CRSN Newsletter 27 March 2014

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Welcome to the 27th issue of the CRSN Newsletter(March 2014)

1. Welcome

We would also like to extend a warm welcome to the networks three newinstitutional partners:

Dr Christian Dahl at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies,University of Copenhagen

Dr Wilson Shearin at the Department of ClassicsUniversity of Miami

Dr Demetrios Yatromanolakes at the Department of Classics, the Department ofAnthropology and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University

We would also like to extend a warm welcome to the networks five newindividual members:

Arabella Currie, DPhil student at the Classics Faculty,University of Oxford

Dr Liana Giannakopoulou at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages,University of Cambridge

Laura McKenzie, PG student at the Department of English Studies,Durham University

Dr Valentina Prosperi at the Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze delluomo e dellaformazione, Universit di Sassari

Enrique Riobo, PG student at the Centro de estudios culturales latinoamericanos,Universidad de Chile


2. News

Aquila Theatre PresentsA Female Philoctetes:

An Exploration of Sophocles PhiloctetesApril 16th 19th at 7pm

BAM Fisher Hillman StudioBrooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Translated by Peter MeineckDirected by Desiree Sanchez (Artistic Director, Aquila)Music by Ralph Ferris (Artistic Director of ETHEL)

Part of the Aquila Theatre/National Endowment for the Humanities You|Storiesprogram. Join us for Post-Performance Discussions with Scholars and CombatVeterans: http://www.bam.org/theater/2014/a-female-philoctetes

Tickets http://commerce.bam.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=8669or Call 718.636.4100$30 General Admission $15 GroupsBook by March 30th to Receive Discount. Use Code: 27122

As part of Aquila Theatres National Endowment for the Humanities multi-yearAward for You|Stories, Aquila will explore Sophocles ancient play Philoctetes andreimagine it with the title role played as a female combat soldier. Aquila Theatre is aveteran of Greek Classical Theatre and will boldly take on this newest endeavor. Joinus as we present, A Female Philoctetes, a staged reading, translated by Peter Meineckand directed and adapted by Desiree Sanchez. Post show talk backs to follow eachperformance.

This event is part of You|Stories - Aquila's innovative public program fundedby the National Endowment for the Humanities, which uses ancient drama to inspiremodern stories. An interactive You|Stories app and web platform will allow theveteran community and the public to explore these ancient stories and be inspired totell their own. These new narratives will be archived at the Library of Congress.

Classics Confidential InterviewClassical Reception, Past, Present and Future, with Lorna Hardwick

http://classicsconfidential.co.uk/2014/03/10/lornahardwick/

In this interview Lorna talks about the explosion of interest in the performance,adaptation and poetic responses to classical material in the last part of the 20thcentury. The reasons for this and its effects both on the creative arts and on howclassics might be perceived in the future will be the concern of future culturalhistorians.


Sir John Beazleys notebooks go online

More than 150 notebooks on Greek vases belonging to Sir John Beazley (1885-1970)have now been digitized and are freely available online at:http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/tools/beazley

The notebooks form part of the Beazley Archive, which is held at the Classical ArtResearch Centre (CARC) in Oxford. Comprising mainly pencil sketches andannotations, the manuscripts record Beazley's impressions of vase-paintings as hetravelled around the world's collections of Attic pottery. They were mainly written inthe early part of his career, between around 1907 and 1930. Beazley's little knownnotes and drawings offer the best evidence of his method of 'Morellian' analysis as heworked to attribute vase-paintings to the hands of individual artists. They give anextraordinary insight into his connoisseurship and record his impressions of potswhich are widely dispersed and in some cases can no longer be located. Work willcontinue to study the notes and integrate some of them into the main BeazleyArchive Pottery Database (BAPD). Also included in the project is a notebook ofNicolas Plaoutine, documenting nineteenth-century sales of vases.

CARC welcomes feedback and insights into the digitized notebooks from users(contact: [email protected]). The notebooks themselves, together with severalhundreds of thousands of other manuscripts and photographs from the BeazleyArchive, can be consulted at the Centre's study-room in Oxford.

Announcing a New InterdisciplinaryPublishing Initiative in Antiquity

Palgrave Macmillan

Distributor of I.B.Tauris, Manchester University Press, Pluto Press, and Zed Books(888) 330-8477 Fax: (800) 672-2054 www.palgrave.com

Society, Culture, and Text in Late Antiquity, edited by Danuta ShanzerLate Antiquity is a marcher lordship, patrolling the territory between classicalantiquity and the Middle Ages while retaining important links with both. Thisgroundbreaking, new interdisciplinary series will cover the six hundred years of theinclusive so-called long Late Antiquity, running from the 2nd Century CE down tothe 7th Century CE, with a broadly defined geographical coverage including easternand western Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, andwestern Asia. Learned, original, lively, passionate, fresh-voiced, incisive (and, ideallyinter- or multi-disciplinary) monographs, edited collections, syntheticor synoptic works in history, literature, religion, and all other relevant fi elds arewelcomed for consideration.


DANUTA SHANZER is University Professor of Late Antique and Medieval Latin atthe University of Vienna, Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, andcorresponding Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has taught at theUniversity of Manchester, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, Cornell,and Illinois. Honors include fellowships from the Marshall Aid CommemorationCommission, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, and the A.C.L.S. She is theauthor of two books (one co-authored), three co-edited volumes, and numerousarticles.

The New Antiquity, edited by Matthew S. SantiroccoOver the past two decades, our understanding of the ancient world has beendramatically transformed as classicists and other scholars of antiquity have movedbeyond traditional geographical, chronological, and methodological boundariesto focus on new topics and different questions. By providing a major venue forfurther cutting-edge scholarship, The New Antiquity will reflect, shape, andparticipate in this transformation. The series will focus on the literature, history,thought, and material culture of not only the ancient cultures of Europe, but alsoEgypt and the Middle East, both before and after Hellenization. With an emphasisalso on the reception of the ancient world into later periods, The New Antiquity willreveal how present concerns can be brilliantly illuminated by this new understandingof the past.

MATTHEW S. SANTIROCCO is Senior Vice Provost at New York University, where isalso Professor of Classics and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies. He hastaught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, Emory, and Pittsburgh.A former editor of the APA Monograph series, American Classical Studies, hecurrently edits the journal Classical World. His publications include a book onHorace, as well as several edited volumes and many articles. In 2009, he was electeda Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is currently AssistantSecretary of the Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences.

We welcome inquires and proposals from prospective authors.

For new proposals contact:Professor Danuta Shanzer, [email protected] Shull, Senior Editor, [email protected] Matthew S. Santirocco, [email protected] Chappell, Senior Editor, [email protected]

Crowdfunded free HE

The IF project, a recently-launched humanities initiative (with a significant classicscomponent), may be of interest. The aim of IF is to offer, free of charge, a generalhumanities education to a small cohort of young non-graduates otherwise priced outof higher education. The curriculum is built from freely-available online resources


and museums, with a weekly seminar and discussion led by an academic. They arecurrently crowd-funding in order to raise funds for their first course.

