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The Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) hereby announces the fifteenth workshop in the series “Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry” to be held in Groningen on 15-17 September 2021 (Wednesday–Friday). We will ensure that an online version of the conference is organized in parallel. This will allow the conference to go ahead online in case of possible travel restrictions related to Covid-19, but will also enable more participants to follow proceedings online if the conference takes place in physical form.

The theme of this workshop will be Crisis and Resilience in Hellenistic Poetry.

Crises come in many forms. War, famine and illness plague humanity, and severe personal crises (conflict, rejection, loss) are also an integral part of human condition. The challenge for individuals has always been to overcome crisis, both on a global and on a personal level. In different ages, such resilience has looked different. It can take the form of increased religiosity, superstition, or even attempts at magic, increased violence and revenge or attempts at reconciliation, and we also see a turn to different forms of philosophy. The Hellenistic age is especially famous for its philosophical schools (most notably Epicureanism and Stoicism) that propagate peace of mind through ataraxia (serene calmness) and apatheia (freedom from emotions). These philosophies influenced the literature of the age: it has been suggested that Epicureanism influenced Theocritean poetry, and it has been established that Stoic backgrounds colour Aratus’ Phaenomena and Kleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus. But beyond philosophy, all sorts of individual emotional coping mechanisms can be imagined in response to crisis. They range from practical solutions to global crises (migration, rebuilding of cities, peace treaties) to emotional responses to personal crises (e.g., denial, agression, apology, appeasement, forgiveness and mourning rituals).

This issue of the Groningen Hellenistic Workshop will focus on the theme of crisis and resilience as it is depicted in Hellenistic Poetry. To what extent can we find echoes of this topic in Hellenistic poetry, and what realities do they reflect? We can think, for instance, of epic depictions of the aftermath of personal and political conflict and revenge, flight and ritual purification (Argonautica), attempts to reach peace of mind after heartbreak (Theocritus, epigram), or the appeasing of angered divinities (Callimachus’ hymns).

Some potential key issues are: the extent of influence of philosophical tenets on depictions of (personal) resilience in Hellenistic poetry; the role of Ptolemaic ideology in finding new ways of coping with crises; the role of gods and religion in crises and their aftermaths; the diverse emotional and rational mechanisms that emerge as a response to crises; intertextual approaches to earlier treatments of crisis and resilience; the metapoetical dimensions of resilience (to what extent is poetry a solution to personal and other crises?). But of course the theme is not limited to this, and we welcome further suggestions along these lines.

Scholars who wish to contribute a paper to the workshop are requested to send an e-mail to J.J.H.Klooster@rug.nl with the title of their paper and a brief abstract (1 page) by 31 December 2020 and, when their offer is accepted, to send a PDF of the complete text of the paper by 1 May 2021, so that it can be distributed among the participants well in advance of the workshop. During the workshop itself there will be time for a short introduction (ca. 10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the paper (ca. 35 minutes). The papers will be published in a volume of the series Hellenistica Groning­ana by Peeters (Leuven). They should not be longer than 20 pages.

Those who wish to take part in the discussions without contributing a paper or wish to act as a respondent are requested to send an e-mail to J.J.H.Klooster@rug.nl  before 1 April 2021.

Speakers are requested to seek funding for travel and accommodation from their own institution first. We hope to be able to cover part of the travel and accommodation expenses of speakers whose universities are unable to cover their costs in full. Should this situation apply to you, please let us know once your abstract has been accepted. Other participants (including respondents) should provide their own funds and budget for a conference fee of €100 (€50 for students), which covers catering (tea, coffee and lunches) and documentation.

 

The Semana de Estudos sobre o Período Helenístico is a biannual international conference organized by the research group Hellenistica (USP/CNPq). The event’s purpose is the promotion and diffusion of current researches on Hellenistic studies in Brazil. Its sixth edition will take place on 10-11th. March 2020, and this time its theme is Dramatic Poetry in the Hellenistic Period and its Influence on later Greek and Latin Literature. It will be held at Faculdade de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (FFLCH-USP). The conference aims at discussing the different dramatic genres explored during this period (tragedy, comedy, mime etc.) and their role as a possible model to subsequent dramatic poetry. We are honoured to announce that Elena Esposito (Università degli Studi dela Basilicata), Ioannis Konstantakos (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), Isabella Tardin Cardoso (UNICAMP), and Renata Cazarini (UFF) are among the confirmed speakers.

