, and how these arguments have continued to inform and influence current debate on evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. As well as examining philosophical contributions to the subject, especially Platonic and Aristotelian, a special aim of the conference is to show how ancient medical thinking on this topic relates to ancient philosophical ideas. Examining teleological methodologies in ancient medical thought from Hippocrates to Galen will offer a critical evaluation on the place of teleology within medical science, its cultural contexts, its account of human development, and teleological responses to competing explanatory theories of human structure and function.

Keynote speaker, Professor David Sedley, University of Cambridge: “Socrates’ place in the history of teleology.”

Other speakers: Elizabeth Craik, University of St. Andrews; John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin; Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge; R. J. Hankinson, The University of Texas at Austin; M.R. Johnson, University of California, San Diego; Mariska Leunissen, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Exeter: Jan Opsomer, University of Cologne; Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University; Samuel Scolnicov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; R.W. Sharples, University College London; Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia; Philip van der Eijk, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Accommodation in en-suite rooms in the University’s newest hall of residence overlooking the Exe valley and near the main conference venue: accommodation and all meals during conference: £240; conference fee £30 (£15 for students); daily rates also available.
Bookings, with accommodation: by April 5 2009
Without accommodation: by June 14 2009.
For booking form, contact Prof. C. J. Gill
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter,
Amory Building, Rennes Drive,
Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
C.J.Gill AT exeter.ac.uk

With financial support from the British Academy, the Classical Association, the Hellenic Society, the Leverhulme Trust, the Wellcome Trust, and the University of Exeter.

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the annual Ranieri
Colloquium on Ancient Studies, WRITING SCIENCE: MATHEMATICAL AND
MEDICAL AUTHORSHIP IN ANCIENT GREECE, Thursday, April 23rd and Friday,
April 24th.

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. There will be a
wine reception after Thursday?s evening session.

For more information about the event, please see details below, visit
http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/page/events#WS, or contact the College
Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100; kenkidd AT nyu.edu

*****Thursday, April 23, 2009
5:30 P.M. Welcome
MATTHEW S. SANTIROCCO, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science,
and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University

5:45 P.M. Keynote Talk: Authorship in Science, Ancient and Modern
REVIEL NETZ, Classics, Stanford University
MARIO BIAGIOLI, History of Science, Harvard University

7:00 P.M. RECEPTION

*****Friday, April 24, 2009
9:00 A.M. GREEK MEDICINE
Writing the Animal
HEINRICH VON STADEN, School of Historical Studies, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton

Ways of Organizing (Medical) Knowledge and Questions of Authorship in
Late Antiquity: Synopsis, Synagoge, Paraphrase, Epitome
PHILIP J. VAN DER EIJK, Classics, Newcastle University

Chair: DAVID SIDER, Classics, New York University

11:00 A.M. GREEK MATHEMATICS
Hellenistic Introductions to the Science of the Heavens: Three
Definitions of Astronomy in the First Century BC
ALAN C. BOWEN, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and
Science, Princeton

Who Were the Authors of the Athenian Accounts? Between Authorship and
Anonymity
SERAFINA CUOMO, History, Birkbeck College, London University

Chair: ALEXANDER JONES, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
New York University

12:30 P.M. Lunch Break

2:00 P.M. SCIENCE WRITING AND/AS LITERATURE
In Strange Lands: Situating Knowledge in Odyssey 10 and Airs, Waters,
Places
BROOKE HOLMES, Classics, Princeton University

The Name and Nature of Science
PAUL KEYSER, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Chair: MARKUS ASPER, Classics, New York University

Wealth in the Ancient World

Gregynog Classics Colloquium
Gregynog Hall, Gregynog
21-22 May 2009

with the support of UWICAH
and the Research Institute of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter

Organisers: Errietta Bissa (Lampeter) and Federico Santangelo (Lampeter).

Thursday 21 May 2009

1.30-2.30 Registration
2.30-2.35 Welcome

2.35-3.00 J. Davies (Liverpool), Wealth and the Power of Wealth in Classical Athens Revisited

3.00-3.25 S. Lambert (Cardiff), Wealth and the Attic Gene

3.25-3.40 Discussion

3.40-3.55 Coffee Break

3.55-4.20 C. Taylor (Dublin), Wealth in Fourth Century Athens

4.20-4.45 B. Keim (Cambridge), Non-Material but not Immaterial: Demosthenes’ Reassessment of the Wealth of Athens

4.45-5.00 Discussion

5.00-5.20 Coffee Break

5.20-5.45 I. Petrovic (Durham), Wealth and the Greek Gods

5.45-6.10 M. Plantinga (Lampeter), Wealth in Roman elegy

6.10-6.25 Discussion

7.00-8.00 Dinner

Friday 22 May 2009

9.15-9.40 M. Cobb (Swansea), Eastern ‘Luxuries’ and Roman Society

9.40-10.05 C. Greenacre (London), Rome in the Provinces: Private Citizens and Imperial Expansion

10.05-10.20 Discussion

10.20-10.35 Coffee Break

10.35-11.00 R. Evans (Cardiff), Tacitus Annals 1.15 and Wealth Regained

11.00-11.25 K. Verboven (Ghent), Ad exemplum rei publicae: the wealth of Roman collegia

11.25-11.40 Discussion

11.40-11.55 Coffee Break

11.55-12.20 J. Paterson (Newcastle), The eye of the needle: the morality of wealth in the ancient world

12.20-12.45 M. Humphries (Swansea), Elites, status and wealth in late antiquity

12.45-13.00 Discussion
1.15-2.15 Lunch

For further information see the webpage http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/conferences/wealth_ancient_world.html

Those who wish to attend should contact email Errietta Bissa (e.bissa AT lamp.ac.uk) or Federico Santangelo (f.santangelo AT lamp.ac.uk). There will be a fee of £ 72.50 covering accommodation, dinner, breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks; students of Welsh institutions are entitled to a subsidised rate of £ 32.50.