For more info on the programme and the crowd-funding campaign:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1271205777/if-this-university-is-free

3. Forthcoming Events in 2014

Classics and Classicists in the First World War8-10 April 2014

University of Leeds

Venue: The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library.

Conference Programme

Tuesday April 8th1.00-2.00pm Registration, Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University ofLeeds.

1pm onwards Conference exhibition openThe Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University ofLeeds.

2.00-2.10pm Welcome

2.10-3.10pm Keynote: Christopher Stray (Swansea/London)Classical Scholars at War: Europe and America, 1800-1930.

3.10-4.10pm Neville Morley (Bristol)Thucydides and the Legitimization of War.

4.10-4.30pm Tea

4.30pm-5.30pm Lynn Kozak and Miranda Hickman (McGill University inMontral)

Poppies and Wild-Hyacinth: H.D.s Hellenic Responses to the First WorldWar.

5.30pm-6.30pm Keynote: David Scourfield (National University of Ireland,Maynooth)

Classical In/stabilities: Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and the Great War.

Evening Conference Dinner, University House

Wednesday April 9th9.00am-10.00am Alison Rosenblitt (Oxford)

cast like Euridyce one brief look behind: the classical underworld in E.E.Cummings and the idea of moving on.


10.00am-10.30am Coffee

10.30-11.30am Ingrid Sharp (Leeds)Pacifism in Werfels Trojan Women, Berlin 1916.

11.30am-12.30pm Maarten De Pourcq (Nijmegen)Tragedy in the Trenches: Classics and Cultural Politics in Flemish Theatre

during WWI and its Aftermath.

12.30pm-1.45pm Lunch

2.00-3.00pm Marian Makins (Pennsylvania)Classical Landscapes and Storied Locations in the Battlefields of WWI.

3.00-4.00pm Lorna Hardwick (Open University)Legacies and refractions (David Reynolds, The Long Shadow, 2013): how ancienttexts and their receptions both contribute to and challenge modern constructs ofWW1.

4.00pm-4.30pm Tea

4.30pm-5.30pm Keynote: Angela Hobbs (Sheffield)Who Lied? Classical Heroism and WW1.

5.30pm onwards Performance Events inspired by Euripides Trojan WomenProduced by Eleanor OKell (Leeds) and directed by George Rodosthenous (Leeds).Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

Thursday April 10th10.00am-11.00am Moa Ekbom (Uppsala)

Hic primum Fortuna fidem mutate novavit: the Sortes Vergilianae in WorldWar I.

Respondents to Postgraduate papers: Lorna Hardwick (Open University) &Christopher Stray (Swansea/London)

11.00am-12.00pm Jasmine Hunter-Evans (Exeter)Re-imagining Rome at the Fall of Western Civilization: David Jones and the

Analogy of Decline.

12.00pm-1.00pm Lunch

1.30pm-3.30pm Leeds Postgraduate Papers and Panel Discussion: ClassicalScholarship in WWI.Andrea Basso; Anthi Chrysanthou; Henry Clarke; Natalie Enright; Ben Greet;Philippa Read

Conference organized by Elizabeth Pender (Leeds) and Edmund Richardson(Durham).

For further information:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125147/research/2197/legacies_of_war


To book, please use the Online Store:http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=104

Polits and Civis: Concepts, problems and debate on Citizenship in theAncient World and in Modern Political Thought

Urbino, 10-11 aprile 2014Aula Sospesa, Universit degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Giovedi 10 Aprile

9.00 Introduzione ai lavori (Lucia Cecchet, Anna Busetto)

9.15 Prof. Maurizio Giangiulio (Universit di Trento): Alle origini della cittadinanzain Grecia. Problemi metodologici e storici

I Sessione (10.15-13.15) Vivere da cittadini: implicazioni sociali, politiche emilitari dell appartenenza al corpo civico10.15-10.45 Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen): Rhamnousian bodies:demesmen, soldiers and the struggle for prominence in late-third-centuryRhamnous10.45-11.15 Pter Kat (Ruprecht-Karls Universitt Heidelberg): Citizens, non-citizens and foreigners in Hellenistic Cos: a case apart?11.15-11.45 Elizabeth Pearson (University of Manchester): The Census, militaryservice and citizenship in the Republican era11.45-12.15 Andreea Stefan (University of Bucharest): Between identity andrepresentation of socio-political status: the case of multiple citizenship holders inthe Roman Empire

12.15-13.15 Discussione

II Sessione (15.30-18.30): Questioni giuridiche e politiche relative allacittadinanza15.30-16.00 Jakub Filonik (University of Warsaw): Was living as you please andsaying whatever you wish a part of democratic ideology in classical Athens?

16.00-16.30 Luca Asmonti (University of Queensland- Australia):Cittadinanza e fragilit delle democrazie: spunti e riflessioni dallantica Atene16.30-17.00 Chiara Lasagni (Universit di Torino): La politeia negli stati federaligreci17.00-17.30 Sandra Gambetti (City University of New York ): Jews and legal statusin the Greco-Roman World: some considerations beyond the usual discourse17.30-18.30 Discussione

Venerdi 11 aprile

9.00 Prof. Valerio Marotta (Universit di Pavia): Egizi e civitas Romana tra I e IIIsecolo d.C.

III Sessione (10-13.00): Diventare cittadini10.00-10.30 Jessica Piccinini (Universitt Wien): Becoming Epirote: the case of


Gaius Pulfennius, son of Dazos, from Brindisium to Dodona10.30-11.00 Riccardo Dallaj (Universit di Bologna): Concessioni di cittadinanza inepoca ellenistica: alcuni esempi da comunit della Ionia11.00-11.30 Donato Fasolini (Universidad de Alcal de Henares): Questioni note,meno note o poco trattate dellascrizione tribale in et imperiale11.30-12.00 Arnaud Besson (Universit de Neuchtel): The Antonine Constitution:privileges and identity impact

12.00-13.00 Discussione

IV Sessione (15.00-18.00): Riflessione filosofica e politica sulla cittadinanza15.00-15.30 Annalisa Quattrocchio (Universit di Torino): Essere cittadiniad Atene: alcune riflessioni politiche di Teofrasto di Ereso15.30-16.00 Federica Pezzoli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Ilcittadino nella Politica di Aristotele fra tradizione e innovazione16.00-16.30 Valerio Rocco Lozano (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid):Latomismo logico del cittadino romano nella Fenomenologia dello Spirito diHegel16.30-17.00 Fernando Peir Muoz (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid): TheFrench Revolution and the concept of Roman citizenship: historical basis orideological construction?

