CRSN Newsletter Highlights Classics Events

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Welcome to the 27th issue of the CRSN Newsletter
(March 2014)
1. Welcome
We would also like to extend a warm welcome to the networks three new
institutional partners:
Dr Christian Dahl at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies,
University of Copenhagen
Dr Wilson Shearin at the Department of Classics
University of Miami
Dr Demetrios Yatromanolakes at the Department of Classics, the Department of
Anthropology and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University
We would also like to extend a warm welcome to the networks five new
individual members:
Arabella Currie, DPhil student at the Classics Faculty,
University of Oxford
Dr Liana Giannakopoulou at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages,
University of Cambridge
Laura McKenzie, PG student at the Department of English Studies,
Durham University
Dr Valentina Prosperi at the Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze delluomo e della
formazione, Universit di Sassari
Enrique Riobo, PG student at the Centro de estudios culturales latinoamericanos,
Universidad de Chile
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2. News
Aquila Theatre Presents
A Female Philoctetes:
An Exploration of Sophocles Philoctetes
April 16th 19th at 7pm
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Translated by Peter Meineck
Directed by Desiree Sanchez (Artistic Director, Aquila)
Music by Ralph Ferris (Artistic Director of ETHEL)
Part of the Aquila Theatre/National Endowment for the Humanities You|Stories
program. Join us for Post-Performance Discussions with Scholars and Combat
Veterans: http://www.bam.org/theater/2014/a-female-philoctetes
Tickets http://commerce.bam.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=8669
or Call 718.636.4100
$30 General Admission $15 Groups
Book by March 30th to Receive Discount. Use Code: 27122
As part of Aquila Theatres National Endowment for the Humanities multi-year
Award for You|Stories, Aquila will explore Sophocles ancient play Philoctetes and
reimagine it with the title role played as a female combat soldier. Aquila Theatre is a
veteran of Greek Classical Theatre and will boldly take on this newest endeavor. Join
us as we present, A Female Philoctetes, a staged reading, translated by Peter Meineck
and directed and adapted by Desiree Sanchez. Post show talk backs to follow each
performance.
This event is part of You|Stories - Aquila's innovative public program funded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which uses ancient drama to inspire
modern stories. An interactive You|Stories app and web platform will allow the
veteran community and the public to explore these ancient stories and be inspired to
tell their own. These new narratives will be archived at the Library of Congress.
Classics Confidential Interview
Classical Reception, Past, Present and Future, with Lorna Hardwick
http://classicsconfidential.co.uk/2014/03/10/lornahardwick/
In this interview Lorna talks about the explosion of interest in the performance,
adaptation and poetic responses to classical material in the last part of the 20th
century. The reasons for this and its effects both on the creative arts and on how
classics might be perceived in the future will be the concern of future cultural
historians.
Sir John Beazleys notebooks go online
More than 150 notebooks on Greek vases belonging to Sir John Beazley (1885-1970)
have now been digitized and are freely available online at:
http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/tools/beazley
The notebooks form part of the Beazley Archive, which is held at the Classical Art
Research Centre (CARC) in Oxford. Comprising mainly pencil sketches and
annotations, the manuscripts record Beazley's impressions of vase-paintings as he
travelled around the world's collections of Attic pottery. They were mainly written in
the early part of his career, between around 1907 and 1930. Beazley's little known
notes and drawings offer the best evidence of his method of 'Morellian' analysis as he
worked to attribute vase-paintings to the hands of individual artists. They give an
extraordinary insight into his connoisseurship and record his impressions of pots
which are widely dispersed and in some cases can no longer be located. Work will
continue to study the notes and integrate some of them into the main Beazley
Archive Pottery Database (BAPD). Also included in the project is a notebook of
Nicolas Plaoutine, documenting nineteenth-century sales of vases.
CARC welcomes feedback and insights into the digitized notebooks from users
(contact: carc@classics.ox.ac.uk). The notebooks themselves, together with several
hundreds of thousands of other manuscripts and photographs from the Beazley
Archive, can be consulted at the Centre's study-room in Oxford.
Announcing a NewInterdisciplinary
Publishing Initiative in Antiquity
Palgrave Macmillan
Distributor of I.B.Tauris, Manchester University Press, Pluto Press, and Zed Books
(888) 330-8477 Fax: (800) 672-2054 www.palgrave.com
Society, Culture, and Text in Late Antiquity, edited by Danuta Shanzer
Late Antiquity is a marcher lordship, patrolling the territory between classical
antiquity and the Middle Ages while retaining important links with both. This
groundbreaking, new interdisciplinary series will cover the six hundred years of the
inclusive so-called long Late Antiquity, running from the 2nd Century CE down to
the 7th Century CE, with a broadly defined geographical coverage including eastern
and western Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, and
western Asia. Learned, original, lively, passionate, fresh-voiced, incisive (and, ideally
inter- or multi-disciplinary) monographs, edited collections, synthetic
or synoptic works in history, literature, religion, and all other relevant fi elds are
welcomed for consideration.
DANUTA SHANZER is University Professor of Late Antique and Medieval Latin at
the University of Vienna, Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and
corresponding Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has taught at the
University of Manchester, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, Cornell,
and Illinois. Honors include fellowships from the Marshall Aid Commemoration
Commission, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, and the A.C.L.S. She is the
author of two books (one co-authored), three co-edited volumes, and numerous
articles.
The NewAntiquity, edited by MatthewS. Santirocco
Over the past two decades, our understanding of the ancient world has been
dramatically transformed as classicists and other scholars of antiquity have moved
beyond traditional geographical, chronological, and methodological boundaries
to focus on new topics and different questions. By providing a major venue for
further cutting-edge scholarship, The New Antiquity will reflect, shape, and
participate in this transformation. The series will focus on the literature, history,
thought, and material culture of not only the ancient cultures of Europe, but also
Egypt and the Middle East, both before and after Hellenization. With an emphasis
also on the reception of the ancient world into later periods, The New Antiquity will
reveal how present concerns can be brilliantly illuminated by this new understanding
of the past.
MATTHEW S. SANTIROCCO is Senior Vice Provost at New York University, where is
also Professor of Classics and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies. He has
taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, Emory, and Pittsburgh.
A former editor of the APA Monograph series, American Classical Studies, he
currently edits the journal Classical World. His publications include a book on
Horace, as well as several edited volumes and many articles. In 2009, he was elected
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is currently Assistant
Secretary of the Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences.
We welcome inquires and proposals from prospective authors.
For new proposals contact:
Professor Danuta Shanzer, danuta.shanzer@univie.ac.at
Brigitte Shull, Senior Editor, Brigitte.shull@palgrave-usa.com
Professor Matthew S. Santirocco, mss1@nyu.edu
Chris Chappell, Senior Editor, chris.chappell@palgrave-usa.com
Crowdfunded free HE
The IF project, a recently-launched humanities initiative (with a significant classics
component), may be of interest. The aim of IF is to offer, free of charge, a general
humanities education to a small cohort of young non-graduates otherwise priced out
of higher education. The curriculum is built from freely-available online resources
and museums, with a weekly seminar and discussion led by an academic. They are
currently crowd-funding in order to raise funds for their first course.
