CONF: LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2004 -OBJECTS IN CONTEXT, OBJECTS IN USE- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 15th-16th May 2004

This conference will study the way in which objects were associated with
each other in everyday life. It will examine the particular arrangements of
objects that defined the spatiality of houses, shops, workshops and churches
at a human level.

Speakers include: Béatrice Caseau, Sauro Gelichi, Alan Walmsley,
Marc Waelkens, Joanita Vroom, R R R Smith and Andrew Poulter
Sites featured: Aphrodisias, Xanthos, Sagalassos, Pella, Scythopolis, Dichin
Also: Late Roman Arms and Armour presented by Comitatus Re-enactment Group.
See below for full details

SATURDAY 15th May
**Artefacts in Religious Space
10.45-11.25 Béatrice Caseau (Paris)
Furnishing late antique Christian basilicas: the static and the movable
11.25-12.05 Michel Vincent (Paris)
Ecclesiastical furniture, fixtures and fittings: the archaeological evidence

**Artefacts in Domestic Space
13.30-14.10   Sauro Gelichi (Venice)
The Modena hoards: rural domestic artefact assemblages
14.10-14.50  Alan Walmsley (Copenhagen)
Houses at Pella, Jordan: the domestic destruction deposits

**Recent Fieldwork in Asia Minor
15.40-16.20 Anne-Marie Manière (Paris)  Recent excavations at Xanthos
16.20-17.00 Mark Waelkens (Leuven)   Late Antique to Early Byzantine
Sagalassos

**Debate
17.15-18.00 Penelope Allison, Maria Parani and Beatrice Caseau
Texts, pictures or 'the spade that cannot lie'? evaluating sources.

**After dinner: the table and its artefacts
20.00-20.30 Joanita Vroom (East Anglia)
The archaeology of late antique dining in the East Mediterranean
20.30-21.00 Ellen Swift (Kent)
Decorated vessels: the function of decoration in Late Antiquity

SUNDAY 16th MAY

**Understanding finds in context
09.30-10.10 Toon Putzeys (Leuven)
Contextual analysis at Sagalassos
10.10-.10.50 R. R. R. Smith (Oxford)
Statues and their contexts in Late Antiquity:
recent work at Aphrodisias in Caria

**Artefacts in Commercial Space
11.30-12.10 Elias Khamis (Oxford)
The Scythopolis shops: finds in context Artefacts in Personal Space
12.10-12.50 Maria Parani (Nicosia, Cyprus)
Dress and accessories in Late Antiquity

**Artefacts in Military Space
14.10-14.50 John Conyard (Comitatus Military Re-enactment Group)
Reconstructing the late Roman army (with equipment displays)
14.50-15.30 Andrew Poulter (Nottingham)
Deconstructing destruction deposits:  finds in context from a late Roman
fort in Bulgaria.

£30 admission (£10 student/unwaged).
Meal prices: Sat lunch £8 Sun lunch £8.
For application form plus Hotel, B&B and Hostel accommodation see
www.lateantiquearchaeology.com Send application form with details of meals
and payment before May 5th to: LAA2004, 2 Moorside Rd, Tottington, Bury,
Lancs, BL8 3HW, England.  Cheques in sterling payable to "Late Antique
Archaeology". Cash payment for overseas visitors, by arrangement.
Queries: info@lateantiquearchaeology.com

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CONF: STATES OF COMPLEXITY:  Perspectives on Sociopolitical Development in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

 The Brock University Archaeological Society 15th Annual Symposium
A Symposium in Honour of David W. Rupp
 
Saturday March 20, 2004
12pm-6:30pm
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
 
Participants:
 
Donald C. Haggis
Dept. of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Azoria and the Problem of Urbanization on Crete"
 
P. Nick Kardulias
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, The College of Wooster
"Incorporation on the Margins of World Systems: Examples from Cyprus and North America"
 
A. Bernard Knapp
Dept. of Archaeology, University of Glasgow
"The Social Life of Oriental Goods on Prehistoric Cyprus"
 
Sturt W. Manning
Dept. of Fine Art, University of Toronto
"Between Process and the Individual:  Data and Explanation for the Development of Complex Society on Cyprus and Crete in Prehistory"
 
David B. Small
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University
"Democracy in Greece:  a Peripheral Accident"
 
Livingston V. Watrous
Dept. of Art History, University at Buffalo, SUNY
"The EBI II - MB I Period in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Formation of the First States on Crete"
 
Other speakers to be announced
 
Round table discussion to follow, chaired by David W. Rupp
 
Symposium Admission: $10.00 ($5.00 for students)
Banquet to Follow at the Pond Inlet Refectory:  Tickets (advance sales only) $35.00
For more information phone 905-688-5550 ext. 3575, visit www.brocku.ca/classics/events.htm or contact Kevin Fisher kfisher@chass.utoronto.ca

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CFP: Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece, Near East

The Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean
(Rhodes, Greece) invite papers to the International Symposium on the Foreign
Relations and Diplomacy in the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece, Near East.

