CFP : Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City, University of Birmingham, 5-6 July 2010

The University of Birmingham would like to invite papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers for Day One of a colloquium, taking place from the 5th to the 6th of July 2010 on :

Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City

The possibilities offered by Cultural Memory as a methodological tool for reading and understanding modes of behaviour in antiquity have been steadily gaining currency in recent years. The aim of this interdisciplinary colloquium is to bring together scholars and research students working on the texts and material culture of the ancient world in order to exchange ideas and approaches relating to using Cultural Memory to analyse religion in various ancient urban contexts.

The colloquium will be arranged over two days ; papers given on the first day will explore new research by postgraduates and early careerists currently working on Cultural Memory in ancient societies. On the second day we will turn our gaze on Rome as a case study for lieux de mémoire with papers given by invited scholars.

We warmly welcome papers from postgraduate or early career researchers on any aspect of the theme of cultural memory and religion in the ancient city. We encourage abstracts relating to any area of the ancient Mediterranean from the third millennium BC to Late Antiquity. Potential topics for papers could include but are not limited to :

• Religious traditions and the role of memory in their conception and performance
• Architectural conceptions
• Geographical places of memory
• Memory and myth
• Religious commemoration of historical events

It is hoped that a combination of speakers from a variety of disciplines and at different stages in their work and careers will generate some fascinating and stimulating discussion that will be of use both to individual research projects and to those who are interested in taking more collaborative approaches. Our keynote speaker is Professor Karl Galinski (who is leading the Memoria Romana project at Ruhr University, Bochum), and provisionally agreed invited speakers include Thomas Kuhlmann, David Larmour, Maureen Carroll and Alain Gowing. It is anticipated that selected papers will be published as part of a series of Birmingham volumes on Cultural Memory.

Please send abstracts of c. 300 words to Phoebe Roy (prr320@bham.ac.uk) and Juliette Harrisson (JGH139@adf.bham.ac.uk) by Friday, 8th January 2010.

Source : Late Antique Discussion List.

Research Associate - Pottery Analyst, University College London - Institute of Archaeology

Source : jobs.ac.uk

Full Time (Job share considered) :

The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7. The salary will be £32,485 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Duties and Responsabilities

The Noviodunum Archaeological Project (NAP) is seeking a pottery specialist to undertake the final analysis of the ceramics from the excavations and surveys conducted between 2002 and 2009. The successful candidate should have a good knowledge of late Roman and Byzantine pottery from the Balkans and the Eastern Roman / Byzantine Empires. The successful candidate will have to liaise with both the project directors and other ceramic analysts involved in the project. The candidate will be responsible for writing and collating the final pottery report. The post is funded from November 2009 until the end of February 2010.

Key Requirements

Candidates should hold a PhD and have relevant archaeological experience.

Further Details

For a job description and person specification, please go to : http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/archaeology/jobs/

To apply for this vacancy online go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/

If you are unable to apply on-line please contact Louisa Goldsmith at l.goldsmith@ucl.ac.uk or telephone 0207 679 7503

UCL Taking Action for Equality

Closing Date 20 October 2009 at 5 pm

To apply click here :

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CFP : The 12th International Conference of ISSEI, Ankara, 2-6 August 2010

Source : Late Antiquity Discussion Forum.

The organizers of the 12th conference of ISSEI, to be held at çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey (http://issei2010.haifa.ac.il) invite scholars from various disciplines such as History, Politics, Literature, Art, Philosophy, Science, and Religion, to re-examine, redefine and reassess the scope of interdisciplinary dialogue in the past and present. The conference is divided into 5 sections :

1. History, Geography, Science

2. Politics, Economics, Law

3. Education, Sociology, Women's Studies

4. Literature, Art, Music, Theatre, Culture

5. Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Language

Workshop on the Divine Omnipotence in Medieval European Thought

(http://issei2010.haifa.ac.il/Ivanovic)

Chair : Filip Ivanovic

One of the questions that presented itself with the rise and development of the Christian faith was the problem of divine omnipotence. By resolving the problem of divine power, it became possible to explain many focal problems of mankind and the world, including, for example, the problem of the existence of evil, or of suffering.

