JOINT CONFERENCE ON ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN LONDRINA, BRAZIL

We would like to let you know that a joint conference in the area of Ancient and Medieval Studies will be held in Londrina, Brazil, 29-31 August 2018. 

For more information, please read the following announcement issued by the organizing committee: 

"Dear researchers of Ancient Times and Middle Ages,

 

We are organizing the XII Cycle of Ancient and Medieval Studies, VII International Conference of Ancient and Medieval Studies / XVII Seminar of Ancient and Medieval Studies, events already consolidated with researchers of Antiquity and Medieval. The joint efforts of the Department of History and the Postgraduate Program in Social History of Londrina, the Fundamentals of Education Department and the History of Education Program of Maringá, and the Research Group (GETSEAM - Social Transformations and Education Group in Antiquity and Medievality) have made it possible to hold these meetings for more than two decades. This brings us great satisfaction!

This year, the events will be hosted in Londrina, at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, between August 29 and 31.

On this occasion, we will also be pleased to present the first edition of the Francis and Franciscanism International Encounter. This event presents, at first, together with the Cycle and the Journey, meeting a Medieval area researchers demand, but also of those who have been reflecting on this thematic and the historical, artistic, and social unfoldings, among others, in the surroundings of the figure of Francis of Assisi and of the Franciscan movement in other temporalities and geographical spaces.

We invite all of you to follow the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/antigaemedievalfrancisco/ and visit https://antigaemedieval.wixsite.com/francisco to receive all the information regarding the activities.

Thank you in advance for your willingness to share your research and fellowship with us, and we ask for your assistance in publicizing our programming.

See you soon!"

PUBLIC READING OF OVID`S METAMORPHOSES, PARIS

We would like to let you know that – on the occasion of the 12^th European Festival of Latin and Greek – the Budé library in Paris organizes a public reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on 23 March 2018.

 

For more information, please follow this link.

65TH ENTRETIENS SUR L'ANTIQUITÉ CLASSIQUE DE LA FONDATION HARDT

We would like to let you know that the 65^th Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique de la Fondation Hardt will take place from 27-31 August 2018. The conference, organized by Andreas Willi and hosted by Pierre Ducrey, is entitled: “Formes et fonctions des langues littéraires en Grèce ancienne – Forms and Functions of Literary Languages in Ancient Greece”.

Please follow this link for the provisional programme as well as for contact information.

15TH INTERNATIONAL FIEC CONGRESS, LONDON 2019

We are delighted to announce that the 15th International FIEC Congress will be held in London, 4-8 July, 2019, hosted by the Classical Association, the Hellenic Society and the Roman Society, in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Studies, London, UCL, KCL, Birkbeck College, Royal Holloway University of London and Roehampton University.

Please follow this link for further information. 

CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA MINOR IN PERUGIA, ITALY

Please note that the University of Perugia will host the conference entitled "La geografia storica dell’Asia Minore" on 23 February 2018.

You may follow this link to read the full programme.

PARTICIPATIVE READING OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES

Please read the following announcement issued by the Festival Européen Latin Grec:

"Dear friends of Classics,

A few months ago the Festival Européen Latin Grec staged the first international participative reading of the Odyssey : on March 24th  2017 more than 5000 persons read one of the 24 books of Homer’s epic into 50 languages … in 27 countries ! Please click here to get a taste of it : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRpeAmU5SJTbF2uZMoAWWA/videos

… and here to discover the map of the participating countries : https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1BpbK4ORYh5vEFSkTxp-vdt1NESI&ll=18.48183097614188%2C27.061115299999983&z=2

We look forward to having you as a contributor of the next event that will take place on March 23rd  2018 at 10 A.M. (Paris time) : on this special day Ovid’s Metamorphoses will be read in public at the same time all over the world !

If you are a teacher, a student, a bookseller, a librarian, a theatre-goer … or if you are simply convinced of the necessity to nurture the Humanities, please join us and share a few pages of Antiquity : all you need to do is to read aloud for one hour and let your audience discover the adventures of Daphne, Narcissus, Arachne, … or whoever you want !

To participate, you just have to organize a group of readers and choose a public space so that people can hear the reading of a complete book from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (or some extracts)  in the language of your choosing. And don’t forget to make sure your phone or camera is fully charged in order to make a great video of your performance !

To register please fill in the form here : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXTOGmXonNzcSoPhnfjfYAnbesqjTQ07KlnisIWrImenTy4w/viewform

Best wishes from the Festival Européen Latin Grec team !
www.festival-latingrec.eu

Please become a follower of the festival on Facebook ! https://www.facebook.com/Odyssee24/

EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN LA PLATA, ARGENTINIA

We would like to inform you about the Eight International Colloqium organized by the Centro de Estudios Helénicos, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. The conference entitled “Cartographies of the Self: Strategies of its Textualization in the Ancient World” will take take place in La Plate, 26-29 June 2018.

Please note that the dealine for the submission of abstracts and proposals is 30 March 2018. Following this link, you will get all the relevant information.