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Canadian Classical Bulletin/Bulletin canadien des études anciennes
5.11 -- 15 07 1999 ISSN 1198-9149

Editors/Redacteurs: J. W. Geyssen & J. S. Murray
(University of New Brunswick)
<bulletin@unb.ca>

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Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/
Publié par courrier électronique par la société canadienne
des études classiques
President: J. I. McDougall (University of Winnipeg)
<iain.mcdougall@uwinnipeg.ca>
Secretary/Secretaire: I. M. Cohen (Mount Allison University) <icohen@mta.ca>
Treasurer/Tresorier: C. Cooper (University of Winnipeg) <craig.cooper@uwinnipeg.ca>

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Contents:
[1]General Announcements (4)
(CAC Website; CCB Page, CAC Directory, a CAC listserv)
[2] Jobs Announcements (2)
(Dalhousie, MIT)
[3] Conferences (2)
(Greek and Roman Drama, Ancient Greek Iconography)
[4] Calls for papers (4)
(Penn-Leiden Colloquia, CACW-CAPN Joint Conference, Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, Birmingham Graduate Conference)

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[1] Announcements <Back>

a. The address for the new CAC web site: http://www.unb.ca/arts/CLAS/cacindex.html

b. The homepage for the CCB/BCEA contains a current listing of association announcements, job listings, seminars, conferences, calls for papers, summer schools and study tours, which have been or soon will be circulated. In addition an archive of past issues is also available.

c. A CAC directory of classics departments and scholars in Canada will be available at the CAC site before the end of the summer.

d. A CAC listserv will be available early in August, for individuals interested in participating in ongoing discussions concerning Classics in Canada. There will be an announcement concerning the listserv in the next regular issue of CCB/BCEA..

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[2] Job Announcements <Back>
See the CCB Page (address = http://unb.ca/arts/CLAS/cacbulle.html) for a complete list of job announcements received at CCB since June 1, 1999.

From: Geoffrey Greatrex, Department of Classics, Dalhousie University
Applications are invited for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level effective July 1, 2000 in Latin literature with a secondary interest in Greek literature. The successful candidate must be prepared to teach introductory and intermediate Greek and Latin language classes and introductory classes in ancient literature in translation. Applicants should also be prepared to teach and supervise research in Latin literature to the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. or be close to finishing and show competence in research and publication appropriate to their experience. The salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is, however, an entry level position. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Dalhousie University is an employment equity/affirmative action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, racially visible persons and women. A letter of application, complete and updated curriculum vitae, and three letters of professional recommendation should be sent to D.K. House, Chair, Department of Classics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5. The closing date for applications is November 15, 1999.

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Ancient History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Assistant professor, tenure track. MIT History expects to make a tenure track appointment in ancient history. Applicants for all subfields of Greek and Roman History will be considered. Candidates must have or be near completion of the Ph.D., show promise of distinguished careers as scholars and teachers. Applicants should send a letter of application, c.v., and should arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent by November 1, 1999 to Professor John Dower, Chair, Ancient History Search Commitee, MIT, E51-285, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139-4307. AA/EOC

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For US jobs see the listings of the American Philological Association:
http://ww w.apaclassics.org/scripts/APA/Administration/Placement/jobs98-99.html

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[3] Conferences <Back>

From: John Barsby <john.barsby@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>

GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA CONFERENCE
University of Otago, New Zealand, 5-7 July 2000
Preliminary Announcement:
DATE: 5-7 July 2000 (assemble Tu 4 July p.m., disperse Sat 8 July a.m.)
VENUE: St Margaret's College, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
THEME: Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Oliver Taplin (Classics, Oxford), Professor Richard Beacham (Theatre Studies, Warwick)

---The theme is intended to bring together three related topics of current scholarly interest: performance in the ancient world, translation, and performance for modern audiences. We hope to attract people from Theatre Studies as well as from Classics. The Otago Classics Department has a tradition of an annual production of a Greek or Roman play in our own translation, and we are negotiating with the local Fortune Theatre for a professional production of Oedipus Coloneus to coincide with the conference.
---Accommodation will be available in the college and in nearby hotels and motels. Pre- and post- conference tours can be arranged.
---The conferences is under the auspices of the University's School of Liberal Arts, which will look to publishing a selection of the papers.
---There will be a formal announcement with further details and a call for papers (and possibly workshops) in September. Meanwhile expressions of interest are invited.