Call for Papers

Researchers interested in taking part in the conference are kindly asked to send abstract proposals by 4th. November 2019. All proposals will be examined by the Committee and must include:

Title and Abstract (max. 300 words; accepted languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese)

Name of the author(s)

Academic or Institutional Affiliation

E-mail

Contact for sending proposals on this link.

All talks should last 25 minutes. Other 10 minutes will be granted for debate.

Additional Information: uspclassicas@gmail.com

Committee:

Fernando Rodrigues Junior (USP)

Breno Battistin Sebastiani (USP/CNPq)

Bárbara da Costa e Silva (USP)

Flavia Fernandes Benini (USP)

Flávia Vasconcellos Amaral (USP/University of Toronto)

Sâmea Rancovas Giraldes (USP)

José Leonilson Fontes Filho (USP)

The Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) hereby announces the fourteenth workshop in the series “Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry” to be held in Groningen on 21-23 August 2019. The theme of this workshop will be Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry.

Hellenistic poetry is full of powerful women, ranging from Ptolemaic queens and princesses to female divinities and epic heroines. An obvious question is therefore: why do we find so many powerful women in Hellenistic poetry, and in what ways do they differ from previous literary representations of women, for example, in Homeric epic, archaic lyric, and Athenian tragedy. 

After defining what kinds of power are at stake (political, religious, divine, magical, erotic, social, intellectual, emotional, moral or even physical), and how they are connected or opposed to the feminine, and by whom, questions arise regarding, e.g., the balance of power between lovers and their objects of desire in erotic relations; the representation of female voices and agency by male authors; or the distinct position in the canon of female epigrammatists such as Nossis and Anyte. What metapoetic dimensions to the representation of powerful women, or power over women can we identify? 

Scholars who wish to contribute a paper are requested to send an e-mail to J.J.H.Klooster@rug.nl with the title of their paper and a brief abstract (1 page) by 31 December 2018 and, upon acceptance, a PDF of the complete paper (20 pages) by 1 May 2019, for distribution in advance of the workshop. During the work­shop there will be time for a short introduction (ca. 10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion (ca. 35 minutes). Papers will be published in the series Hellenistica Groningana by Peeters (Leuven). Those who wish to take part in the discussions without contributing a paper or wish to act as a respondent are requested to send an e-mail to J.J.H.Klooster@rug.nl  before 1 April 2019.

Unfortunately, our funding situation has changed for the worse compared to previous workshops. Speakers are requested to seek funding for travel and accommodation from their own institution first. We hope to be able to cover part of the travel and accommodation expenses of speakers whose universities are unable to cover their costs in full. Other participants (including respondents) should provide their own funds and budget for a conference fee of €100 (€50 for students), which covers catering (tea, coffee and lunches) and documentation.

Call for papers

Culture and Ideology under the Seleucids: an Interdisciplinary Approach
29-31 March 2019
 Macquarie University, Sydney

