IN CELEBRATION OF CLASSICS

IN CELEBRATION OF CLASSICS,

16th SEPTEMBER, FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE,

EUSTON

173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

2.15 to 5.30 and 7.00 to 9.15

The success of Royal Holloway depends on its reputation as a mature centre for Higher Education and research of towering intellectual calibre. The study of ancient Greece and Rome, at a superlative scholarly and professional level, has always played a crucial role in the international perception of Royal Holloway’s standing as an institution which fosters intellectual activity of the highest quality. The value Classics adds to Royal Holloway’s brand is literally immeasurable, in that its enhancement of the college’s reputation may not be directly translated into monetary terms. By its nature, intellectual prestige takes many decades to take root and mature. It takes only weeks to destroy.

This event has been made possible only by the extraordinary generosity, hard graft and collaboration of a very large number of people and organisations. The staff of the Department of Classics & Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London is particularly grateful to the Classical Association, Peter Bing and Philip Hooker for their financial support, and for all kinds of energetic input from PhD students Mario Creatura, Lottie Parkyn, Matt Shipton, Laura Wood, as well as from Sarah Honeycombe and everyone on the Facebook Group.

2.15 to 5.30 pm Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges

2.15 Welcome and Introduction Prof. Edith Hall (RHUL)

2.30 George Eliot Prof. Pat Easterling (Cambridge)

2.40 Sarah Parker Remond Dr. Justine McConnell (Oxford)

2.50 Anna Swanwick Prof. Oliver Taplin (Oxford)

3.00 Sybella Gurney Dr Sarah Butler (RHUL)

3.10 Frances Stevenson Dr. Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)

3.20 Richmal Crompton Helen Eastman (RHUL)

3.30 Dorothy Tarrant; Hugh Tredennick Prof. Anne Sheppard (RHUL)

3.45 Break

4.00 Rosemary Manning Adam Ganz (RHUL)

4.10 Classics and Popular Culture Dr. Nick Lowe (RHUL)

4.20 Classics and the Material World Dr. Janett Morgan (RHUL)

4.30 Classics and the Feminist Voice Dr. Efi Spentzou (RHUL)

4.40 A.N. Other

4.50 What next: the undergraduate view Sarah Honeycombe

5.30 Break for sustenance at local cafes and pubs of your choice

6.00-7.00 Convene to the accompaniment of music by Charlie Rose

7.00 to 9.30 pm Classics Internationally

7.00-7.30 Five-minute messages

Welcome and Introduction Prof. Edith Hall (RHUL)

Watching the department grow Prof. Anne Sheppard (RHUL)

Message from the University of London Prof. Maria Wyke (UCL)

Messages from Europe Prof. Ineke Sluiter (Leiden)

Prof. Kai Brodersen (Erfurt)

Message from America Prof. Ruth Scodel (Michigan)

7.30 Education and Longterm Thinking Prof. Greg Woolf (St.

Andrews)

7.45 A Poet on Classics and Being Closed Tony Harrison (currently

RHUL)

8.00 Histories that Make Us Tom Holland (classicist and novelist)

8.15 Classics as Living Word Live Canon, dir. Helen Eastman (RHUL)

8.30 The Politics of the Real World Prof. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge)

8.45 The Ancient Guide to Modern Life Natalie Haynes (classicist

and comedian)

9.00 Messages from Planet Classics Lottie Parkyn (RHUL) and team

No need to register—just turn up wearing something purple

Actors of Dionysus

LYSISTRATA RETURNS: LONDON 2011

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HORACE IN SHEFFIELD

From January-March 2011, the Moor plays host to an exhibition of Latin poetry in the old Sunwin House department store windows.

Rockingham Street writer James Blackwell, who studied Latin at the University of Sheffield, is exhibiting his new translation of a famous Horatian ode in bright, eye-catching colours.

It is hoped that the 7-foot-high, 22-foot-across poem will attract the attention of both passers-by and commuters on their bus-ride home.

Fittingly, in view of the regeneration currently undergoing at The Moor, the poem is about renewal and the ever-changing seasons.

The poem has been called the most beautiful in classical literature (by A.E. Housman), and was chosen by James because the ancient poet Horace’s self-deprecating humour and love of life closely echo the outlook of many present-day Sheffielders.

Anyone interested in the exhibition or Latin in general can email James at jbwell@orange.net, or check out the facebook page ‘Sheffield Latin’ where there are pictures of the poem and some notes saying what all the things mean.