Prof.John Barsby, Dept of Classics, University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin, NZ
phone +64 3 479 8710 fax +64 3 479 9029 home +64 3 479 0169

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From the Classics List:

ANCIENT GREEK ICONOGRAPHY
---An international conference in honour of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Dept. of Classics, University of Reading, 16-18 August 1999
---Provisional Programme
*Monday 16th August 1999
11:30-12:30 Coffee and Registration: Wantage Hall, Upper Redlands Rd.
12:30 Lunch: Wantage Hall
---First Session: FOLSS Rm. 27; Chair: Jane Burrough
14:00 Welcome
14:05 Jan Bremmer (Groningen), 'Hephaestus and the divine Hierarchy'
15:00 John-Gabriel Bodard (Reading), 'The Paraphernalia of the Witch: Images of Kirke'
15:55 Tea
---Second Session: FOLSS Rm. 27; Chair: tba
16:10 Ruth Bardel (Oxford), 'Fringe Figures'
17:05 Robin Osborne (Oxford), 'Reading Personifications'
18:00 End of First Session
19:00 Reception and Buffet: Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology Bar in Wantage Hall open to 23:00
*Tuesday, 17th August 1999
---Third Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
09:00 Shelley Hales (Cardiff), 'Greek Iconographies, Imperialist Ideals: or How the Venus de Milo Lost her Arms'
09:55 John Oakley (College of William and Mary, USA), 'To Know the Artist is to Understand the Vase'
10:50 Coffee
---Fourth Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
11:10 Susan Blundell (Open University), 'Constructing Men and Women: The open...closed spectrum in Attic paintings'
12:05 Elizabeth Moignard (Glasgow), 'Towers, Pillars or Frames?'
13:00 Lunch: Wantage Hall
---Fifth Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
14:00 Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff), 'Veiled or Unveiled? Reading the gesture of the anakalypsis in Greek Art'
14:55 Jane Burrough (Reading), 'The Iconography of the Harpies: Hunters or victims?'
15:50 Tea
---Sixth Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
16:10 Gloria Pinney (Harvard, USA), 'Myth and Genre on Athenian Vases'
17:05 Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Harvard, USA), 'Sappho and Other Women Musicians on Vases'
18:00 End of Third Session
19:00 Conference Dinner: Wantage Hall
Bar in Wantage Hall open to 00:00
*Wednesday 18th August 1999
---Seventh Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
09:00 Sonia Klinger (Haifa, Israel), 'The Iconography of the Deer in Domestic Contexts'
09:55 Nicki Waugh (Bristol), 'Artemis Orthia and her Equine Votives'
10:50 Coffee
---Eighth Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
11:10 Olga Palagia (Athens, Greece), 'The Arrhephoroi on the Athenian Acropolis'
12:05 Ian Rutherford (Reading), 'The "Winged Temple" at Delphi'
13:00 Lunch: Wantage Hall
---Ninth Session: FOLSS Rm 27; Chair: tba
14:00 Pantelis Michelakis (Oxford), 'Achilleus in 6th-5th Century Vase Paintings'
14:55 Patricia Easterling (Cambridge), Sacred Ways
15:50 End of Fifth Session; all delegates welcome to join us in a local Free House for a sociable debriefing

Printable Booking Form also Online at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Classics/Icono graphy/booking.html

For enquiries write to John-Gabriel Bodard <J.G.Bodard@Reading.ac.uk> or Jane Burrough <J.E.Burrough@rdg.ac.uk> ,

Iconography Conference, Department of Classics, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA
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[4] Calls for Papers <Back>

From the Classics List

First Announcement and Call for Papers
Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values I:
ANDREIA and Ancient Constructs of Manly Courage
---What abstract principles govern the way people behave, or are supposed to behave, and how do such principles give rise to actual moral codes? All societies, whether consciously or not, define themselves according to the 'values' they hold. The recent debates within our own culture about the nature and stability of values have encouraged scholars to re-examine with similar rigor, and a distinctly late twentieth-century perspective, the values and value systems of classical antiquity. Many scholars have already begun to re-consider ancient definitions of moral concepts, and they have become increasingly sensitive to the ways in which evaluative terms were manipulated in the construction of self and society. What a given society calls 'good', for example, or what they define as 'liberty' or 'justice', often reveals as much about how they want to be perceived from without, as it does about how they actually behave from within. It is often at precisely these moments of discontinuity between ideology and social practice where we can gain the most profound insights about ancient cultures.
---The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values proposes a biennial venue in which scholars can investigate the diverse aspects of Greek and Roman values. Each colloquium will focus on a single theme, which participants will explore from as many angles and disciplines as possible. Oxford University Press has expressed an eagerness to publish a selection of papers from these colloquia as part of a new projected series on Greek and Roman Attitudes.
---The topic of the first colloquium will be ANDREIA, the manly virtue of courage. Questions to be addressed at the colloquium are: What are the contents of the concept of ANDREIA in the Graeco-Roman world? What individual actions or people are called andreios? Does the interpretation of ANDREIA change overtime? If so, how and why? How is the concept of ANDREIA (rhetorically) manipulated? How is it used to stimulate certain courses of action and dissuade from others? How does the concept of ANDREIA contribute to the sense of self and that of cultural identity? Who are excluded by the concept? Women? Barbarians? Under what conditions are they let back in? What expectations of manhood are raised by the concept? Does the concept of ANDREIA and its attendant moral discourse have a political role? If so, what is it? How does the philosophical treatment of the problem of ANDREIA relate to the concept in popular ethics? What are the equivalents of ANDREIA in Latin literature? Both VIRTUS and FORTITUDO cover aspects of ANDREIA. What can we learn from the anisomorphy between the Greek and Roman world in this respect?