Date: 3-5 December 2004

Place: Island of Rhodes, Greece

Organising Committee: Dr. Panagiotis Kousoulis, Ass. Prof. Konstantinos
Magliveras

Theme and topics of the Conference: The broader Mediterranean region, which
includes twenty-five nations today, was the witness of the development of
some of the most important and magnificent civilisations of the past. The
Mediterranean Sea facilitated to a great extent this development through
cross-cultural exchanges, which were mobilised by various modes of thought
and action - foreign and diplomatic affairs, social, religious and artistic
modules. The Conference will address foreign relations, diplomatic affairs
and cross-cultural interaction between Egypt, Greece and the Near East from
the 3rd millennium BC down to the Arabic conquest of Egypt (637 AC). Papers
are invited in the following broad topics:
Colonisation
Great migrations
Trade and politics among Egypt, Greece and the Near East
The influence of political institutions in the foreign relations of Greece
with Egypt and the Near East
Ambassadors, diplomats and messengers
Sea routes, trade and labour relations
Wars, conflicts and treaties
Egypt and Anatolia in the Bronze Age
The Egyptian empire in Asia
Greeks in Egypt and the Near East
Religious and linguistic interactions between Egypt and the rest of the
Mediterranean world.

Confirmed invited Speakers: Kenneth A. Kitchen (Liverpool), Allan Lloyd
(Swansea), Robert Redford (Toronto), Peter Brand (Memphis), Siegfried Morenz
(Leipzig), Bernard Knapp (Glasgow), Yvan Koenig (Paris).

Language: Presentations and conference proceedings will be in English

Deadline of abstract submission: 31 May 2004

Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2004

Pre-registration: 31 July 2004

Abstracts (not exceeding 500 words, including name, affiliation and full
contact address) or requests for further information should be sent
(preferably via email) to:
Dr P. Kousoulis or Ass. Prof. Konstantinos Magliveras
Department of Mediterranean Studies,
University of the Aegean,
1 Demokratias Av.,
Rhodes 85100, Greece.
Tel: 0030 22410 99341, 99325
Fax: 0030 22410 99309
Email: kousoulis@rhodes.aegean.gr <mailto:kousoulis@rhodes.aegean.gr>,
kmagliveras@rhodes.aegean.gr <mailto:kmagliveras@rhodes.aegean.gr>

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CFP: SLAVE SYSTEMS, ANCIENT AND MODERN

Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change
National University of Ireland, Galway

27-29th November 2004

The purpose of this conference is to expand scholarly debate on comparison
between ancient and modern slave systems. We are particularly interested in
comparison between the rise and demise of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean
and in the nineteenth-century Euro-American World. Therefore, we invite all
scholars who share our interest to submit papers on the economic, social and
cultural aspects of slave systems in Classical Antiquity and in the Modern
Atlantic.  Papers on the Greco-Roman World and on the nineteenth-century
Caribbean, Brazil, or the United States of America are especially welcome.

For more information contact Dr. Enrico Dal Lago at
enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie   or Dr. Constantina Katsari at
c_katsari@hotmail.com

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CONF:  THE OATH IN GREEK SOCIETY
June 30 to July 2, 2004

Nightingale Hall, University of Nottingham, UK

In spite of the fundamental importance of oaths across an enormously
wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world,
there has been very little research dedicated to this topic. This
international conference is designed to remedy this omission and to kick
off a major project on the theme intended to last several years. More
than twenty papers will be presented on many aspects of the oath in
Greek-speaking societies in antiquity, including the employment and
functions of oaths in political, military, juridical, cultic and wider
social contexts, their deployment in literary texts, theoretical
discussion of them, and developments in oath practices resulting from
Greeks' contacts with other cultural and religious traditions.

