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Forthcoming conferences

Information will be posted here as it becomes available.


International Conference Publications Online

Etruscans Now abstracts and papers from the international conference, December 2002. Selected papers have been published in volumes 9 and 10 of Etruscan Studies www.etruscanfoundation.org/pdfs/ES1-12toc.pdf (Full papers available only to conference delegates.) [p1] 

The January Conference 1999 on 'Theatre: Ancient and Modern' (online proceedings of The January Conference 1999)

The Reception of Classical Texts and Images (online proceedings of The January Conference 1996)

Past Conferences

Seminars on Memory and Mourning: Death in Ancient Rome November 2007/ February 2008. Abstracts are available online [PDF, 21KB]

Roman art: where is it at and where is it going? March 2007

Parrot Play: The Trickster in the Text February 2005 (now published as P.James and J.Courtney, The Role of the Parrot in Selected Texts from Ovid to Jean Rhys, Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, 2006. [more about this book]

Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds Conference, 2004
(Selected proceedings now published in Hardwick and Gillespie (eds) Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

Greeks and Romans in the Buffyverse. Classical threads in fantasy and science fiction on contemporary television. See also the conference report.

Good Deaths, Bad Deaths. Death, Dying and Burial in the Ancient World, Institute of Classical Studies, London, 2003. See also the conference report.

Classical Studies Departmental Research in Scotland, Edinburgh, June 2003
(a report)

The Open Colloquium 2002 - The Role of Greek Drama and Poetry in Crossing and Redefining Cultural Boundaries

The Clothed Body in the Ancient World, January 2002

The Ancient World in Cinema and Popular Culture, January 2001

The Open Colloquium. Tony Harrison's Poetry Drama and Film: The Classical Dimension, Milton Keynes, October 1999 (a report)

Truly Ancient Events

The Research Students' Conference, January 1997 (general conference overview and abstracts of papers)

Future directions: Archaeology, Multi-Media and the Internet, March 1996

 

 

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