17.00-18.00 Discussione18.30-19.30 Discussione finale e conclusioni

Wandering Myths Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World14th-16th April

Somerville College, Oxford

http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/Wandering-Myths.html

This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the mechanisms by which myth wastransmitted between ancient cultures and to examine how mythological narrativesbecame adopted and adapted within different cultural spheres.

Continuing shifts in rule in Anatolia and the Near East, from the Persian Empire tothe Hellenistic Kingdoms and the Roman Empire, entailed enormously rich andvaried mythical landscapes in these areas. The Trojan War epic both formed aresponse and became a catalyst for cross-cultural reciprocity. As part of on-goingprocesses narratives were re-configured in ways that had both local and universalresonances. The on-going imperatives of reception and innovation are equallyapparent in the uses of myth attested in Italy, here tangible in mythologicalprogrammes found in Etruscan tombs and the temples of Magna Graecia as well asRoman historiography. The conference investigates both wider geographiccirculations of mythical themes and local transformations of myth within individualregions.

The conference panels are organised according to important geographical andcultural regions, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East, and Italy.In addition, thematic approaches focusing upon figures such as Dionysus andHeracles are included to further a synthesis of the different areas. All panels will be


interlinked by general questions towards an understanding of the mechanisms thatguided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation.

Detailed Conference Programme:http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/Wandering-Myths-Programme.html

To register: Registration is free for all members of Oxford University. Theconference fee is 50 for those outside the university (not including lunch or dinner).

Please register online and select the relevant option:http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=202&catid=2055&prodvarid=718

The deadline for registration is the 7th of April, but early registration isrecommended as places are somewhat limited.

Location: The Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford ,OX2 6HD United Kingdom.

Organisers: L. Audley-Miller (University of Oxford), B. Dignas (University ofOxford)

List of Participants:B. Borg (University of Exeter), S. Dalley (University of Oxford), F. De Angelis(Columbia, N. De Grummond (Florida State University) , C. Draycott (BritishInstitute at Ankara and University of Liverpool) , K. Dunbabin (McMaster, Ontario) ,B. Ewald (University of Toronto), L. Giuliani (Humboldt University, Berlin), R.Lane-Fox (University of Oxford), L. Morgan (University of Oxford), D. Obbink(University of Oxford ), I. Rutherford (University of Reading), R. Parker (Universityof Oxford), L. Pitcher (University of Oxford), C. Potts (University of Oxford), N.Purcell (University of Oxford), T. Scheer (University of Goettingen), R.R.R. Smith(University of Oxford), O. Taplin (University of Oxford), S. Walker (Keeper ofAntiquities, Ashmolean Museum), N. West (University of Oxford), M. West(University of Oxford), R. Wood (University of Oxford).

Other Wandering Myths activities:TORCH funded interdisciplinary workshops leading up to the conference:http://torch.ox.ac.uk/wanderingmyths

A gallery trail has been designed in collaboration with Dr Susan Walker, Keeper ofAntiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, and Mr Nicholas West, Wolfson College. Thistrail follows Hercules from Gandhara to Britain with activities for children andadults. We would encourage all to give it a try!

The Wandering Myths project is funded and supported by: The ClassicalAssociation, The Classics Conclave, The Craven Fund, The Hellenic Society, The JohnFell OUP Research Fund, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, SomervilleCollege.


What is democracy? What is it good for? A workshop9 30 - 5 30, Friday April 25

School of Classics, University of St Andrews

'What is democracy? What is it good for?', a paper by Distinguished Visiting ScholarJosiah Ober (Stanford).

With responses by Ben Gray (Edinburgh), Mirko Canevaro(Edinburgh), David Carter (Reading) and Nicholas Cole (Oxford)

Followed by a round table discussion with Political ScientistsNicholas Rengger (St Andrews), Tony Lang (St Andrews) andMathias Thaler (Edinburgh)

All welcome. There is no charge for attendance, but please [email protected] by April 11 if you are consideringattending. Please also mention any special dietary requirements.For other enquiries please contact Myles Lavan ([email protected]).

Trivium Seminar Series 9

29 April 2014The Violence of Performance

Roger Kneebone (Imperial College) & Anastasia Bakogianni (The OpenUniversity)

Abstract: This seminar explores the relationship between violence andperformance, using surgery and Greek tragedy as metaphorical lenses. RogerKneebone draws on his innovative public simulations of surgical operations for knifeinjury to pose questions about the meaning of performance. At these events,audiences are invited to observe and even participate in a highly charged world - theemergency operating theatre - which is usually hidden from view but which sharesmany characteristics with classical tragedy. This framing of theatre contrasts withAnastasia Bakogiannis investigation of the performance of violence in moderntheatrical and cinematic receptions of Greek tragedy. In ancient Greek theatreviolence was usually reported, rather than actually performed on stage. This ancienttheatrical convention is now largely ignored and the performance of violence onstage has become the new norm. This paper seeks to explore the reasons behindpractitioners decision to reveal what was hidden and the impact on modernaudiences of witnessing the unseen.


Time: 4:30Location: Room 246, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Course: La Cultura Clsica A Travs Del Cine29 April- 5 June 2014

ORGANIZACIN: Grupo de Investigacin HUM-870 (Universidad de Granada),CRSN (Classical Reception Studies Network) y Centro de Profesorado de Linares.

Organisation: Alejandro Valverde Garca.Location: CEP de Linares. Paseo de Andaluces, 58. 23700 Linares (Jan, Spain).

PONENCIAS:

1. Potencial didctico del cine en las aulas: el lenguaje cinematogrfico. Ponentes porconfirmar. Martes 29 de abril.

2. Primeras fbulas mitolgicas y cine mudo pico italiano. Miguel Dvila Vargas-Machuca (UNIA Baeza). Mircoles 7 de mayo.

3. El Mundo Clsico en el cine de postguerra: epic y pplum. scar Lapea Marchena(Universidad de Cdiz). Mircoles 14 de mayo.

4. Adaptaciones de tragedias griegas filmadas en Grecia. Alejandro Valverde Garca(IES Santsima Trinidad de Baeza). Mircoles 21 de mayo.

5. Cine de autor italiano de los aos 60 y 70. Francisco Salvador Ventura (Universidadde Granada). Mircoles 28 de mayo.

6. La ltima pica digital grecorromana. Alejandro Fornell Muoz (Universidad deJan). Mircoles 4 de junio.

Oscar Wilde and the Classics:A Colloquium to mark the 160th anniversary of Wilde's birth

11 July 2014University of Oxford

Speakers: Alastair Blanshard (Queensland)Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham)Iain Ross (Freelance scholar)Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths, London)Kathleen Riley (Freelance scholar)Iarla Manny (Open/Oxford)


Shushma Malik (Manchester)Serena Witzke (North Carolina)David Rose (Paris)

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford

For more information please visit:http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2013/12/oscar-wilde-and-the-classics-colloquium

15 conference fee (includes lunch and reception).To register, please email: [email protected].