For more info on the programme and the crowd-funding campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1271205777/if-this-university-is-free
3. Forthcoming Events in 2014
Classics and Classicists in the First World War
8-10 April 2014
University of Leeds
Venue: The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library.
Conference Programme
Tuesday April 8th
1.00-2.00pmRegistration, Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of
Leeds.
1pmonwards Conference exhibition open
The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University of
Leeds.
2.00-2.10pmWelcome
2.10-3.10pmKeynote: Christopher Stray (Swansea/London)
Classical Scholars at War: Europe and America, 1800-1930.
3.10-4.10pmNeville Morley (Bristol)
Thucydides and the Legitimization of War.
4.10-4.30pmTea
4.30pm-5.30pmLynn Kozak and Miranda Hickman (McGill University in
Montral)
Poppies and Wild-Hyacinth: H.D.s Hellenic Responses to the First World
War.
5.30pm-6.30pmKeynote: David Scourfield (National University of Ireland,
Maynooth)
Classical In/stabilities: Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and the Great War.
Evening Conference Dinner, University House
Wednesday April 9th
9.00am-10.00amAlison Rosenblitt (Oxford)
cast like Euridyce one brief look behind: the classical underworld in E.E.
Cummings and the idea of moving on.
10.00am-10.30amCoffee
10.30-11.30amIngrid Sharp (Leeds)
Pacifism in Werfels Trojan Women, Berlin 1916.
11.30am-12.30pmMaarten De Pourcq (Nijmegen)
Tragedy in the Trenches: Classics and Cultural Politics in Flemish Theatre
during WWI and its Aftermath.
12.30pm-1.45pmLunch
2.00-3.00pmMarian Makins (Pennsylvania)
Classical Landscapes and Storied Locations in the Battlefields of WWI.
3.00-4.00pmLorna Hardwick (Open University)
Legacies and refractions (David Reynolds, The Long Shadow, 2013): how ancient
texts and their receptions both contribute to and challenge modern constructs of
WW1.
4.00pm-4.30pmTea
4.30pm-5.30pmKeynote: Angela Hobbs (Sheffield)
Who Lied? Classical Heroism and WW1.
5.30pmonwards Performance Events inspired by Euripides Trojan Women
Produced by Eleanor OKell (Leeds) and directed by George Rodosthenous (Leeds).
Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.
Thursday April 10th
10.00am-11.00amMoa Ekbom (Uppsala)
Hic primum Fortuna fidem mutate novavit: the Sortes Vergilianae in World
War I.
Respondents to Postgraduate papers: Lorna Hardwick (Open University) &
Christopher Stray (Swansea/London)
11.00am-12.00pmJasmine Hunter-Evans (Exeter)
Re-imagining Rome at the Fall of Western Civilization: David Jones and the
Analogy of Decline.
12.00pm-1.00pmLunch
1.30pm-3.30pmLeeds Postgraduate Papers and Panel Discussion: Classical
Scholarship in WWI.
Andrea Basso; Anthi Chrysanthou; Henry Clarke; Natalie Enright; Ben Greet;
Philippa Read
Conference organized by Elizabeth Pender (Leeds) and Edmund Richardson
(Durham).
For further information:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125147/research/2197/legacies_of_war
To book, please use the Online Store:
http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=104
Polits and Civis: Concepts, problems and debate on Citizenship in the
Ancient World and in Modern Political Thought
Urbino, 10-11 aprile 2014
Aula Sospesa, Universit degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Giovedi 10 Aprile
9.00 Introduzione ai lavori (Lucia Cecchet, Anna Busetto)
9.15 Prof. Maurizio Giangiulio (Universit di Trento): Alle origini della cittadinanza
in Grecia. Problemi metodologici e storici
I Sessione (10.15-13.15) Vivere da cittadini: implicazioni sociali, politiche e
militari dell appartenenza al corpo civico
10.15-10.45 Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen): Rhamnousian bodies:
demesmen, soldiers and the struggle for prominence in late-third-century
Rhamnous
10.45-11.15 Pter Kat (Ruprecht-Karls Universitt Heidelberg): Citizens, non-
citizens and foreigners in Hellenistic Cos: a case apart?
11.15-11.45 Elizabeth Pearson (University of Manchester): The Census, military
service and citizenship in the Republican era
11.45-12.15 Andreea Stefan (University of Bucharest): Between identity and
representation of socio-political status: the case of multiple citizenship holders in
the Roman Empire
12.15-13.15 Discussione
II Sessione (15.30-18.30): Questioni giuridiche e politiche relative alla
cittadinanza
15.30-16.00 Jakub Filonik (University of Warsaw): Was living as you please and
saying whatever you wish a part of democratic ideology in classical Athens?
16.00-16.30 Luca Asmonti (University of Queensland- Australia):
Cittadinanza e fragilit delle democrazie: spunti e riflessioni dallantica Atene
16.30-17.00 Chiara Lasagni (Universit di Torino): La politeia negli stati federali
greci
17.00-17.30 Sandra Gambetti (City University of New York ): Jews and legal status
in the Greco-Roman World: some considerations beyond the usual discourse
Venerdi 11 aprile
9.00 Prof. Valerio Marotta (Universit di Pavia): Egizi e civitas Romana tra I e III
secolo d.C.
III Sessione (10-13.00): Diventare cittadini
10.00-10.30 Jessica Piccinini (Universitt Wien): Becoming Epirote: the case of
Gaius Pulfennius, son of Dazos, from Brindisium to Dodona
10.30-11.00 Riccardo Dallaj (Universit di Bologna): Concessioni di cittadinanza in
epoca ellenistica: alcuni esempi da comunit della Ionia
11.00-11.30 Donato Fasolini (Universidad de Alcal de Henares): Questioni note,
meno note o poco trattate dellascrizione tribale in et imperiale
11.30-12.00 Arnaud Besson (Universit de Neuchtel): The Antonine Constitution:
privileges and identity impact
IV Sessione (15.00-18.00): Riflessione filosofica e politica sulla cittadinanza
15.00-15.30 Annalisa Quattrocchio (Universit di Torino): Essere cittadini
ad Atene: alcune riflessioni politiche di Teofrasto di Ereso
15.30-16.00 Federica Pezzoli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Il
cittadino nella Politica di Aristotele fra tradizione e innovazione
16.00-16.30 Valerio Rocco Lozano (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid):
Latomismo logico del cittadino romano nella Fenomenologia dello Spirito di
Hegel
16.30-17.00 Fernando Peir Muoz (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid): The
French Revolution and the concept of Roman citizenship: historical basis or
ideological construction?
18.30-19.30 Discussione finale e conclusioni
Wandering Myths Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World
14th-16th April
Somerville College, Oxford
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/Wandering-Myths.html
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the mechanisms by which myth was
transmitted between ancient cultures and to examine how mythological narratives
became adopted and adapted within different cultural spheres.
