The Leeds International Classics Seminar will be holding a one-day
conference on the theme ‘Humans and Other Animals in the Ancient World’, on
Friday 9 May 2008, 11.30am – 5.30pm.
Speakers:
Louise Calder (Wolfson College, Oxford): The importance of Greek pets
Chiara Thumiger (University College London): The other tragedy: animals and
human character in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Gordon Campbell (NUI Maynooth): “And bright was the flame of their
friendship” (Empedocles B130): humans, animals, justice and friendship in
Lucretius and Empedocles
Catherine Osborne (University of East Anglia): Thinking, knowing, speaking
and imagining animals
Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool): Writing about animals, thinking
about humans: animals as models for human behaviour in the middle ages
Mary Beagon (University of Manchester): Powers of life from death: animal
remedies and the Roman arena
Full details of the programme (and a printable programme) can be found at
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/LICS2008poster.doc
The meeting is open to all academic participants; postgraduate and
undergraduate students are especially welcome. Those interested in
attending should let Malcolm Heath know (m.f.heath AT leeds.ac.uk) at least a
week in advance. The conference fee (including tea/coffee and a buffet
lunch) is £15 (£10 students and unwaged), payable on the day.
conference on the theme ‘Humans and Other Animals in the Ancient World’, on
Friday 9 May 2008, 11.30am – 5.30pm.
Speakers:
Louise Calder (Wolfson College, Oxford): The importance of Greek pets
Chiara Thumiger (University College London): The other tragedy: animals and
human character in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Gordon Campbell (NUI Maynooth): “And bright was the flame of their
friendship” (Empedocles B130): humans, animals, justice and friendship in
Lucretius and Empedocles
Catherine Osborne (University of East Anglia): Thinking, knowing, speaking
and imagining animals
Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool): Writing about animals, thinking
about humans: animals as models for human behaviour in the middle ages
Mary Beagon (University of Manchester): Powers of life from death: animal
remedies and the Roman arena
Full details of the programme (and a printable programme) can be found at
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/LICS2008poster.doc
The meeting is open to all academic participants; postgraduate and
undergraduate students are especially welcome. Those interested in
attending should let Malcolm Heath know (m.f.heath AT leeds.ac.uk) at least a
week in advance. The conference fee (including tea/coffee and a buffet
lunch) is £15 (£10 students and unwaged), payable on the day.