DATES: 30th Jan. to 3rd Feb. 2005
Meeting of NZ and Australian Heads of Department: 30th Jan. 2005
Conference papers: 31st Jan. to 2nd Feb. 2005
ASCS and NZ Triennial General Meetings: 3rd Feb. 2005
VENUE: St Margaret's College, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
GUEST SPEAKERS: Alan Cameron, Columbia University, USA; Colleen McCullough, Norfolk Island

Full details about the conference, including registration and accommodation, can be found at http://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/events/conferences/index.html.

The closing date for offers of papers is Monday 1 November 2004. Papers of either 20 or 30 minutes are invited on any topic connected with the ancient world relating to its languages, literature, thought, history and archaeology and embracing Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near East, Egypt and the Mediterranean generally from the beginnings to the Early Middle Ages. Please send offers, with an abstract of 100 words, to William J. Dominik at the following e-mail address: william.dominik@stonebow.otago.ac.nz, or mail to: Department of Classics, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Business meetings of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies and of New Zealand Universities' Classics Departments will be held consecutively on the morning of Thursday 3 February 2005. There will also be a meeting of all Heads of Departments in Australasia or their representatives in the afternoon of Sunday 30 January. Please keep the dates and times of these meetings in mind when booking flights to and from Dunedin.

Excellent accommodation will be available at St Margaret's College on the University campus for one week around the dates of the conference; motel/hotel accommodation is available not far from campus. The conference venue and University are within walking distance of the town centre.

If recipients of this message know of any colleagues or other potentially interested parties who have not received this notice and wish to be added to the ASCS meeting e-mail distribution list, please inform William J. Dominik at the e-mail address above.

We look forward to seeing you in Dunedin early next year.

William J. Dominik
Convenor, ASCS XXVI