CONF: Cicero Awayday III: Rhetoric and res publica

June 14th 2004, University of St. Andrews

School of Classics, Swallowgate

10.30-11.50 Session 1

10.30-11.20 Craig Galbraith (University of St. Andrews)
Cicero’s concept of the res publica and rhetorical strategy
11.20-11.50 Tia Dawes (University of Auckland)
Encomium in Philippic 10

11.50-12.00 Break

12.00-1.30 Session 2

12.00-12.45 Cristina Rosillo (University of Neuchatel)
Criminal trials and public opinion on Cicero’s Verrines
12.45-1.20 Jill Harries (University of St. Andrews)
Cicero and the bad people

1.20-2.30 Lunch

2.30-4.10 Session 3

2.30-3.10 Lynn Fotheringham (University of Nottingham)
Publishing the pro Milone
3.10-4.10 Matthew Fox (University of Birmingham)
Cicero and ideology: a problem for reception?

4.10-4.30 Closing discussion

Coffee will be available from 10 am and tea after the final discussion.
There is no fee for the Awayday, but please register by May 31st in order
to be included in the numbers for lunch.

Some student bursaries to assist with travel costs will be available: if
you are interested in applying please contact Dr. Steel by April 23rd.

For all enquiries, and registrations, contact:
Dr. Catherine Steel (c.steel@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk)
Department of Classics,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ
0141-330-4382

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CONF: Anatomical Knowledge in the Ancient World

The Centre for the History of Medicine of the University of Birmingham Medical School (UK) is holding an international conference entitled "Anatomical Knowledge in the Ancient World: from prehistory to late antiquity" at the University from 16-19 June 2004. Sponsored by The Wellcome Trust, it is also the first ever European Meeting of the Society for Ancient Medicine.
 
There are three keynote speakers: Professor Vivian Nutton (UCL), Professor Don Brothwell (York) and Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge) plus speakers from twelve countries. Full details of the conference can be found at http://medweb5.bham.ac.uk/histmed/ancientmedicine. Although the programme is now full, it is not too late to register to participate.
 
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CFP: CLASS STRUGGLES IN ANTIQUITY
April 2005
Scripps College
Los Angeles

What do we mean when we talk of class in antiquity? What evidence do we have
to construct models of class struggle? Can we in fact talk of class in the
context of the ancient world? What problems do we face when we try to
examine class in antiquity from the perspective of our own present day
society? To be sure, ancient (elite) sources are not the most transparent
representations of the views of peasants. Yet class allegiance is not a
simple matter of economics. So what classes were there? How did class
impinge upon ideology (of the wealthy, the polis, the urban poor,
imperialism, etc.)? To what extent can a model of class struggle provide a
motor for historical change (rather than a mere description) in the ancient
world?

This conference will explore the kinds of evidence (visual, literary,
epigraphic, etc.) that we have and can use for an analysis of class in
antiquity (Greece and Rome) as well as the models (Marx, Althusser, Zizek,
Gramsci, Jameson, Williams, Bourdieu, etc.) that can best explain how we
define class struggle in the ancient world and the ways in which it was
represented. Whereas (in Terry Eagleton's terms) the "Holy Trinity" of
gender, race and ethnicity has long held the imagination of classicists
since the 1970s, class (as a category of analysis) has by and large ceased
to be a topic of interest. This trend was part of a broader shift in the
understanding of social forces that has rejected Marxism (with its emphasis
on economic class struggle) in favor of postmodern identity politics. But
postmodern work on Marxism and ideology has provided many supplements to
orthodox (Marxist) notions of class. In its synthesis of the critical
advances made in the study of class and a thorough analysis of the extant
evidence, this conference aims to readdress and reevaluate the concepts of
class and class struggle in antiquity.

Abstract Deadline: May 15, 2004
Papers should be about 30 minutes in length. Please send inquiries and
abstracts (up to 2 pages pasted in the body of an email) to David Roselli
droselli@scrippscollege.edu.

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CFP: ASCS XXVI (2005): NOTICE OF DATES AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Australasian Society for Classical Studies will be holding its
twenty-sixth General Meeting and Conference at the University of Otago in
Dunedin, New Zealand, over three days commencing on the morning of Monday 31
January 2005 and concluding with the conference dinner on the evening of
Wednesday 2 February. This will be the first meeting of the Society in New
Zealand. Keynote speakers will be Professor Alan Cameron (Columbia) and Dr
Colleen McCullough.

The closing date for offers of papers is Monday 1 November 2004. Papers of
either 20 or 30 minutes are invited on any topic connected with the ancient
world relating to its languages, literature, thought, history and
archaeology and embracing Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near East, Egypt and the
Mediterranean generally from the beginnings to the Early Middle Ages. Please
send offers, with an abstract of 100 words, to William J. Dominik at the
following e-mail address:
william.dominik@stonebow.otago.ac.nz, or mail to: Department of Classics,
University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.

It is anticipated that business meetings of the Australasian Society for
Classical Studies and of New Zealand Universities' Classics Departments will
be held consecutively on the morning of Thursday 3 February 2005. There will
also be a meeting of all Heads of Departments in Australasia or their
representatives in the afternoon of Sunday 30 January. Please keep the dates
and times of these meetings in mind when booking flights to and from
Dunedin.

Accommodation will be available at St Margaret's College on the University
campus for one week around the dates of the conference; motel/hotel
accommodation is available not far from campus. The conference venue and
University are within walking distance of the town centre. Information about
booking residential and motel/hotel accommodation, registering for the
meeting, and costs will be provided during the year by e-mail and via the
Otago Classics Department website (http://www.otago.ac.nz/classics).