Continuing shifts in rule in Anatolia and the Near East, from the Persian Empire to
the Hellenistic Kingdoms and the Roman Empire, entailed enormously rich and
varied mythical landscapes in these areas. The Trojan War epic both formed a
response and became a catalyst for cross-cultural reciprocity. As part of on-going
processes narratives were re-configured in ways that had both local and universal
resonances. The on-going imperatives of reception and innovation are equally
apparent in the uses of myth attested in Italy, here tangible in mythological
programmes found in Etruscan tombs and the temples of Magna Graecia as well as
Roman historiography. The conference investigates both wider geographic
circulations of mythical themes and local transformations of myth within individual
regions.
The conference panels are organised according to important geographical and
cultural regions, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East, and Italy.
In addition, thematic approaches focusing upon figures such as Dionysus and
Heracles are included to further a synthesis of the different areas. All panels will be
interlinked by general questions towards an understanding of the mechanisms that
guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation.
Detailed Conference Programme:
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/Wandering-Myths-Programme.html
To register: Registration is free for all members of Oxford University. The
conference fee is 50 for those outside the university (not including lunch or dinner).
Please register online and select the relevant option:
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid
=1&deptid=202&catid=2055&prodvarid=718
The deadline for registration is the 7th of April, but early registration is
recommended as places are somewhat limited.
Location: The Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford ,
OX2 6HD United Kingdom.
Organisers: L. Audley-Miller (University of Oxford), B. Dignas (University of
Oxford)
List of Participants:
B. Borg (University of Exeter), S. Dalley (University of Oxford), F. De Angelis
(Columbia, N. De Grummond (Florida State University) , C. Draycott (British
Institute at Ankara and University of Liverpool) , K. Dunbabin (McMaster, Ontario) ,
B. Ewald (University of Toronto), L. Giuliani (Humboldt University, Berlin), R.
Lane-Fox (University of Oxford), L. Morgan (University of Oxford), D. Obbink
(University of Oxford ), I. Rutherford (University of Reading), R. Parker (University
of Oxford), L. Pitcher (University of Oxford), C. Potts (University of Oxford), N.
Purcell (University of Oxford), T. Scheer (University of Goettingen), R.R.R. Smith
(University of Oxford), O. Taplin (University of Oxford), S. Walker (Keeper of
Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum), N. West (University of Oxford), M. West
(University of Oxford), R. Wood (University of Oxford).
Other Wandering Myths activities:
TORCH funded interdisciplinary workshops leading up to the conference:
http://torch.ox.ac.uk/wanderingmyths
A gallery trail has been designed in collaboration with Dr Susan Walker, Keeper of
Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, and Mr Nicholas West, Wolfson College. This
trail follows Hercules from Gandhara to Britain with activities for children and
adults. We would encourage all to give it a try!
The Wandering Myths project is funded and supported by: The Classical
Association, The Classics Conclave, The Craven Fund, The Hellenic Society, The John
Fell OUP Research Fund, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Somerville
College.
What is democracy? What is it good for? A workshop
9 30 - 5 30, Friday April 25
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
'What is democracy? What is it good for?', a paper by Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Josiah Ober (Stanford).
With responses by Ben Gray (Edinburgh), Mirko Canevaro
(Edinburgh), David Carter (Reading) and Nicholas Cole (Oxford)
Followed by a round table discussion with Political Scientists
Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews), Tony Lang (St Andrews) and
Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh)
All welcome. There is no charge for attendance, but please email
classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk by April 11 if you are considering
attending. Please also mention any special dietary requirements.
For other enquiries please contact Myles Lavan (mpl2@st-andrews.ac.uk).
TriviumSeminar Series 9
29 April 2014
The Violence of Performance
Roger Kneebone (Imperial College) & Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open
University)
Abstract: This seminar explores the relationship between violence and
performance, using surgery and Greek tragedy as metaphorical lenses. Roger
Kneebone draws on his innovative public simulations of surgical operations for knife
injury to pose questions about the meaning of performance. At these events,
audiences are invited to observe and even participate in a highly charged world - the
emergency operating theatre - which is usually hidden from view but which shares
many characteristics with classical tragedy. This framing of theatre contrasts with
Anastasia Bakogiannis investigation of the performance of violence in modern
theatrical and cinematic receptions of Greek tragedy. In ancient Greek theatre
violence was usually reported, rather than actually performed on stage. This ancient
theatrical convention is now largely ignored and the performance of violence on
stage has become the new norm. This paper seeks to explore the reasons behind
practitioners decision to reveal what was hidden and the impact on modern
audiences of witnessing the unseen.
Time: 4:30
Location: Room 246, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Course: La Cultura Clsica A Travs Del Cine
29 April- 5 June 2014
ORGANIZACIN: Grupo de Investigacin HUM-870 (Universidad de Granada),
CRSN (Classical Reception Studies Network) y Centro de Profesorado de Linares.
Organisation: Alejandro Valverde Garca.
Location: CEP de Linares. Paseo de Andaluces, 58. 23700 Linares (Jan, Spain).
PONENCIAS:
1. Potencial didctico del cine en las aulas: el lenguaje cinematogrfico. Ponentes por
confirmar. Martes 29 de abril.
2. Primeras fbulas mitolgicas y cine mudo pico italiano. Miguel Dvila Vargas-
Machuca (UNIA Baeza). Mircoles 7 de mayo.
3. El Mundo Clsico en el cine de postguerra: epic y pplum. scar Lapea Marchena
(Universidad de Cdiz). Mircoles 14 de mayo.
4. Adaptaciones de tragedias griegas filmadas en Grecia. Alejandro Valverde Garca
(IES Santsima Trinidad de Baeza). Mircoles 21 de mayo.
5. Cine de autor italiano de los aos 60 y 70. Francisco Salvador Ventura (Universidad
de Granada). Mircoles 28 de mayo.
6. La ltima pica digital grecorromana. Alejandro Fornell Muoz (Universidad de
Jan). Mircoles 4 de junio.
Oscar Wilde and the Classics:
A Colloquiumto mark the 160th anniversary of Wilde's birth
11 July 2014
Speakers: Alastair Blanshard (Queensland)
Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham)
Iain Ross (Freelance scholar)
Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths, London)
Kathleen Riley (Freelance scholar)
Iarla Manny (Open/Oxford)
Shushma Malik (Manchester)
Serena Witzke (North Carolina)
David Rose (Paris)
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford
For more information please visit:
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2013/12/oscar-wilde-and-the-classics-
colloquium
15 conference fee (includes lunch and reception).
To register, please email: iarla.manny@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk.
Satire Ancient and Modern colloquium
Friday 10, October 2014
Warburg Institute, in collaboration with UCL
All papers will examine the relationship between ancient and modern satire. The
speakers will be Paul Davis (UCL), Tom Geue (Oxford), Emily Gowers (Cambridge),
Sari Kivist (Helsinki), Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford), and Victoria Rimell (La Sapienza,
Rome).