Satire Ancient and Modern colloquiumFriday 10, October 2014

Warburg Institute, in collaboration with UCL

All papers will examine the relationship between ancient and modern satire. Thespeakers will be Paul Davis (UCL), Tom Geue (Oxford), Emily Gowers (Cambridge),Sari Kivist (Helsinki), Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford), and Victoria Rimell (La Sapienza,Rome).

A detailed programme will be published in June.

Please direct any queries to Fiachra Mac Grin ([email protected]).

4. Calls for Papers

13th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient DramaJune 2014

University of Oxford

Deadline 31st March

Theme: Spaces & Places in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama.

We are delighted to announce the Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on thePerformance of Greek and Roman Drama, organised by the APGRD, University ofOxford, and the University of London. This two-day event will take place on Monday30th June at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (University of London)and Tuesday 1st July at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies(Oxford University).

About the symposium: This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greekand Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatictexts through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres andperiods. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception ofGreek and Roman drama. This years guest respondents will be: Prof. David Wiles


(Exeter) and Dr. Eleftheria Ioannidou (Birmingham). Among those present at thisyears symposium will be: Dr. Fiona Macintosh, Prof. Oliver Taplin and Dr. ZacharyDunbar.

Participants: Postgraduates from around the world working on the reception ofGreek and Roman drama in theory and practice are welcome to participate, as arethose who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium isopen to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields ofClassics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies.

Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working onancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are verywelcome to attend.

Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performative presentation onSpaces and places in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama areinvited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject oftheir discussion to [email protected] by Monday 31st March at thelatest (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor andacademic institution).

There will be no registration fee. It is hoped that a limited number of bursaries willbe available. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.

Contact: [email protected]

Personal Influence on the Rulers of Imperial Romeand the Early Middle Ages

9-10 October 2014Location: to be announced

Deadline: 31 March 2014

Organizer: Dr. Fabian Schulz, Universitt Tbingen/Heidelberger Akademie derWissenschaften

Since rulers of the Imperial Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages occupied thehighest (secular) position, individuals who exerted influence on them enjoyed a greatextent of power. As a consequence, there was bitter rivalry between the variousagents, which is reflected in discourses on legitimate and illegitimate influence. Theprotagonists who exerted influence on rulers, i.e. who could influence or even initiatedecisions, have not been investigated thoroughly yet, as they formed a heterogeneousgroup of people that can neither be understood entirely in terms of institutions norgrasped by their proximity to the emperor. Furthermore, certain agents of influencewere stereotyped so heavily, that searching the written sources for historical realitymay appear pointless or impossible. Finally, neither in Classics nor in MedievalHistory there is a tradition of studying interpersonal influence. By employingapproaches of the social sciences, this conference aims to better recognize anddescribe the resources and strategies of influencing agents as well as the modes andconditions of influence attempts. At the same time, the influence that agents claimed,


condemned, and exerted, shall be scrutinized with the instruments of sourcecriticism and discourse analysis. The proposed period of investigation is to allowapproaching the subject either in the longue duree or in terms of disruptions. Thegoal of the conference is to establish interpersonal influence as a subject of historicalresearch. Furthermore the study of influence on rulers is to make a contributiontowards political history as well as the history of mentalities and discourse.

Contributions should focus on the following and related topics:- Ancient and modern theories of influence- Prosopography of influencing agents- Typology of influence attempts- Influence and discourse

Proposals and abstracts should be sent by 31 March [email protected]

The Land of Fertility: South-east of the Mediterranean fromthe beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest

6th - 8th June 2014Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakw

Deadline: 31st March 2014

The international conference welcomes all Post-graduated researchers in the subject-area of Archaeology, History, Art History, Culture & Religion Studies who areinterested in issues related to ancient Egypt (especially Delta region), Cyprus,Levant, Mesopotamia and Persia.

The main theme of the conference The Land of Fertility: South-east Mediterraneansince the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest has been set to focus on the area of theso called Fertile Crescent. In this region the modern world started its developmentin the very beginning of human civilisation. Peoples living in that area were amongthe first in the world domesticate plants and animals and many of the ideas andobjects tha are in common use today have their origin in that region. What did thesituation in the region look like when the Stone Age had ended? Is it possible to stillregard the 'Fertile Crescent' as a single (and very unique) region or did it break intosmaller 'pieces'? Potential themes include (but are not limited to) the problems ofdaily life, relations between peoples, politics, economy, demography, religion andculture.

The presentations will be grouped into several sections according to their focus andshould not exceed 20 minutes. The number of active participants is also limited.The conference committee reserves the right to select the contributions to bepublished in the Conference Proceedings.

TimelineRegistrations for the conference: by 31st March 2014Notification of acceptance: by 30th April 2014Submission of the presentation file (supported by MS Office 2010) for the conference


proceedings (required for the participation in the conference): 1st June 2014Conference 6th - 8th June 2014

RegistrationActive applicants will submit the completed registration form:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bf8SPH2mZBvow8gFbT13i11md_uWpBGanZxByKzOpXs/viewform

Language of the conference: English

Other:The organizers are not able to pay travel or accommodation expenses of the activeparticipants. Nevertheless, we will be happy to provide assistance withaccommodation, especially for the foreign participants.

Venue:Krakw, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University,11 Goba str., 31-007 Krakw, Poland

Contact: [email protected]

Organisers:ukasz Miszk, PhD student, Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian UniversityMaciej Wacawik, PhD student

Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Text and Material Culture12th-14th September 2014

Durham University

Deadline: 31 March 2014

A conference funded by the European Research Council, and contributing to:Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry http://livingpoets.dur.ac.uk

Organisers: Nora Goldschmidt, Barbara Graziosi, and Erika Taretto

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted [email protected] on or before 31/3/2014.

The conference investigates the tomb as a site of engagement with ancient poetry.The overall aim is to contribute to the growing scholarship on representations ofpoets as evidence for the reception of their works, making the case for place andmateriality in the history of literature.

Scholars have begun to investigate ancient representations of the poets and theirbiographies in particular as creative modes of engagement with their works. Nolonger simply attempting to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of biographical fact,recent studies treat the Lives as a mode of reception. This conference seeks todemonstrate that the encounter between poems and their audiences is manifested


not only in texts but also in material culture.

Tombs are sites (in Pierre Noras sense of lieux) wherein a number of responses toliterature are crystallized, and which in turn shape later receptions. From thepsychogeography of ancient communities to the role of dead poets and their imagesin the machinations of political culture, from the physical cultivation of tombsmirroring the dynamics of poetic succession to the imaginary inscriptions of funeraryepigram, the tomb is a complex site of engagement a reading in the broadestsense of the word where cultural history and political authority merge with literaryhistory.

Papers might, but need not, address the following themes:

Landscape. What role does space play in the poets material reception?Ancient communities often mapped out a sacred geography populated by thetraces which poets left in the landscape (Hunter and Rutherford 2009: 5). Isthe landscape as depicted in the texts translated into the poets imaginedresting places?