If recipients of this message know of any colleagues or other potentially
interested parties who have not received this notice and wish to be added to
the ASCS meeting e-mail distribution list, please inform William J. Dominik
at the e-mail address above.

We look forward to seeing you in Dunedin early next year.

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SEMINAR ON MYCENEAN STUDIES

The Faculty of Classics in the University of Cambridge is hosting a seminar
on Mycenaean studies on May 28th-29th 2004. There will be approximately
twelve invited speakers giving papers on Mycenaean archaeology, epigraphy,
interpretation and linguistics. Others are very welcome to attend and to
join in the discussion.

Registration will take place between 1pm and 2pm on Friday 28th May. The
first session will then begin at 2pm. There will be two sessions on
Saturday 29th, beginning at 9am and ending at bout 6pm. The registration
fee will be GBP 15, and includes a drinks reception in St John's College on
Friday evening. There will also be a dinner on Saturday evening, for which
the charge will be GBP 25.

Further details (including travel and accommodation information) are
available on-line at <http://www.linearb.org>. There is also an online
booking form at that address - it would be very helpful if you used that
form to reserve your place at the seminar. It is especially important to
reserve places at the dinner in advance, including details of dietary
requirements. Please note that we are not able to take payment on-line - we
will collect fees at registration.

If you require any further information, or you have difficulties with the
online booking form, please get in touch by email (<rjet1@cam.ac.uk>) or by
mail to either of the addresses below.

Best wishes,
Rupert Thompson.

Dr R. J. E. Thompson
Tutor, Director of Studies in Classics
Selwyn College, Cambridge, CB3 9DQ , UK

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10:53:27 AM    

CONF: CULTURES OF COMMEMORATION: WAR MEMORIALS, ANCIENT AND MODERN

A conference to be held at the British Academy, London; Friday 16
and Saturday 17 July 2004
This inter-disciplinary conference will explore cultural responses to
the commemoration of war dead, ranging from the Greek and Roman
civilisations to practices of the more recent past. The conference
will bring together experts working on Vietnam, the two world wars
of the 20th century, post-revolutionary France, nineteenth century
England, Republican and Imperial Rome, the Hellenistic World, and
Classical Greece.
The conference is partly inspired by the desire to focus scholarly
attention on the existence of a large, diverse, but often relatively
neglected, body of ancient and modern material. But it also hopes to
encourage new approaches which embrace a wider historical
awareness: the relationship between war, state and the individual,
family or social group; the role of monuments in their spatial
context; the visual vocabulary of monuments; the interactions
between monuments and rituals. The conference will offer ancient
and modern historians an opportunity to explore the dialogue
between commemorative practices for the war dead in ancient and
more recent cultures.
Participants include: Avner Ben-Amos, Angelos Chaniotis, Ana
Cardyn-Coyne, Alison Cooley, Phil Freeman, Stefan Goebel, Vedia
Izzet, Polly Low, John Ma, Graham Oliver, Robin Osborne, P.J.
Rhodes, Sarah Tarlow, Larry Tritle, Alison Yarrington.
Further information, including booking information, appears on the
British Academy website:www.britac.ac.uk/events/

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10:52:32 AM    

CFP: CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA

CONFERENCE VENUE: UNIVERSITY OF KwaZULU-NATAL (The Conference will be based at the
Pietermaritzburg Campus but will also hold a session at the Howard College Campus in
Durban.)

DATES: 5-8 JULY 2005
CONFERENCE THEME: THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

Papers may be on the conference theme or on other classical topics, or may have a related
multi-disciplinary focus. Proposals for panel discussions, and offers to coordinate panels,
will be welcome.

Abstracts (not more than 250 words) should be sent to

Mrs Anne Gosling
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban
4041
South Africa

Tel: +27 31 26023-4, Fax +27 31 2602698, e-mail gosling@nu.ac.za

Conference website: http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za

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10:51:35 AM    

CFP: CLASS STRUGGLES IN ANTIQUITY

April 2005
Scripps College
Los Angeles

What do we mean when we talk of class in antiquity? What evidence do we
have to construct models of class struggle?  Can we in fact talk of
class in the context of the ancient world? What problems do we face when
we try to examine class in antiquity from the perspective of our own
present day society?  To be sure, ancient (elite) sources are not the
most transparent representations of the views of peasants.  Yet class
allegiance is not a simple matter of economics.  So what classes were
there?  How did class impinge upon ideology (of the wealthy, the polis,
the urban poor, imperialism, etc.)?  To what extent can a model of class
struggle provide a motor for historical change (rather than a mere
description) in the ancient world?

This conference will explore the kinds of evidence (visual, literary,
epigraphic, etc.) that we have and can use for an analysis of class in
antiquity (Greece and Rome) as well as the models (Marx, Althusser,
Zizek, Gramsci, Jameson, Williams, Bourdieu, etc.) that can best explain
how we define class struggle in the ancient world and the ways in which
it was represented.  Whereas (in Terry Eagleton's terms) the "Holy
Trinity" of gender, race and ethnicity has long held the imagination of
classicists since the 1970s, class (as a category of analysis) has by
and large ceased to be a topic of interest.  This trend was part of a
broader shift in the understanding of social forces that has rejected
Marxism (with its emphasis on economic class struggle) in favor of
postmodern identity politics.  But postmodern work on Marxism and
ideology has provided many supplements to orthodox (Marxist) notions of
class.  In its synthesis of the critical advances made in the study of
class and a thorough analysis of the extant evidence, this conference
aims to readdress and reevaluate the concepts of class and class
struggle in antiquity.

Abstract Deadline: May 15, 2004
Papers should be about 30 minutes in length.  Please send inquiries and
abstracts (up to 2 pages pasted in the body of an email) to:
droselli@scrippscollege.edu (David Roselli).

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