CONF: Language, Power and Politics.
Spring Meeting of the British Epigraphy Society
Faculty of Arts, University of Manchester, Saturday May 8th 2004.

This one-day conference will explore the use of inscribed
documents in the construction and representation of power
relationships in the politics of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Speakers: Alastair Blanshard (Reading), Simon Corcoran (UCL),
Lucy Grig (Reading), Peter Liddel (TCD), Claire Taylor (Cambridge).

The conference will be held in the Arts Building of the University of
Manchester (maps and directions can be found on the university
website: www.man.ac.uk), starting at 10.30 and finishing at 5.45.
Lunch and other refreshments will be available for a small fee.

All are very welcome, but advance booking is essential.  If you
would like to attend the conference, or would like any other
information,  please contact polly.low@man.ac.uk (specifying
whether you are a member of the British Epigraphy Society and
whether you are a student).  Further details can also be found on
the BES webpages: www.csad.ox.ac.uk/bes/

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CONF: Performing Civic Identity

26 May 2004

This year's one-day symposium, held at the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity
(University of Birmingham), explores the ways in which performative culture (and cultural
performance) shaped the civilisations of classical Greece and Rome. Papers explore
questions of identity and performance, and the articulation of citizenship as a locus of
dialogue and convergence between central ancient forms of discourse (e.g. rhetoric and
oratory, drama, lyric, historiography, philosophy).

Speakers include: Mary Beard (Cambridge), Andrew Feldherr (Princeton), Niall Livingstone
(Birmingham), Judith Mossman (Nottingham).

Registration fee (including coffee & lunch) £5

For further details and full programme, contact the organiser: Diana Spencer
(D.J.Spencer@bham.ac.uk) IAA, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT

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CONF: Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Roman East
University of Exeter, 22nd-23rd July 2004

July 22nd:
12.30 pm:       Arrivals, welcomes
1.00 - 2.00:    Lunch
2.00 - 3.00:    Tim Whitmarsh (Exeter), 'Thinking local'
3.00 - 4.00:    Caroline Vout (Nottingham), 'Greek love in North Africa'
4.00 - 4.30:    Tea
4.30 - 5.30:    Christopher Jones (Harvard), 'Identity and ancestry'
6.00 - 7.00     Drinks, followed by conference dinner

July 23rd
9.30 - 10.30    Stephen Mitchell (Exeter), 'Cultured garlic: conflicting constructions of
Paphlagonian identity'
10.30 - 11.00   Coffee
11.00 - 12.00   Ilaria Romeo (Lecce), 'Europa and Cretan Identity'
12.00 - 1.00    Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), 'Religion and the intellectual: thinking about
the boundaries of collectivity'
1.00 - 2.00     Lunch
2.00 - 3.00     Maud Gleason (Stanford), 'The lamentations of Herodes: identities in
polyphony'
3.00 - 3.30     Onno van Nijf (Groningen), 'Being Termessian: local politics and local
identity in the Roman East'
3.30 - 4.00     Tea
4.00 - 5.00     Conclusion, panel discussion

Please disregard any earlier booking instructions, and use the booking form at
http://www.ex.ac.uk/classics/news/index.htm

Alternatively, contact:
Dr Tim Whitmarsh (t.j.g.whitmarsh@ex.ac.uk)
Reader in Greek Literature
Dept of Classics & Ancient History
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4QH
United Kingdom
01392 264280

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The UNB Ancient History Colloquium for 2004 has been cancelled. The
organizers apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

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CONF: WAR, CULTURE AND HUMANITY FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES
Hulme Hall, University of Manchester, 15-17 April 2004

Organisers: Centre for the Cultural History of War; and the European Review of
History/Revue Europeene d'Histoire.

Plenary speakers: Guy Halsall; Jacques Semelin; Liz Stanley; Hans van Wees; Jay Winter.

Includes session papers on antiquity by: Edward Bragg; Pamela de Condappa; Pasi Loman;
Olivier Mariaud; Samantha Smith.
Also a Late Antiquity Workshop.

Further details: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/HISTORY/department/news.htm#conferences
Bookings and accommodation: claire.l.atherton@man.ac.uk

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CFP: THEORETICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO NEAR EASTERN AND EAST MEDITERRANEAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

One session is planned for 2004.

Theory is important to the way we interpret information from the past
and use it in the
present; anthropological methodologies are key to understanding the
human element in
studies of Near Eastern art and archaeology. As section chairs, we
actively solicit
submissions on all areas of explicitly theoretical and
anthropological approaches to
ancient Near Eastern and east Mediterranean art and archaeology. In
previous years
papers in this session have included: applied anthropological
methodology from the
four-fields of anthropology (and sub-fields) including archaeology, linguistic
anthropology, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology; the
so-called "New Art
History;" interpretive approaches to the material culture of the
Ancient Near East,
including topics such as systems theory, sampling strategies,
cognitive archaeology,
chaos theory, meme theory, semiotics and structuralism,
post-structuralism, contextual
analysis, Marxist approaches, concepts of time and space, structuration theory,
phenomenology and performance, habitus, structured deposition, the
Annales school,
discourse analysis, spatial analysis, landscape, and other related
areas including
hermeneutics, dialectics, alternative constructions of gender
identity, theories dealing
with cultural and ethnic identity, ideology, social and critical
theory; historiography,
critical approaches to museology and heritage management, and the
politics of the past.

In 2004, we are particularly interested in abstracts dealing with
explicitly theoretical and
critical approaches to systems of interaction and exchange and the
construction of social
identities (which may include ethnicity, emotion, humor, nationalism,
etc), however, all
approaches will be considered.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS TO SECTION CHAIRS:
APRIL 1, 2004.

You will be notified of acceptance shortly after the deadline.

Although we can accept 4-5 papers for this session, potential
presenters must realize
that submitting an abstract for consideration implies your intent and
commitment to
become an ASOR member and attend the annual meeting at your expense or at the
expense of your home institution.

Abstracts are limited to 250 words and papers will be limited to
20-25 minutes in length.

More details, rules for participation, electronic abstract forms, and
electronic membership
forms may obtained on-line at www.asor.org.

If you have a general inquiry you will get a speedier response if you
direct it to all three
session co-chairs:

Sarah Costello          Email: scostell@binghamton.edu
Andrew McCarthy         E-mail: Ephphilon@aol.com
Louise Hitchcock        E-mail: lahi@unimelb.edu.au

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