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JOHANNA MESTORF AWARD for Socio-Environmental Research and Landscape ArchaeologyDez 10Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024 10:20
This award for outstanding dissertations dealing with an area of
socio-environmental research and landscape archaeology of past
societies is open to young researchers of all scientific fields. It is
endowed with a prize of 3.000 €.
The presentation of the Johanna Mestorf Award will take place in March
2025 during the open workshop “Kiel Conference 2025: Scales of Social,
Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies” in Kiel.
The award is presented by the Johanna Mestorf Academy (JMA)
together with the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS and the
CRC 1266 Scales of Transformation at Kiel University
who and how to apply :
A young researcher with an outstanding dissertation
that was completed not more than two years before the
time of application can be nominated for the award by
professors and supervisors within the Cluster of Excellence
ROOTS/CRC 1266/JMA or by associated national and
international partners through the submission of a letter
of recommendation. The prize may be shared and should
benefit the scientific research of the awardee(s), but the use
of the prize is optional within this framework.
submission
For the current announcement period, recommendations
must be submitted by 06 January 2025 together with
the corresponding doctoral dissertation. Please send
recommendation letters and dissertations only as PDF files
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Johanna Mestorf Academy
Kiel University
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Forschungstaucher-Lehrgang am Bodensee 2025Dez 10Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024 10:17
Ausbildungslehrgang Forschungstauchen / European Scientific Diver
Im Jahr 2025 wird es erstmals wieder einen Forschungstaucher-Lehrgang am Bodensee geben. Der Kurs wird
von Teraqua in Kooperation mit dem Unternehmen Archaeotask GmbH mit Sitz in Engen / Hegau und als
verkürzte Ausbildung nach DGUV Regel 101-023 Forschungstauchen organisiert.
Der Kurs beinhaltet eine intensive Ausbildung in professionellen Tauchfertigkeiten für wissenschaftliche
Zwecke und wird mit einer theoretischen und praktischen Prüfung durch die berufsgenossenschaftliche
Prüfungskommission für Forschungstaucher und die Zertifizierung zum/zur Geprüfte/n
Forschungstaucher/in abgeschlossen. Diese stellt ein Äquivalent zum “European Scientific Diver” dar und
kann durch die Kommission Forschungstauchen Deutschland (KFT) auf Antrag erstellt werden..
Der Kurs setzt sich aus zwei Teilen zusammen. Er beginnt nach Absolvierung der Eingangsprüfung mit einem
Theorieblock, der im März 2025 beginnt und im Juni 2025 endet. In dieser Zeit werden in wöchentlichen 1,5h-
online-Seminaren die physikalischen, medizinischen, technischen und juristischen Grundlagen des
Wissenschaftlichen Tauchens gelegt. Das praktische Training findet vom 29.9 – 21.10 2025 mit Basis in
Engen / Hegau am Bodensee statt und endet mit einem zweitägigen Prüfungsblock am 22./23.10. 2025.
Eingangsvoraussetzungen zur Teilnahme
Der Kurs ist an Studierende, Postdoktoranden, WissenschaftlerInnen und TechnikerInnen in einem Bereich
der Wasserwissenschaften gerichtet.
BewerberInnen besitzen (1) ein gültiges Tauchbrevet auf dem Niveau von mindestens CMAS**/VDST T2
(Silber) oder Äquivalent. Sie weisen (2) mindestens 70 Tauchgänge im Freiwasser mit einer
Mindestgesamttauchzeit von 30 Stunden nach, von denen mindestens 10 TG in Tauchtiefen tiefer als 15m
and 5 TG in Tauchtiefen tiefer als 25m erfolgt sind. Sie weisen (3) Erfahrungen mit Trockentauchanzügen (15+
gelogte Tauchgänge) nach. Sie besitzen (4) eine gültige arbeitsmedizische Tauchtauglichkeitsbescheinigung
(ehemals nach Grundsatz 31), ausgestellt durch eine berechtigte arbeitsmedizinische Einrichtung. Sie
bringen (5) eine vollständige Tauchausrüstung incl. Trockentauchanzug mit (Druckluftflaschen und ggf.