The conference seeks to bring together historians, archaeologists, epigraphists and other scholars interested in the cultural ideologies that shaped the character of Seleucid rulership from its foundation to its end. The renewed interest in Seleucid studies in the past two decades, anticipated by Andreas Mehl and his Seleukos Nikator und sein Reich (1986), has certainly restored its early obscure scholarly profile as a dynasty that spiraled into decline soon after the death of its founder (E.R. Bevan, 1902, The House of Seleucus, 1.76). More recently, the appreciation and sensitivity of the Seleucids to the cultural symbols and traditions of the regions they ruled has attracted significant scholarly attention (for example, see D. Ogden, The Legend of Seleucus, 2017; K. Erickson, “Seleucus I, Zeus and Alexander,” in Every Inch a King, 2013 and id. “Apollo-Nabû: the Babylonian Policy of Antiochus I,” in Seleucid Dissolution, 2011; N. Wright, Divine Kings and Sacred Spaces, 2012; P.A. Beaulieu, “Nabû and Apollo: the Two Faces of Seleucid Religious Policy,” in Orient und Okzident in hellenistischer Zeit, 2014; P.J. Kosmin, “Seeing Double in Seleucid Babylonia,” in Patterns of the Past, 2014).
Equally, Seleucid archaeology has made huge strides, not only in the Levant, Turkey and Central Asia, but also in Syria and Mesopotamia; as the 2018 SCS “New Directions in Seleucid Archaeology” panel showcased, “Numerous surveys and excavations that have been initiated in the last 5-10 years in Iraq and the Gulf are producing great quantities of material of Seleucid date.”
We now think it is time to enrich the scholarly debate on the Seleucids by inviting voices from all disciplines studying the Seleucid phenomenon to contribute to it. Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order) include:
Paul-Alain Beaulieu (Toronto)
Andreas Mehl (Halle-Wittenberg)
Rachel Mairs (Reading)
Daniel Ogden (Exeter)
Stefan Pfeiffer (Halle-Wittenberg)
Our aim is to initiate an interdisciplinary network of scholars interested in the Hellenistic successors and their regimes so that this conference can be repeated every two years in universities across the world and pave new lines of communication and new research agendas across disciplines. The Seleucids were proud of their mixed cultural background and therefore, to be able to appreciate them we need to expand our lenses of studying them.
Individuals or thematic panel representatives are invited to submit their abstracts to Eva.Anagnostou-Laoutides@mq.edu.au by July 29, 2018.

Call for papers

Ἀρχή and origo: The Power of Origins

(Newcastle University, 2-4 May, 2019)

Origins have a particular power. Arguments referring back to the first beginnings and relating them to the present tend to be especially attractive. When we’re in a new place or confronted with new phenomena, we have a natural urge to learn about their origins. Stories of this kind – the so-called aitia – can convey a sense of education, of venerable antiquity, of continuity, of religious awe, or they can just be entertaining. In any case, they are as prominent nowadays as they were in antiquity.

In this interdisciplinary conference we want to shed light on the fascination with origins from different perspectives: how is the power of origins employed in historiography, in literature ancient and modern, in art, in religious contexts, in philosophy, or in political debate? We are interested in exploring a wide range of case studies, in order to reflect on our overarching question: what is it that holds the different forms of aitia together? How can we understand this phenomenon in general terms? What is it that makes the origin such a fascinating and powerful form of discourse?

The papers can focus on areas as diverse as rites / cult, language, ktisis-literature, inventions, religion, philosophy, travel literature, toponymics and onomastics et al. Possible overarching questions may include, but are by no means limited to the following:

• how does aetiology work as a creative process that collapses temporal categories (present/ past) or forges the past by explaining the present from the past?
• What are the aesthetics involved in creating an origin in different media?
• Which cognitive patterns are involved in this process?
• Which forms can the fascination with origins take?
• What do we know about the temporal and the philosophical notion of ἀρχή?
• Which role do rationalising tendencies play in the aetiological discourse?

If you are interested in participating, we would ask you to send us an abstract of circa 250 words by June 15, 2018. We would like to circulate the papers one month in advance of the conference and envision a 45 min. session per participant, in which she/he will summarize the pre-circulated paper in 10 mins., with 35 mins. of discussion to follow. An application for funding to cover (part of) the travel and lodging expenses is pending, but participants are also encouraged to enquire for funding options at their home institutions. We envision the possibility of publication.

Please send your abstracts to Athanassios Vergados (athanassios.vergados@newcastle.ac.uk) and Anke Walter (anke.walter@newcastle.ac.uk) by June 15, 2018.

 

Call for papers

Although dramatic, lyric, and narrative epic poetry have always been prominent within the main view of what Greek poetry is about, many works do not fit easily within these categories. The poetry of Aratus, the pharmacological poems of Nicander, the elegy of Andromachus, the Oppians’ poems on hunting, fishing and animal wildlife, the geographical poetry of Dionysius of Alexandria: these texts operate on the cusp of art and technicalities, of literature and the preservation and presentation of knowledge. Whereas traditionally they have been labelled didactic poetry, following in the tradition of Hesiod, this didactic frame is only part of what characterises these texts. They challenge traditional ideas about what good poetry should look like, and invite us to think about the distinction between poets venturing into technical subject and specialists expressing themselves in verse. Is poetry merely a convenient vehicle for the preservation of knowledge, or does art serve a more aesthetic purpose? 