Material Texts, Textual Materials. What is the role played by the funeraryinscription? Many poets are said to have composed their own epitaphs; othershave had epitaphs composed for them. How do these texts relate to the poetsresting place? Can the tomb be an imagined textual space as well as a materialsite?

Archaeological Receptions. One of the ways in which later audiencesdiscovered or appropriated ancient poets was through (real or imaginary)archaeological finds. How do biographical traditions intersect witharchaeological quests, discoveries, and interpretations through the centuries?

Cults of the Poets. How does hero-cult influence the experience of the tomb ofthe poet in antiquity? How do ancient traditions evolve in the Christian era?For example, in the middle ages the tomb of Virgil became a quasi-religioussite of pilgrimage, where the poets bones were said to have magical powers.How do the textual afterlives of the poets become entwined with their materialremains?

Ghosts. Ennius saw Homers ghost in a dream; Chapman met him on thehill/next Hitchins left hand. Walter Jackson Knight used a medium tocontact Virgil when he was translating the Aeneid, while Ovids disembodiedvoice was heard by a couple of young medieval scholars wondering near histomb in Tomis. How have poets appeared beyond the grave?

Seeing Like a City A Symposium6-7 June 2014

The Cambridge Performance NetworkQueen Mary University of London

Deadline: Monday 7th April

Keynote Address: Professor Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto) and MichaelMcKinnie (Queen Mary University of London)


Keynote: Friday 6th June 6pm (open to the public)

Symposium: Saturday 7th June (all day)

How have infrastructures of performance shaped civic ideas and ideals in mundaneand spectacular ways? How are these ideas and ideals contained, contaminated,revealed and concealed spatially, temporally, legally and historically through culturalactivity? How does cultural activity shape and see the city?

Seeing Like a City is an interdisciplinary symposium centred on the relationshipsbetween theatre, performance and urbanism. In the past, theatre and performancescholars including Marvin Carlson, Jen Harvie, D.J. Hopkins, Ric Knowles, KimSolga, have seen the city as a fertile site for considering a range of urbanperformances. Seeing Like a City builds on this work; it invites researchers to take upthe challenge of accounting for contemporary urban performance.

This event is inspired by Mariana Valverdes article Seeing Like a City (2009), whichoffers a reading of the urban that acknowledges the influence historically distinctways of seeing contribute temporally and spatially to the negotiation of property,land and its uses in the contemporary moment. More recently, theatre studiesscholar Michael McKinnie reconfigured Valverdes seeing like a city as performinglike a city in his analysis of Londons South Bank Centre (2013). McKinnie arguesthat the entrepreneurial performance of todays South Bank relies on theperformance of the building as a national and social welfare project. The Seeing Likea City symposium aims to provoke analysis and discussion that extends andchallenges approaches by theatre and performance studies to seeing andperforming the city as a complex and contingent entity.

Seeing Like a City encourages presentations from researchers at all levels of studyand academia. We are delighted that legal scholar Professor Mariana Valverde(University of Toronto) and theatre scholar Michael McKinnie (Queen MaryUniversity of London) will be delivering a keynote presentation on the eve of thesymposium.

Some of the overarching themes that may guide your proposal include:

(Re)claiming the city: governance, control and conduct

Planning the city: boundaries, zoning, access, property

Histories of the city: documenting, producing and curating

Living like a city: tourism, labour and migration.

The palliative city: regeneration, resilience, waste

Feeling like a city: senses, languages, intimacies

Activating the city: protest, spectacle, activism


We invite proposals for 15-minute papers in all formats. Please submit an abstractof no more than 250 words and a biography of no more than 50 words. Alternativepresentations are welcome, however please include an additional 100 words onpresentation methods and technical needs.

The keynote is free and will be followed by a reception. The symposium runs from10am-6pm and carries a booking fee of 5, which includes lunch and refreshments.

Four travel bursaries to the value of 25 are available for postgraduate scholars withpriority given to those travelling farthest. Please indicate if you would like to beconsidered for a bursary when you submit your abstract.

Please return abstracts, identifying your email with the subject SUBMISSION:Seeing Like a City, by 7th of April to:Charlotte Bell [email protected] McCarthy [email protected] Livergant [email protected]

Mariana Valverde researches the sociology of law. She is the author of Everyday Lawon the Street: City Governance and the Challenges of Diversity (2012). MichaelMcKinnie researches urban governance and performance, and is the author of themonograph City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City (2007).This event is produced with support from Hayley Peacock. This event is funded byQueen Mary Postgraduate Research Initiative Fund; Queen Mary Arts and CultureFund; Drama Department at Queen Mary University of London; the GeographyDepartment at Queen Mary University of London.

Sex in the Margins10-12 October

University of California, Davis

Deadline: April 15, 2014

Just as commentary is hospitable to both mainstream and esoteric hermeneuticpractices, so commentary can host, and disseminate, views that are both utterlyconventional and radical. We propose a conference to explore this aspect ofcommentary, and in particular the intersection of interpretive traditions and thehistories of sexuality and gender. We therefore solicit proposals for talks that willfocus on commentary as a particular and perhaps even privileged space fordiscussions of sexuality and gender. We hope to receive abstracts addressing alinguistically, geographically, and temporally broad range of commentaries so thatthe resulting conference will contribute to a broader appreciation of the ways thehistories of reception, sexuality and gender are mutually imbricated in numerouscontexts.

Commentary, speaking very generally, is a mode that arises when a culture prizes(for a variety of reasons) texts of an earlier cultural formation and must explicatethem to contemporaries. In the case of the western tradition of commentary onclassical (i.e., pre-Christian Greek and Latin) texts, works that had high status forcertain sectors of the society confronted readers and scholars with sexual practices


and attitudes that were foreign, in some cases repugnant to later expectations aboutsexual roles and acts. What makes the commentary whether marginal, interlinear,or lemmatic a special instance within reception is that by its very logic it mustconfront the ipsissima verba of the original author (or at times establish what thatverba might have been). In this regard, it is most similar to translation. Of course,commentary can duck the challenge, just as a translation can omit offensivepassages, but this is itself worth noting. The expectation, however, that thecommentator will do his/her duty to explicate a text creates a library of productivenegotiations that merit study. Some may adopt a censorious tone, offering moral inaddition to philological instruction. How do the two interact? How does prejudiceimpact scholarship and when does philological rigor trump prejudice? In otherinstances, specifics in the classical text may offer a scholar of a later period anopportunity to speak about nefanda, license in other words to examine and discusstopics that would otherwise be taboo. In such cases, one might see the space of themargin (whether literal or figurative) as liberatory. Moreover, commentariesthemselves have their own reception histories whose contribution to the histories ofsexuality and gender have hardly been addressed.