Speakers:

Arlene Allan: The broken oath in Euripides' Medeia
Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides: A Hellenistic oath: a Near Eastern
spell?
Mary Bachvarova: Oath and allusion in Alcaeus 129
Gabriel Bodard: Self-cursing: on the effectiveness of oaths
Sarah Bolmarcich: Oaths in Greek international relations
Edwin Carawan: "Oaths and covenants" and contract
David Carter: Did a Greek oath guarantee a claim right?
Serena Connolly: The Greek oath in the Roman world
Judith Fletcher: The oath theme in the Oresteia
Michael Gagarin: The oath in Athenian law
Myrto Gkarani: Cosmological oaths: Empedocles and Lucretius
Manfred Horstmanshoff: The promise of silence in the Hippocratic oath
Leah Johnson: The oath of the Athenian boule and the fifth-century
coinage decree
Vassiliki Kambourelli: Reported oaths in Sophokles' Philoktetes
Bonnie MacLachlan: Epinician swearing
David Mirhady: The dikast's oath
Jonathan Perry: Oath-taking, cheating and women in Greek athletics
Monica Ressel Giordani: Erinyes, Horkos and Styx: the underworld on
earth
Julia Shear: The oath and law of Demophantos and Athenian identity
Alan Sommerstein: Cloudy swearing - when is an oath not an oath?
Tarik Wareh: The Great Oath of Syracuse as a hierophantic performance

To register for the conference, visit
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/news/oath_registration.phtml, or
contact sheila.jones@nottingham.ac.uk, telephone:  +44 (0)115 9514383.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies has agreed to fund
eight bursaries for young researchers (postgraduates and recent PhDs)
attending the conference. For information and application form, please
go to http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/news/oath_bursary.phtml .

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CFP/CONF: Classical Association of Canada Annual Congress

Laval University is pleased to invite you to Quebec City on the
16th-17th-18th of May 2004 for the Annual Congress of the Classical
Association of Canada.

Members of the Association will soon receive by mail a Registration form
an a Call for papers; both documents are also available on the web site
of the CAC (www.unbf.ca/arts/CLAS/cacindex.html).

Information about accommodations will also be posted on the site, from
January 15th onwards.

We do hope a great number of participants will attend this event, for
which we will try to combine scientific rigor and cordiality.

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6:29:50 PM    

CFP: What Sounds Good?: The Aesthetic and the "Authentic" in the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek and Latin

The pronunciation and recitation of Greek and Latin, both in and out of the
classroom, has varied widely over centuries and geographical regions. The
work of W. S. Allen (Vox Graeca3 [Cambridge 1987] and Vox Latina2 [Cambridge
1978]) has enabled modern philologists to assess with precision certain
linguistic phenomena (e.g., duration and coloration of vowels,
differentiation of consonants, pitch accent in Greek) described in ancient
treatises that analyze the sounds created by native speakers of both
languages in their classical periods. But Allen's opus does not cover all
the factors that might contribute to the "authentic" oral reproduction of
the sounds of Greek and Latin (e.g. timbre, dynamics, tempo, tone), nor does
it attempt to explore exhaustively the phenomena that might make
reproductions of either language aesthetically appealing to audiences of
particular cultural backgrounds, both today and in the past.

Moreover, the very understanding of what constitutes "authenticity" in the
vocal-musical reproductions of ancient texts - and of the relationship
between aesthetic appeal and "authenticity" - is broadened and complicated
by recent studies of contemporary performances of Renaissance music (e.g.,
Nicholas Kenyon, ed., Authenticity and Early Music [Oxford 1988]; R.
Taruskin, Text and Act: Essays on Performance and Music [Oxford 1995]),
which argue that a host of factors in addition to the actual sounds produced
by the performers contribute to "authentic" reproduction: e.g. audience
appreciation, performance conditions, and the "conviction" and investment of
performers. Even the utility and appropriateness of the concept of
"authenticity" are hotly disputed, with some preferring to speak of
"historically informed" performances, while others maintain that there is no
such thing as a performance that recreates all the important aesthetic
components of a non-continuous spoken tradition. It is no surprise to find,
both before and after Allen, a great range of scholars, writers,
instructors, and performers (from Cicero, Sallust, Quintilian and Tacitus,
and the Attic revivalists of the Second Sophistic, to Augustine in De musica
and elsewhere, to Erasmus, to our contemporaries Jan Novak, Annie Bélis,
Gregorio Paniagua, Stephen Daitz, Tuomo Pekkanen, Carsten Hreg, Petros
Tabouris, Luigi Miraglia, Reginald Foster, Wilfried Stroh, and many others)
who have taken seriously the goal of "authentically" reproducing for some
aesthetic or even moral purpose Latin and Greek sounds, yet have differed
widely in the weight they attach to individual linguistic elements and
(where relevant) particular conditions of performance/reception. Those
decisions about weight are one subject of this panel.