This conference, to be held in Soeterbeeck on 12 July 2018 (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) aims to approach such technical poetry from different viewpoints: as art and as expression of knowledge.

We are particularly interested in scholars working on medical verse (Nicander, Numenius, Andromachus, Marcellus, Damocrates, Carmen de viribus), geographical poetry (Dionysius Periegetes, ps.-Scymnus), astronomical epic (Aratus, ps.-Manetho), poetry on fishing and hunting (the Oppians), the Lithica, and contiguous poems (didactic or technical epigrams, poetry on math etc.).

Questions that may be relevant:

• is the label ‘didactic poetry’ suitable for all these diverging poems?
• was presentation in verse aimed at popularizing (contemporary) science?
• what is the relation between learning, leisure and pleasure as expressed or suggested by these poems?
• what sort of contexts can we imagine for the presentation of such technical poetry?
• what is the relation between e.g. medical poetry and medical prose?
• what is the relation between formal aspects (framing, metre, generic conventions) and contents?
• to what extent can one distinguish between between scholars writing poetry and poets presenting technical or scholarly knowledge?

Those interested in presenting a paper of ca. 30 minutes are invited to submit a short abstract (with title) of 250 words before 10 May 2018.

This conference is is made possible by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Accommodation is covered; full or partial funding of travel costs is negotiable depending on availability of resources. For further information please contact Floris Overduin (f.overduin@let.ru.nl).

Dr. Floris Overduin

Universitair Docent Oudgrieks

Griekse en Latijnse Taal en Cultuur (GLTC)

Radboud Universiteit – Faculteit der Letteren

Erasmusplein 1, kamer E 5.20

Postbus 9103

NL-6500 HD Nijmegen

+ 31 (0)24 –361 6056

f.overduin@let.ru.nl

radboud.academia.edu/FlorisOverduin

 

 

The Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies and the Parochial Polis Research Network at McGill University will jointly host a conference on “Localism in the Hellenistic World” in April 2018. The Hellenistic period is generally seen as a time of expanded horizons and shifting frontiers, with a diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean and the Near East unprecedented in any previous era. At the same time, the local world remained a primary frame of reference, however defined or experienced. In the shadow of omnipresent connectivity and exchange, many communities fostered an identity of place. They articulated a particular type of localism. This call for papers invites interested parties working in any field to submit an abstract for a paper exploring the phenomenon of localism in the Hellenistic period. We anticipate participation from scholars working in the areas of political and social history, philology, material culture, religion, philosophy, historical anthropology, and the other sub-disciplines of our field. A public keynote lecture and reception will be held on the evening of the opening day.

 

Abstracts should be about 300 words in length, and should be submitted electronically to Sheila Ager (sager@uwaterloo.ca) and Hans Beck (hans.beck@mcgill.ca).

 

Note: The organizers have secured base funding for the event. An application to SSHRC as part of its Connection Grants program is in preparation. If successful, travel and accommodation expenses will be covered in full.

 

Due date for submission of abstracts: 1 July 2017.

Event date: 26-28 April 2018.

Venue: Delta Hotel, 110 Erb Street West, Waterloo ON N2L 0C6.

 

Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies: https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/.

Parochial Polis Research Network: http://www.hansbeck.org/local/.