The conference we envisage, it need hardly be said, will not be exhaustive, but we arecertainly hoping that it will present a broad set of examples in the commentarytraditions of many different Greco-Roman authors, with commentaries in Greek,Latin or vernaculars, and from any period. Studies of commentary on legal textswould certainly be welcome. We are also eager to learn about similar (or verydifferent) negotiations within the commentary traditions in Hebrew, Arabic,Sanskrit, Japanese, Chinese, etc. While commentary seems to imply that we aredealing with verbal media, by no means must papers be restricted to literary texts.

The conference will take place at the University of California, Davis on October 10-12,2014. Interested parties should send an abstract of approximately 250 words alongwith a short CV to [email protected] by April 15, 2014. Although we willnot be able to cover expenses for all conference attendees, we invite scholars whoseparticipation would be contingent on a subvention to include a brief description oflikely travel expenses and probable financial support. Some limited grants may beavailable.

Traditions in Fragments:the Classical Legacy in Italian 20th-Century Literature

Study Day, 20th June 2014Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

Deadline: 25 April 2014

Classical tradition, as a conceptual cluster in which aesthetic, anthropological andpolitical ideas converge, is central to the study of 20th-century Italian literature. TheClassics and their legacy are unavoidable forces in the literary discourse of the lastcentury. Whether reinstating, questioning or establishing a new tradition,the Novecento helped to shape the notion of classical tradition itself. In differentforms we find Ancient Greek and Latin classics in both poetry and prose, from thework of Pascoli and DAnnunzio, to the Hermetic translations of Quasimodo, down tothe Fascist appropriations of classical antiquity, the essays of Calvino, and the trans-


genre adaptations of Pasolini and Dallapiccola (not to mention the reinterpretationsof Pavese, Sanguineti, Bemporad, or Zanzotto). Yet this widespread presence is still,for the most part, taken for granted. The few available studies are confined tomonographic appreciations of individual authors. Generally these enquiries haveremained isolated and fragmentary.

This Study Day proposes to begin mapping and interrogating the presence of theclassical legacy in the Novecento. Topics of discussion will include, but are notlimited to: dynamics of reprisal or rejection of the Classics and their legacy bymodern authors, the concept of origins and archetype in 20th-century literaryculture in Italy and abroad, genre and form, the Classics in relation to academic andpopular culture in Italy, the relationship between translation and the classical legacy,and the reception of the Classics before, during and after Fascism. Gatheringdifferent scholarly contributions, we hope that this Study Day will provide a usefulstarting point for further research. The symposium setting will highlight similaritiesand differences between individual modes of engagement with the classical legacy.This may offer a new perspective on several aspects of Italian literature and culturein the 20th century, not least the role of literary traditions within the construction ofcultural, authorial and national identities.

Papers will investigate the presence of the Classics and their legacy in Italianliterature of the 20th century. Possible topics of discussion include:

Adaptations and appropriations of Ancient Greek and Latin works by 20th-centuryauthors

Translations of ancient Greek and Latin works by 20th-century writers, includingtheory and practice

The reception of the Classics during Fascism

The role of the classical legacy in 20th-century poetics

The role of the classics and classical legacy in shaping authorial and nationalidentity

Contributions in English and Italian are welcome. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words, a short biographical note, the speakers academic affiliation and anyaudio-visual equipment needed to Cecilia Piantanida [email protected] by 25 April 2014.

Classics and the new faces of feminism31 January 2015

Institute of Classical Studies

Deadline: End of April 2014

Contributions and expressions of interest are invited from potential participants inan intensive, interactive, and inter-disciplinary sandpit. It will include a blend of


very short papers, round-table discussions, poster presentations, and themedworkshops.

The aim of the sandpit is to bring together researchers to share their work on thedynamic dialogues taking place between Classics and contemporary feminism.Ultimately, the aim is an edited volume and the development of collaborativeprojects.

Indicative key provocations include (though this is a far from complete list):

What are the current sites of feminist knowledge and understanding? Do welive in a post-feminist world? What is distinctive, if anything, about theEuropean dimension/dialogue (compared with the American/Frenchdomination of earlier but still resonant feminisms)?

Is there still a place for feminism in Classics or are feminist politics no longerpertinent to (our) Classical scholarship? Can the Classics make a difference inthe current developments and debates in feminist thought?

What are the contemporary voices/issues that inspire graduate students andthose entering the Classical professions?

Feminist approaches flourish in Classical Reception, but what about feministstudies of the Classical world itself? Are such studies forgotten?

This call is intended to attract participants working across the range of Classics andAncient History (including Classical Reception) and a mix of researchers at differentcareer stages. PhD students and scholars based overseas (especially ContinentalEurope) are warmly encouraged to contribute.

Please email short communications or an expression of interest outlining the natureand content of your proposed contribution in no more than 150 words to theorganisers, Genevieve Liveley ([email protected]) and Efi Spentzou([email protected]). The deadline for receiving these communications is end ofApril 2014.

Institute for Greece, Rome and the ClassicalDeep Classics I

21-22 November 2014

Deadline: 1 May 2014

The Institute for Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) at the Universityof Bristol invites applications to present at the launch conference of its new ongoingresearch theme, Deep Classics. Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classicalpast presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. DeepClassics is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which thecontemplation of the classical past resembles and has even provided a model forother kinds of human endeavor. What, for example, does the study of the ancientpast teach us about our encounters with our own more recent but still elusivememories? What do our always partial reconstructions of ancient sites tell us aboutthe limits of our ability to know our own world, or to imagine our future? What doesthe reader of the lacunose and corrupted literatures of antiquity learn thereby about


literature and language themselves? What does a shattered statue reveal about art,matter, sensation, experience, life? Does the way in which these vestiges of the pastare encountered sitting in a library, standing in a gallery, moving through a ruin condition our responses to them and alter their significance? And finally, how hasthe contemplation of antiquity helped to shape seemingly unrelated disciplines,including not only other humanistic and scientific epistemologies but also non-scholarly modes and practices?