Blei werden gestellt; einzelne Ausrüstungsteile in Absprache). Sie besitzen (6) den Nachweis eines Herz-
Lungen-Wiederbelebungs-Kurses (durch eine zertifizierte Einrichtung durchgeführt), der zum Zeitpunkt der
Abschlussprüfung nicht älter als ein Jahr zurückliegt. Schließlich eine (7) Zertifizierung "Rettungsschwimmer"
Stufe 2.
Alle BewerberInnen weisen praktische Fähigkeiten auf dem Niveau von CMAS** oder Äquivalent im Rahmen
einer Eingangsprüfung nach.
Da es keine europaweit gültige Zertifikate für 1. Hilfe-Kurse, Rettungsschwimmerabzeichen und
arbeitsmedizinische Tauchtauglichkeit gibt, werden außerhalb Deutschlands ausgestellte Zertifikate
Mit der Bitte um Aushang!
akzeptiert, falls sie Äquivalente zu den deutschen Dokumenten darstellen. Bei Fragen zu solchen
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Anmeldung
Bewerbung gehen, kombiniert mit einem kurzen Motivationsschreiben und einem taucherischen Lebenslauf
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Eingangsvoraussetzung (1-2) ist spätestens mit Beginn des theoretischen Lehrgangsblocks und der
Unterzeichnung des Ausbildungsvertrags zu erbringen. Die Eingangsvoraussetzungen (3–7) sind spätestens
zu Beginn des praktischen Ausbildungsblocks zu erbringen.
Kursgebühren
Die Kursgebühren betragen 2500.-€. Für eine beschränkte Anzahl von Teilnehmenden (Studierende auf
Antrag) können die Kursgebühren auf 1500.-€ reduziert werden. Sie beinhalten die Nutzung der
Kursinfrastruktur sowie die Prüfungsgebühr der Prüfungskommission und die Zertifizierungskosten durch
die Kommission Forschungstauchen Deutschland. Reisekosten, Unterkunft, Verpflegung sind nicht
inbegriffen.
Mehr Information zu Trainingseinrichtungen, zum Forschungstauchen in Deutschland und Europa:
https://www.forschungstauchen-deutschland.de
http://www.teraqua-ausbildungsbetrieb.de
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Die dunkle Seite Roms. Das Massengrab von ScupiDez 10Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024 10:08
Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt/Main
Einladung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am
Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2024, 18 Uhr
Es sprechen:
Sieghard Pawlik
Stadtrat Frankfurt am Main
Marija Gjorgova
Staatssekretärin
Ministerium für Kultur und Tourismus
der Republik Nordmazedonien
S. E. Ylber Sela
Botschafter der Republik Nordmazedonien
Berlin
Dr. Panche Velkov
Direktor
Museum der Stadt Skopje
Dr. Wolfgang David
Leitender Direktor
Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt
ARCHÆOLOGISCHES
MUSEUM FRANKFURT
Bitte teilen Sie uns
bis 16. Dezember 2024 mit,
ob Sie an der Eröffnung
teilnehmen möchten.
Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt
Karmelitergasse 1
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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Durch die Teilnahme an der
Veranstaltung erklären Sie sich mit
einer möglichen Veröffentlichung
von Foto- und Filmaufnahmen
einverstanden.
Im Jahr 2011 wurde in der römischen Kolonie Scupi, in der Nähe der nordmazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje, ein Massengrab mit etwa 200 römischen Soldaten entdeckt, die durch Enthauptung starben. Diese außergewöhnliche Entdeckung wirft Fragen auf: Wer waren diese Männer und warum wurden sie getötet?
Während wir das Römische Reich zumeist durch seine kulturellen Errungenschaften wahrnehmen, zeigt dieser Fund eine brutale Seite der römischen Geschichte. Ein Expertenteam hat viele Jahre daran gearbeitet, die genauen Umstände dieses historischen Geschehens zu klären. Im Archäologischen Museum Frankfurt werden nun die Ergebnisse dieser Forschungen gezeigt.