ENS de Lyon – UMR 5189 Hisoma

Du 7 au 9 septembre 2017

English version : https://hellpoet.hypotheses.org/208

L’essor des mouvements féministes aux Etats-Unis, puis dans l’ensemble du monde occidental, a suscité, ces quarante dernières années, un intérêt particulier pour les questions relatives aux « voix féminines » dans les textes antiques : la poésie épique archaïque, la poésie lyrique et le théâtre classique ont été étudiés par des philologues, mais aussi des historiens et des anthropologues, à travers cette optique nouvelle. Ces travaux, notamment la synthèse de S.B. Pomeroy (1975), ont fait de la “féminité” un objet d’étude à part entière dans tous les domaines de la philologie classique : y sont comprises les questions du corps féminin, de la sexualité et de l’identité féminine, ainsi que celle de l’accès à la parole. En France, de nombreux travaux ont également été produits sur le sujet. Les plus novateurs et les plus marquants furent ceux de Nicole Loraux, qui développe dans Les enfants d’Athéna (1981) et Les expériences de Tirésias (1989) une lecture « sexuée » de la démocratie athénienne. Assez curieusement, cependant, ces études ont pour une bonne part laissé de côté l’ensemble de la production hellénistique, alors même que l’approche de la femme et de la voix féminine connaissent à cette époque des transformations et des évolutions importantes.

Si le statut de la femme évolue de manière très sensible entre l’époque classique et l’époque hellénistique, si certaines femmes, comme Arsinoé ou Bérénice, jouent un rôle politique de premier plan dans l’Égypte lagide, peut-on dire pour autant que dans l’univers poétique alexandrin la place de la femme connaît une transformation importante ? Cette place de la femme dans la poésie alexandrine concerne essentiellement les modalités de la prise de parole féminine et des conditions dans lesquelles un discours est proféré par une instance locutrice féminine. Plus généralement, les femmes bénéficient dans la littérature hellénistique d’un traitement relativement favorable. Cela est vrai aussi bien à propos des individus « réels » — et l’on pense ici aux poétesses Anytè et Nossis —, que concernant les personnages fictifs. Dans de nombreuses œuvres, en effet, le poète-narrateur, s’il est souvent de sexe masculin, délègue sa voix à des locutrices secondaires. C’est le cas des Syracusaines de l’Idylle XV, de la magicienne Simaitha de l’Idylle II de Théocrite, mais aussi des figures d’Hypsipylé, d’Arété ou de Médée dans les Argonautiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes, ou encore de Cassandre dans l’Alexandra de Lycophron.

Entre ces deux sortes de discours féminins existe certes une certaine asymétrie : lorsque l’auteur est une femme, dans le cas des épigrammatistes, la voix de la poétesse et celles des locutrices fictives sont de même genre. Lorsque l’auteur est un homme, une frontière nette sépare toujours la voix du poète de celles des locutrices secondaires. Cette différence ne doit toutefois pas conduire à envisager séparément ces deux modes de prise de parole féminine : au contraire, étudier les caractéristiques attribuées à la parole féminine peut être le moyen de mettre en lumière les représentations auxquelles les poétesses réelles étaient confrontées, de comprendre quel rapport entretient leur œuvre avec ces représentations et quelle est l’originalité de leur positionnement poétique ou du traitement qu’elles réservent à certaines thématiques. Au-delà de cette problématique particulière, nous aimerions, dans ce colloque, étudier l’évolution de la parole féminine, tant dans son contenu que dans sa mise en scène littéraire, à une époque où, aussi bien en politique qu’en art et en science, les femmes sont plus présentes que par le passé aux côtés des hommes.

On pourra ainsi s’interroger sur le type de questions suivantes, sans que cette liste soit exhaustive :

– La dimension politique du discours féminin

– La divinisation de la femme de pouvoir

– La femme comme figure de l’altérité

– Les intertextualités du discours féminin

– Les occupations et fonctions féminines

– Les modalités discursives de la voix féminines

– L’influence du statut familial des femmes (filles, mères, épouses, concubines…) sur leur prise de parole

– L’influence du statut social de la femme sur son discours et sa représentation

– La question du féminin en face de la féminité

– L’utilisation du biculturalisme gréco-égyptien dans les représentations hellénistiques

 

 

Vous voudrez bien retourner votre proposition de communication pour le 15 février 2017 aux adresses suivantes :

christophe.cusset@ens-lyon.fr, nadege.wolff@ens-lyon.fr, claireemmanuelle.nardone@ens-lyon.fr, pierre.belenfant@ens-lyon.fr

Votre proposition doit être composée d’un titre, d’un résumé et d’un bref CV.