In recognition of the rich diversity of methodologies that have developed
over the centuries and in different parts of the world, this panel seeks
papers that examine from any vantage point (e.g., ancient or modern,
theoretical or practical, pedagogical, etc.) the pursuits of and/or
approaches to "authenticity" and aesthetic appeal in the pronunciation and
performance of ancient Greek and/or Latin. Panelists are requested to
include in their presentations Greek and/or Latin oral reading, live or
recorded, that demonstrates the elements of their papers. Abstracts should
be submitted by February 1, 2004, as follows: please send four copies of an
abstract (500-800 words in length) that includes indications of time and a/v
equipment needed for presentation, to Jerise Fogel, Classics Dept., Marshall
University, Huntington, WV 25755. For further information, contact either of
the panel co-organizers (email: Jerise Fogel: fogel@marshall.edu; Elizabeth
Scharffenberger: es136@columbia.edu). All submissions will be refereed
anonymously.

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6:28:22 PM    

CFP: "From Myth to Magus: Hermes in the Western Tradition"

Call or papers - Deadline: 20 March

An international conference on the heritage and influence of the figure of
Hermes in Western culture. Papers in any discipline (e.g., history, art
history, classics, religion, literature, philosophy, esoterica) are welcome.
Graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply.

Hosted by the Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo.

16-17 October 2004

Please submit 300-word abstracts for 30-35 minute papers electronically to:
David Porreca (dporreca@watarts.uwaterloo.ca) and Arlene Allan
(arleneallan@trentu.ca)

Further information will be available on the University of Waterloo's
Classical Studies website:
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/news.htm

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CFP: THE ETHICS OF COLLECTING AND COMMUNICATING THE NEAR EASTERN PAST

Section Academic Responsibility, Publishing and the Scholarly use of Materials Without Provenience 

Chairs: Ellen Herscher, 3309 Cleveland Ave. NW,
Washington DC, 20008; Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University College of Law,
25 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604; and Morag Kersel, Dept. of
Archaeology, Cambridge University, Downing St., Cambridge, UK CB2
3DZ;Email: mmk29@cam.ac.uk.

Please email abstracts and/or questions to Morag Kersel at mmk29@cam.ac.uk

Over the course of three years, papers in this section will examine the
ethics of collecting and disseminating the Near Eastern past, the effects
on the destruction of archaeological heritage, and the consequences for our
understanding of the past. Potential solutions and compromises in the
current debate will also be considered. In the second year of this session
the focus will be on academic responsibility, publishing and the scholarly
use of materials without provenience. There is a growing divide in the
academic circles between those who would not consider studying
unprovenienced material and those who feel we do a disservice to the
archaeological record by ignoring this corpus. Academic journals from
organizations like the AIA, SAA and ASOR currently prohibit the publication
of artifacts from unknown sources, thus eliminating many objects from
potential publication. Do such bans discourage the destruction of the
world’s cultural heritage through illicit excavation? By publishing in
periodicals like Minerva, Biblical Archaeology Review, Archaeology Odyssey,
all of which accept advertising for the antiquities trade, are scholars
complicit in the trade? What is the cost to scholarship of ignoring
artifacts that may appear to be important but are without proper pedigree?
We encourage submissions from museum professionals, collectors,
conservators, archaeologists, and scholars who routinely work with
unprovenienced material.

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6:26:49 PM    

CFP: ANCIENT STUDIES/NEW TECHNOLOGY III

The third biennial conference on the topic of "Ancient
Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and
Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in
Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies" will be held
December 3-5, 2004, at James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, VA. Topics of particular interest include 1)
the digital museum; 2) the digital classroom; 3) the digital
scholar; and 4) theoretical issues such as "knowledge
representation". 300-word electronic abstracts dealing with
these issues and with other ways in which the WEB can
help to promote classical, ancient, Byzantine, and medieval
studies may be directed to Ralph Mathisen, Program Chair,
at ralphwm@uiuc.edu and ruricius@msn.com (snail-mail:
Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of
Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801). Deadline for receipt of
abstracts is July 15, 2004. Programs for previous
conferences may be consulted at http://www.roman-
emperors.org/program.htm (2000 Conference) and
http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/ancient_studies2002/
conf_program.html (2002 Conference).