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Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient WorldDez 10Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024 09:57
Conference, University of Bucharest, October 3-4, 2025.
CFP new deadline: March 15, 2025
Epistolary communication played a major role in numerous ancient societies in the Near East, the Mediterranean region, and the Far East. The convention of creating, disseminating, and preserving letters differs among civilisations and time periods. However, irrespective of the circumstances, it has fulfilled a diverse range of purposes: a method of conveying information of different kinds; a tool for governing and managing land and communities; a literary and rhetorical medium essential for establishing and validating knowledge; and so forth.
Equally significant is the function that these writings serve in contemporary historical inquiry by unveiling public and private interactions, political activities, or intellectual discussions. We extend invitations to historians, philologists, theologians, and experts in diverse fields of ancient studies to deliver academic contributions derived from the examination of epistolary material spanning from the second millennium BC to late antiquity. Our specific emphasis is on the function of letters as a means of conveying information and organising knowledge.
Furthermore, we also welcome contributions pertaining to contemporary epistolary exchanges that are integral to the historical development of ancient sciences. These exchanges may include scholarly correspondence, collegial exchanges, or other types of letters that provide a deeper comprehension of the context and epistemic foundation of modern knowledge about the ancient world.
The approaches could include, but are not limited to:
- Correspondence, family, and friendship in ancient societies
- Ancient commercial correspondence
- Letters, information and administration in the ancient world
- Diplomacy and epistolography of the ancient empires
- Materials, techniques, and literary styles in ancient epistolography
- Archiving practices for official and personal letters
- Letters and the formation of communities in the ancient world
- Real and imaginary letters as validation of knowledge in ancient texts
- The discovery of the ancient world: academic and intellectual correspondence from the Renaissance to the 20th
- Collecting antiques: letter exchanges of modern collectors and antiquarians.
We are considering proposals for individual papers and/or complete panels.
Individual presentations (oral) should not exceed 15 minutes. Proposals must include a summary (200-300 words) and a brief CV of the authors (no more than half a page).
A panel should not exceed 90 minutes. A panel proposal must include 3-5 individual presentations, the panel's title, summaries of each contribution, brief biographies of the panel organiser and the contributors.
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical StudiesDez 09Montag, 09. Dezember 2024 15:55
The Department of Classics at Brown University
invites applications for two (2) two-year, non-renewable
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies
to begin July 1, 2025. We seek junior colleagues with terminal
degrees *(either Ph.D. or MFA) *whose work directly addresses the
classicization of the Ancient Greeks and Romans; critiques the structures
of power, exclusion, erasure, and violence that have scaffolded past and
present models of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (i.e. Classics); and/or
speculates about alternative models to studying these ancient cultures and
others. Successful applicants will be appointed as Postdoctoral Research
Associates.
The Fellowship is *open to areas of research and creative practice not
traditionally housed within Ancient Greek and Roman Studies *(e.g. art,
film, creative writing, translation studies, political science, language
pedagogy, higher education studies, public humanities, museum studies,
indigenous studies, decolonial studies, performance or performance history,
music) *and to more traditional subfields *(e.g. art history, literary
studies/philology, archaeology, ancient history, philosophy, reception
studies). Ideal candidates position their work's intervention in relation
to other disciplines, fields, institutions, and/or industries. They
prioritize making contributions to academic, artistic, and/or activist
communities. The work can take the form of traditional scholarship (e.g.
monographs and articles)* or be pedagogical, public-facing, creative, or
otherwise trans/inter/extra-disciplinary*.
The fellows selected in this competition will join fellows
<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/people/scholars-fellows> already
in residence and form a community committed to refining methodologies well
established at Brown and in the field as well as to co-developing new
approaches to Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.
Brown University seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to
maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly
varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing,
learning, and creating. Therefore, the Department of Classics particularly
welcomes applications from members of groups that have been minoritized and
underrepresented in academia. A required application form asks every
applicant to summarize their approach to and experience in creating
equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities. This history might include
academic teaching, mentoring, and service, activism, or other forms of
community engagement and leadership.