ENS de Lyon – UMR 5189 Hisoma

September 7th to September 9th 2017                                                                                                             French version: https://hellpoet.hypotheses.org/210

The rise of feminist movements in the USA, and later in the rest of the western world, has aroused a special interest in issues related to women’’s voices in ancient literature: during the last four decades, philologists, historians and anthropologists, have studied archaic epics, lyrics and classical drama from this new viewpoint. These works, especially S.B Pomeroy’’s synthesis (1975), have made femininity a legitimate topic in every area of classical philology: it includes such issues as women’s body, feminine identity and sexuality, and women’’s access to speech. In France, numerous works have been produced on this matter, the most noteworthy and the most innovative of which are Nicole Loraux’’s: in Les enfants d’Athéna (1981) and Les experiences de Tirésias (1989) she expounds a new vision of the Athenian democracy, based on gender theories. Curiously enough, however, most of these studies overlook the Hellenistic period, even though women’’s status, and therefore the way their voice was taken into account, were then undergoing significant changes. There is indeed an important gap in this respect between classical and Hellenistic times: some women for instance, like Arsinoe or Berenice, played a prominent political role in Ptolemaic Egypt: does such an evolution entail changes in the way women are depicted in Alexandrian poetry? More specifically, does this evolution entail changes in how female characters speak? Considering the whole of Hellenistic literature, one must admit that women are prominent in the known corpus. This is true for historical figures, such as the female poets Anyte and Nossis, as well as for fictitious characters. Indeed, there are many cases in which the poet-speaker, although he is often a male character, yields the floor to secondary female speakers. This is the case for the Syracusan ladies in Idyll XV, or the magician Simaitha in Idyll II by Theocritus, but also for Hypsipyle, Arete or Medea in Apollonius’’ Argonautica, or even for Cassandra in Lycophron’’s Alexandra. In the latter case, there is no perfect symmetry between male and female poets: when the author is a woman, the poetess’’s voice and that of the fictitious speakers are of the same gender. When the author is a man, a clear-cut frontier always separates the poet’’s voice from that of the secondary female speakers. However, this difference must not lead us to consider separately these two kinds of feminine discourse: on the contrary, by studying the specific features which are assigned to feminine discourse in poetry, we may determine the stereotypes real female poets had to cope with, and how they responded to them in their works. It may also help us appreciate their originality in terms of self-representation and esthetic choices. More generally speaking, this conference is meant to shed light on the evolutions of women’’s discourse, its contents and the way it was perceived, at a time when women’’s presence was getting more obvious in politics, arts and sciences than in the past. The following issues may also be tackled:

-Political aspects of women’’s discourse

-Deification of female leaders

-Woman as the Other

-Intertextuality in women’’s discourse

-Women’’s occupations and functions

-Gendered voices

-The influence of family status (daughters, mothers, wife, concubines, ) on women’’s discourse

-The influence of social status on women’’s discourse and representations

-Female voices and female identity

-Greco-Egyptian biculturalism and women’’s representations in the Hellenistic period.

Other proposals are of course welcome.

Please send an abstract of your paper and a short CV by the 15th of February 2017 to the following addresses: christophe.cusset@ens-lyon.fr, nadege.wolff@ens-lyon.fr, claireemmanuelle.nardone@ens-lyon.fr, pierre.belenfant@ens-lyon.fr

Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 August 2015

 

The Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) hereby announces the twelfth workshop in the series “Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry” to be held in Groningen on Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 August 2015. The theme of this workshop will be Drama and Performance in Hellenistic Poetry.

Although the remains of dramatic poetry from the Hellenistic period are scanty, the notion of ‘performance’ is present in many Hellenistic poems. A clear example is the extended messenger speech in Lycophron’s Alexandra, but one may also think, for instance, of the so-called mimetic hymns of Callimachus, in which a ritual scene is enacted, the poems of Theocritus, in which we find perfoming shepherds, but also the enactment of domestic and urban episodes, and the mimiambs of Herondas. In other genres, such as Callimachus’ Aetia or Hellenistic epigram brief monologues or dialogues of people or objects also contain hints of performance. In this workshop we should like the speakers to address questions related to this idea of performance in Hellenistic poetry. On may, for instance, investigate how the notion of performance would increase the religious or moral impact of Callimachus’ hymns by evoking a priest(ess) addressing an audience in awe of the gods or goddesses concerned, the effects of the double layers of performance in Theocritus 15, where the ladies performing in the poem’s dramatic framework attend the performance of a song for Adonis, or the influence of drama on the epic Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. Central to each paper should be questions related to the elements of drama and performance (real or imagined) in a given poem or genre.