Offering a new way to approach the study of classical reception, Deep Classicsneither begins with antiquity itself nor ends with what uses subsequent ages havemade thereof. It focuses instead on the very pose by which the human present turnsits attention to the distant human past. Applications to present at Deep Classics I arewelcome from scholars in all fields and are especially encouraged from those workingin such areas as the following:

Humanism and the Human and Post-Human Literature and the Literary Cognition Sensation Aesthetics Media Theory Materiality

45-minute lectures are anticipated, but proposals are also welcome forpresentations outside the normal lecture format, including proposals from artistsand other creative practitioners; please provide details of your plans in yourapplication. Prospective presenters should send a title, short abstract, and CV by 1May 2014 to Professor Shane Butler, Incoming Director, [email protected]

Conflict: Causes, Chaos, and Resolutions5th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference

4th June 2014The Department of Classics at the University of Leeds


Conflicts of all kinds, their Causes, the Chaos involved and its Resolutions have aprofound impact on human society, and are the subject of much study in Classics, theHumanities and beyond. Even in its most traditional interpretation as a matter ofviolence and warfare, conflict is reflected directly and indirectly within almost everyacademic discipline. But the concept of conflict extends much further. It can alsorefer to conflicts within academia itself, and elsewhere. Not only do conflictingphilosophies and methodologies impact on the pursuit and development of academicstudy, but conflicting social concepts and values are central to subjects such asgender studies and English. This conference aims to provide an in-depthinterdisciplinary discussion of the multifaceted, and often divisive, concept ofConflict, including aspects such as:

Conflicting Ideas The Impact of Conflict


War Theory The Metamorphosis of Culture through Conflict Comparative Receptions De-constructing Society Unexpected Resolutions Turmoil of the Psyche The Psychology of Warfare Reflections of Conflict in Literature

Papers can address, but are certainly not limited to the above suggestions.Postgraduate scholars from Classics and beyond are invited to send an abstract of250-300 words to [email protected] by the 1st of May. Presentationwill be 20 minutes long and followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

The conference aims at an Interdisciplinary approach, allowing for conversationacross departmental and institutional lines. The conference is also presented throughthe Classics department as part of the Legacies of War project in the University ofLeeds. There may be travel bursaries available and a possible opportunity forpublication.

Keynote speakers are Penny Goodman, who will be speaking on the study of conflictin academia, and Roger Brock, editor of The Journal of Hellenic Studies, will bespeaking on abstracting and approaching journals for publication.

For any further information please email [email protected]

Grattius in Context(s): Hunting an Augustan Poet25-26 June

University College London


Grattius' Cynegeticon, a (now incomplete) Roman didactic poem on hunting withdogs, can be confidently dated to the Augustan period thanks to a passing referencefrom Ovid during a reflection from exile: Pont. 4.16.34 aptaque venanti Grattiusarma daret. Grattius is here specifically named as part of a group of esteemedauthors comparable to Ovid (Pont. 4.16.45-6). Moreover, Ovid's reference toGrattius' work is a conscious recollection of its final programmatic line (Gratt. 23carmine et arma dabo et venandi persequar artis), prompting the observationthat Grattius is a poet whose work has been carefully read, both by Ovid and, byinference, the learned readership for Pont. 4.16.

If modern scholarship has generally followed Ovid in connecting the exilic referenceto the extant hunting poem, it has all but ignored Ovid's intimations about Grattius'literary standing. On the contrary, apart from a handful of important scholarlycontributions, Grattius remains largely unappreciated and unread, especially byAnglophone scholars, while his Augustan contemporaries are the focus of continuedscrutiny.


This conference provides an opportunity to put Grattius firmly and exclusively in thespotlight a delayed response, as it were, to the rallying call made to an Anglophoneaudience by John Henderson ('Going to the Dogs', PCPS 2001). Particularly welcomeare papers that go beyond localized issues of textual transmission and interpretationto address some of the bigger questions, such as:

Grattius' poetics Grattius' interaction with contemporary Augustan poets Grattius in the (Roman) didactic tradition Grattius in the context of ancient hunting and hunting works Grattius and the socio-political context of Augustan Rome The reception of Grattius

In sum, the conference seeks to rehabilitate Grattius and afford him the sort ofrespectful critical exposure that, on the brief evidence of Ovid, he may well haveenjoyed in his own times.

Confirmed speakers at this stage are:Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin)Carin Green (Iowa)Steven Green (University College London)Lisa Whitlatch (Trinity, Texas)

For the sake of general orientation, readers might like to be aware that a Latin textand translation of the poem, contained within Duff and Duff's LOEB edition MinorLatin Poets (1934), is available online at:http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Grattius/home.html

Please submit your abstract (200-300 words; Word or PDF format) to StevenGreen ([email protected]). Please include your name, academic affiliation andaddress in your email. Informal enquiries can also be addressed to Steven Green atthe email above.

Sailing in Troubled Waters:The Ancient Mediterranean and its Legacy

in the Performing and Visual Arts1-4 October 2014

Imagines IV, University of Algarve, Faro


But as for Scylla, the father of gods and men did not suffer her again tocatch sight of me, else should I never have escaped utter destruction.Thence for nine days was I borne, and on the tenth night the godsbrought me to Ogygia, where the fairtressed Calypso dwells, dreadgoddess of human speech, who gave me welcome and tendance.

Homer, Odyssey 12.445-50


Sur limmense pass de la Mditerrane, le plus beau des tmoignages est celui de lamer elle-mme. Il faut le dire, le redire. Il faut la voir, la revoirF. Braudel, Les mmoires de la Mditerrane. Prhistoire et Antiquit, Paris (1998)

Sailing in Troubled Waters is the fourth of a series of international conferencesdevoted to the representation of Antiquity in the visual and performing arts that areorganised by the research project Imagines (www.imagines-project.org). Portugal isthe fourth country that will host a conference by the network: it will be held at theUniversity of Algarve from October 1 to 4, 2014, in Faro.

Sailing in Troubled Waters proposes a travel into the bright but also dark sidesof the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze of artists who from theRenaissance to the 21st century have been inspired and fascinated by the sea, itsmyths and history. The conference will look at the representation in the performingand visual arts of ancient myths, fiction and history, and will pay particular attentionto the theme of sea travel and travellers.

The conference has the confirmation of Monica Silveira Cyrino (University of NewMexico USA) as Keynote Speaker. Following the ethos of the previous conferences,there will also be a public event with the presence of the internationally award-winning Portuguese film director Joo Canijo, whose human dramas set in urbanperipheries are directly inspired by Greek tragedy.

Call for papers: We welcome proposals on particular subjects of the conferencestheme and also on the rediscovery of the Mediterranean Sea and its past cultures bymodern travellers before, during and after the Grand Tour era. To what extent and inwhat ways do artists, authors and travellers look at the sea either as a nostalgictestimony of the lost glory of an unattained past or as a loyal custodian of inheritedtraditions? They can either focus on specific post-classical periods or follow cross-temporal perspectives. Papers can cover one or more artistic languages (painting,book art and graphic design, comics, sculpture, architecture, theatre, opera, dance,street art, photography, cinema, computer animation, etc.), and propose comparativeapproaches.

They should have a length of 20 minutes and be presented in one of the workinglanguages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and English.

Proposals should have a length of around 500 words and should be sent, no laterthan 15 May, to [email protected]. Acceptance will be communicated no laterthan 10 June.