In lieu of formal teaching responsibilities, fellows will be given the time
and support necessary to complete their projects during the fellowship
term and to share those projects with communities on and off-campus. Each
fellow should expect to host one departmental event (e.g. lecture,
symposium, performance, screening) and one informal event (e.g. workshop,
interview, open rehearsal, table read, write-on-site) that prioritize
graduate students in the Department of Classics each academic year. They
will also participate in regular cohort-building and mentoring activities.
Each fellow will earn a salary of $65,000 in year 1 and $70,000 in year 2.
In addition to a full benefits package, each fellow will receive a research
fund of $10,000 and access to a shared office space. Fellows are expected
to be in residence for the full term of the fellowship and, if applicable,
will receive a $3,000 moving allowance to ease the burden of relocation.
Further information, including application details, can be found at
http://apply.interfolio.com/151765.
Any questions should be directed towards the chair of the Search Committee, Dr.
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Internationale Stiftung Preis Balzan: Athenische Demokratie – neu betrachtetDez 04Mittwoch, 04. Dezember 2024 16:51
Die Stiftung Balzan schreibt einen Preis aus zum Thema :Athenische Demokratie – neu betrachtet.
Siehe:
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The Concept of Freedom in Ancient Greece and Rome - 16th Celtic Conference in Classics in Coimbra (15 – 18 July 2025)Dez 04Mittwoch, 04. Dezember 2024 16:31
Call for Papers
The Concept of Freedom in Ancient Greece and Rome
16th Celtic Conference in Classics in Coimbra (15 – 18 July 2025)
Organizers: Professor Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete) and PD Dr Lothar Willms (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Freedom is a core concept of the Western world; it is crucial to political discourse and theory and fundamental in social and philosophical debates. The idea of freedom arose in ancient Greece and progressively unfolded. Research on freedom has mainly focused on the following issues: on the vocabulary of ἐλευθερία (freedom) and related terms, such as αὐτονομία (autonomy) (Krüger-Mohamad-Klotzbach-Pfeilschifter 2022) and παρρησία (freedom of speech) (Sluiter-Rosen 2017), on the initial conceptualization of the notion (Raaflaub 2004, Patterson 1991), on its meaning and nuances (ideological or rhetorical) in specific authors (Binayemotlagh 2002, Galloway 2004, Eliasson 2008, Edwards 2009, Tamiolaki 2010), on its political or philosophical dimension (Muller 1997, Bobzien 1998, Willms 2011), on its relation to other concepts of relevant or contrary meaning, such as individual rights, equality, democracy, tyranny and unfreedom (Liddel 2007, Anagnostopoulos-Santas 2013, Vlassopoulos 2021, Tamiolaki 2024).
Despite the plethora of studies in freedom, there is still scope for deepening our understanding of this notion, by systematically examining more terms and related expressions (e.g. ἐλευθεριότης, προαίρεσις, τὸ εφ᾽ ἡμῖν), by promoting interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches, and by studying more closely the association (or possible equivalence) between ancient and modern concepts of freedom (e.g. ancient terms related to the freedom of will, sexual or religious freedom, moral freedom, freedom of choice etc.).
The aim of this panel is twofold:
- a) first, to offer a forum for a methodological and terminological clarification of this notion, by examining underexplored authors and genres (such as the novel, the New Testament, theology, inscriptions, papyri etc. esp. philosophical) that might contain thus far undiscovered concepts of freedom;
- b) to prompt a comparative reflection on freedom by focusing on two ancient civilizations, ancient Greece and Rome.
More specifically, papers in this panel will investigate the concept of freedom in politics, jurisprudence, historiography, literature, philosophy, and theology with a chronological range from the Mycenaean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, addressing (one or more of) the following questions:
- What are the terms used to refer to freedom in ancient Greece and/or Rome and what is their meaning? Is this notion implicit, made explicit (e.g. by a definition) or even debated (e.g. in the philosophical treatises on freedom and slavery)?
- Which terms/concepts are correlated with freedom in ancient Greek and Latin literature and culture (e.g. παρρησία, ἐλευθεριότης, αὐτονομία, libertas, liberalitas, licentia, dignitas, honor, virtus) and what are their different nuances?
