Didaskalia - Conferences

In recent years, there has been an explosion in scholarship that questions masculinity in history. This vibrant new approach has incorporated many different theoretical and empirical considerations in historical scholarship. Birkbeck College, University of London, is hosting a conference on 15th and 16th May 2008, with the idea of providing a discussion across fields and time period specialism. We would welcome papers in contemporary and modern, early modern, medieval, Classical and non-western history, from historians throughout the world who are working in the general field of masculinity studies. We hope the conference will provide discussion of the latest thinking, debates and contention in this field, and that it will serve as a review of 'where we are now' in terms of scholarship in the field of masculinity studies.

The highest quality papers in this conference will be published in a single volume collection, by Palgrave Macmillan. Please send your proposal to Dr Sean Brady, Birkbeck College University of London, by attachment to s.brady AT bbk.ac.uk.

17th - 18th June 2008
8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama: Violence at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford and at Royal Holloway, Egham, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS: We are happy to announce the Eighth Annual Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. This two-day event will take place on Tuesday 17 June 2008 at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford (66 St Giles) and Wednesday 18 June at Royal Holloway, Egham (Noh Studio).

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: Organised by postgraduates, this annual symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman drama, exploring the afterlife of ancient dramatic texts through reworkings of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy by writers and practitioners. In previous years, speakers from a number of countries have given papers on miscellaneous aspects of the reception of Greek and Roman drama. Abstracts of papers from previous symposia are accessible online: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events.htm

The 2008 symposium will focus on violence in the reception of Greek and Roman drama from antiquity to the present day. It is hoped that Peter Brown, Edith Hall, Lorna Hardwick, Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Scott Scullion, Oliver Taplin, and David Wiles will be present.

The symposium will be preceded by an afternoon colloquium on Monday 16 June, organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, and Modern Greek Studies in Oxford, entitled ‘Politics, Culture and the Ancient World in Post-War Greece’, to which all are invited.

Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performative presentation on 'Violence' are invited to send an abstract of up to 400 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to: postgradsymp AT classics.ox.ac.uk by 20th APRIL 2008 AT THE LATEST. (PLEASE INCLUDE DETAILS OF YOUR CURRENT COURSE OF STUDY, SUPERVISOR AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTION). There will be no registration fee, but participants will have to seek their own funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Contact for Enquiries: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk.

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