Events
Classics Colloquium, November 2006
Fifth Classics Colloquium:
The Orient,
Greece, & Rome
Complutense University, Madrid
17-19th November 2006
Conference Coordinator: Professor Alberto Bernabe, Professor of Classics, Complutense University, Madrid
In The Orientalizing Revolution, Walter Burkert attempts to correct our distorted view of Ancient Greek culture as a miraculous phenomenon owing practically nothing to its neighbours. Recently there have been many studies on the influences or connections between Classical and Oriental cultures and progress in the edition and interpretation of Hittite, Mesopotamian, Iranian, Egyptian and Ugaritic texts, which have opened up new intercultural perspectives. It is also clear that the Roman encounter with Greece and the Orient introduced new ideas, customs and forms of worship which transformed Rome’s vision, as recorded by contemporary literature.
Classics Colloquium, November 2005
Fourth Classics Colloquium:
Tears in the Ancient World
Universiteit Leiden
25-27th November 2005
Conference Coordinators:Professor Joan Booth, Professor of Classics, University of Leiden; and, Professor Philip Hardie, Professor of Classics, University of Oxford
[Natura] hominem tantum nudum et in nuda humo natali die abicit ad uagitus statim et ploratum.
‘Man alone Nature deposits naked on the naked ground at the time of his birth immediately to wail and cry’.
With these words Pliny the Elder (NH 7.2) claims the capacity for shedding tears to be one of the things that make us human. It is an activity that crosses the boundaries of time, nationality and culture: an appropriate subject, then, for a colloquium on Classical Antiquity involving ten universities across modern Europe. The aim of the colloquium was to consider how tears in the ancient Greek and Roman era are regarded, depicted and explained – in literature and in visual art, by philosophers, scholars and scientists. Who weeps in the classical world, and why? Is it thought good for them or not? Are their tears disfiguring or attractive? Do classical women weep more than men or vice versa? Are Greek and Roman tears at all ritualistic? Are ‘crocodile tears’ a recognised phenomenon? How is the physiology of tears understood? What, if any, Nachleben does classical weeping have? These are some of the questions that contributors were invited to address.
Classics Colloquium, November 2003
Third Classics Colloquium:
Methods and Traditions of Graduate Research: Approaches to Herodotus and Tacitus’s Annals
University of Oxford
20-22nd November 2003
The third EUROPAEUM Classics Graduate Colloquium took place this autumn at Oxford over a long weekend, with representatives from Bonn, Leiden, Geneva, Bologna, and Madrid.
Global Security Interlinked: Poverty, Security and Development
A Europaeum Lecture on Global Security Interlinked: Poverty, Security and Development with Lord Professor (Ralf) Dahrendorf, former Warden of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, was held at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in April 2002. Europaeum Summer School 2002 - Oxford
European Economic Integration
University of Oxford
17th - 22nd September, 2002
Mission
The objectives are threefold. To provide research students in economics and other relevant social sciences from Europaeum partner universities, with an opportunity to present and discuss research papers related to European integration issues; to provide advanced survey lectures on recent development in the field; to foster fruitful exchanges and cooperation among different European graduate schools.
Classics Colloquium, 2001 & 2002
First and Second Classics Colloquia
University of Oxford
2001 & 2002
The Ancient Romans were, of course, great travellers. But how did it all work without lastminute.com?
On a chilly November weekend in 2001, graduate students from the universities of Leiden, Prague, Bologna, Bonn, Geneva and Oxford, gathered for what effectively became a three-day festival incorporating tours, informal meetings, seminars, and an all-day colloquium on travel and tourism in ancient times.