- To what extent does genre (poetry/prose) affect the conceptualization of freedom and its literary representation in ancient Greece and/or Rome?
- Can we trace an evolution of this concept from ancient Greece to Rome? And how is this evolution situated in the history of ideas?
- To what degree concepts of freedom in ancient Greece and/or Rome influence or enrich our modern understanding of the concept?
- Digital representation of the concept of freedom (e.g. through tools that bring to light its proximity/association with other concepts etc.)
We expect that this panel will significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of the notion of freedom in Greco-Roman antiquity and to a re-evaluation of its potential relevance for our modern world.
Abstracts in English of no more than 300 words should be sent to both organizers (
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Sven Günther, Professor, Northeast Normal University, Changchun
Naomi Campa, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Demetra Kassimis, Assistant Prof. Cambridge
Hartmut Leppin, Professor, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Christoph Lundgreen, Professor, Technische Universität Dresden
Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Klaus Vieweg, Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Kostas Vlassopoulos, Professor, University of Crete
Shane Wallace, Assistant Professor, University of Dublin
REFERENCES (select)
Anagnostopoulos, Georgios and Santas Gerasimos 2019 (eds.). Democracy, Justice, and Equality in Ancient Greece: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Cham: Springer.
Binayemotlagh, Saïd 2002. Être et liberté selon Platon. Paris: Harmattan.
Bobzien, Susanne 1998. Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Edwards, Catherine 2009. “Free yourself! Slavery, freedom and the self in Seneca’s Letters”, In: Shadi Bartsch, David Wray (eds.), Seneca and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 139–159.
Eliasson, Erik 2008. The Notion of That Which Depends on Us in Plotinus and Its Background. Philosophia Antiqua 113. Leiden: Brill 2008.
Galloway, Lincoln Emmanuel 2004. Freedom in the Gospel. Paul’s Exemplum in 1 Cor 9 in conversation with the Discourses of Epictetus and Philo. Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology 38. Leuven: Peeters.
Krüger, Dominique, Mohamad-Klotzbach, Christoph and Pfeilschifter, René 2022 (eds.). Local self-governance in Antiquity and in the Global South. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Leppin, Hartmut 2014. ‘Christianity and the Discovery of Religious Freedom.’ Rechtsgeschichte / Legal History 22: 62-78.
Leppin, Hartmut 2022. Paradoxe der Parrhesie. Eine antike Wortgeschichte. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Liddel, Peter 2007. Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Muller, Robert 1997. La doctrine platonicienne de la liberté. Paris: Vrin.
Patterson, Orlando 1991. Freedom in the Making of the Western Culture. London: Tauris.
Raaflaub, Kurt 2004. The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sluiter, Ineke and Rosen, Ralph 2017 (eds.). Free Speech in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Boston/Brill.
Tamiolaki, Mélina 2010. Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques. Préface de Kurt Raaflaub. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne.
Tamiolaki, Melina 2024. “Aristotle and Xenophon on Freedom”, In: Gabriel Danzig, David M. Johnson and David Konstan (eds.), Xenophon’s Virtues. Xenophon Series 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 405-437.
Vlassopoulos, Kostas 2021. Historicising Ancient Slavery. Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Willms, Lothar 2011. Epiktets Diatribe Über die Freiheit (4.1) – Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Klassikern. 2 vols. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2011/12.
