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Lectures in Classical Studies
last upated on 23 April 2008
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Ongoing
- Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium
- The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean of Columbia University
- A schedule of talks at the University of Chicago
- A schedule of talks at Johns Hopkins University
- A schedule of talks at the University of Pennsylvania
- International Conferences listings, maintained by the University of London
- www.classicalnyc.org: classical events in the New York City area
- PLACET: classical events in the Philadelphia area
- Previous conference archived permanently at remote sites
Registration for Feminism & Classics V at the University of Michigan, May 8-11, is now open. Information and forms at http://www.umich.edu/~classics/news/opportunities.html, along with a preliminary program.
The University of Crete, Department of Philology (Division of Classics) is pleased to announce the organization and hosting of an International Conference on ‘Greek and Roman Ekphrasis’ to be held in Rethymnon, Crete on 19-20 May 2008.
Speakers and Titles:
- Simon Goldhill, The Context of Ekphrasis
- Irene De Jong,Metalepsis, Ekphrasis, and the Shield of Achilles
- Marco Fantuzzi, Modes of Ekphrasis and Characterization in Euripides
- Mark Payne, Ecphrasis and Atmosphere
- Michael Paschalis, The Hellenistic Epigram and Ekphrastic Challenges
- David Rijser,A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist: Ekphrasis as Sphragis in Virgil
- Andrew Feldherr,Aquae tremulum lumen: Reflections on Myth and History in the Shield of Aeneas.
- Eleanor W. Leach,Statius’ Silvae 3.1 and 4.6: Domesticating Hercules under Flavian Patronage
- Kathryn Gutzwiller,Ecphrastic Interpretation of Allegorical Art
- Helen Morales,Phryne and the Psychology of Ekphrasis
- Clemente Marconi, Pausanias and the Figural Decoration of Greek Sacred Architecture
- Michael Putnam, Sannazaro’s Ekphrastic Vision
For further information please contact:
Michael Paschalis, paschalis@phl.uoc.gr
Marco Fantuzzi, mfantuzzi@unifi.it
Cultural Identity and Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean
Thursday, June 12, and Friday, June 13, 2008
Getty Villa Auditorium
Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought
A conference hosted by the School of History, Classics and ArchaeologyThe University of Edinburgh
Friday 13 June to Sunday 15 June 2008
Conference organisers: Prof. Douglas Cairns (Douglas.Cairns@ed.ac.uk), Dr Michael Lurje (michael.lurie@ed.ac.uk)
The focus of the event will be tragedy’s relation (be it complementary or antithetical) to the broad nexus of ideas, both traditional and philosophical, that the genre and its audience may be said to have inherited from the Archaic period, broadly defined – ideas such as the justice of the gods and the prospect of their envy, the instability of human fortune, the principle of alternation, hybris and ate, inherited guilt, the influence of Presocratic thinkers, etc. We believe the relation between tragedy and Archaic thought is due for a fresh exploration.
Provisional programme:
- Prof. Lutz Käppel (Kiel): ‘Anaximander's Fragment (12 A 9 = B 1) and the Aeschylean Concept of Guilt’
- Dr Scott Scullion (Oxford): 'Fate and Divine Justice in Epic and Tragedy'
- Prof. Alex Garvie (Glasgow): 'Aeschylus' Persae and the hybris of Xerxes'
- Prof. Alan Sommerstein (Nottingham), 'Ate in Aeschylus'
- Dr Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Swansea): ‘Decision-making in Aeschylus’
- Prof. Richard Seaford (Exeter): ‘Aeschylus, Heraclitus, and Pythagoreanism’
- Prof. Robert Zaborowski (Polish Academy): 'Presocratics and Aeschylus'
- Prof. Vayos Liapis (Montreal): 'Creon the Labdacid: Spill-over of Hereditary Guilt in Sophocles’ Antigone'
- Prof. Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh): 'Dodds, Gods, and Oedipus Rex'
- Dr Bill Allan (Oxford): 'Knowledge, Intention and Responsibility in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus'
- Dr Michael Lurje (Edinburgh): 'Not to Be Born is Best: Archaic Thought and Internal Responses to Tragedy'
- Dr Michael Lloyd (Dublin): 'The Mutability of Fortune in Euripides'
- Dr Simon Trépanier (Edinburgh): ‘Entertaining Ideas: Poetry and Philosophy down to 400 B.C.’
