Conferences
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OIKOS – FAMILIA: THE FAMILY IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD. Framing the discipline in the 21st century 5-7 November 2009 University of Gothenburg & University of Birmingham The fifth ARACHNE conference is organised collaboratively by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. The conference will take place at the University…
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The Classics department at Leeds is pleased to announce the Leeds International Classical Seminar for 2009. The theme for the conference this year is ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’, and our programme of papers will explore the negotiation, display and maintenance of public images both of and within the city of Rome. The conference will…
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After Demosthenes: Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Oratory 2nd – 3rd July 2009, London. Organisers: Christos Kremmydas (Royal Holloway) and Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton). The conference will take the form of an international, inter-disciplinary forum that proposes to bring together scholars with different specializations in order to stimulate discussion on the development of oratory in the…
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LUCRETIUS: POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE An international conference at the University of Manchester (6-7 July 2009) The De rerum natura is at once one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity’s fear of death and its enslavement by empty religio, and a detailed exposition of…
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IRONY AND THE IRONIC IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE A conference at the University of Exeter, 1st-4th September 2009 Call for Papers What precisely do we mean when we talk about ‘irony’? The term ‘irony’ is often bandied about – as a glance at the Index of any commentary or literary-critical monograph will attest. Both ‘irony’ and…
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