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Ecole d’été – King’s College, Londres (Grec, Latin, Syriac, Copte, Hébreu biblique)

London Summer School in Classics

 

The London Summer School in Classics (5-14 July, 2016) offers 8 days of intensive teaching in Greek or Latin, along with additional lectures and workshops. Language classes are offered at all levels from beginners to advanced.  We also offer beginners’ classes in Syriac, Coptic and Biblical Hebrew. The course is non-residential and costs £150.  Full-fee bursaries and travel grants will be available, and we are grateful for the support of the Classical Association and Hellenic Society.  The deadline for applications is 1 June, 2016.

To register for this course, please contact the Classics Department:
E-mail: lssc@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/study/summerclass/index.aspx

King’s College London Summer School
Intensive courses in Ancient Greek
Intensive courses in Latin

This year King’s College London is again running two 6-week courses (27 June – 5 August, 2016) in Ancient Greek and Latin as part of the KCL Summer School.  These courses offer students who have not previously had the opportunity to study Greek or Latin intensive training designed to bring them from complete beginners to a point where they are able to read simple texts.  They are ideal for students who intend to study for a Masters or Doctoral degree to get ahead during the summer, thus acquiring an essential skill for their future research. They are also appropriate for teachers, undergraduates, mature students and anyone with an interest in the Hellenic or Roman world.

It is also possible for complete beginners to take just the first half of the course (27 June – 15 July), and for those who already have a basic knowledge to take the second half of the course (18 July – 5 August).

In addition to language learning, we offer workshops giving an introduction to skills such as epigraphy and papyrology, and there will be some specially arranged museum visits.

Accommodation is offered for these courses by King’s College London.

Bursaries to help cover the cost of fees will be offered by the Classics Department, and we are grateful to the Classical Association for their support. The closing date for bursary applications is 16 May. The closing date for applications to the Summer School is 31 May.

For further information and to apply, please see the King’s College London Summer School website:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/summerschool/index.aspx
E-mail: summer@kcl.ac.uk

To apply for a bursary, please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/study/intensive2016.aspx
For any general queries about these courses, please contact Dr Fiona Haarer (fiona.haarer@kcl.ac.uk)

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Appel à contribution – 17th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium; University of Birmingham

Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek StudiesBirm
17th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, 4th June 2016
Westmere House, University of Birmingham

Redefining the Margins: Seeing the Unseen in the Eastern Mediterranean

Papers are invited for the 17th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies. There are fashions in scholarship just as there are in costume or architecture, which means that certain topics are emphasised while others are marginalised. For example, 25 years ago a huge proportion of Byzantine art historical scholarship was devoted to illuminated manuscripts; today this is a much smaller field of study. This colloquium will focus on those ‘lost’ subjects, or subjects that never held the spotlight. We are interested in ‘peripheries’ of all sorts, including more traditional forms of marginalisation. The act of ‘marginalisation’ has been perpetuated and experienced in societies throughout the world: to construct the ‘other’, to classify as ‘fringe’ or outside the ‘mainstream’, to define and to diminish borders, populations, cultures and ideas, both with or without intention.

Papers of approximately 20 minutes in any of the fields related to Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies are welcome. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words no later than Thursday, 31st of March to Anna Kelley at ack442@bham.ac.uk. Applicants will be notified of selection within two weeks of this date.

Please note, limited bursaries to help with travel costs of speakers are available. Please email for details.

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Colloque – 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

49TH SPRING SYMPOSIUM OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

INSCRIBING TEXTS IN BYZANTIUM: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS

18-20 March 2016, Exeter College, Oxford

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material – over 4000 Greek texts produced in the period between the sixth and fifteenth centuries – Byzantine Epigraphy remains largely uncharted territory, with a reputation for being elusive and esoteric that obstinately persists. References to inscriptions in our texts show how ubiquitous and deeply engrained the epigraphic habit was in Byzantine society, and underscore the significance of epigraphy as an auxiliary discipline. The SPBS Symposium 2016 has invited specialists in the field to examine diverse epigraphic material in order to trace individual epigraphic habits, and outline overall inscriptional traditions. In addition to the customary format of panel papers and shorter communications, the Symposium will organize a round table, whose participants will lead a debate on the topics presented in the panel papers, and discuss the methodological questions of collection, presentation and interpretation of Byzantine inscriptional material.

Programme, on-line booking and reservation form (early rates apply until 1 March!) are now available on the SPBS website:

http://www.byzantium.ac.uk/events/spring-symposium-2016.html

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Cinq contrats post-doctoraux – labex RESMED

Contrats post-doctoraux

Labex RESMED

Le labex RESMED (Religions et sociétés dans le monde méditerranéen) lance un appel à candidatures pour cinq contrats post-doctoraux d’un an à partir du 1er juillet 2016 (Date limite des candidatures : 15 mars 2016).

Cinq contrats post-doctoraux seront financés parmi les 10 profils proposés : http://www.labex-resmed.fr/ouverture-de-5-contrats

Le dossier doit être envoyé au format pdf avant le 15 mars 2016 à minuit à la Directrice (beatrice.caseau@college-de-france) et aux Secrétaires généraux (julie.masquelier-loorius@labex-resmed.fr et stavros.lazaris@labex-resmed.fr) du Labex RESMED. L’admission sera décidée sur dossier à la fin du mois de mai 2016.

Le projet de chaque candidat devra clairement s’inscrire dans le programme scientifique du Labex RESMED (http://www.labex-resmed.fr

Le candidat aura soutenu son doctorat en France ou à l’étranger depuis moins de 5 ans au sein d’une université différente des institutions fondatrices du Labex RESMED (Paris-Sorbonne, Panthéon-Sorbonne, École pratique des hautes études) ou depuis moins de 10 ans s’il/elle peut justifier d’une expérience de recherche dans une autre institution universitaire.