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Appel à contribution – UBA Byzantine Colloquium

First UBA Byzantine Colloquium
« BYZANTINAI AKOAI: Reading and Writing in Byzantium »


20th-21st August 2015, Buenos Aires

The aim of this international colloquium is to explore the ways of reading and writing in the Byzantine Empire. Special attention will be paid to the material production and circulation of texts, the emergence of a specifically Byzantine readership, the role of education and rhetoric in the constitution of such a readership, and the reception of classical genres. We particularly encourage presentations that underscore the perspective of the reading public.

For more information, please consult the flyer (in Spanish) or contact the organizing committee. Abstracts and presentations in English or other languages are warmly welcomed; however, the default language of the colloquium will be Spanish.

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Appel à contribution – CRASIS Annual Meeting and Master Class

​CRASIS Annual Meeting and Master Class, Feb. 5-6 2015​​, Groningen​

​​​CRISIS!
The identification, analysis, and commemoration of crises in the ancient world

​Keynote and Master: Prof. Monika Trümper (FU Berlin)

​​CRASIS, the interdisciplinary research institute for the study of the ancient world at the University of Groningen, is organizing its fourth Annual Meeting and Master Class. CRASIS brings together researchers from Classics, Religious Studies, Ancient History, Late Antiquity Studies, Archaeology, Ancient Philosophy, and Legal History, focusing on Greek and Roman societies as well as on Jewish and Near Eastern civilizations and their mutual interaction. The CRASIS Annual Meeting and Master Class is a two-day event, set up as a meeting place for students at PhD or Research Master level, Post-Docs, and senior staff to promote discussion and exchange of ideas beyond disciplinary boundaries.

We cordially invite PhD and Research Master Students, Post-Doctoral Researchers, as well as Senior Researchers to submit a proposal for the CRASIS Annual Meeting and PhD/ReMa Master Class (5-6 February 2015).

The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting and Master Class will be: CRISIS! The identification, analysis, and commemoration of crises in the ancient world. Crises – natural and manmade – are an ever present phenomenon in modern society. Our media report daily about crises on local, regional, and global levels, focusing on dramatic events and their immediate effects in terms of casualties, material damage, and monetary losses. While long-term perspectives on consequences of and responses to crises receive far less attention in the modern world, some, such as the 9/11 attacks, quickly become part of a vividly cultivated collective memory. Reconstructing crises in the past requires a differentiated, dynamic interdisciplinary scholarly approach that involves new data and refined methods.

This Annual Meeting focuses on coping with crises and the memory of crises in the ancient world. What is known about the definition, nature, perception, and commemoration of crises in the ancient world? Using a broad understanding of the concept, from warfare, civil war, religious and political persecutions, to natural disaster, crop failure, economic downfall, and state collapse, this meeting brings together literary, material, as well as environmental and documentary sources​. Three key issues are central to the debate: 1. the correlation of different (textual, archaeological, natural) sources, which may follow one narrative, or tell several and contradictory stories; 2. the commemoration and memory of crises in past societies, and the ways and strategies of coping with crises; and 3. the place and interpretation of ancient crises in modern scholarship.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Identification: How can crisis be identified?
  • Analysis: How can crisis be studied; which evidence is available; which theories and methods can be used?
  • Response: How did ancient societies react to crises (institutionally, culturally, politically, religiously)?
  • Memory: How was crisis, and the way it was overcome, represented in the sources? Was crisis consciously commemorated in texts, monuments, artworks, or the landscape? Or is crisis only indirectly reflected in ancient sources (e.g., ruined buildings in the midst of cities; dietary stress visible in bones; changes in settlement and burial patterns)?
  • Assessment: How are crises, responses, and consequences portrayed and assessed in modern scholarship, in terms of concept and terminology (decline, collapse, downfall, renaissance, renewal, renovation, resilience, resistance)?

Keynote Speaker and Master

This year’s Keynote Speaker and Master is Monika Trümper, professor of Classical Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. Her broad-based expertise is evident in her publications on topics that range from architecture, urbanism, and settlement archaeology to Graeco-Roman bathing culture and slave markets. She currently conducts fieldwork at Morgantina (Sicily) and investigates narratives of crises following the Roman conquest of this settlement.

Deadline for Abstracts

PhD and Research Master Students are invited to submit a topic proposal (500 words) for the Master Class (February 5th) explaining how their own research relates to the theme. We invite Post-Docs and senior scholars to submit a title and short abstract (250 words) for a lecture on the second day (February 6th). Proposals should be submitted no later than ​10 November 2014 with Tamara Dijkstra, via crasis.aws@rug.nl. When possible, CRASIS will contribute to travel and accommodation costs.

Information for PhD/ReMa Students

Research Master students are expected to submit a paper of 3000-4000 words and PhD students a paper of 5000-6000 words. These papers will circulate among the participants and are to be submitted before 5 January 2015. During the Master Class participants will present their paper, followed by a response and discussion under the expert guidance of Professor Monika Trümper. The Master Class is an OIKOS and ARCHON activity and students will earn ​3 ​ECTS by active participation.