A detailed programme will be published in June.
Please direct any queries to Fiachra Mac Grin (f.macgorain@ucl.ac.uk).
4. Calls for Papers
13
th
Annual Postgraduate Symposiumon Ancient Drama
June 2014
Deadline 31st March
Theme: Spaces & Places in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama.
We are delighted to announce the Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the
Performance of Greek and Roman Drama, organised by the APGRD, University of
Oxford, and the University of London. This two-day event will take place on Monday
30th June at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (University of London)
and Tuesday 1st July at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
(Oxford University).
About the symposium: This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek
and Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic
texts through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and
periods. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception of
Greek and Roman drama. This years guest respondents will be: Prof. David Wiles
(Exeter) and Dr. Eleftheria Ioannidou (Birmingham). Among those present at this
years symposium will be: Dr. Fiona Macintosh, Prof. Oliver Taplin and Dr. Zachary
Dunbar.
Participants: Postgraduates from around the world working on the reception of
Greek and Roman drama in theory and practice are welcome to participate, as are
those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is
open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of
Classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies.
Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on
ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very
welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performative presentation on
Spaces and places in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama are
invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of
their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Monday 31st March at the
latest (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and
academic institution).
There will be no registration fee. It is hoped that a limited number of bursaries will
be available. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
Contact: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Personal Influence on the Rulers of Imperial Rome
and the Early Middle Ages
9-10 October 2014
Location: to be announced
Deadline: 31 March 2014
Organizer: Dr. Fabian Schulz, Universitt Tbingen/Heidelberger Akademie der
Wissenschaften
Since rulers of the Imperial Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages occupied the
highest (secular) position, individuals who exerted influence on them enjoyed a great
extent of power. As a consequence, there was bitter rivalry between the various
agents, which is reflected in discourses on legitimate and illegitimate influence. The
protagonists who exerted influence on rulers, i.e. who could influence or even initiate
decisions, have not been investigated thoroughly yet, as they formed a heterogeneous
group of people that can neither be understood entirely in terms of institutions nor
grasped by their proximity to the emperor. Furthermore, certain agents of influence
were stereotyped so heavily, that searching the written sources for historical reality
may appear pointless or impossible. Finally, neither in Classics nor in Medieval
History there is a tradition of studying interpersonal influence. By employing
approaches of the social sciences, this conference aims to better recognize and
describe the resources and strategies of influencing agents as well as the modes and
conditions of influence attempts. At the same time, the influence that agents claimed,
condemned, and exerted, shall be scrutinized with the instruments of source
criticism and discourse analysis. The proposed period of investigation is to allow
approaching the subject either in the longue duree or in terms of disruptions. The
goal of the conference is to establish interpersonal influence as a subject of historical
research. Furthermore the study of influence on rulers is to make a contribution
towards political history as well as the history of mentalities and discourse.
Contributions should focus on the following and related topics:
- Ancient and modern theories of influence
- Prosopography of influencing agents
- Typology of influence attempts
- Influence and discourse
Proposals and abstracts should be sent by 31 March to
Fabian.Schulz@adw.uni-heidelberg.de
The Land of Fertility: South-east of the Mediterranean from
the beginning of the Bronze Age to the MuslimConquest
6
th
- 8
th
June 2014
Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakw
Deadline: 31
st
March 2014
The international conference welcomes all Post-graduated researchers in the subject-
area of Archaeology, History, Art History, Culture & Religion Studies who are
interested in issues related to ancient Egypt (especially Delta region), Cyprus,
Levant, Mesopotamia and Persia.
The main theme of the conference The Land of Fertility: South-east Mediterranean
since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest has been set to focus on the area of the
so called Fertile Crescent. In this region the modern world started its development
in the very beginning of human civilisation. Peoples living in that area were among
the first in the world domesticate plants and animals and many of the ideas and
objects tha are in common use today have their origin in that region. What did the
situation in the region look like when the Stone Age had ended? Is it possible to still
regard the 'Fertile Crescent' as a single (and very unique) region or did it break into
smaller 'pieces'? Potential themes include (but are not limited to) the problems of
daily life, relations between peoples, politics, economy, demography, religion and
culture.
The presentations will be grouped into several sections according to their focus and
should not exceed 20 minutes. The number of active participants is also limited.
The conference committee reserves the right to select the contributions to be
published in the Conference Proceedings.
Timeline
Registrations for the conference: by 31
st
March 2014
Notification of acceptance: by 30
th
April 2014
Submission of the presentation file (supported by MS Office 2010) for the conference
proceedings (required for the participation in the conference): 1
st
June 2014
Conference 6
th
- 8
th
June 2014
Registration
Active applicants will submit the completed registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bf8SPH2mZBvow8gFbT13i11md_uWpBGanZxB
yKzOpXs/viewform
Language of the conference: English
Other:
The organizers are not able to pay travel or accommodation expenses of the active
participants. Nevertheless, we will be happy to provide assistance with
accommodation, especially for the foreign participants.
Venue:
Krakw, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University,
11 Goba str., 31-007 Krakw, Poland
Contact: crescent@uj.edu.pl
Organisers:
ukasz Miszk, PhD student, Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of
Archaeology, Jagiellonian University
Maciej Wacawik, PhD student
Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Text and Material Culture
12th-14th September 2014
DurhamUniversity
Deadline: 31 March 2014
A conference funded by the European Research Council, and contributing to:
Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry http://livingpoets.dur.ac.uk
Organisers: Nora Goldschmidt, Barbara Graziosi, and Erika Taretto
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to
erika.taretto@durham.ac.uk on or before 31/3/2014.
The conference investigates the tomb as a site of engagement with ancient poetry.
The overall aim is to contribute to the growing scholarship on representations of
poets as evidence for the reception of their works, making the case for place and
materiality in the history of literature.
Scholars have begun to investigate ancient representations of the poets and their
biographies in particular as creative modes of engagement with their works. No
longer simply attempting to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of biographical fact,
recent studies treat the Lives as a mode of reception. This conference seeks to
demonstrate that the encounter between poems and their audiences is manifested
not only in texts but also in material culture.
Tombs are sites (in Pierre Noras sense of lieux) wherein a number of responses to
literature are crystallized, and which in turn shape later receptions. From the
psychogeography of ancient communities to the role of dead poets and their images
in the machinations of political culture, from the physical cultivation of tombs
mirroring the dynamics of poetic succession to the imaginary inscriptions of funerary
epigram, the tomb is a complex site of engagement a reading in the broadest
sense of the word where cultural history and political authority merge with literary
history.
Papers might, but need not, address the following themes:
Landscape. What role does space play in the poets material reception?
Ancient communities often mapped out a sacred geography populated by the
traces which poets left in the landscape (Hunter and Rutherford 2009: 5). Is
the landscape as depicted in the texts translated into the poets imagined
resting places?
