RESOURCES IN
CLASSICS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
This list is a continuation of Resources in Art History for Graduate Students. The many archeological and conference opportunities for Classics Graduate Students prompted the idea to move these categories off into their own pages for the convenience of all interested readers. This will allow full postings of descriptions, so that the list may be printed out and passed around (Yes! You can do that with this! A little acknowledgement of the source is all I ask).
Don't forget to investigate the other pages here: Pre-Doctoral Grants and Fellowships, Calls for Papers, Study Abroad, and so on. Use the links at the top or bottom of this page.
Suggestions and observations are, as always, welcome.
Symposia of Interest to Graduate Students
in Classics and Archeology
CALL FOR PAPERS
Please note: I'm leaving posted those Calls whose deadlines have passed; they now form part of the invisible Web site: "Conferences to Attend."
Please also note that the online journal Anistoriton has a list of conferences in many areas of classics.
AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: APA/AIA ANNUAL MEETING
8-11 January, 2009. Philadelphia, PA. Dates for the receipt of panel proposals and abstracts varies; please see the Web sites for more information. About the same time each year. LOOK HERE for various Calls for Papers.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS
"Each year, the American Society of Papyrologists holds its Annual Meeting in early January in conjunction with the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America." Check the rather confusingly-organized Web site for more information.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: CONFERENCE AND OTHER INFORMATION
8-11 January, 2009. Philadelphia, PA. Annual. Deadlines (seem to) vary. "Please note that abstracts will only be accepted using the online forms." See the Web site for
much more.
ASSOCIATION OF ANCIENT HISTORIANS
Well, they have a handsome newish site, but it is impossible to discover when or where the conference will be...
ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHEOLOGIA CLASSICA
OK, mostly in Italian, but loaded with information relating to Italian and Greek archaeology, including a site on "convegni".
BRITISH MUSEUM 26TH CLASSICAL COLLOQUIUM
Held 12-14 November 2003. Apparently annual--can't tell. They also have a Notice Board for courses, summer schools, and study tours.
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS
Exhibitions, courses, conferences every now and then.
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME
They have an erratic schedule of conferences and lectures related to
ancient Rome, among other subjects, and have been adding new sites, including
a QuickTime tour of the School.
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE ON LATE ANTIQUITY
Held 26 May 2006. The First Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity.
"Abstracts from Faculty and Graduate students from any university in California are now
being accepted on the topic of city, citizen, citizenship and their connection to the late
Antique world. Abstracts were due Friday, 17 March, 2006." See the Web site for more information
or contact:
- walterward2@hotmail.com (Walter Ward)
- Mail Address: The First Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity
- c/o The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Box 951485
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485
- [Are they still around? Can't tell Feb. 2007]
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
Held 10-11 November 2006. "The UCLA Department of Classics seeks papers for its upcoming graduate
student conference, FREAKS: Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World. This conference
aims to investigate the notion of abnormality and its consequences in ancient literature and
culture. We encourage the submission of papers using a variety of evidence by both students of
classics as well as those of related disciplines. The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2006.
Notification of acceptances will be emailed by June 23, 2006. E-mail abstracts of no more than
300 words to erush@humnet.ucla.edu. Please include your name, title, affiliation, and contact information on the first page and your abstract on a second page without any identifying information.
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
12-15 April, 2007. Birmingham - 'The City and the University.' See the Web site for more information.
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Please see the Web site for information on several conferences offered each year.
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE SOUTH : ANNUAL
MEETING
11-14 APRIL 2007. To be held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Note that the CAMWS Web site carries a
generous listing of other conferences and meetings.
CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY IN THEORY (CHAT)
Held 10-12 November 2006. "CHAT is a new, British-based, archaeology conference group providing
opportunities for dialogue to develop among researchers in the interdisciplinary fields of
later historical archaeology and the archaeology of the contemporary world." Please see the Web site
for full information.