Usually, the eleventh-century theologian Peter Damiani is pointed to as a pioneer and originator of the discussion of divine powers. St. Isidor Pelusiot's considerations were developped five centuries before Damiani wrote his famous treatise De divina omnipotentia. The debate in Scholasticism emerged as a long and lively discussion of different ways of defining the problem. The distinction of potentia absoluta and potentia ordinata contributed greatly to debating the general question of divine omnipotence. However, although it was useful in the theological-philosophical sense, this distinction later on provoked political solutions which sometimes served the interest of only one man (for example, the authority of the pope and the request of Henry VIII regarding the annulment of his marriage).

The aim of this workshop is to consider the attribute of the divine power as elaborated during the Middle Ages, in both Western and Byzantine cultural spheres, in theological, philosophical, literary works (papers that deal with Byzantine tradition are particularly encouraged). Papers that point out the contemporary significance of the problem are especially welcome. The themes suitable for the workshop could include, but are not limited to, the following questions :

1/ The divine omnipotence in the West and in Byzantium

2/ The anthropological issues - human will, divine will, the problem of will in Christ

3/ The problem of evil in relation with the divine power

4/ Political issues - popes, kings, emperors, State-Church

5/ The creation - relationships creator-creature, divine nature-divine will

6/ Ockham on divine omnipotence

7/ Contingency of the world

8/ The relationship between ancient religion/philosophy/literature and medieval religion/philosophy/literature

9/ Divine power in medieval and contemporary perspectives (for example traditional theology vs. process theology)

Abstracts of ca. 300 words should be sent by e-mail to :

Filip Ivanovic filiwycat@yahoo.com.

Employment - History of Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages, TAMU

Source : TAMU.

The Department of History at Texas A&M University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the history of Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages (c. 200-1050) to begin in September 2010. Applications from historians of Europe and the Byzantine Empire, including all subfields, are welcome. We especially encourage candidates whose work crosses cultural borders, employs a broad comparative perspective, takes a transnational approach, uses gender as a form of analysis, and/or focuses on religion, race, or ethnicity. A PhD or defense of the PhD by September 1, 2010, evidence of scholarly accomplishment or potential, and the ability to take an active role in both graduate and undergraduate courses are required. To ensure full consideration all materials should arrive before November 6, 2009.

Send a letter of application, a current C.V., a short writing sample (article or chapter), and three letters of reference to :

R.J.Q. Adams

Chair, Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages Search

Texas A & M University

Department of History

4236 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-4236.

L'eau : usages, risques et représentations dans le Sud-Ouest de la Gaule et le Nord de la péninsule Ibérique, Dax, 25-26 septembre 2009

Source : Calenda, Calendrier des sciences sociales.

L'eau : usages, risques et représentations dans le Sud-Ouest de la Gaule et le Nord de la péninsule Ibérique (IIe siècle a.C. - VIe siècle p.C.)

Organisé par la Fédération Aquitania en collaboration avec la Société de Borda.

Vendredi 25 septembre

9h00 Accueil des participants à l'Institut du Thermalisme

9h30-10h30 Inauguration. Interventions diverses.

Eau et milieu naturel

10h40-11h10 Introduction par Philippe Leveau : Attraits et risques de l'eau

11h10-11h30 Cécile Allinne et Maria Pilar Galve : Archéologie du risque d'inondation et gestion des zones humides en milieu urbain : l'exemple de Saragosse (Aragon, Espagne)

11h30-11h50 Pierre Régaldo : Le Peugue médiéval et l'antique Devèze : données et hypothèses pour une histoire hydrographique de Bordeaux

11h50-12h10 Robert Sablayrolles : Fallait-il penser à évacuer l'eau avant de l'amener ? Les collecteurs de la capitale des Convènes

12h10-12h30 Discussion

12h30-13h45 Déjeuner

L'eau et les mines

14h00-14h20 Claude Domergue : Les exploitations aurifères hydrauliques romaines du Nord-Ouest de l'Espagne. A propos de publications récentes

14h20-14h40 Jean-Louis Bordes : A propos de l'utilisation de l'eau pour transporter des matériaux à l'époque romaine, le cas des mines de Las Médulas (province de Leon, Espagne)

14h40-15h00 Mertxe Urteaga : Mineria romana en Olasso ; planificacion de las labores extractivas y ordenacion del territorio

15h00-15h20 Bruno Ancel : Les galeries d'exhaure de la mine antique de Banca (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)

15h20-15h40 Discussion

15h40-16h00 Pause

Les campagnes

16h00-16h20 Introduction, par Pierre Sillières

16h20-16h40 Carlotta Franceschelli et Frédéric Trément : Milieux humides et gestion hydraulique dans le Grand Marais de Limagne à l'époque romaine (Puy-de-Dôme)