Material Texts, Textual Materials. What is the role played by the funerary
inscription? Many poets are said to have composed their own epitaphs; others
have had epitaphs composed for them. How do these texts relate to the poets
resting place? Can the tomb be an imagined textual space as well as a material
site?
Archaeological Receptions. One of the ways in which later audiences
discovered or appropriated ancient poets was through (real or imaginary)
archaeological finds. How do biographical traditions intersect with
archaeological quests, discoveries, and interpretations through the centuries?
Cults of the Poets. How does hero-cult influence the experience of the tomb of
the poet in antiquity? How do ancient traditions evolve in the Christian era?
For example, in the middle ages the tomb of Virgil became a quasi-religious
site of pilgrimage, where the poets bones were said to have magical powers.
How do the textual afterlives of the poets become entwined with their material
remains?
Ghosts. Ennius saw Homers ghost in a dream; Chapman met him on the
hill/next Hitchins left hand. Walter Jackson Knight used a medium to
contact Virgil when he was translating the Aeneid, while Ovids disembodied
voice was heard by a couple of young medieval scholars wondering near his
tomb in Tomis. How have poets appeared beyond the grave?
Seeing Like a City A Symposium
6-7 June 2014
The Cambridge Performance Network
Queen Mary University of London
Deadline: Monday 7th April
Keynote Address: Professor Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto) and Michael
McKinnie (Queen Mary University of London)
Keynote: Friday 6th June 6pm(open to the public)
Symposium: Saturday 7th June (all day)
How have infrastructures of performance shaped civic ideas and ideals in mundane
and spectacular ways? How are these ideas and ideals contained, contaminated,
revealed and concealed spatially, temporally, legally and historically through cultural
activity? How does cultural activity shape and see the city?
Seeing Like a City is an interdisciplinary symposium centred on the relationships
between theatre, performance and urbanism. In the past, theatre and performance
scholars including Marvin Carlson, Jen Harvie, D.J. Hopkins, Ric Knowles, Kim
Solga, have seen the city as a fertile site for considering a range of urban
performances. Seeing Like a City builds on this work; it invites researchers to take up
the challenge of accounting for contemporary urban performance.
This event is inspired by Mariana Valverdes article Seeing Like a City (2009), which
offers a reading of the urban that acknowledges the influence historically distinct
ways of seeing contribute temporally and spatially to the negotiation of property,
land and its uses in the contemporary moment. More recently, theatre studies
scholar Michael McKinnie reconfigured Valverdes seeing like a city as performing
like a city in his analysis of Londons South Bank Centre (2013). McKinnie argues
that the entrepreneurial performance of todays South Bank relies on the
performance of the building as a national and social welfare project. The Seeing Like
a City symposium aims to provoke analysis and discussion that extends and
challenges approaches by theatre and performance studies to seeing and
performing the city as a complex and contingent entity.
Seeing Like a City encourages presentations from researchers at all levels of study
and academia. We are delighted that legal scholar Professor Mariana Valverde
(University of Toronto) and theatre scholar Michael McKinnie (Queen Mary
University of London) will be delivering a keynote presentation on the eve of the
symposium.
Some of the overarching themes that may guide your proposal include:
(Re)claiming the city: governance, control and conduct
Planning the city: boundaries, zoning, access, property
Histories of the city: documenting, producing and curating
Living like a city: tourism, labour and migration.
The palliative city: regeneration, resilience, waste
Feeling like a city: senses, languages, intimacies
Activating the city: protest, spectacle, activism
We invite proposals for 15-minute papers in all formats. Please submit an abstract
of no more than 250 words and a biography of no more than 50 words. Alternative
presentations are welcome, however please include an additional 100 words on
presentation methods and technical needs.
The keynote is free and will be followed by a reception. The symposium runs from
10am-6pm and carries a booking fee of 5, which includes lunch and refreshments.
Four travel bursaries to the value of 25 are available for postgraduate scholars with
priority given to those travelling farthest. Please indicate if you would like to be
considered for a bursary when you submit your abstract.
Please return abstracts, identifying your email with the subject SUBMISSION:
Seeing Like a City, by 7th of April to:
Charlotte Bell c.s.l.bell@qmul.ac.uk
Lynne McCarthy l.m.mccarthy@qmul.ac.uk
Elyssa Livergant roughmemory@gmail.com
Mariana Valverde researches the sociology of law. She is the author of Everyday Law
on the Street: City Governance and the Challenges of Diversity (2012). Michael
McKinnie researches urban governance and performance, and is the author of the
monograph City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City (2007).
This event is produced with support from Hayley Peacock. This event is funded by
Queen Mary Postgraduate Research Initiative Fund; Queen Mary Arts and Culture
Fund; Drama Department at Queen Mary University of London; the Geography
Department at Queen Mary University of London.
Sex in the Margins
10-12 October
University of California, Davis
Deadline: April 15, 2014
Just as commentary is hospitable to both mainstream and esoteric hermeneutic
practices, so commentary can host, and disseminate, views that are both utterly
conventional and radical. We propose a conference to explore this aspect of
commentary, and in particular the intersection of interpretive traditions and the
histories of sexuality and gender. We therefore solicit proposals for talks that will
focus on commentary as a particular and perhaps even privileged space for
discussions of sexuality and gender. We hope to receive abstracts addressing a
linguistically, geographically, and temporally broad range of commentaries so that
the resulting conference will contribute to a broader appreciation of the ways the
histories of reception, sexuality and gender are mutually imbricated in numerous
contexts.
Commentary, speaking very generally, is a mode that arises when a culture prizes
(for a variety of reasons) texts of an earlier cultural formation and must explicate
them to contemporaries. In the case of the western tradition of commentary on
classical (i.e., pre-Christian Greek and Latin) texts, works that had high status for
certain sectors of the society confronted readers and scholars with sexual practices
and attitudes that were foreign, in some cases repugnant to later expectations about
sexual roles and acts. What makes the commentary whether marginal, interlinear,
or lemmatic a special instance within reception is that by its very logic it must
confront the ipsissima verba of the original author (or at times establish what that
verba might have been). In this regard, it is most similar to translation. Of course,
commentary can duck the challenge, just as a translation can omit offensive
passages, but this is itself worth noting. The expectation, however, that the
commentator will do his/her duty to explicate a text creates a library of productive
negotiations that merit study. Some may adopt a censorious tone, offering moral in
addition to philological instruction. How do the two interact? How does prejudice
impact scholarship and when does philological rigor trump prejudice? In other
instances, specifics in the classical text may offer a scholar of a later period an
opportunity to speak about nefanda, license in other words to examine and discuss
topics that would otherwise be taboo. In such cases, one might see the space of the
margin (whether literal or figurative) as liberatory. Moreover, commentaries
themselves have their own reception histories whose contribution to the histories of
sexuality and gender have hardly been addressed.