     The purpose of these workshops is to enable scholars working on Hellenistic poetry to present parts of their research to a group of specialists before publication. The workshops are organized once in every two years and focus on a certain author or aspect of Hellenistic poetry. The first ten workshops have focused on Callimachus (1992), Theocritus (1994), Genre in Hellenistic Poetry (1996), Apollonius Rhodius (1998), Hellenistic Epigram (2000), Callimachus (2002), poets “Beyond the Canon” (2004), “Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry” (2006), “Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry” (2008), “Hellenistic Poetry in Context”(2010) and “Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry” (2013). Possible themes for subsequent workshops are: Hellenistic poetry and modern literary criticism; the influence of Hellenistic on later Greek poetry; Hellenistic poetry in a Graeco-Egyptian context (further suggestions are always welcome).

Scholars who wish to contribute a paper to the workshop are requested to send an e-mail to M.A.Harder@rug.nl with the title of their paper and a brief abstract (1 page) by 1 November 2014 and, when their offer is accepted, to send a PDF of the complete text of the paper by 1 May 2015, so that it can be distributed among the participants well before the workshop. During the work­shop itself there will be time for a short introduction (ca. 10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the paper (ca. 35 minutes). The papers will be published in a volume of the series Hellenistica Groning­ana by Peeters (Leuven). The papers should not be longer than 20 pages.

Those who wish to take part in the discussions without contributing a paper or to act as a respondent are requested to send an e-mail to M.A.Harder@rug.nl before 1 April 2015.

Possibly there will be funds to cover (1) part of the travel expenses for speakers whose universities are not able to pay their fare and (2) a three nights’ stay at the University Guesthouse or a hotel in Groningen for all speakers. Other participants (including the respondents) will have to provide their own funds and pay a fee of 100,- Euro to cover the costs of tea, coffee, lunches and documentation (50,- Euro for students).

Not only senior scholars, but quite emphatically also young scholars working on dissertati­ons in the field of Hellenistic poetry are invited to offer papers or to take part in the discussions in  these workshops or act as respondents.

 

The organizing committee:

Prof. Dr. Annette Harder

Dr. Remco Regtuit

Prof. Dr. Gerry Wakker

 

Afdeling Grieks en Latijn

Oude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 26

9712 EK Groningen

The Netherlands

e-mail: M.A.Harder@rug.nl

 

Building a New World Order: Hellenistic Monarchies in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State invites contributions for the Tombros conference on Hellenistic monarchies that will take place on April 24-25, 2015. This academic event will explore the socio-political and cultural landscape of the Hellenistic states with a particular focus on the interactions between old and new, between the new elites and the established political and socio-economic structures. How did Hellenistic rulers respond to pre-existing structures and institutions? How did indigenous populations cope and interact with their new leadership? How did these political and social shifts affect the economy of the ancient Mediterranean world? How did art serve, resist, or comment on the new status quo?

Confirmed speakers include Prof. S.M. Burstein (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, California State University), Prof. A. Erskine (Professor of Ancient History, University of Edinburgh), Prof. J.G. Manning (William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Classics and History, Yale University; Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School), and Prof. R. Strootman (Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Utrecht).

We invite 30-min. papers pertaining to all areas of the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, the Seleucid Near East, etc.) in all pertinent disciplines (History, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, etc.). Please send an abstract of ca. 400 words (including bibliography) to cams.conference@gmail.com by October 3, 2014. Walter de Gruyter has shown strong interest in publishing the proceedings of this conference. If you have any questions, contact Mark Munn (mxm20@psu.edu) or Zoe Stamatopoulou (zus4@psu.edu).

This academic event is generously sponsored by Peter and Ann Tombros, as well as the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State.