16h40-17h00 Laurent Callegarin, François Réchin et Christian Darles : Habiter et aménager l'espace au bord de l'eau dans le piémont pyrénéen durant l'Antiquité, quelques exemples sud-aquitains

17h00-17h20 Manuel Martin Bueno et Angelines Magallon : Hidraulica romana en el Valle Medio del Ebro

17h20-17h40 Sébastien Cabes : Le rôle de l'eau dans les implantations des villae aquitano-romaines

17h40-18h00 Discussion

19h00 Réception à la mairie de Dax

Samedi 26 septembre

Eaux, cultes et guérisons

9h00-9h20 Introduction, par Pierre Aupert

9h20-9h40 Silvia Gonzalez Soutelo : Los establecimientos de aguas mineromedicinalesen el mundo romano : un modelo de estudio aplicado al Noroeste de la Peninsula Ibérica

9h40-10h00 Javier Andreu Pintado : Perfil social del usuario de las aguas mineromedicinales hispanas en época romana

10h00-10h20 José Manuel Iglesias Gil et Alicia Ruiz Gutierrez : Cultos, supersticiones y usos terapeuticos de las aguas en el area central de la Cordillera Cantabrica

10h20-10h40 Discussion

10h40-11h00 Pause

L'eau et la ville

11h00-11h20 Introduction, par Pierre Aupert et Alain Bouet

11h20-11h40 Soizic Bezault, Anne Colin et Florence Verdin : L'approvisionnement en eau des habitats au second âge du Fer entre la Loire et les Pyrénées

11h40-12h00 Jean-Marc Féménias : Le puits du quartier Mont-Louis à Saintes (Charente-Maritime) : pour une nouvelle approche de l'archéologie des puits antiques

12h00-12h20 Georges Fabre et Jean-Louis Paillet : L'adduction et l'évacuation des eaux dans le macellum de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

12h20-12h40 Cécile Doulan, David Hourcade, Gabriel Rocque et Sandra Sicard : L'eau à Cassinomagus (Chassenon, Charente) : transport et usages

12h40-13h00 Discussion

13h00-14h15 Déjeuner

14h30-14h50 Didier Rigal : L'aqueduc gallo-romain de Cahors et ses captages

14h50-15h10 Xavier Charpentier : L'aqueduc gallo-romain de Bordeaux. Nouvelles recherches et nouvelles connaissances

15h10-15h30 Jean-Louis Hillairet : Nouveautés sur les aqueducs antiques de Saintes

15h30-15h50 Discussion

15h50-16h10 Pause

16h10-16h30 Nuria Romani Sala : Novedades entorno a la ingenieria hidraulica en el noroeste del Conventus tarraconensis : un sistema de eliminacion del aire en la red de distribucion hidrica de la ciudad romana de Iesso (Guissona, Cataluna)

16h30-16h50 Frédéric Gerber : Le lacus des Hospitalières (Poitiers, Vienne)

16h50-17h10 Alain Bouet : Les fontaines en Aquitaine

17h10-17h30 Discussion

17h30-18h00 Clôture du colloque

20h00 Dîner de gala au Splendid de Dax

Reminder CFP : EAHN International Meeting 2010, Portugal

Source : EAHN newsletter.

Abstracts are invited for the sessions and round tables listed below by October 30th, 2009. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent directly to the appropriate session or round table chair ; abstracts are to be headed with the applicant's name, professional affiliation [graduate students in brackets], and title of paper or position. Submit with the abstract a short curriculum vitae, home and work addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers.

Sessions will consist of either five papers or four papers and a respondent, with time for dialogue and questions at the end. Each paper should be limited to a 20 minute presentation. Abstracts for session presentations should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descriptive in nature.

Round tables will consist of five participants and an extended time for dialogue, debate and discussion among chair(s) and public. Each discussant will have 10 minutes to present a position. Abstracts for round table debates should summarize the position to be taken in the discussion.

Papers may not have been previously published, nor presented in public. Only one submission per author will be accepted. All abstracts will be held in confidence during the selection process. In addition to the twenty thematic sessions and five round tables listed below, open sessions may be announced. With the author's approval, thematic session chairs may choose to recommend for inclusion in an open session an abstract that was submitted to, but does not fit into, a thematic session.