The conference we envisage, it need hardly be said, will not be exhaustive, but we are
certainly hoping that it will present a broad set of examples in the commentary
traditions of many different Greco-Roman authors, with commentaries in Greek,
Latin or vernaculars, and from any period. Studies of commentary on legal texts
would certainly be welcome. We are also eager to learn about similar (or very
different) negotiations within the commentary traditions in Hebrew, Arabic,
Sanskrit, Japanese, Chinese, etc. While commentary seems to imply that we are
dealing with verbal media, by no means must papers be restricted to literary texts.
The conference will take place at the University of California, Davis on October 10-12,
2014. Interested parties should send an abstract of approximately 250 words along
with a short CV to davismargins@gmail.com by April 15, 2014. Although we will
not be able to cover expenses for all conference attendees, we invite scholars whose
participation would be contingent on a subvention to include a brief description of
likely travel expenses and probable financial support. Some limited grants may be
available.
Traditions in Fragments:
the Classical Legacy in Italian 20
th
-Century Literature
Study Day, 20
th
June 2014
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
Deadline: 25 April 2014
Classical tradition, as a conceptual cluster in which aesthetic, anthropological and
political ideas converge, is central to the study of 20
th
-century Italian literature. The
Classics and their legacy are unavoidable forces in the literary discourse of the last
century. Whether reinstating, questioning or establishing a new tradition,
the Novecento helped to shape the notion of classical tradition itself. In different
forms we find Ancient Greek and Latin classics in both poetry and prose, from the
work of Pascoli and DAnnunzio, to the Hermetic translations of Quasimodo, down to
the Fascist appropriations of classical antiquity, the essays of Calvino, and the trans-
genre adaptations of Pasolini and Dallapiccola (not to mention the reinterpretations
of Pavese, Sanguineti, Bemporad, or Zanzotto). Yet this widespread presence is still,
for the most part, taken for granted. The few available studies are confined to
monographic appreciations of individual authors. Generally these enquiries have
remained isolated and fragmentary.
This Study Day proposes to begin mapping and interrogating the presence of the
classical legacy in the Novecento. Topics of discussion will include, but are not
limited to: dynamics of reprisal or rejection of the Classics and their legacy by
modern authors, the concept of origins and archetype in 20
th
-century literary
culture in Italy and abroad, genre and form, the Classics in relation to academic and
popular culture in Italy, the relationship between translation and the classical legacy,
and the reception of the Classics before, during and after Fascism. Gathering
different scholarly contributions, we hope that this Study Day will provide a useful
starting point for further research. The symposium setting will highlight similarities
and differences between individual modes of engagement with the classical legacy.
This may offer a new perspective on several aspects of Italian literature and culture
in the 20
th
century, not least the role of literary traditions within the construction of
cultural, authorial and national identities.
Papers will investigate the presence of the Classics and their legacy in Italian
literature of the 20
th
century. Possible topics of discussion include:
Adaptations and appropriations of Ancient Greek and Latin works by 20th-century
authors
Translations of ancient Greek and Latin works by 20th-century writers, including
theory and practice
The reception of the Classics during Fascism
The role of the classical legacy in 20
th
-century poetics
The role of the classics and classical legacy in shaping authorial and national
identity
Contributions in English and Italian are welcome. Please send an abstract of 250-
300 words, a short biographical note, the speakers academic affiliation and any
audio-visual equipment needed to Cecilia Piantanida at
traditionsinfragments@gmail.com by 25 April 2014.
Classics and the newfaces of feminism
31 January 2015
Institute of Classical Studies
Deadline: End of April 2014
Contributions and expressions of interest are invited from potential participants in
an intensive, interactive, and inter-disciplinary sandpit. It will include a blend of
very short papers, round-table discussions, poster presentations, and themed
workshops.
The aim of the sandpit is to bring together researchers to share their work on the
dynamic dialogues taking place between Classics and contemporary feminism.
Ultimately, the aim is an edited volume and the development of collaborative
projects.
Indicative key provocations include (though this is a far from complete list):
What are the current sites of feminist knowledge and understanding? Do we
live in a post-feminist world? What is distinctive, if anything, about the
European dimension/dialogue (compared with the American/French
domination of earlier but still resonant feminisms)?
Is there still a place for feminism in Classics or are feminist politics no longer
pertinent to (our) Classical scholarship? Can the Classics make a difference in
the current developments and debates in feminist thought?
What are the contemporary voices/issues that inspire graduate students and
those entering the Classical professions?
Feminist approaches flourish in Classical Reception, but what about feminist
studies of the Classical world itself? Are such studies forgotten?
This call is intended to attract participants working across the range of Classics and
Ancient History (including Classical Reception) and a mix of researchers at different
career stages. PhD students and scholars based overseas (especially Continental
Europe) are warmly encouraged to contribute.
Please email short communications or an expression of interest outlining the nature
and content of your proposed contribution in no more than 150 words to the
organisers, Genevieve Liveley (g.liveley@bristol.ac.uk) and Efi Spentzou
(e.spentzou@rhul.ac.uk). The deadline for receiving these communications is end of
April 2014.
Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical
Deep Classics I
21-22 November 2014
Deadline: 1 May 2014
The Institute for Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) at the University
of Bristol invites applications to present at the launch conference of its new ongoing
research theme, Deep Classics. Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical
past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. Deep
Classics is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the
contemplation of the classical past resembles and has even provided a model for
other kinds of human endeavor. What, for example, does the study of the ancient
past teach us about our encounters with our own more recent but still elusive
memories? What do our always partial reconstructions of ancient sites tell us about
the limits of our ability to know our own world, or to imagine our future? What does
the reader of the lacunose and corrupted literatures of antiquity learn thereby about
literature and language themselves? What does a shattered statue reveal about art,
matter, sensation, experience, life? Does the way in which these vestiges of the past
are encountered sitting in a library, standing in a gallery, moving through a ruin
condition our responses to them and alter their significance? And finally, how has
the contemplation of antiquity helped to shape seemingly unrelated disciplines,
including not only other humanistic and scientific epistemologies but also non-
scholarly modes and practices?
Offering a new way to approach the study of classical reception, Deep Classics
neither begins with antiquity itself nor ends with what uses subsequent ages have
made thereof. It focuses instead on the very pose by which the human present turns
its attention to the distant human past. Applications to present at Deep Classics I are
welcome from scholars in all fields and are especially encouraged from those working
in such areas as the following:
Humanism and the Human and Post-Human
Literature and the Literary
Cognition
Sensation
Aesthetics
Media Theory
Materiality
45-minute lectures are anticipated, but proposals are also welcome for
presentations outside the normal lecture format, including proposals from artists
and other creative practitioners; please provide details of your plans in your
application. Prospective presenters should send a title, short abstract, and CV by 1
May 2014 to Professor Shane Butler, Incoming Director, IGRCT
Shane.Butler@bristol.ac.uk
Conflict: Causes, Chaos, and Resolutions
5th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
4th June 2014
The Department of Classics at the University of Leeds
Conflicts of all kinds, their Causes, the Chaos involved and its Resolutions have a
profound impact on human society, and are the subject of much study in Classics, the
Humanities and beyond. Even in its most traditional interpretation as a matter of
violence and warfare, conflict is reflected directly and indirectly within almost every
academic discipline. But the concept of conflict extends much further. It can also
refer to conflicts within academia itself, and elsewhere. Not only do conflicting
philosophies and methodologies impact on the pursuit and development of academic
study, but conflicting social concepts and values are central to subjects such as
gender studies and English. This conference aims to provide an in-depth
interdisciplinary discussion of the multifaceted, and often divisive, concept of
Conflict, including aspects such as:
Conflicting Ideas
The Impact of Conflict
War Theory
The Metamorphosis of Culture through Conflict
Comparative Receptions
De-constructing Society
Unexpected Resolutions
Turmoil of the Psyche
The Psychology of Warfare
Reflections of Conflict in Literature
Papers can address, but are certainly not limited to the above suggestions.