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Freedom as Metaphor – Metaphors of Freedom. Metaphorical Notions of the ‘Free’ and the ‘Slave’ in Ancient ThoughtNov 29Freitag, 29. November 2024 12:38
Call for Papers
Freedom as Metaphor – Metaphors of Freedom. Metaphorical Notions of the ‘Free’ and the ‘Slave’ in Ancient Thought
Panel at the 16th Celtic Conference in Classics, Coimbra, July 15-18, 2025
In the absence of philosophical notions of ‘freedom’ in early classical texts, studies on the subject usually focus on the political significance of the term. Thus, ‘freedom’ has been analysed primarily as the achievement of a (democratic) political order in which citizens, endowed with rights such as ‘freedom of speech’ (parrhesia), ‘equality’ (isonomia), and ‘equality of speech’ (isegoria), could take the reins of the polis in their own hands and not be subject to tyrannical rule. However, quite early on in classical Greece, expressions like ‘to be free’ and ‘to be a slave’ were used as metaphors in Greek literature. This creative use of the semantics was pivotal for the development of notions of freedom beyond the political sphere, but it is mostly sidelined in research on the subject. For example, ‘slavery’ occasionally acquires a metaphorical connotation in Greek tragedy. In Sophocles’ Antigone, for instance, Creon criticises Antigone’s inflexibility and ‘manly arrogance’ by reminding her that “there is no place for pride, when one is his neighbours’ slave (doûlos)” (473–485).
Moreover, metaphors of freedom and slavery were used by sophists in relation to the claim that law is the result of convention and not by nature (cf. Antiphon B 44 Col.4, Pl. Grg. 483a7–484b1, 491e5–492c8, Lg. 889e3–890a9): to serve the law means to enslave oneself, to rule is to be free. Moreover, we have ample evidence of a debate in the 4th century BC about what kinds of education and studies were suitable for a ‘freeman’, i.e. a citizen (see e.g. Isoc. 12.26–28, 15.266–269), which is the root of the expression studia liberalia (cf. Sen. Ep. 88.1.1). It may have been partly this debate which prompted Plato to define the philosopher as the only truly free person (Tht. 172c8–173c6, 175d7–176a2). But again, Plato developed the metaphor further to include the idea of ‘freedom from the body’ (and its contrary: slavery to bodily desires). This panel aims to close the existing gap in the scholarship on the notion of freedom in classical antiquity and beyond by exploring metaphoric uses of the semantics of ‘slave’ and ‘free’ across a broad range of ancient texts, including both literature and philosophy.
Please submit a 300-word abstract in English by February 20, 2025 to
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www.uc.pt/cech/16-ccc/calls/call-for-papers/. Papers should be 20 minutes long, followed by discussion. The results will be communicated by the end of February, 2025. Please note that travel and accommodation expenses will not be reimbursed, and that the conference is an in-person event only.Organizers
Diego De Brasi & Julia Pfefferkorn
Trier University, Germany
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CONF: 19th Trends in Classics on “The Ages of Nero: Reality and Reception”Nov 28Donnerstag, 28. November 2024 18:49
The Department of Classical Studies (Duke University), the Department of Classics (Oberlin College & Conservatory) and the Department of Classics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) announce the 19th Trends in Classics (an in-person event) to be held in Thessaloniki from May 22 to 24, 2025. The conference topic is:
“The Ages of Nero: Reality and Reception”
https://lit.auth.gr/research/conferences/trends-in-classics/19th_trends
(Nero and his age continue to fascinate us. The past decade alone has seen two Companions, three major museum exhibitions, new excavations of the Domus Aurea, and several biographies that aim to shed new light on Rome’s notorious fifth emperor and the years 54-68 CE. It is also clear that the Age of Nero lived on well after the death of the man himself. In the centuries since his suicide in 68 CE, different groups of people have refashioned their own ideas of Nero or their own idea of the Age of Nero, from the Flavian reshaping of his memory and the Christian creation of the Nero Antichrist legend to the influence of Neronian authors on early modern poetics, the reclaiming of Nero in the late 19th century as a symbol of decadent masculinity, and Hollywood’s use of Nero as symbol of its own spectacular power. Perhaps it is time that we speak of Ages of Nero in the plural. This international conference brings together scholars from different academic disciplines to explore such Ages of Nero including the literature, philosophy, art and architecture of Nero’s principate as well as the reception of Nero and Neronian culture from antiquity to today.)
