Sunday, May 1, 2011

retirement of Professor Gillian Clark

On the 2nd of August 2011 The University of Bristol will hold a day to mark
the career and retirement of Professor Gillian Clark:

A Colloquium for Gillian Clark: Christianity and Roman Society.
Tuesday 2nd of August 10.50-18.30 (coffee from 10.30)
Speakers include: Jill Harries, Karla Pollman, Neil McLynn, Fergus Millar,
Mark Humphries, Averil Cameron, Tessa Rajak and Oliver Nicholson.

Venue to be announced. Further details to follow.
If you think you might attend it would be useful if you could contact Bella
Sandwell (Bella.Sandwell@bris.ac.uk) so that we can cater correctly for
lunch.
Please also contact Bella Sandwell if you have any other queries about this
event.

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Bella Sandwell,
Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics
Department of Classics & Ancient History
Bristol University
Tel: 0117 928 9020
bella.sandwell@bristol.ac.uk

COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL

COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL
MAY 26, 2011, Room 201A, 11AM

The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is pleased to announce the organization of a colloquium on the Ancient Novel to be held on Thursday, May 26 2011, inRoom 201A, at 10.00 am. The topic of this colloquium will be:


Greek and Roman Novel: Narrative Tensions, Plot and Themes


PROGRAM
Genre, Ideology and Motifs, Chair: Prof. AntonioςRengakos
Prof. David Konstan (Brown, Emeritus; New York University): “Erôs and Oikos.”

Prof. Marí lia P. Futre Pinheiro (University of Lisbon): “Satire and Philosophy in Lucian.”
Prof. Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University): “The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus.”
Ass. Prof. Maria Plastira Valkanou (Aristotle University): “Lampon's Episode in Xenophon's Ephesiaca.”
Break
Petronius and Apuleius, Chair: Prof. Katharina Volk
Prof. Gareth Schmeling (University of Florida): “Size Matters: It is the Little Things that Count in Petronius’ Satyrica.”
Prof. Stephen J. Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford): “Interpreting the anteludia: Apuleius Met.11.8.”