Postgraduate scholars from Classics and beyond are invited to send an abstract of
250-300 words to pgclassicsconference@leeds.ac.uk by the 1st of May. Presentation
will be 20 minutes long and followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
The conference aims at an Interdisciplinary approach, allowing for conversation
across departmental and institutional lines. The conference is also presented through
the Classics department as part of the Legacies of War project in the University of
Leeds. There may be travel bursaries available and a possible opportunity for
publication.
Keynote speakers are Penny Goodman, who will be speaking on the study of conflict
in academia, and Roger Brock, editor of The Journal of Hellenic Studies, will be
speaking on abstracting and approaching journals for publication.
For any further information please email pgclassicsconference@leeds.ac.uk
Grattius in Context(s): Hunting an Augustan Poet
25-26 June
University College London
Grattius' Cynegeticon, a (now incomplete) Roman didactic poem on hunting with
dogs, can be confidently dated to the Augustan period thanks to a passing reference
from Ovid during a reflection from exile: Pont. 4.16.34 aptaque venanti Grattius
arma daret. Grattius is here specifically named as part of a group of esteemed
authors comparable to Ovid (Pont. 4.16.45-6). Moreover, Ovid's reference to
Grattius' work is a conscious recollection of its final programmatic line (Gratt. 23
carmine et arma dabo et venandi persequar artis), prompting the observation
that Grattius is a poet whose work has been carefully read, both by Ovid and, by
inference, the learned readership for Pont. 4.16.
If modern scholarship has generally followed Ovid in connecting the exilic reference
to the extant hunting poem, it has all but ignored Ovid's intimations about Grattius'
literary standing. On the contrary, apart from a handful of important scholarly
contributions, Grattius remains largely unappreciated and unread, especially by
Anglophone scholars, while his Augustan contemporaries are the focus of continued
scrutiny.
This conference provides an opportunity to put Grattius firmly and exclusively in the
spotlight a delayed response, as it were, to the rallying call made to an Anglophone
audience by John Henderson ('Going to the Dogs', PCPS 2001). Particularly welcome
are papers that go beyond localized issues of textual transmission and interpretation
to address some of the bigger questions, such as:
Grattius' poetics
Grattius' interaction with contemporary Augustan poets
Grattius in the (Roman) didactic tradition
Grattius in the context of ancient hunting and hunting works
Grattius and the socio-political context of Augustan Rome
The reception of Grattius
In sum, the conference seeks to rehabilitate Grattius and afford him the sort of
respectful critical exposure that, on the brief evidence of Ovid, he may well have
enjoyed in his own times.
Confirmed speakers at this stage are:
Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin)
Carin Green (Iowa)
Steven Green (University College London)
Lisa Whitlatch (Trinity, Texas)
For the sake of general orientation, readers might like to be aware that a Latin text
and translation of the poem, contained within Duff and Duff's LOEB edition Minor
Latin Poets (1934), is available online at:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Grattius/home.html
Please submit your abstract (200-300 words; Word or PDF format) to Steven
Green (steven.green@ucl.ac.uk). Please include your name, academic affiliation and
address in your email. Informal enquiries can also be addressed to Steven Green at
the email above.
Sailing in Troubled Waters:
The Ancient Mediterranean and its Legacy
in the Performing and Visual Arts
1-4 October 2014
Imagines IV, University of Algarve, Faro
But as for Scylla, the father of gods and men did not suffer her again to
catch sight of me, else should I never have escaped utter destruction.
Thence for nine days was I borne, and on the tenth night the gods
brought me to Ogygia, where the fairtressed Calypso dwells, dread
goddess of human speech, who gave me welcome and tendance.
Homer, Odyssey 12.445-50
Sur limmense pass de la Mditerrane, le plus beau des tmoignages est celui de la
mer elle-mme. Il faut le dire, le redire. Il faut la voir, la revoir
F. Braudel, Les mmoires de la Mditerrane. Prhistoire et Antiquit, Paris (1998)
Sailing in Troubled Waters is the fourth of a series of international conferences
devoted to the representation of Antiquity in the visual and performing arts that are
organised by the research project Imagines (www.imagines-project.org). Portugal is
the fourth country that will host a conference by the network: it will be held at the
University of Algarve from October 1 to 4, 2014, in Faro.
Sailing in Troubled Waters proposes a travel into the bright but also dark sides
of the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze of artists who from the
Renaissance to the 21st century have been inspired and fascinated by the sea, its
myths and history. The conference will look at the representation in the performing
and visual arts of ancient myths, fiction and history, and will pay particular attention
to the theme of sea travel and travellers.
The conference has the confirmation of Monica Silveira Cyrino (University of New
Mexico USA) as Keynote Speaker. Following the ethos of the previous conferences,
there will also be a public event with the presence of the internationally award-
winning Portuguese film director Joo Canijo, whose human dramas set in urban
peripheries are directly inspired by Greek tragedy.
Call for papers: We welcome proposals on particular subjects of the conferences
theme and also on the rediscovery of the Mediterranean Sea and its past cultures by
modern travellers before, during and after the Grand Tour era. To what extent and in
what ways do artists, authors and travellers look at the sea either as a nostalgic
testimony of the lost glory of an unattained past or as a loyal custodian of inherited
traditions? They can either focus on specific post-classical periods or follow cross-
temporal perspectives. Papers can cover one or more artistic languages (painting,
book art and graphic design, comics, sculpture, architecture, theatre, opera, dance,
street art, photography, cinema, computer animation, etc.), and propose comparative
approaches.
They should have a length of 20 minutes and be presented in one of the working
languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and English.
Proposals should have a length of around 500 words and should be sent, no later
than 15 May, to Imagines.iv@gmail.com. Acceptance will be communicated no later
than 10 June.
Registration (online here): Participants Members APEC
Researchers of CIAC and CECH; Lecturers of UAlg Students Obs.
