ROMAN DRESS ANDTHE FABRIC OF ROMAN CULTURE
A two-day colloquium on roman dress held in collaboration with the Ontario Classical Association
York University (Keele/Steeles Campus)
Friday 22 – Saturday 23 October 2004

FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER (History Department Common Room: 2183 Vari Hall).
9.45 Welcome
10.00-10.30 Jonathan Edmondson (York University), "Dress and social control in late Republican and early imperial Rome"
10.30-11.00 Fanny Dolansky (University of Chicago), "Togam virilem sumere: Coming of Age in the Roman World"
11.00-11.30 Discussion; Coffee
11.30-12.00 Leslie Shumka (Mt. Allison University), "Inscribing adornment: the Mundus Muliebris on Women's Sepulchral Inscriptions"
12.00-12.30 Elaine Fantham (Princeton University), "Covering the Head: Gender and Ritual"
12.30-12.45 Discussion
1.00 - 2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.00 Alison Keith (University of Toronto), "Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus"
3.00-3.30 Riemer Faber (University of Waterloo), "The poetics of dress in Roman epic"
3.30-4.0 Discussion; Tea
4.30-5.00 Michael Carter (Brock University), "Gladiatorial dress"
5.00-5.30 Guy Métraux (York University), "Sacred and Secular in Late Antique Clothing"

ONTARIO CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION
Fall Meeting 2004
Saturday 23 October 2004
9.30 – 10.00 Registration and Coffee. Vari Hall, Lecture Room A.
10.00 – 10.05 Opening Remarks, Jonathan Edmondson (York University), President, OCA
10.05 – 10.50 Kelly Olson (University of Western Ontario), "The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl"
11.00 – 11.45 Keith Bradley (University of Notre Dame), "Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display"
12.00 – 1.30 Lunch, Founders College Senior Common Room
1.30 – 2.15 Michele George (McMaster University), "The Dark Side of the Toga"
2.15 – 3.00 Beth Ellison (Elmwood School, Ottawa), "Reconstructing Roman dress at the Ontario Schools Classics Conference (OSCC)"

[I omit the registration form; please contact conference organizers, below]

Please return this form and your registration fee as soon as possible and by Fri. 15 October at the very latest to:
Professor J. Edmondson,
Dept. of History, York University,
4700 Keele St.
Toronto. ON. M3J 1P3.
Please make cheques payable to YORK UNIVERSITY.
If you have any questions, please e-mail Jonathan Edmondson at jedmond@yorku.ca.

... seen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin

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