The list of speakers is available online on the Department of Classics (AuTh) website via the link below:
https://lit.auth.gr/research/conferences/trends-in-classics/19th_trends_speakers
The conference is to be held in Auditorium 1 at KEDEA, September 3rd Avenue, University Campus, Thessaloniki:
https://kedea.rc.auth.gr/info.html
For further information or queries, please contact:
Stavros Frangoulidis (
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The Organizing Committee
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (Duke University)
Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College & Conservatory)
Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University & Academy of Athens)
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New CRASIS Network: Marginalised GroupsNov 25Montag, 25. November 2024 15:43
We are excited to announce the formation of a new CRASIS Network: Marginalised Groups: Giving Voice to Silenced Peoples in the Ancient World. This network aims to explore the experiences of historically underrepresented groups in antiquity.
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- Planning Meeting: The organisers will meet on 10 December, 15:00–16:00 to plan further activities. If you would like to join, please email
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For more information, see the attached document outlining the network’s goals and themes:
CRASIS Network: Marginalised groups: giving voice to silenced peoples in the ancient world
Organisers:
Anna Moles (Archaeology)
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Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein. About the Network
The study of ancient society has traditionally focused on the urban elites or the male citizens, and has neglected the women, the children or adolescents, the old people, the disabled or sick, the slaves and criminals, the foreign residents. This network aims to address this problem. While the situation is rapidly changing, with these groups receiving increasing attention, these discussions remain restricted to historical or literary evidence. However, in recent years, mortuary archaeology (the study of mortuary practices) and bioarchaeology (the study of human remains, and associated analytical techniques such as ancient DNA and biodistance analysis to establish genetic relations, or isotopic analyses to reconstruct diet or provenance) produce fascinating insights into the life and death of precisely these neglected categories. These new insights have not been incorporated so far into historical reflection on these ‘silenced groups’. Classicists and ancient historians make little use of (bio)archaeological information, while osteoarchaeologists are not always familiar with the complexities of the ancient world, or ignore the potential of texts, epigraphy, or imagery. As a result, the different disciplines hardly interact with each other, just at the moment when new questions are being asked and new methods introduced.
We want to make use of this network within the framework of CRASIS, as an interdisciplinary research institute, to bring together scholars from across the disciplines studying the ancient world, bridging the gap between these diverse disciplines and between the humanities and the sciences. Doing this through a CRASIS network also enables us to maximise the interdisciplinarity of our approach to marginalised peoples by bringing together a wide range of disciplines interested in ancient societies. Coming from the archaeological perspective, we acknowledge the importance of the growth of archaeological science, but we want to anchor methodological innovation in theoretical reflection and historical knowledge. Coming from the historical/textual perspective we are interested to learn how new archaeological methods can challenge, confirm or fill in the gaps in the discourses we find in ancient texts, both inscribed and literary/historiographical. Moreover, from a reception theories and cultural analysis point of view, we are also interested in seeing how and whether the new facts archaeology can obtain about silenced and marginalized groups will enter the public consciousness through popular science and pop culture. We can think for instance of the spate of popular books on the lives of women that is currently appearing (The Missing Thread, Dunn; Femina, Ramirez; Amazons, Mayor), that use archaeological findings to complete the lacunae in the historical record. Herein lies the strength of situating our research in the very well documented ancient Greco-Roman world where optimal integration of written, material, iconographic and bioarchaeological evidence can be achieved, and including reception scholars as well.
Meeting plans
A series of four meetings to discuss a selection of specific topics within the theme involving both the CRASIS network and external participants. We would like to focus on the status quo of research to-date on these topics, gathering bibliography and available evidence, and discuss how to progress in approaching future study of marginalised peoples and silenced groups in the ancient world. The meetings will take the format of a combination of talks, round-table discussions, student poster sessions, and collections tours. We would like to hear about the current research of those in the network relating to the theme but will also include a specifically student-oriented aspect to each meeting.
The four meeting topics:
1) Women and children
2) The elderly, infirm and disabled
3) The enslaved and criminals
4) Foreigners
We plan to include student activities into these meetings including (but not limited to):
- Student posters on a topic linked to the meeting’s theme.
- For our graduate students, to act as respondents to papers.
- A tour of the Human Osteoarchaeology Laboratory and Mediterranean Archaeology collections.
- Integrate student presentations in the new BA Roman slavery course.
Upcoming events
10 December: Planning meeting with the organisers but any interested parties are welcome (email
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