Session and round table chairs will notify all persons submitting abstracts of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals and comment on them by November 30th, 2009. All chairs have the prerogative to recommend changes to the abstract in order to coordinate it with a session or round table program. The selected speakers must return edited abstracts to chairs no later than December 31st. Authors of accepted paper proposals must submit the complete text of their papers (for a 20 minute presentation) to their session chair or complete draft of discussion position (for a 10 minute presentation) to their round table chair by February 28th, 2010. Chairs may suggest editorial revisions to a paper or discussion position in order to make it satisfy session or round table guidelines and will return it with comments to the speaker by March 31st, 2010. Speakers must complete any revisions and distribute copies of their paper or discussion position to the chair and the other speakers or discussants by April 23rd, 2010. Chairs reserve the right to withhold a paper or a discussion position from the program if the author has refused to comply with these guidelines. It is the responsability of the chair(s) to inform speakers of these guidelines, as well as of the general expectations for both a session and participation in this meeting. Each speaker is expected to fund his or her own registration, travel and expenses to Guimaraes, Portugal.

More information on this Call for Papers and Discussion Positions can also be read on the conference website www.eahn2010.org and on the EAHN website www.eahn.org.

EAHN

c/o TU Delft

RMIT - Faculty of Architecture

P.O. Box 5043

2600 GA Delft.

Appel à contribution : La trame et le tableau, Université de Poitiers, 21-22 novembre 2010

Source : Fabula, la recherche en littérature.

Appel à communication

Colloque organisé par les Universités de Poitiers (EA 3816 Formes et Représentations en Littérature et Linguistique) et de Tours (EA 2115 Histoire des Représentations. Langues - Cultures et Civilisations).

Jeudi 21 et vendredi 22 novembre 2010.

La trame et le tableau : poétiques et rhétoriques du récit et de la description dans l'Antiquité grecque et latine

Date limite d'envoi des propositions (titre précis et résumé d'une dizaine de lignes maximum) : 1er décembre 2009.

Les propositions de communication sont à adresser à la fois à Patrick Laurence (patrick.laurence@univ-tours.fr) et à Michel Briand (michel.briand@univ-poitiers.fr).

Les deux journées du colloque (une vingtaine de communications) se tiendront à Poitiers.

- Comment s'organise, dans un texte ancien, grec ou latin, la relation entre énoncé narratif, à dominante temporelle / linéaire, et énoncé descriptif, à dominante spatiale /tabulaire ? comment se relient ces énoncés au cadre général d'une oeuvre poétique, historique, sophistique ? à un troisième type d'énoncé, discursif, argumentatif, spectaculaire ?

- Comment les catégories et concepts critiques élaborés par les théories littéraires et les poétiques et rhétoriques contemporaines, à propos du récit de la description, à visée factuelle ou fictionnelle, s'appliquent-ils à un corpus ancien ? comment l'analyse d'oeuvres antiques questionne t-elle, en retour, ces réflexions modernes ? comment les théoriciens anciens, en particulier rhéteurs, grammairiens et sophistes, se représentaient-ils ces questions (par ex., le lien entre muthos et ekphrasis, ou la notion de description d'actions...) ?

- Comment le genre du texte étudié détermine t-il le rôle qu'y joue la dialectique du récit et de la description ? par exemple pour l'épopée, la tragédie, l'histoire, la poésie élégiaque, lyrique, le romain, le discours oratoire, sophistique, épistolaire et tous les phénomènes d'hybridation et d'évolution transgénérique ?

Telles sont les questions que l'on voudrait voir traiter, lors de cette rencontre. Le cadre chronologique et générique est vaste : d'Homère à l'Antiquité impériale et à la Patristique, dans tous les textes littéraires et rhétoriques agençant récits et descriptions ou mettant en scène le rapport complexe et productif de ces deux modalités discursives. Loin de reprendre l'étude indépendante de ces deux aspects, bien menée ailleurs, en narratologie comme en analyse du descriptif, on limitera volontairement la question abordée au rapport précis, problématique et varié, à la fois structuré et tendu, que construisent les auteurs et théoriciens anciens entre ces deux aspects fondamentaux de la création textuelle et artistique antique, narrative et descriptive, avec tous ses enjeux, théoriques, stylistiques, esthétiques, culturels, sociaux.

Responsables : Michel Briand (U. de Poitiers) et Patrick Laurence (U. de Tours).