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CFP:  Humans and Animals in Antiquity: Boundaries and Transgressions

 An Interdisciplinary Conference
Universität Rostock, 8-10 April 2005
At present the relationship between humanity and the animal world seems to be undergoing a paradigm shift. Explicit provision has been made in the German constitution for the protection of animals; an Australian citizens’ initiative is fighting for the rights of primates; behavioral scientists are beginning to define the distinction between human and animal cognitive capabilities in terms of quantity rather than quality; changes in genetic technology are increasingly undermining biologists’ attempts at providing a definition of the human species. There is in general an increasing awareness that the distinction between “human” and “animal” has become less stable. This in turn has led to a certain sense of discomfort which can be explained with reference to the long tradition in Western culture. Aristotle’s definition of the human being as zoon politikon is emblematic of a wide variety of boundary-drawing between “human” and “animal”: scientific, philosophical, biological, ethical, etc.
This conference will be dedicated to the closer investigation of these boundaries, which are often embodied in antithetical pairs: chaos vs. order, nature vs. culture, Edenic origins vs. civilization and decline, inferiority vs. superiority, instinct vs. reason. Greek and Roman antiquity will be at the center of our inquiry.
Most work to date on the question of animals, or on the relationship between humans and animals, has concentrated on cataloguing the various functions that animals have filled for humanity: source of food, supplier of work, sacrificial victim, enemy, friend, etc. Taking its cue from such fields as gender studies, this conference seeks rather to question the ways in which the respective properties of and boundaries between humans and animals, traditionally held to be “natural,” are in fact culturally determined. Since the conceptualizations involved are more clearly perceptible in the representational significance of the individual animal or animals than in the so-called realia, our focus is less on ancient “reality” than on traditional conceptualizations of animals and their relationship with humans handed down by means of both written word and visual image.
Fundamental questions include, but are not limited to, the following.
Where exactly are the culturally defined boundaries between human and animal drawn? When and in what contexts are they defined? What are their functions? Do they vary according to context and medium?
How is the relationship between human and animal differentiated according to the species of animal on the one hand, or human gender or ethnic or social category on the other?
To what extent were both shared and distinct traits derived from anatomical, physiological, or behavioral considerations?
What is the role of mythology in the conceptualization of the boundaries between human and animal and their transgression?
In what context do various transgressions (intermediate beings, zoophilia [bestiality], metamorphosis) belong?
How may the relationship between human and animal be defined when a unity of the two is recognized?
The conference is principally intended for scholars of classical antiquity, but contributions from scholars of other (in particular non-European) cultural areas and of literary studies, theology, and the history of medicine are welcome to the extent that they increase the range of available theoretical and methodological tools and contribute to a better understanding of ancient concepts.
30 minutes will be allotted for each paper, followed by 20 minutes of discussion; contributions in German, English, French and Italian are welcome. Proposals, with working title and an abstract of no more than 250 words, should be sent by 15 April 2004 to the conference organizers:
Dr. Annetta Alexandridis, Dr. Lorenz Winkler-Horacek
Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Fachgebiet Klassische Archäologie
Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 1, 18051 Rostock (Germany)
Proposals may also be sent by fax to +49 (381) 498 2787 or by e-mail to annetta.alexandridis@philfak.uni-rostock.de or lorenz.winkler-horacek@philfak.uni-rostock.de . A detailed conference program will be sent out over the course of the summer. Subsequent publication of the proceedings in a collected volume is planned.

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CFP: Aegyptus et Pannonia Symposium III: Diversity and Similarity in Egyptian Religions

The symposium is dedicated to Professor László Kákosy, died last
year, the 29th January, whose area of interest was wide - from
Ancient Egyptian magic, mythology and ritual to Egyptian philology,
literature, history, archeology and fieldwork. One of his main
research fields was the late Egyptian religion, including Ptolemaic
and Roman Egypt, which is intended to be the main topic of this event.

It is a conference series exploring the interconnections between
research on the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world, with
special attention to the Roman province Pannonia, and the study of
ancient Egyptian religion.

In the past decade, scholars have come to recognize that the ancient
Mediterranean world was a culturally diverse environment and that the
ancient Egyptian cult practices were themselves sensitive to the
constant influences of the larger, multi-ethnic world not only upon
their own land, but also in the deverse other countries, ie. ancient
Egyptian cult practices had - in spite of many similarities - also
many different elements in various parts of the ancient world, as
well as in the homeland. For the better knowledge of these process we
would like to focus now on diversity and similariy in late Egyptian
religion without geographical restrition.