For further information, please contact:
Michael Lurje (michael.lurie@ed.ac.uk)
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm
“The Healing Power of Ancient Literature” is the title of a symposium to be held in Reno, Nevada, on June 19 and 20, 2008, under the auspices of The Parker Institute. The symposium’s premise is that literature, especially ancient literature, possesses a profound power to heal our souls, a power that is especially needed today when the rapidity of change and the force of world events combine to make peace of mind an ever more distant and seemingly unreachable goal. Featuring nationally-renowned scholars, the symposium will explore the wisdom literature of Egypt, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, the poetry of Homer, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes as sources of enlightenment and inspiration. For further information, contact Dr. Lois Parker (loisp@unr.edu; 2878 Barong Court, Reno, NV 89523).
Triennial Conference in Oxford 2008
The details of this conference (28/7-1/8/2008) are to be found at http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/triennial/index.htm
Please note that early booking before 31/3/2008 enjoys some discount, and that there are application forms for graduate bursaries on the site.
Fragmented Narrative: the Narratology of the Greek Letter
An International Conference at Lampeter
21 – 24 September 2008
For further information please see www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/conferences/fragmented_narrative.html
Department of Classics, University of Wales Lampeter
in association with
KYKNOS, the Centre for Research on the Narrative Literature of the Ancient World (www.kyknos.org.uk)
A conference on letters in and as narrative from Classical to Roman Greece, including historiography, (auto-) biography, pseudepigrapha, philosophers' letters, and epistolary novels.
Speakers include:
Ewen Bowie (Oxford), Pamela Gordon (Kansas), Dimitri Kasprzyk (Bretagne Occidentale), David Konstan (Brown), John Morgan (Swansea), Patricia Rosenmeyer (Wisconsin-Madison), Niall Slater (Emory), Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford).
See website for full list of speakers and topics.
Please contact: Owen Hodkinson (details below) for further information or if you would be interested in attending the conference. Booking forms available soon from the conference website.
Owen Hodkinson
o.hodkinson@lamp.ac.uk
Dept. of Classics.
University of Wales Lampeter
Lampeter
SA48 7ED
UK
Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica
A Conference at Columbia University, 24-25 October 2008
The Astronomica of Manilius—a five-book didactic poem on astrology from the second decade of the first century AD—offers great opportunity for diverse scholarly study, in terms of its genre and intertextuality and its philosophical, intellectual, and socio-political background. Nevertheless, but for a few notable exceptions, the poem has been largely ignored, especially by Anglophone scholars, whose silence would suggest compliance with the old-fashioned view that the Astronomica is too difficult to read and digest and/or full of contradictions and astrological errors and omissions.
This conference aims to put the neglected poet firmly back on the scholarly map by bringing together an international group of Latinists, historians of science, and reception specialists, who will approach the author and his work from a variety of angles.
Speakers include: Josèphe-Henriette Abry, Elaine Fantham, Monica Gale, Patrick Glauthier, Steven Green, Thomas Habinek, Stephen Heilen, John Henderson, Wolfgang Hübner, Duncan Kennedy, Daryn Lehoux, Wolfgang Mann, Caroline Stark, James Uden, and Katharina Volk.
For more information, go to www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/Manilius%20website%20info/Manilius%20conference.htm
or e-mail Katharina Volk at kv2018@columbia.edu or Steven Green at s.j.green@leeds.ac.uk.
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