Classics Colloquia
Classics Colloquium, November 2010
Apotheosis of Antoninous PiusNinth Classics Colloquium:
Death and the Afterlife
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
19-21 November 2010
The theme for the 2010 Classics Colloquium – the ninth in our series – will be Death and the Afterlife. This theme will include a broad range of subjects and areas of research: linguistics, literature, culture, religion, philosophy, archeology, art history and others. Classics graduate scholars at member universities of the Europaeum are invited to take part in this Colloquium, which aims to bring young European classics scholars together with leading academic experts, with the chance to present papers for discussion and critique by a fellow scholar.
Classics Colloquium, November 2009
Plato and AristotleEighth Classics Colloquium:
Teaching, Teachers and Students
Charles University, Prague
6-8th November 2009
Conference Coordinator: Martina Vanikova, Charles University, Prague
Mission
The theme for the 2009 Classics Colloquium‚ the eighth in our series‚ was Teaching, Teachers and Students. This theme included Greek education and attitudes; sophistry and philosophy; pedagogy; didacticism; Roman education and attitudes; and literary depictions of teaching and learning. Classics graduate scholars at member universities of the Europaeum took part in this Colloquium, which aimed to bring young European classics scholars together with leading academic experts, presenting papers for discussion and critique by a fellow scholar.
Classics Colloquium, November 2008
Seventh Classics Colloquium:
Metamorphosis between Science and Literature
University of Bologna
Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali
20-21st November 2008
Conference Coordinator: Professor Francesco Citti, Professor of Classics, University of Bologna
Mission
The theme for the 2008 Classics Colloquium – seventh in the series – was on the classical concept of Metamorphosis, both its literal and metaphorical meanings. It included both scientific subjects such as alchemy and chemistry, and literary themes such as intertextuality, disguising, pastiche, translation, and so forth.
Classics Colloquium, November 2007
Sixth Classics Colloquium:
Myth, Culture, Society: Europaeum Classics Colloquium in memory of Jean-Pierre Vernant
University of Oxford
23-24 November 2007
Conference Coordinator:
Professor Stephen Harrison
Professor of Classics
University of Oxford
Mission
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007) was a towering figure in the field of classics, both in his native France and internationally. The citation for his honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1999 reads as follows: 'A scholar of great learning, whose work has illuminated early Greece, and a man who has served his country with great distinction.'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
Mission
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
Professor Philip Hardie
Professor of Classics
University of Oxford
Mission:
[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.
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.
