Current Issues, Future Strategies: Classical Language Teaching at University
Saturday 15th January 2005, 10:30 – 16:30
CMR15, The Open University, Milton Keynes

Further offers of papers welcome.

This event is being organised by the Classics section of The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology*.  The conference aims to provide a forum to discuss issues of concern in language learning and teaching in Higher Education, but participation from teachers in schools and colleges is very welcome. Confirmed contributors include Ken Belcher (University of Leeds), Lynette Mithcell (University of Exeter) and Will Griffiths (Cambridge School Classics Project).  There is no registration fee for attending and some lunch will be provided.

For more information, contact:

Dr David Fitzpatrick
The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology
Department of Classical Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Tel: 01908 659630, Fax: 01908 653750, E-mail: D.G.Fitzpatrick@open.ac.uk

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::Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:17:37 AM::

The Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Centre for Roman Provincial Archaeology, University of Durham present

                          Spades and Stages

                        A one-day colloquium
                      Friday 17th December 2004
                   Corpus Christi College, Oxford

The topic is the confrontation between classics, as an area of cultural studies, and material goods, as represented by archaeological and antiquarian discoveries, and the ways that material objects (including archaeological finds) impact upon 'representations' of the classical world. Papers will last thirty minutes.

Programme

10.30 Coffee and registration

11.00-12.30 First Session  (chair : Richard Hingley)

Stephen Harrison (Oxford) 'Lytton and Pompeii : Archaeology and Fiction'

Phiroze Vasunia (UNC, Chapel Hill/Oxford) 'Rome in Hindostan: Architecture and the Classical Revival in British India'

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 Second Session (chair : Stephen Harrison)

Edith Hall (Durham) 'Sophocles and Stonehenge in the 18th century'

Richard Hingley (Durham)
'Influence of antiquarian studies on images of ancient Britons from the C16 to C19/20'

3.00-3.30 Tea

3.30-5.00  Third Session (chair : Edith Hall/Oliver Taplin)

Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) 'Mounet-Sully and the classical ideal'

Debby Challis (Birkbeck) 'The British Museum and Greek theatre in Victorian London'

5.00 Round-up session and close (by 5.30).

Those wishing to attend should book a place with Stephen Harrison at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, OX1 4JF by 1st December 2004, enclosing a conference fee of £10 (cheques payable to ‘Corpus Christi College, Oxford’, please). Any enquiries to Stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk.

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::Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:15:00 AM::