Registration (online here): Participants Members APECResearchers of CIAC and CECH; Lecturers of UAlg Students Obs.Presenting paper 90 (until 15 June)120 (until 15 Sep.) 50 (until 15 June)75 (until 15 Sep.) 25 (until 15 June)35 (until 15 Sep.) (Includes 3 lunches)Attendants 20 (documentation, certificate and varied material)

Payment should be made by bank transfer to Banco Esprito Santo (BES), includingthe following data: Imagines_Last Name_First Name. The transfer receipt should be


sent to the conference e-mail ([email protected]), in order to validate yourregistration: IBAN: PT50 0007 0000 0080 8491 6062 3

SWIFT/BIC: BESCPTPLWarning: all bank/transfer fees will be defrayed by the participants. In order to makeup an invoice the following data is necessary: full name, full address and copy of theidentity card/passport.

Publication: a collective volume for the Imagines series is planned. The possibilityof other publications based on the participants contributions is also contemplated.

Complementary activities: tour on a 19th century ship used by fishers who sailed toBrazil, in 1808, to let the Portuguese King know about the victory over the Frenchinvaders (by courtesy of the mayor of Olho). We will have the opportunity to admirethe famous wall-graffiti of Olho and to meet the street-artists involved in thisexciting project. As part of the conference programme, the artists will produce anexclusive work linked with the theme of the conference.

For more information: [email protected] www.imagines-project.org

Organizing Committee: Adriana Nogueira, Sandra Boto, Isa Mestre, Marta GarcaMorcillo.

Afro-Byzantine & Greco-African Conference,27 October - 1 November 2014University of Johannesburg

Deadline: 1st July 2014

Description: An International Conference on Greco-African and Afro-Byzantine Studies (i.e. History, Civilization, Culture, Arts) will take place inOctober/November 2014 at UJ. With Afro- Byzantine Studies we understand thestudy of the African civilizations of which the development was influenced byByzantine history and civilization (mainly late ancient and medieval North Africa,Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia). Greco-African Studies refer to the study and teachingof Greek in Africa, cultural interaction between (Ancient and Modern) Greece andAfrica. By extension Ancient/Medieval Africa itself can be combined with thesethemes. The conference will thus be a vehicle giving the occasion to its participants torelate and work together in order to further determine, assess, appreciate andpromote high quality research on selected aspects of 'Old' African historyand civilization in conjunction with Greece, mainly Byzantium. The proposedConference will greatly contribute to a better assessment, comprehension andappreciation of the great African Civilization of the past. Consequently, it will presentan occasion to exchange views on our knowledge of its ideological, political,institutional, artistic and religious aspects. Peer-reviewed Proceedings willbe published. We are already negotiating with publishers.

Programme and themes-Alexandria and Greek Orthodoxy; Coptic, Nubian, Ethiopian Church(es); Fathers of


the Church; Church history; modern related issues-Byzantium in Africa: Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa (history, culture,institutions, art, archaeology, literature, linguistics, anthropology)-Ancient & Hellenistic Greece and Africa-The Greeks in Africa (past and present)-African sources on Afro-Byzantina and Greco-Africana: Coptic, Arabic, Nubian,Ethiopian and Swahili.-Africa and the Crusades-Co-existence in Medieval Africa: Christianity - Islam - traditional religions-Ancient/Medieval/ 'Old' African States and Civilizations, also including the Lemba.-Hellenic & Byzantine Studies and Research in Africa.

The Conference envisages lectures, discussions, workgroup meetings, an exhibitionand discussion/workshops/meetings with among others African artists.

Organisers: the Department of Greek and Latin Studies at the University ofJohannesburg Prof. B. Hendrickx and Assoc. Prof. Thekla Sansaridou-Hendrickx([email protected]), Dr Efi Zacharopoulou ([email protected]), DrSavvas Kyriakidis ([email protected])

Papers and other contributions: A communication may be either 30 minutes or15 minutes. There will be seminars and discussion groups. Please, let us know inwhich category or categories you will participate. We ask to send us the themeof your presentation before 1 July, and at least by 1 October a short abstract of yourpaper (10 to 15 lines). Your paper can be given to the organisers during or at the endof the Conference for publication and peer-reviewing.

For more confirmation, please contact the organisers.

Registration: A registration fee is payable for participants: R. 500 for internationalparticipants, R. 300 for South African participants. This covers costs for tea, coffeeand some organised lunches. Students do not pay fees.http://www.uj.ac.za/en/Faculties/humanities/departments/greeklatin/Pages/default.aspx

5. Recent and New Publications

Classical Receptions JournalVolume 5, Issue 3 Special Issue: Classical Receptions in Central and

Eastern European Poetry

We have made the following articles freely available online:

Antiquity after antiquity: a (post) modern reading of antiquity in Bulgarian poetryYoana Sirakovahttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/1

Afterword: Omin-Local Classical ReceptionsEmily Greenwoodhttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/2


Other articles in the issue include:Introduction to special issue: classical reception in Eastern and Central EuropeZara Martirosova Torlonehttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/3

Mikhail Lomonosov: the case of the Russian PindarGrigory Starikovskyhttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/4

Russian Tityrus: Joseph Brodsky in ArcadiaZara Martirosova Torlonehttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/5

Waning worlds and budding hopes: anti-idyllic visions of antiquity in PolishRomanticismMaria Kalinowskahttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/6

Reinventing Ovids exile: ex Ponto Romanian styleCarmen Fenechiu and Dana LaCourse Munteanuhttp://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5754/7

Tellus Issue 5

Issue 5 of Tellus is now available to order. This annual magazine celebratescontemporary poetry which brings the classical past to new life. Issue 5 featuressparkling engagements with well known staples of the classical canon - like VirgilsAeneid and Horaces Odes - and throws fresh light on familiar mythological figureslike Thetis and Daphne. At the same time, it also branches out into more unfamiliarterritory, showcasing engagements with Pindar, the Greek Anthology and a recenttranslation of Simonides into Scots.

Issue 5 costs 3.50 (incl. p&p) for UK addresses, 4.50 (incl. p&p) for overseasaddresses.

Payment can be made via the website www.tellusmagazine.co.uk or by emailing meto request an invoice.

List of poems and contributors:

Catullus at the Pet Shop Marguerite Johnson

Ajax Georgia Petridou

Eheu Fugaces Merryn Williams

A Laurel Leaf for Oenomaus Son Askold Skalsky

Acesta - Matthew Landrum


Aeschylus, Agamemnon 958-974 Timothy Chappell

Whitby - Steve Komarnyckyj

Calypsos and Circes Stephan Dukofsky

Review of Crawford and McBeaths Simonides Ailsa Hunt

After the Harvest James Meredith

Lady Iliad Kevin Solez

Vile Potabis Modicis Sabinum Matthew Landrum

More Shapes Than Thetis Stephan Dukofsky

Adaptation from Pindars Olympian XIV Cameron Hawke Smith

Two Blues for Odysseus and One for Polyphemos Stephen Bunch

St Frideswides Flower Patsy Dyer

Homage to a Bird Thomas Orszg-Land

With best wishes

Professors Helen King and Stephen Harrison (CRSN co-coordinators)Anastasia Bakogianni (CRSN Administrator)

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