Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference XXVI
Department of Classics, University of Otago, New Zealand
DATES: 30th Jan. to 3rd Feb. 2005
  Meeting of NZ and Australian Heads of Department: 30th Jan. 2005
  Conference papers: 31st Jan to 2nd Feb 2005
  ASCS and NZ Triennial General Meetings: 3rd Feb. 2005
VENUE: St Margaret’s College, University of Otago,
  Dunedin, New Zealand
GUEST SPEAKERS: Alan Cameron, Columbia University, USA;
  Colleen McCullough, Norfolk Island

Full details about the conference, including registration and accommodation, can be found at
http://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/events/conferences/index.html.

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.

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.

Excellent 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.

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The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford is pleased to announce that its third major conference, ‘Aristophanes Upstairs and Downstairs: Peace, Birds, and Frogs in Ancient and Modern Performance’, will take place at Magdalen College, Oxford, from Thursday 16 September to Saturday 18 September 2004. This follows the success of past conferences on Medea in 1998 and Agamemnon in 2001, the proceedings of which are published by Legenda (Oxford, 2000) and OUP (Oxford, forthcoming, 2005) respectively. 
 
We are extending the deadline for postgraduate bursary applications to 30 July 2004, since The Classical Association has generously provided funding for a further three postgraduate bursaries, in addition to those funded by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The conference is also supported by the British Academy and The Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford.
 
The provisional programme outline, details about postgraduate bursaries, and a printable version of the booking form are available online at www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confaristbooking.htm. If you wish to receive these details in hard copy format, please email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk.  Conference bookings should be received by 18 August.
 
The provisional list of speakers and paper titles is as follows:
 
- James Baughan (Exeter), ‘Ambiguities in Lessing’s Reception of Aristophanic Comedy’
 
- Ewen Bowie (Oxford), ‘Exploring the Other? The Ups and Downs of Aristophanic Travel in Greek Culture of the 2nd & 3rd Centuries AD’
 
- Mary-Kay Gamel (Santa Cruz), ‘Tonight We Dine on Flamingo: Sondheim and Stanley Float Frogs’
 
- Malika Hammou (Toulouse), ‘Aristophanes in France: Recent Stagings’
 
- Charalampos Orfanos (Toulouse), ‘Revolutionary Aristophanes?’
 
- Francesca Schironi (Oxford), ‘A Poet without “Gravity”: Aristophanes on the Italian Stage’
 
- Bernd Seidensticker (Berlin), ‘Peter Hacks and Aristophanes’ Peace’
 
- Masaru Sekine (Waseda), ‘Kyogen and Aristophanes’
 
- Michael Silk (London), ‘On Translating Aristophanes’
 
- Matthew Steggle (Sheffield), ‘“That Scurrilous Carping Comedian”: Aristophanes in Early Modern Europe’
 
- Oliver Taplin (Oxford), ‘Aristophanes and Comic Vases from the Greek West – Taking Stock’
 
- Martina Treu (Pavia), ‘Poetry and Politics, Advice and Abuse: The Aristophanic Chorus on the Italian Stage’
 
- Gonda Van Steen (Arizona), ‘Staging Aristophanes' Birds in Modern Greece: From Koun's Scandal to Success Story’
 
- Betine Van Zyl Smit (Western Cape), ‘Aristophanes in South Africa’
 
There will also be a Panel on Translation and Performance with Sean O’Brien (Poet and Translator) and Mike Poulton (Playwright and Translator).

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