Classical bits
issued by Silviu AnghelAmerican Philological Association Annual Meeting
The 2009 AIA and APA Joint Annual meeting will be held January 8-11, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel. The conference allows participants – scholars and archaeology enthusiasts alike – to attend numerous paper presentations and poster sessions, and the extension of the abstract submission deadline promises that this year’s sessions will feature the latest results and discoveries from summer 2008. Attendees will be able to share information at workshops and lunchtime roundtable sessions, peruse hundreds of new archaeology and classics books in the exhibit hall, and join in a variety of special events and tours.
November 10, 2008: Reduced Rate Registration
December 12, 2008: Hotel Reservation Deadline
December 12, 2008: Requests to Cancel Advance Registration
December 14, 2008: Advance Registration (after this date, register onsite in Philadelphia)
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Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity
CaSTA 2008 (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon from 16-18 October 2008 and will feature two main components: a pre-conference workshop on “Digitizing Material Culture” and the conference proper on the theme of “New Directions in Text Analysis.” This combination of interests is intended to foster connections between scholars working in textual analysis and those working in other areas of humanities computing.
CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate students, whose work is even now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will begin to explore. We are including sessions that would be of particular interest to graduate students and to projects that involve significant student training and participation, and will offer grants to students who travel to attend the conference.
The series of CaSTA conferences grew out of TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research, a major CFI initiative) for the purpose of networking and communicating innovative research among scholars working in the field of digital text analysis
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Welcoming the Stranger in Late Antiquity and the Earl Middle Ages
Australian Early Medieval Association
1-3 October 2008, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane
The period from late antiquity to the early middle ages was one of great social movement, of both individuals and people groups. How did people respond to demands made upon them for hospitality and charity by pilgrims, casualties of war, refugees, orphans, widows, those of other religions, the sick, the poor, itinerant monks and nuns, travelling traders and others?
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Meeting The Challenge: bringing classical texts to life in the classroom
Venice International University
26-28 July 2008, Isola di San Servolo, Venice – Italy
The conference will examine approaches to teaching classical texts and the reception of classical literature.This will be an opportunity to meet with colleagues from many countries and share ideas about the best ways to promote learners’ engagement with classical texts.
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Comité International de Paléographie Latine – XVIth Colloquium: Teaching Writing, Learning to Write
Senate House, University of London
2-5 September 2008
The colloquium will address the psychology and sociology of the medieval scribe. How did scribes learn to write in the Middle Ages? What was the social and cultural significance of a script chosen for a particular function? How was script influenced by features of fashion? What was the interface between scribe and reader and the graphic signs used to communicate a message? Such questions impact on the transmission of texts, the growth of literacy and history of reading.
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