The symposium is open to all scholars and will take place at the
Buda Castle in Budapest
(H-1014, Budapest, Szentgyörgy tér 2)
from 17-19th November, 2004.

Participation in the Colloquium is free, speakers will be responsible
for making and paying for their own travel. Conference languages will
be English, German, French and Hungarian.

We ask that participants register by March 20th 2004. For
registration please fill in the registration form below and return it
(preferably via e-mail) to Dr. Hedvig Gy_ry.

We invite contributions from members of disciplines specializing in
the above areas, dealing with current on-going or recently completed
research and fieldwork. The proceedings will be published in the
Aegyptus et Pannonia 3.

The proposed papers may be on ANY facet of the study of late Egyptian
religion, providing that the work presented original research.
Archaeology and history of ancient temple architecture should have an
important role, but we encourage submissions from a wide range of
perspectives, including art history, cultural, political, and social
history, philology, literary criticism, religious studies, and
paleography or papyrology during the late Egyptian history. We also
welcome papers that discuss theoretical and methodological approaches.

The duration of papers should be no more than 20 minutes.

Abstract guidelines: approximately 500 words (one single-spaced
page), if possible, should be submitted in Microsoft Word document
format, preferably by e-mail, to the address below. If sending by
post, please mail the abstract on a floppy disk to the contact
address below. Please include along with your abstract, name,
institution and the title of your paper also a brief biography and
questions and requests for audio-visual equipment.

Deadline of abstract submission: 31st August 2004.

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REGISTRATION FORM

I am interested in participating in the above event and wish to receive
further information.

Name:
Title:

Institution (if any):

Address:

Phone number
Email address

I wish to present a paper with the following (provisional) title:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We would appreciate you forwarding this invitation to colleagues or
scholars who might be interested.

If you have any enquiries please feel free to contact us.

Yours sincerely,
Hedvig Gy_ry, dr.
Museum of Fine Arts
H-1146 Budapest, Dózsa Gy. út  41.
Tel: (00-36-1) 469-7135
Fax: (00-36-1) 469-7185
e-mail: gyory@szepmuveszeti.hu (please entitle  e-mail messages: AeP3.)

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CFP: AGING, OLD AGE  AND DEATH PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES  II
19-21 August 2005

University of Tampere, Finland
  Sponsored by Department of History (University of Tampere),
Finnish Historical Society and Classical Association of Finland
  Abstract deadline: 28 February, 2005

  The second international conference on ancient and medieval way of life
  will focus on the final period of individual's life course. The aim is to
  bring together scholars from various fields of study to discuss the
  continuities and changes which happened both in understanding and
  experiencing the mature age, old age, and in facing death.

  The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically (from
  Hellenistic world to Middle Ages), but also geographically (from East
  and West Mediterranean to the coasts of  the North Sea) and disciplinary
  (all the branches of Classical and Medieval Studies). Most preferable are
  contributions having themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary
  perspective. What kind of transformations happened (in dominant
  ideologies, in attitudes, in every-day life) during the period in question
  and in different cultural contexts?

  Possible sub-themes include
  * living as an aged man or woman
  * Ideals and attitudes towards the old age
  * married life in mature age
  * gendered old age
  * demography of the old age
  * death in the midst of life
  * rituals of dying and burial practices
  * remembrance/oblivion of the dead

  Those  who would like to present papers are asked to submit a one-page
  abstract (setting out thesis and conclusions) as an e-mail attachment to
  Jussi Rantala (Conference Secretary), passages@uta.fi.

  Registration for all those attending or participating is 50 euros, with a
  post-graduate student rate of 30 euros.

  The Conference will be held  19-21 August 2005 in the University of
  Tampere. Tampere is an inland city with beautiful location between lakes
  and usually pleasant weather in  August. Tampere is easily accessed by
  plane via Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Frankfurt and London.

  Nota bene: The deadline  for abstracts is February 28, 2005.

  For further information, please contact

  *       Jussi Rantala, Conference Secretary,  e-mail: passages@uta.fi
  *       Katariina Mustakallio, Professor, Department of History, FIN-33014
          University of Tampere, Finland
  *       Julia Burman, Finnish Historical Society Tel. +358-9-22869351

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