The first colloquium will be held at the University of Leiden, June 2-3, 2000.

---Papers (30 minutes) are welcomed on all aspects of our proposed topic. Selected papers will be considered for publication by Oxford University Press. Those interested to contribute are requested to submit a 1-page abstract, by mail or email, before September 15, 1999. Contact:
Prof. Ineke Sluiter <isluiter@rullet.leidenuniv.nl>

Classics Dept., Univ. of Leiden; Doelensteeg 16 # 1174; POB 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
+31 (71) 527 3311,
or Prof. Ralph Rosen <rrosen@sas.upenn.edu>
Classics Dept., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 201 Logan Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104-6304, USA.
+1 (215)898-7425

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From Laurel Bowman <lbowman@uvic.ca>, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria

CACW-CAPN Joint Conference 2000 -- Call For Papers

---The Classical Association of the Canadian West and the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest will be holding a Joint Annual Meeting in Victoria, British Columbia at the Laurel Point Inn on Friday, March 10 and Saturday, March 11, 2000. Laurel Bowman and Ingrid Holmberg of the University of Victoria are the conference organizers.
---"Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World" is the broad theme of the conference, reflecting the conference's own international nature. Papers are particularly encouraged on topics related to this theme. Submissions are invited, however, on all subjects of special interest to classicists. The organizers also welcome organized panels. Abstracts of 100- 150 words must be received by October 15, 1999. CACW members are asked to submit a brief (1 page or less) CV with their abstracts for inclusion in a SSHRC grant proposal. Participants will be notified by December 1, 1999.
---Abstracts can be submitted to:

CACW/CAPN Conference, c/o Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, P. O. Box 3045, Victoria, B. C. CANADA V8W 3P4
FAX (250)721-8516. Abstracts submitted by mail or FAX must be supplemented by a disk.
---Abstracts may also be submitted by e-mail to Laurel Bowman <lbowman@uvic.ca> (CACW); Ingrid Holmberg ingrid@uvic.ca> (CAPN) or Internet: http://web.uvic.ca/grs/cacw-capn. Please put your OWN name on the subject line for e-mail submissions.
---Please indicate any special equipment you may need to present your paper. Papers should not be more than fifteen minutes in length. Abstracts of papers will be published on the conference website at http://web.uvic.ca/grs/cacw-capn and in the Fall 2000 CAPN Bulletin. Detailed information regarding the conference schedule and accommodations will be published in the February issue of the CAPN Bulletin and on the websites.

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From Ian Worthington, University of Missouri

ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONFERENCE/ CALL FOR PAPERS
Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece

---The fourth biannual Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece conference will be held at the University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.) from Saturday July 1 to Wednesday July 5, 2000 (not at the University of Tel Aviv as previously decided). The convenors will be Professors Ian Worthington (History) and John Miles Foley (Classical Studies/Center for Oral Tradition).
---Papers of 30 or 40 minutes maximum speaking time are invited which address the theme of the conference, however precirculated papers are especially encouraged. Key-note speakers will address the ancient world as well as other societies. As with previous conferences, each paper will be followed by a generous amount of discussion time, and refereed papers will be published by Brill as a fourth volume in the Orality and Literacy series.
---The conference will also include a social excursion. Registration is $45 ($25 students; $15 daily rate) and includes all conference materials, morning and afternoon teas, a social excursion and, it is hoped, all lunches. Accommodation (including breakfast) will be at the Ramada Inn in downtown Columbia ($49 double room or $47 single room + tax), which is a 5 minutes walk from the campus and conference venue.
---Columbia is easy to reach: the nearest major airports are St Louis or Kansas City, and an express shuttle bus operates between each one and Columbia. Trans-World Express operates a regular flight from St Louis to Columbia Regional Airport. Fuller details will be sent with registration material.
---Expressions of interest and offers of papers should be sent to:
Professor Ian Worthington WorthingtonI@missouri.edu>

Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 U.S.A
Tel(573)882-0780 Fax(573)884-5151
or to:
Professor John Miles Foley FoleyJ@missouri.edu> (nb: away from June 25, 1999)
Department of Classical Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 U.S.A
Tel(573)882-0679 Fax(573)882-0679

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From David Creese, University of Birmingham

***FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS***
'Redefining the End':
A graduate conference to be held on Saturday, 4th December 1999
at the University of Birmingham.

---Our conference will focus on the endings of periods and eras in Greek and Roman antiquity. Abstracts are welcomed for papers which discuss, challenge or defy definitions of 'the end'. The conference encourages papers redefining the ends of eras in the literature, philosophy, religion, history, sociology and archaeology of the Greek and Roman world. ---Abstracts for 20-minute papers may be mailed to Richard Peevers or David Creese conference@peasmold.force9.co.uk> at:

Postgraduate Conference, Department of Classics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
--- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 1999

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