Health and Medicine in the Graeco-Roman to Medieval Islamic Worlds

I would like to announce a weekend course at Rewley House, Oxford University, running from the 1st to 3rd October 2010 on Health and Medicine in the Graeco-Roman to Medieval Islamic Worlds.

The course is interdisciplinary and is taught by a number of scholars who have an expertise in various aspects of Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Islamic Medicine.

Some of the key aspects covered are:

• How was the body and medicine understood by the Greeks, Romans and the Medieval Islamic world?
• How did perceptions influence cures, diagnoses, operations and recuperations?

Our sources for study range from archaeological to literary, including anatomical votive body parts to Islamic philosophical and scientific commentaries on classical sources. Healing cults, bath houses, votive deposits, bones and medical treatises all provide evidence for issues related to health, the body and medicine in the past.
This weekend programme will explore different facets of and approaches to medicine in the ancient world, comparing and contrasting evidence from the Greek to the Medieval Arab world.

Further information can be found at http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/results.php

Category=3D800#a_togg_O10P149AHR and the course is listed under the topic of 'health'.

Course code O10P149AHR

Registration till end of August.


Fees From £105.00.

Please pass this on to anyone who might have an interest in medical history.

Thank you,

Drs. Patty Baker (University of Kent) and Neil Christie (Leicester University)

Sincerely,

Dr. Patty Baker

Classics and Archaeology,

School of European Culture and Languages,

University of Kent,

Canterbury,

Kent,

CT2 7NF

UK

+44 (0)1227 82 73 49

GOLDEN SPONGE STICK COMPETITION 2010

NATIONAL WRITING COMPETITION

Are you a budding young writer?

Could you create the next Flavia Gemina or Falco?

Well here's your chance!

Get in touch with:

Jerry Pine

Burgess Hill School for Girls

Keymer Road, Burgess Hill, West Susses, RH15 0EG

Email: j.pine610@btinternet.com

The Athens Dialogues

The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation is organizing The Athens Dialogues, a major international conference on November 24-27, 2010, on the occasion of the opening of the Onassis Cultural Center-Athens. The conference will explore the role of the Greek cultural legacy (broadly defined) in understanding and addressing contemporary global challenges. The Athens Dialogues conference is organized in collaboration with eight leading world class academic institutions, namely the Academy of Athens, the Accademia dei Lincei, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German Archaeological Institute, the Institut de France, the Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, the University of Oxford and the University of Stanford. This unique intellectual event will bring together 60 eminent scholars in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences for four days of discussions that will range across the borders of academic disciplines and historical periods. Leading thinkers, academics, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world will gather aiming at opening new routes of thought on issues of universal and diachronic interest, such as:

A large part of the debate will be conducted on the internet, as speakers will be required to pre-publish an original paper on a cutting edge e-journal, implemented by CHS, Harvard. During the conference, 24 respondents will present their intervention having read the pre-published essays. Also, all our Website visitors will be able to exchange ideas and post their comments regarding the conference contributions through the e-journal forum. In addition, we intend to involve the audience-some 800 scientists and scholars-in the discussions as active participants, while thousands of people attending the conference through web-casting will be able to address questions in real time. Finally, all the participants will be invited to take part in the Athens Dialogues Network, a restricted web portal dedicated to providing a locus for discussion and communication among academics and intellectuals on a range of issues concerning the evolution of Greek culture over the centuries and its role in today's society.

Visit The Athens Dialogues Website NOW to GET more Information and DISCOVER the Various ways to PARTICIPATE in this Major Event Deadline for Participation Requests is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15th 2010

Participation Fee is waived for Students and overseas Scholars! ATTRACTIVE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS ARE OFFERED

Interdisciplinary approaches, stimulating debates, diachronic perspectives and the broad participation of great minds of our times make Athens Dialogues a unique opportunity not to be missed!

Poet in the City - Oral Epic Poetry - 7th June 2010 from 6.30 pm

Poet in the City is organising Oral Epic Poetry on 7 June in Kings Place, London, where Edith Hall will explore Homer's oral epic poetry and an actor will be reciting verses of the Iliad and the Odyssey in ancient Greek. Isabelle Hilton will talk about the now engraved Tibetan oral epic Gesar the Ling and Prof Jeff Opland will discuss Xhosa and Zulu praise poetry of South Africa.

Naomi Setchell

Archivist/Administrator

Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama,

Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies,

University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU

+44 (0)1865 288210 / www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk