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News, events, people & deeds: #ancient world studies in the Australasian diaspora. Links: http://res-australes.blogspot.com X: @res_australes. Currently taking a break.
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Michael Zavros: Gods and Monsters at the Hellenic Museum - open until 27 April 2025 www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/...
January 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#CFP Book chapters - Pasts Imagined: Creative Methods in Knowledge Production about History, Memory and Culture - eds. Ariella Van Luyn, Alina Kozlovski, Chris Muller - Abstracts by March 3, chapters by end 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
January 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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#DM Em/Prof. Arthur (Art) Pomeroy (Victoria Uni Wellington) (information via ASCS):
Please see the following message from Jeffrey Tatum regarding the sad news of Arthur Pomeroy's recent passing: ==================================== Arthur Pomeroy, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Victoria University, died on Tuesday, the seventh of January. It can hardly be necessary to rehearse here Art's scholarly achievements or his many contributions to ASCS. Throughout his final illness, Art remained generous and witty and fun to be around. His acuity and his quirkiness were alike unimpaired. And there was never a hint of self-pity - a model for the rest of us. We have lost a treasure. When plans for a memorial service are finalised, these will be promulgated to the Society.
January 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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"impact of his life and intellect upon scholarship related to war, money, and power in the ancient Mediterranean" #review BMCR: J. Armstrong, A.J. Pomeroy, D.Rosenbloom, Money, warfare & power in the ancient world: studies in honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle (2024) bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.01...
January 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Lytham St Annes Classical Association/CA 2025 Ancient Worlds Competition - "open to all aged 11-18, across the world. Entrants must submit a video of them presenting their answer to this year's big question: “Which ancient myth fascinates you the most, and why?”" lsaclassics.com/2025-competi...
January 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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In Jan-Feb's Australian Book Review - Kyriakos Velos (Monash) on Ross King's _The Shortest History of Ancient Rome_ ("if brevity is the soul of wit, it can be the bane of historiography") www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c... ($)
January 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Dec 16 online Sydney (6pm AEDT) #NUMISMA #ACANS (MQ) 2024 Holiday Lecture: Prof. Olivier Hekster (Radboud Uni), Ruling Images: Analysing Roman Power Through Coins. Zoom registration macquarie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 15, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Life in City of the Dead — #Pompeii exhibition at NMA Canberra in the Weekend Australian today:
December 14, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Dec 10 Sydney (12:30-5:30pm AEDT, in person, Philosophy Seminar Room (N494)) History of Philosophy Roundtable events.humanitix.com/history-of-p...
December 8, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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#openaccess from La Trobe - Burning Issues in Classics eds. Rhiannon Evans & Nicole Gammie - open.umn.edu/opentextbook... (H/T AWOL_tweets: x.com/AWOL_tweets/...)
December 4, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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*note change of time - now 0900 AEDT] Dec 5 hybrid/Sydney [9.00am AEDT] Critical Antiquities Network: Ron Planer (Wollongong), The Natural History of Human Social Life criticalantiquities.org
December 4, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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#classicalreception Victorian Fisheries Authority's offensive on carp has the motto "Carpe Diem", "to fight carp and bring back our critically endangered native fish such as Macquarie perch, trout cod, blackfish, silver perch and catfish." They also had a codference...
December 4, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Dec 5 hybrid/Sydney [9.30am AEDT] Critical Critical Antiquities Network: Ron Planer (Wollongong), The Natural History of Human Social Life criticalantiquities.org
December 1, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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#CFP online - Southern Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls - Sept 1-2 & Sept 8-9, 2025 - live discussion on prerecorded papers on scholarly perspectives from the Global South, Asia, Australia and New Zealand - Abstracts due May 31, 2025 [email protected] @irci.bsky.social
[edited ALT] Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls has long been held as an example of international and interfaith cooperation. Yet, that scholarship has almost exclusively been associated with approaches and perspectives from the Global North (Europe, Israel, North America, and the UK). The purpose of this free online conference is to draw together researchers and scholarly perspectives from the Global South, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. What is the history of scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls in these regions? What is the nature and extent of public interest in the Scrolls? What methods, approaches, and perspectives have prevailed, and why? What opportunities exist to study the Scrolls and in what ways are they engaged? What new insights and/or trajectories on the Scrolls have emerged or are emerging, and why? We invite papers on any topic connected to the Dead Sea Scrolls and related Second Temple studies from researchers trained or based in Central or South America and the Caribbean, Africa, Oceania, Asia, or Australia and New Zealand. We particularly invite papers that examine perspectives that might be considered distinctive of the regions where participants are based. Format: Speakers will be requested to submit a video recording of their paper by 1 August 2025. Recordings should not be more than 20-minutes in length. The prerecorded papers will then be shared with participants, who will be invited to watch them before the live meetings on 1–2 September and 8–9 September. The meetings on 1–2 September and 8–9 September will be comprised of four (4) two-hour-long meetings held on Zoom (that is, two hours each day). The live sessions will be dedicated to questions and discussion of the pre-circulated papers. To submit a paper proposal, please send a 250-word abstract and short statement of eligibility (e.g., nationality, institutional affiliation) to Gareth.Wearne@acu.edu.au. Registration for the conference will be free. Call for papers closes May 31 2025.
November 28, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Summer Schools January 2025 - Dawson Centre in Hobart - LATE AND ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN (Jan 6-10); BIBLICAL GREEK FOR BEGINNERS (Jan 13-17) www.dawsoncentre.org/courses/
November 26, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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🎉 Ancient world Discovery projects @ ARC: night studies (ACU/ANU/&c), Late Antique translation (ACU), truth as social value (Syd); & projects on Epicureanism, heritage, human remains, Chinese temple theatre, stone tools, hourglasses, Asterix, & more rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
Associate Professor Kylie Crabbe; Dr Dawn LaValle Norman; Dr Estelle Strazdins; Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte; Dr Tatiana Bur; Associate Professor Lisa Bailey; Associate Professor Leslie Dossey - Night Vision aims to create a new history of wakeful nighttime activities in the late ancient world by combining study of material remains (e.g. lighting and timekeeping technologies) with literary descriptions of what humans do at night. Grounded in our night studies network, the project will generate new knowledge of late ancient culture, illuminating overlooked people and experiences with the new analytical category of “night vision”. Expected outcomes include scholarly publications and a robust agenda of co-designed outreach with museums and observatories. This should provide significant benefit by consolidating historical night studies in the Australian academy and enriching the cultural knowledge of night for the Australian community. Dr Michael Hanaghan; Associate Professor Stephen Carlson; Professor Bronwen Neil; Professor Dr Andrew Cain - This project offers the first holistic assessment of translation in Late Antiquity, a critically important cultural transformation on par with the introduction of the printing press. It will explore who translated texts, when and why, when the norms for modern European literary analysis were set. It aims to uncover how new translations communicated and shaped knowledge while developing distinct social, political, and cultural groups. It will expand our understanding of the rich variety of Late Antique translation techniques and apply this understanding to how translation methods in modern Australia are changing, including the use of AI technologies, the presence of multi-language communities, and the experience of bilingual speakers. Professor Julia Kindt - Ancient history has much to tell us about the polarization in the political cultures of many Western societies today. More specifically, it speaks to larger questions emerging from contested notions of truth and truthfulness at the heart of this polarization. This project aims to explore how truth first emerged as a problem among some thinkers in Classical Greece. It expects to generate the first study of the social, political, and intellectual conditions that led to the emergence of truth as a social value. Outcomes include a better understanding of what is at stake in our joint commitment to the real and factual, and what would be lost if we give up on it now - with broad benefits for our grasp of political cultures past and present.
November 26, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Nov 22-24 Melbourne (La Mama Theatre) Αριάδνη/Ariadne lamama.com.au/whats-on/fes... - "Αριάδνη/Ariadne is a bold reimagining of the ancient Greek myth of #Ariadne of Crete with original music"
November 21, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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"[Jessica] Murtagh’s #amphorae make connections across time... scenes of quotidian life which.. communicate profound shifts in society and capture the collective culture of a time." citynews.com.au/2024/murtagh... [Jessica Murtagh at Grainger Gallery, Fyshwick, ACT until Dec 1]
November 19, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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Nov 20 hybrid Sydney (6.30pm AEDT Zoom/CCWM) Book Launch & Lecture: Dr John Tidmarsh, Pella of the Decapolis from the Ptolemies to Rome: But Where was Alexander? [Book Launch: _After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan_] Book $ pay.sydney.edu.au/NEAF
November 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Nov 15 hybrid (CET/GMT+1 from Utrecht) #Hellenistic Study Day - including Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (MQ) on Ruling the Centre of the Earth: #Antiochos I, #Babylon, and #Marduk on the #Omphalos. See www.altaycoskun.com/utrecht-work...
November 11, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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Deadline!! Nov 15 - #CFP International Conference: New Perspectives on #Suetonius (hybrid/Paris Nanterre University: 17-18 June 2025). Organizers: Pauline Duchêne, Phoebe Garrett [ANU], Clémence Pelletier listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Abstracts to
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November 10, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Nov 13 Canberra (in person, ANU AD Hope Blg, 12.30pm-4.30pm) Interdisciplinary symposium: 'Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation. Info/Rego: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/coins...
November 10, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Nov 13 Canberra ANU (in person, AD Hope Blg, 12.30pm-4.30pm) Interdisciplinary symposium: 'Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation. Info/Rego: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/coins...
November 6, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Nov 8-9 online (GMT) #EuGeStA Project - Gender Studies & Classical Scholarship: Women & Roman historiography. Organized by Olivia Elder & @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social. Zoom - info [pdf] eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us... (speakers include Kathryn Welch (Sydney) & Tom Hillard (Macquarie))
November 5, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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Nov 8 Canberra (9-5pm, ANU RSSS Building 1.21) Women, Gender and Violence from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Keynotes: Dr Elly Cowan (Sydney), Prof. Megan Cassidy-Welch (Uni Divinity Melbourne) history.cass.anu.edu.au/events/women...
November 3, 2024 at 10:56 PM