For more information, send an e-mail to crasis.aws@rug.nl or see: http://www.rug.nl/crasis.

​On behalf of CRASIS,​
Tamara Dijkstra​, Lidewijde de Jong, Onno van Nijf​, Mladen Popovic.

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Proposition d’emploi – University of Michigan

University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies

The Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan has been authorized to fill a tenure-track position beginning September 1, 2015 at the level of Assistant Professor. This is a university year appointment.

The area within Classical Studies is open, although we are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in Aegean Prehistory, Classical Reception or Ancient Science. Preference will be given to candidates who do not duplicate existing strengths. This position is part of a new University cluster on “The Mediterranean Perspective on Global History and Culture” devoted to studying the Mediterranean as a dynamic area of cultural, religious, social and political exchange (see www.lsa.umich.edu/mediterranean) and involving Classical Studies, History of Art, Judaic Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures. The candidate must be interested in wide-ranging cross-disciplinary approaches to networks of cultural interaction across the Mediterranean, and will participate in Mediterranean-based curricula and programs both within their own departments and interdepartmentally, including a collaborative undergraduate course on interdisciplinary approaches to the Mediterranean.

Qualifications: PhD or equivalent by date of appointment.

Candidates should send a cover letter, CV, statement of current and future research plans, statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence (if any) and article or chapter-length writing sample to lsa-med-classics-search@umich.edu by November 15, 2014. Applicants should instruct their recommenders to send three letters of reference directly to the same address.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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Proposition d’emploi – University of Virginia (modification aux dates)

University of Virginia
College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Connective Cultures in the Post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century)

The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured, full-time position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, from scholars with a research focus on connective cultures in the post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century).

Possible areas of study might include: the interaction of knowledge, people and practices; the social, political and/or cultural history of one or more connective Mediterranean cultures or communities; minority, diasporic or vocationally distinct social groups (e.g., merchants, scholars of science and medicine); interstitial and nomadic polities and cultures; translation; reappropriation of earlier cultural forms, materials or technologies.

Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research and an ongoing program of publication. They must also be committed to outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. PhD must be in hand by August 15, 2015.

Possible home departments include, but are not limited to: Art, Classics, History or Religious Studies. The appointee will also hold an initial two-year Mellon Fellowship in ‘Comparative Cultures of the Pre-Modern World’ at the University’s interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2014. The position will remain open until filled.

To apply, candidates must create a Candidate Profile through Jobs@UVA (https://jobs.virginia.edu) and submit the following electronically: a cover letter addressing research agenda and teaching interests, a c.v., a writing sample not exceeding 60 pages, and names and contact information for three references. Search on posting number 0610929.

Questions regarding the application process for Jobs@UVa should be directed to: L. Kent Merritt, History Administrative Supervisor, Corcoran Department of History, lkm6h@virginia.edu.

For additional information on this position contact: Paul J.E. Kershaw, Chair, Search Committee, pjk3p@virginia.edu.

The University will perform background checks on all new faculty hires prior to making a final offer of employment.

 The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Appel à contribution – The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XVII International Graduate Conference

Call for Papers

 THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY’S XVII INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE

 Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c. 300-c.1500

 27th February – 28th February 2015, University of Oxford

 

Byzantium, in all its forms, was an influential society, drawing many different peoples into its sphere. This influence, however, was neither one-way nor top-down. Cultures from beyond the borders of the Empire also impacted on life within it. Interaction and exchange between cultures was both direct and indirect, spanning from Scandinavia, Latin Europe, Africa and into the Islamic world and the Eurasian steppe. Learning, not exclusively classical knowledge, passed not only from culture to culture but from generation to generation; migration and settlement as well as trade and direct conflict all brought different communities into contact throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. What followed could include the translation of literature, the mimesis of art and architecture and religious conversions, as well as the practical adoption of customs, clothing and foods. The Roman Empire, its continuator in the Eastern Mediterranean and all the successor states were deeply involved in all manner of cross-cultural exchanges throughout their existences.

We are calling for papers which explore all possible approaches towards these issues, in all fields of Late Antique and Byzantine studies and beyond, including history, archaeology, history of art, theology, literature, intellectual history, and philology.

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short academic biography in the third person, to the Oxford University Byzantine Society at byzantine.society@gmail.com by Friday, 28th November 2014. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and may be delivered in English or French.

As with our previous two conferences, there will be a publication of selected on-theme and inter-related papers, chosen and reviewed by specialist readers from the University of Oxford’s Late Antique and Byzantine Studies department. Any speakers wishing to have their papers considered for publication should try to be as on-theme as possible in their abstract and paper. Nevertheless, all submissions are warmly invited.

 More details will be sent to successful submissions soon after the deadline. Subject to funding, the OUBS hopes to offer subsidised accommodation for visiting speakers.

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