**DEADLINE MONDAY 25 JUNE 2007**


Registration is now open for the following conference:

Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination

July 17-19 2007, Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol

This conference will explore popular representations and receptions of
Pompeii since the 18th century, and aims to provide a stimulating
environment in which academics studying the city and its reception can be
brought together with practitioners who have tried to bring the city to
life in a range of media. Panel topics include: Documenting the Ruins;
Domestic Interiors and Architecture; Sex and Erotica; 19th Century
Painting; Necromancy and Spiritualism; Pompeii in the USA: Pompeii's
Reception in Italy; 20th Century Arts; Aesthetics and Morality; Receptions
of Gradiva; and Romantic Travellers.

Keynote speakers: Mary Beard, Victor Burgin, Stefano de Caro, Lindsey
Davis, Stephen Harrison and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.


Full details, including registration form, accommodation information, and
provisional programme can be found online at
http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pompeii/index_html.

For further information, please contact the conference organisers, Dr
Shelley Hales (Shelley.Hales AT bris.ac.uk) or Dr Joanna Paul
(Joanna.Paul AT liv.ac.uk).

Supported by:
The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA); The
Marks Foundation; The British Academy; The Institute of Greece, Rome and
the Classical Tradition; School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology,
The University of Liverpool