Presenting paper 90 (until 15 June)
120 (until 15 Sep.) 50 (until 15 June)
75 (until 15 Sep.) 25 (until 15 June)
35 (until 15 Sep.) (Includes 3 lunches)
Attendants 20 (documentation, certificate and varied material)
Payment should be made by bank transfer to Banco Esprito Santo (BES), including
the following data: Imagines_Last Name_First Name. The transfer receipt should be
sent to the conference e-mail (imagines.iv@gmail.com), in order to validate your
registration: IBAN: PT50 0007 0000 0080 8491 6062 3
SWIFT/BIC: BESCPTPL
Warning: all bank/transfer fees will be defrayed by the participants. In order to make
up an invoice the following data is necessary: full name, full address and copy of the
identity card/passport.
Publication: a collective volume for the Imagines series is planned. The possibility
of other publications based on the participants contributions is also contemplated.
Complementary activities: tour on a 19th century ship used by fishers who sailed to
Brazil, in 1808, to let the Portuguese King know about the victory over the French
invaders (by courtesy of the mayor of Olho). We will have the opportunity to admire
the famous wall-graffiti of Olho and to meet the street-artists involved in this
exciting project. As part of the conference programme, the artists will produce an
exclusive work linked with the theme of the conference.
For more information: imagines.iv@gmail.com www.imagines-project.org
Organizing Committee: Adriana Nogueira, Sandra Boto, Isa Mestre, Marta Garca
Morcillo.
Afro-Byzantine & Greco-African Conference,
27 October - 1 November 2014
University of Johannesburg
Deadline: 1
st
July 2014
Description: An International Conference on Greco-African and Afro-
Byzantine Studies (i.e. History, Civilization, Culture, Arts) will take place in
October/November 2014 at UJ. With Afro- Byzantine Studies we understand the
study of the African civilizations of which the development was influenced by
Byzantine history and civilization (mainly late ancient and medieval North Africa,
Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia). Greco-African Studies refer to the study and teaching
of Greek in Africa, cultural interaction between (Ancient and Modern) Greece and
Africa. By extension Ancient/Medieval Africa itself can be combined with these
themes. The conference will thus be a vehicle giving the occasion to its participants to
relate and work together in order to further determine, assess, appreciate and
promote high quality research on selected aspects of 'Old' African history
and civilization in conjunction with Greece, mainly Byzantium. The proposed
Conference will greatly contribute to a better assessment, comprehension and
appreciation of the great African Civilization of the past. Consequently, it will present
an occasion to exchange views on our knowledge of its ideological, political,
institutional, artistic and religious aspects. Peer-reviewed Proceedings will
be published. We are already negotiating with publishers.
Programme and themes
-Alexandria and Greek Orthodoxy; Coptic, Nubian, Ethiopian Church(es); Fathers of
the Church; Church history; modern related issues
-Byzantium in Africa: Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa (history, culture,
institutions, art, archaeology, literature, linguistics, anthropology)
-Ancient & Hellenistic Greece and Africa
-The Greeks in Africa (past and present)
-African sources on Afro-Byzantina and Greco-Africana: Coptic, Arabic, Nubian,
Ethiopian and Swahili.
-Africa and the Crusades
-Co-existence in Medieval Africa: Christianity - Islam - traditional religions
-Ancient/Medieval/ 'Old' African States and Civilizations, also including the Lemba.
-Hellenic & Byzantine Studies and Research in Africa.
The Conference envisages lectures, discussions, workgroup meetings, an exhibition
and discussion/workshops/meetings with among others African artists.
Organisers: the Department of Greek and Latin Studies at the University of
Johannesburg Prof. B. Hendrickx and Assoc. Prof. Thekla Sansaridou-Hendrickx
(bendrickx@gmail.com), Dr Efi Zacharopoulou (efizacharopoulou@yahoo.gr), Dr
Savvas Kyriakidis (savkyr76@yahoo.gr)
Papers and other contributions: A communication may be either 30 minutes or
15 minutes. There will be seminars and discussion groups. Please, let us know in
which category or categories you will participate. We ask to send us the theme
of your presentation before 1 July, and at least by 1 October a short abstract of your
paper (10 to 15 lines). Your paper can be given to the organisers during or at the end
of the Conference for publication and peer-reviewing.
For more confirmation, please contact the organisers.
Registration: A registration fee is payable for participants: R. 500 for international
participants, R. 300 for South African participants. This covers costs for tea, coffee
and some organised lunches. Students do not pay fees.
http://www.uj.ac.za/en/Faculties/humanities/departments/greeklatin/Pages/defaul
t.aspx
5. Recent and New Publications
Classical Receptions Journal
Volume 5, Issue 3 Special Issue: Classical Receptions in Central and
Eastern European Poetry
We have made the following articles freely available online:
Antiquity after antiquity: a (post) modern reading of antiquity in Bulgarian poetry
Yoana Sirakova
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/1
Afterword: Omin-Local Classical Receptions
Emily Greenwood
Other articles in the issue include:
Introduction to special issue: classical reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone
Mikhail Lomonosov: the case of the Russian Pindar
Grigory Starikovsky
Russian Tityrus: Joseph Brodsky in Arcadia
Zara Martirosova Torlone
Waning worlds and budding hopes: anti-idyllic visions of antiquity in Polish
Romanticism
Maria Kalinowska
Reinventing Ovids exile: ex Ponto Romanian style
Carmen Fenechiu and Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Tellus Issue 5
Issue 5 of Tellus is now available to order. This annual magazine celebrates
contemporary poetry which brings the classical past to new life. Issue 5 features
sparkling engagements with well known staples of the classical canon - like Virgils
Aeneid and Horaces Odes - and throws fresh light on familiar mythological figures
like Thetis and Daphne. At the same time, it also branches out into more unfamiliar
territory, showcasing engagements with Pindar, the Greek Anthology and a recent
translation of Simonides into Scots.
Issue 5 costs 3.50 (incl. p&p) for UK addresses, 4.50 (incl. p&p) for overseas
addresses.
Payment can be made via the website www.tellusmagazine.co.uk or by emailing me
to request an invoice.
List of poems and contributors:
Catullus at the Pet Shop Marguerite Johnson
Ajax Georgia Petridou
Eheu Fugaces Merryn Williams
A Laurel Leaf for Oenomaus Son Askold Skalsky
Acesta - Matthew Landrum
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 958-974 Timothy Chappell
Whitby - Steve Komarnyckyj
Calypsos and Circes Stephan Dukofsky
Review of Crawford and McBeaths Simonides Ailsa Hunt
After the Harvest James Meredith
Lady Iliad Kevin Solez
Vile Potabis Modicis Sabinum Matthew Landrum
More Shapes Than Thetis Stephan Dukofsky
Adaptation from Pindars Olympian XIV Cameron Hawke Smith
Two Blues for Odysseus and One for Polyphemos Stephen Bunch
St Frideswides Flower Patsy Dyer
Homage to a Bird Thomas Orszg-Land
With best wishes
Professors Helen King and Stephen Harrison (CRSN co-coordinators)
Anastasia Bakogianni (CRSN Administrator)

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