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
PRÉSENCE DE THÉOCRITE
CLERMONT-FERRAND et LYON (14-17octobre 2015)

Le CELIS (EA 1002), le Centre de recherches André Piganiol-Présence de l’Antiquité (Université Blaise Pascal), l’UMR 5189 HISOMA et l’ENS de Lyon, organisent à Lyon et à Clermont-Ferrand, les 14-17octobre 2015 un colloque international

Présence de Théocrite

Les axes principaux proposés pour ce colloque sont les suivants, sans être exclusifs :

– Théocrite dans son milieu : la cour des Ptolémées, l’univers hellénistique, Alexandrie dans le monde littéraire de Théocrite, l’influence de la littérature antérieure, le rôle des arts figurés…

– l’écriture poétique dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre : la diversité générique, les voix / voies poétiques, le jeu sur la fiction, la question du recueil poétique.

– la poésie bucolique de Théocrite et sa postérité : le corpus, l’univers, l’originalité de Théocrite et son influence (dans la littérature grecque, latine : Virgile, Calpurnius Siculus, Servius…, à l’époque byzantine, à la Renaissance, dans le monde moderne : Giono, Syrinx dans les arts figurés, au cinéma, etc.)

Dans la tradition de pluridisciplinarité des travaux du Centre de recherches André Piganiol, on attend des contributions de spécialistes venant de différents horizons universitaires :

* littérature, histoire et civilisations antiques, mais aussi littérature comparée, moderne et contemporaine

* linguistique grecque

* historiens de l’art

* philosophes

La durée de chaque communication est de 30 minutes, discussion incluse. Les langues du colloque sont le français, l’anglais, l’allemand, l’espagnol et l’italien.

Les Actes du colloque seront publiés dans la collection « Caesarodunum – Présence de l’Antiquité ».

Les propositions de communication (titre et résumé de quelques lignes, ainsi qu’un bref c.v.) sont à adresser avant le 1er septembre 2014 à Christine Kossaifi (Christine.Kossaifi@ac-orleans-tours.fr) pour transmission au comité scientifique du colloque.

 

Le comité d’organisation : Christophe Cusset, Christine Kossaifi, Rémy Poignault

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
PRÉSENCE DE THÉOCRITE
CLERMONT-FERRAND et LYON (14-17octobre 2015)

Le CELIS (EA 1002), le Centre de recherches André Piganiol-Présence de l’Antiquité (Université Blaise Pascal), l’UMR 5189 HISOMA et l’ENS de Lyon, organisent à Lyon et à Clermont-Ferrand, les 14-17octobre 2015 un colloque international

Présence de Théocrite

Les axes principaux proposés pour ce colloque sont les suivants, sans être exclusifs :

– Théocrite dans son milieu : la cour des Ptolémées, l’univers hellénistique, Alexandrie dans le monde littéraire de Théocrite, l’influence de la littérature antérieure, le rôle des arts figurés…

– l’écriture poétique dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre : la diversité générique, les voix / voies poétiques, le jeu sur la fiction, la question du recueil poétique.

– la poésie bucolique de Théocrite et sa postérité : le corpus, l’univers, l’originalité de Théocrite et son influence (dans la littérature grecque, latine : Virgile, Calpurnius Siculus, Servius…, à l’époque byzantine, à la Renaissance, dans le monde moderne : Giono, Syrinx dans les arts figurés, au cinéma, etc.)

Dans la tradition de pluridisciplinarité des travaux du Centre de recherches André Piganiol, on attend des contributions de spécialistes venant de différents horizons universitaires :

* littérature, histoire et civilisations antiques, mais aussi littérature comparée, moderne et contemporaine

* linguistique grecque

* historiens de l’art

* philosophes

La durée de chaque communication est de 30 minutes, discussion incluse. Les langues du colloque sont le français, l’anglais, l’allemand, l’espagnol et l’italien.

Les Actes du colloque seront publiés dans la collection « Caesarodunum – Présence de l’Antiquité ».

Les propositions de communication (titre et résumé de quelques lignes, ainsi qu’un bref c.v.) sont à adresser avant le 1^er septembre 2014 à Christine Kossaifi (Christine.Kossaifi@ac-orleans-tours.fr) pour transmission au comité scientifique du colloque.

 

Le comité d’organisation : Christophe Cusset, Christine Kossaifi, Rémy Poignault