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Université de Montréal Classical Association of Canada - Annual Meeting 2008

 

Centre d'études classiques - Faculté des arts et des sciences

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Program

Scholarly contributions in all areas of Classical Studies are welcomed.

Presentations should normally not exceed 15-20 minutes, to be followed by discussion.

Special features of this year’s programme will include:

• An evening lecture by our keynote speaker, Professor David Konstan of Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) on Monday May 12 on "Anger and Forgiveness: From Appeasement to Repentance in the Classical World"

• On invitation of the Consulate General of Greece Prof. V. Lambrinoudakis (Athens, President of the International Scientific Commission of the LIMC) will address the participants of the congress on Tuesday May 13, 4:30 PM to 6 P.M. with a lecture on "La contribution du monde égéen à la culture : l’avant-garde naxienne".

• A session on Greek tragedy in honour of Professor Desmond Conacher.

• A panel (organized by Catherine Rubincam and George Pesely) to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and to honour the memory of Iain Bruce, the scholar who produced the first historical commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia.

• A panel entitled Anachronies (organized by Sean Gurd), which proposes to document and extend recent research on the temporal complexity of cultural objects and historical disciplines

• A panel (organized by KYKNOS, the Swansea, Lampeter, and Exeter Centre for Research in Ancient Narrative Literatures) entitled “Names in Narratives” and exploring the different ways in which names are used and their central importance to the narratives to which they belong.

• A panel organized by The Women's Network of the CAC and entitled "Women and Power".

• The Museum of Fine Arts Montreal invites all participants to join it for a book launch on Tuesday Mai 13 at 6 P.M. During this occasion the Gallery of the Mediterranean Antiquities will be open free of charge to all visitors.
  The book launch is dedicated to :
  Beaudoin Caron et Eleni Zoitopoulou, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediteranean Antiquities / Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Collection des antiquités méditerranéennes, Volume I, The Ancient Glass / La verrerie antique, Monumenta Graeca et Romana 13, Brill 2008.

 

For further information see the program in PDF-format.

 

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