INSTITUTE OF GREECE, ROME,
AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (BRISTOL, UK)
Conferences, various activities, and resources.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
22-26 September 2008 Rome. "The conference will be organized strictly around a single theme,
but a broad one, of the meetings and interactions of cultures across the Mediterranean world in
antiquity. The conference will seek to approach this theme from the widest possible range of angles,
embracing all archaeological disciplines, from landscape archaeology to urbanism to art history to
study of ceramics and material culture; and covering all areas of the Mediterranean, extending
to the areas under the control of or in closest contact with Mediterranean powers (including all
provinces of the Roman Empire). The official Languages of the Congress will be English, French,
German, Spanish and Italian...the Committee accepted proposals for individual papers
up to 1 July 2007." Please see the Web site for more iinformation.
ISRAEL
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Held 30-31 May, 2007 at Hebrew University Jerusalem . "Papers on a wide range of classical
subjects, such as history, philology, philosophy, archaeology of Greece and Rome and neighbouring
countries are welcome. The time limit for each lecture is 30 minutes. Abstracts were due
30th December 2006." Seems to be about the same every year.
NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Held 1 March 2007. University of Toronto, Canada. About the same every year; check the Web site
for more information. The deadline for submissions was January 20th, 2007.
PROFANUM VULGAS: Representations of the Everyday in the Ancient World
Held Saturday, April 12, 2008. A Graduate Student Conference. The Graduate Center of The City
University of New York. "Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; favete linguis! (Hor. Ode 3.1). Literature
almost by definition concerns itself with the extraordinary, and yet Greek and Roman texts from
Homeric epic to Roman epigram have also explored the ordinary. In this conference, we seek to
investigate representations of the everyday in the ancient Mediterranean world. Sometimes ancient
"realism" is characterized by the elegant and refined treatment of everyday practices in ancient
society; sometimes it is low, bawdy, or downright obscene. We wish to explore works that celebrate
the private and public lives of everyday people as well as the intimate lives of gods, heroes, and
aristocrats. We welcome papers dealing with periods from archaic Greece through the Roman
Empire as represented in all media: poetry, prose, the visual arts and architecture, theatre, dance,
etc. We also encourage papers dealing with "real life" or the exploration of menial and mundane
social and cultural institutions from housekeeping and child-rearing to slave-dealing and
prostitution.
"Graduate students interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract of 300 words or
less as an attachment to profanumvulgus@gc.cuny.edu by November 30, 2007. On your abstract,
include your name, e-mail, institution, city and state (country if not USA), and phone number.
Notifications will be sent in January. Questions and concerns about the conference may be addressed
to either Alissa Vaillancourt (availlancourt@gc.cuny.edu) or Michael Broder (mbroder@gc.cuny.edu)."
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
2-5 April 2009 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. "The Society for Late Antiquity
announces that the Eighth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will explore
the theme "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200 - 700 AD]...As in the past, the
conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians, philologists, Orientalists,
art historians, archeologists, and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds to
discuss a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern, and African evidence for cultural transformation in
late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme. They should state both the problem
being discussed and the nature of the new insights or conclusions that will be presented. Abstracts
of not more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations may be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward
Watts, shifting.frontiers.8@gmail.com (Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall,
Rm. 828, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103, USA). The deadline for submission
of abstracts is October 15, 2008. The submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to
attend the conference should the abstract be accepted.
SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY AT
KALAMAZOO
7-10 May 2009. International Medieval Studies Congress. Western Michigan University in
Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sponsoring three sessions. "As in the past,topics are open. One-page abstracts
for 15-minute papers are invited relating to the history, literature, religion, art, archaeology,
culture,and society of Late Antiquity (that is, the European, North African, and Western Asian world
ca. 250-750). Attention should be given to how the paper relates to Late Antiquity as a discrete
period with its own individual characteristics. Abstracts may be forwarded, preferably by e-mail, to
Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@illinois.edu.and ruricius@msn.com. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is
September 15, 2006.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
Supposedly Annual; last held April 9-11, 1999. No sign of it on the
Web site, but take a look--lots of information about lectures and other
events. ["last updated on November 22, 2002"--what more can I say?]
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, AND
DUKE UNIVERSITY CLASSICS GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
21 April 2006. Dates seem to be about the same time every year. See te Web Site for more
information.
Left: One of the stars of the 1999 UNC-CH Symposium, who is just too
good-looking to drop.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL GRADUATE
COLLOQUIUM IN CLASSICS
Held 9 April 2005. Who's Watching Whom? Spectators and Spectacles in the
Graeco-Roman World. Abstracts were due December 1, 2004. Please see the Web site
for more information. [Web site not yet updated, February 2007]
SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY
Held 22-25 March 2007. University of Colorado at Boulder. "The Society for Late Antiquity announces
that the Seventh Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will be held...on the
topic of "The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity" (ca. 200 - 700 AD). [Please see the Web site for more
information.] Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 15-minute presentations may be submitted via
e-mail to Prof. Noel Lenski, (lenski@colorado.edu) (Department of Classics, UCB 248, University of
Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0248, USA). Deadline for submission of abstracts was November 1, 2006.
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Here you will find references to fellowships, grants, internships,
publication opportunities and more. From the American Academy in Rome, to
the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, to the Fulbright
Fellowships to the American Women's Club in Sweden...
Exhibitions, courses, conferences every now and then.
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME
They have an erratic schedule of conferences and lectures related to ancient Rome, among other subjects, and have been adding new sites, including a QuickTime tour of the School.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE ON LATE ANTIQUITY
Held 26 May 2006. The First Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity. "Abstracts from Faculty and Graduate students from any university in California are now being accepted on the topic of city, citizen, citizenship and their connection to the late Antique world. Abstracts were due Friday, 17 March, 2006." See the Web site for more information or contact:
- walterward2@hotmail.com (Walter Ward)
- Mail Address: The First Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity
- c/o The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Box 951485
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485
- [Are they still around? Can't tell Feb. 2007]
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
Held 10-11 November 2006. "The UCLA Department of Classics seeks papers for its upcoming graduate student conference, FREAKS: Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World. This conference aims to investigate the notion of abnormality and its consequences in ancient literature and culture. We encourage the submission of papers using a variety of evidence by both students of classics as well as those of related disciplines. The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2006. Notification of acceptances will be emailed by June 23, 2006. E-mail abstracts of no more than 300 words to erush@humnet.ucla.edu. Please include your name, title, affiliation, and contact information on the first page and your abstract on a second page without any identifying information.
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
12-15 April, 2007. Birmingham - 'The City and the University.' See the Web site for more information.
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Please see the Web site for information on several conferences offered each year.
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE SOUTH : ANNUAL MEETING
11-14 APRIL 2007. To be held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Note that the CAMWS Web site carries a generous listing of other conferences and meetings.
CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN THEORY (CHAT)
Held 10-12 November 2006. "CHAT is a new, British-based, archaeology conference group providing opportunities for dialogue to develop among researchers in the interdisciplinary fields of later historical archaeology and the archaeology of the contemporary world." Please see the Web site for full information.
INSTITUTE OF GREECE, ROME, AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (BRISTOL, UK)
Conferences, various activities, and resources.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
22-26 September 2008 Rome. "The conference will be organized strictly around a single theme, but a broad one, of the meetings and interactions of cultures across the Mediterranean world in antiquity. The conference will seek to approach this theme from the widest possible range of angles, embracing all archaeological disciplines, from landscape archaeology to urbanism to art history to study of ceramics and material culture; and covering all areas of the Mediterranean, extending to the areas under the control of or in closest contact with Mediterranean powers (including all provinces of the Roman Empire). The official Languages of the Congress will be English, French, German, Spanish and Italian...the Committee accepted proposals for individual papers up to 1 July 2007." Please see the Web site for more iinformation.
ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Held 30-31 May, 2007 at Hebrew University Jerusalem . "Papers on a wide range of classical subjects, such as history, philology, philosophy, archaeology of Greece and Rome and neighbouring countries are welcome. The time limit for each lecture is 30 minutes. Abstracts were due 30th December 2006." Seems to be about the same every year.
NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Held 1 March 2007. University of Toronto, Canada. About the same every year; check the Web site for more information. The deadline for submissions was January 20th, 2007.
PROFANUM VULGAS: Representations of the Everyday in the Ancient World
Held Saturday, April 12, 2008. A Graduate Student Conference. The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. "Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; favete linguis! (Hor. Ode 3.1). Literature almost by definition concerns itself with the extraordinary, and yet Greek and Roman texts from Homeric epic to Roman epigram have also explored the ordinary. In this conference, we seek to investigate representations of the everyday in the ancient Mediterranean world. Sometimes ancient "realism" is characterized by the elegant and refined treatment of everyday practices in ancient society; sometimes it is low, bawdy, or downright obscene. We wish to explore works that celebrate the private and public lives of everyday people as well as the intimate lives of gods, heroes, and aristocrats. We welcome papers dealing with periods from archaic Greece through the Roman Empire as represented in all media: poetry, prose, the visual arts and architecture, theatre, dance, etc. We also encourage papers dealing with "real life" or the exploration of menial and mundane social and cultural institutions from housekeeping and child-rearing to slave-dealing and prostitution.
"Graduate students interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract of 300 words or less as an attachment to profanumvulgus@gc.cuny.edu by November 30, 2007. On your abstract, include your name, e-mail, institution, city and state (country if not USA), and phone number. Notifications will be sent in January. Questions and concerns about the conference may be addressed to either Alissa Vaillancourt (availlancourt@gc.cuny.edu) or Michael Broder (mbroder@gc.cuny.edu)."
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
2-5 April 2009 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. "The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will explore the theme "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200 - 700 AD]...As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians, philologists, Orientalists, art historians, archeologists, and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern, and African evidence for cultural transformation in late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme. They should state both the problem being discussed and the nature of the new insights or conclusions that will be presented. Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations may be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Edward Watts, shifting.frontiers.8@gmail.com (Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103, USA). The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2008. The submission of an abstract carries with it a commitment to attend the conference should the abstract be accepted.
7-10 May 2009. International Medieval Studies Congress. Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sponsoring three sessions. "As in the past,topics are open. One-page abstracts for 15-minute papers are invited relating to the history, literature, religion, art, archaeology, culture,and society of Late Antiquity (that is, the European, North African, and Western Asian world ca. 250-750). Attention should be given to how the paper relates to Late Antiquity as a discrete period with its own individual characteristics. Abstracts may be forwarded, preferably by e-mail, to Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@illinois.edu.and ruricius@msn.com. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is September 15, 2006.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
Supposedly Annual; last held April 9-11, 1999. No sign of it on the Web site, but take a look--lots of information about lectures and other events. ["last updated on November 22, 2002"--what more can I say?]
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, AND DUKE UNIVERSITY CLASSICS GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
21 April 2006. Dates seem to be about the same time every year. See te Web Site for more information.
Left: One of the stars of the 1999 UNC-CH Symposium, who is just too good-looking to drop.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM IN CLASSICS
Held 9 April 2005. Who's Watching Whom? Spectators and Spectacles in the Graeco-Roman World. Abstracts were due December 1, 2004. Please see the Web site for more information. [Web site not yet updated, February 2007]
SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY
Held 22-25 March 2007. University of Colorado at Boulder. "The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Seventh Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity will be held...on the topic of "The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity" (ca. 200 - 700 AD). [Please see the Web site for more information.] Abstracts of not more than 500 words for 15-minute presentations may be submitted via e-mail to Prof. Noel Lenski, (lenski@colorado.edu) (Department of Classics, UCB 248, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0248, USA). Deadline for submission of abstracts was November 1, 2006.
Here you will find references to fellowships, grants, internships, publication opportunities and more. From the American Academy in Rome, to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, to the Fulbright Fellowships to the American Women's Club in Sweden...