Today´s news contains
two pieces of information. Firstly, we would like to announce to you the
Seventh International Colloquium held by the Centre for Hellenistic Studies at
the National University of La Plata, Argentina. The conference, called “[A] New
Insight into Ancient Greek Culture at the Beginning of the Third Millennium:
Perspectives and Challenges”, will be held from the 23rd to the 26th of June 2015. Abstracts
should be submitted until the 30th of March. Read the following text
for all the relevant information:
The Seventh
International Colloquium “[A] New Insight into Ancient Greek Culture at the
Beginning of the Third Millennium: Perspectives and Challenges", organized
by the Centro de Estudios Helénicos, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la
Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, will be held in La Plata,
Argentina, from 23rd to 26th June 2015.
The Colloquium
attempts to return to the topic of its first meeting, in 1997, entitled “[A]
new insight into ancient Greek culture at the end of the millennium”. The
growing success in the last twenty years of these academic meetings, designed
to reflecting, discussing and assessing the role of classics within
philological, literary, historical, philosophical and cultural studies in
general, has prompted us to go back to the start to reflect once more on the
challenges and perspectives that our research field maintains in a millennium
that, after more than a decade, is still focused on humanity.
The Colloquium allows
three ways of participation:
1) Conference
panels and round-table discussions focusing on subjects of interest
chosen from several areas of the Greco-Roman culture. Well-known scholars both
from our country and overseas will be the guest speakers.
The conference panels
and round-tables aim at the discussion of some central issues in the study of
Classical thought. They will be followed by a general debate in which every
participant is encouraged to take part.
2) Papers.
Should you be interested in presenting a paper, please send a 300-word abstract
by email by 30th March 2015, to be evaluated by the Scientific
Committee. A printed copy plus CD version of a 20-minute paper will take place
upon arrival to the Colloquium (max. 8 pages including bibliography, A4, Times
New Roman 12, 1.5 space, Greek font, UNICODE).
Students wishing
to present a paper should do so with the support of a scholar, preferably their
supervisor, whose name, position and Email address must be included in their
abstracts.
3) Short Courses,
Those interested in giving a short course should send their proposal by 30th
March 2015, including proposed title of the course, support statement,
aims, topics to be addressed during the course (in two sessions of three hours
each) and bibliography.
Papers’ and Courses’
sessions are open to all those interested in sharing their current research.
Papers and Courses are expected to focus on Classical Languages, Genres,
Rhetoric, Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, Lyric, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient History,
Cultural Studies, Classical Reception and Classical Archaeology, just to
mention some of the possible topics. The proposed theme of the Colloquium is
not exclusive.
Certificates:
Participants
will receive a certificate stating their participation in the Colloquium plus a
certificate of attendance for a training course of 30 hours. Those who read a
paper or give a short course will receive a further certificate. Those
attending short courses will receive a certificate of a 6 hour course.
All
Papers given at the Conference will be published in CD format and/or on the
web. A special volume, Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium,
will be published in paperback including all the conference panels and
round-tables.
In
order to register for the Colloquium, please complete and return the
Registration Form attached to this Circular Letter, together with the abstract
of your paper or your proposal for a short course. [Please make use of the
contact information below to receive a Registration Form]
Registration Fee:
Participants attending or giving a paper:
Before
30th March 2015: $740 Argentinean Pesos (AADEC member: $600 AP)
After
30th March 2015: $850 Argentinean Pesos (AADEC member: $700 AP)
Students
UNLP
Undergraduate students will have free attendance to the Colloquium.
Undergraduate
students from other Universities (from Argentina /abroad) giving a paper: $150
Argentinean Pesos (AADEC member: $80 AP); attending students: $100 Argentinian
Pesos (AADEC member: $120 AP)
Students
should show a valid student card or certificate from their Universities stating
they are current students.
(Approximate
change value: 1Euro=$6 Argentinean pesos; 1U$S=$4.30 pesos)
Due
to the high charges applied to foreign currency orders and to some difficulties
managing different bank systems, we ask foreign attendants to the Colloquium to
confirm their participation (sending the Registration Form and
abstract/proposal, if applicable) and to pay once arriving at the Colloquium.
The fee will be charged according to the date stated in the Registration form.
Please
note that personal cheques or credit card payments will not be accepted.
We
look forward to meeting you at this new event
Yours
sincerely,
Claudia Fernández, Juan Nápoli y Graciela Zecchin de Fasano
Invited speakers: Marta Alesso (Universidad
Nacional de La Pampa/AADEC) Anna Beltrametti (Università di Pavia) Douglas
Cairns (University of Edinburgh) Jesús de la Villa Polo (Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid) Lilian Doherty (University of Maryland) Adriane Duarte (Universidad
de São Paulo) Delfim Ferreira Leão (Universidade de Coimbra) Judith Fletcher
(Wilfrid Laurier University) David García Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de
México) Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho (Universidade de Coimbra) Barbara
Graziosi (Durham University) Carmen Morenilla Talens (Universidad de Valencia)
Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Christian
Werner (Universidad de São Paulo) Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)
For further information please contact:
Secretariat
Centro
de Estudios Helénicos
Facultad
de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
Universidad
Nacional de La Plata
Calle
51 entre 124 y 125
Edificio
C, oficina 301
1925
Ensenada, ARGENTINA
Tel.
(54) (221) 4230127 Interno 1136
E-mail: vii.coloquio.internacional@gmail.com
TWO PHD SCHOLARSHIPS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL
Secondly, we would
like to inform you of two PhD positions offered by the Department of Ancient
Civilizations at the University of Basel. The scholarships will be granted for
one year, starting from the 1st of October 2015. The deadline for
applications is the 30th of
April 2015. Read the full offer:
The PhD program of
the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel announces
two one-year scholarships, starting at the 1st
of October 2015 (á 30'000 CHF per year; two tranches with evaluation).
The grants are
intended to support young graduates during their starting phase of their PhD
research project. It is expected that he/she will develop his/her research
project in that time for applying to the Swiss National Science Foundation or
other funding institutions at the end of that year.
The scholarships are
addressed to students who hold an 1st class MA-degree either in Egyptology, Classical Archaeology,
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ancient History, Greek Philology, Latin
Philology, Comparative and Historic Linguistics or European Archaeology.
Most welcome are PhD projects that can be linked to the research fields of the
Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel.
It is expected that
the PhD student is highly motivated and will personally be involved in the PhD
program of the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel
(German is the main language of teaching).
The PhD student has
to choose from the date of admission to the doctoral program a first or second
supervisor from the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of
Basel. The enrollment at the University of Basel is mandatory.
Application deadline: 30th of April 2015
The following
documents should be sent as PDFs by email (hubertus.muench@unibas.ch) to the
Graduate Committee:
· Letter of motivation
· CV
· MA-Diploma
· 1-2 sample of text (max. 20 pages each,
including at least 1 academic qualification text, like BA- or MA-thesis)
· Sketch for the dissertation project (max. 3
pages)
· Letter of reference
For further
information, please contact Mr. Hans-H. Muench (coordinator of the doctoral
program of the Basel Ancient Studies, hubertus.muench@unibas.ch).