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AMPHORAE ISSUE DEADLINE EXTENDED

The Amphorae Issue have extended the deadline for submissions to August 14th in order for people presenting at Amphorae IX to have the chance to develop their papers into articles if they so wish!

HERE'S ALL THE INFO YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU ARRIVE AT AMPHORAEIX!

Where to Go

AMPHORAE is being held in the OLD KIRK building in the centre of the Victoria University of Wellington Keburn campus. This building is easily found as it is next door to the Student Union Building (and Adam Art Gallery) and opposite the newly refurbished HUB and library. Keep an eye out for the VUW Classics Museum signage which will point you in the right direction.

If you are coming from the direction of the Terrace, turn up Salamanca road at the traffic lights (with the dairy). From here walk up Mt. Street (a steep hill which quickly turns to pedestrian only access) and past the Mt. Street cemetery (on your left) and the Student Union Building (on your right). Once you reach the crest of the hill, Old Kirk should be directly ahead of you. Follow the signage through the double doors and then up the stairs to the top of the building.

If you are coming from Kelburn parade (you can take the cable car from Lambton Quay to get here – get off at the third stop), keep walking until you reach the traffic lights under the over bridge. At this point there is small road with pedestrian only access that heads into the University campus – walk up this until you reach the top of the overly large steps. Old Kirk will be directly on your left, follow the signage through the double doors and then up the stairs to the top of the building.

Registrations will open at 9 am on Wednesday Morning in the Classics Department, located on the top floor of Old Kirk.

Dinner

Please remember that if you have RSVP'd for the conference dinner you will need to bring along $50 in cash to registration on Wednesdaymorning (preferably exact money as change may be limited). Your place at the dinner will be in jeopardy if we haven't received this money on Wednesday! We will provide receipts upon payment.

Instructions for Presenters

The rooms being used for the conference have the standard projection capabilities but if you have something ultra-new or flashy planned (e.g. a Prezi presentation), please let us know so we can confirm this is compatible with the rooms. It might also be a good idea to check that PowerPoint presentations work on our computers (Windows PC) ahead of your session and let us know as soon as possible if you are having trouble.

We require that you provide your own handouts. 20-30 copies should be sufficient.

Schedule

Paper copies of the schedule will be provided. However, in the interests of watching our carbon footprint we will not be providing printed copies of the full abstract booklet. Please feel free to print this for yourself, or download an electronic copy of the pdf here.

Events

As previously advertised there are a number of events associated withAMPHORAE IX.

Wednesday 1st:

We are hosting a Welcome Reception in conjunction with Australian Women in Ancient World Studies, in the Classics Museum, Old Kirk building, from 5-7pm.

Thursday 2nd:

The Classical Studies Department at Victoria University of Wellington are providing an interactive tour in the VUW Classics Museum, hosted by Dr. Judy Deuling on Thursday morning 9am. All delegates are welcome to attend. (N.B. the Egyptian Texts panel will be running at this time)

The Delegates Meeting will be occurring after lunch, from 2-3.30pm. Your attendance at this event is strongly advised (more on this below).

The Keynote Lecture on ‘Cicero’s Use of Showmanship in the Roman Law Courts’ will be delivered by Assoc. Prof. Jon Hall from 6.30pm, in Hugh Mackenzie 104. Directly prior to this (5.30pm) will be a wine and nibbles reception provided by the Wellington Classical Association.

Friday 3rd:

Assoc. Prof. Jon Hall will conduct a Masterclass entitled ‘Ancient Rhetoric and Its Importance for Postgraduate Students’ at 10 am in Old Kirk 501. Please note that there is a small handout (2 pages) of readings that accompanies this. If you have registered for this event please ensure that you attend, if you haven’t but would like to please let us know ASAP.

The Victoria University of Wellington will host a special panel entitled ‘Where to from here? Selling your skils as an academic’ with Prof. Jeff Tatum, Dr. Simon Perris and Dr. James Kierstead, at 4pm in Old Kirk 501. This is open to all delegates.

Food

While we will be providing catering for morning and afternoon tea, unfortunately we are not in a position to supply lunch. However, you have a wealth of options to choose from, both on campus and locally:

The Hunter Lounge, Student Union Building—vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are available, and halal food can be prepared upon request. This is not strict halal, contact the Hunter Lounge for details.

Vic Books, Easterfield Building—vegetarian and vegan options available

Illot Café, Level 3, Kirk Building—vegetarian options available.

Wishbone, Alan MacDiarmid Building—vegetarian, dairy-free and gluten-free options available.

Louis’ Kiosk, Level 1, outside Kelburn Library—vegetarian options available.

Milk and Honey, Level 1, Rankine Brown Building—for staff and postgraduate students, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options available.

Maki Mono, Level 2, Easterfield Building—sushi and other Japanese cuisine.

The Lab, ground floor, Easterfield Building—salad and noodle bar, vegetarian options available.

For those interested in wandering further afield, there are many places to eat in the CBD (Lambton Quay, Willis St, Manners Mall, Courtney Place are all good places to start), or a short walk further into Kelburn has a number of nice eateries on Upland Rd.

If you get stuck, feel free to ask one of the convenors for help.

Delegate’s Meeting Agenda

As usual, a Delegate’s Meeting has been scheduled to provide a forum for discussion of issues affecting both the annual conference itself and Postgraduates in Australia and New Zealand as a whole. If you have an item that you think requires raising in this forum, please do not hesitate to let the convenors, or your ASCS Postgraduate Representatives (Marc Bonaventura (Australia) and Joel Gordon (New Zealand)) know.

Internet Access

Internet access will be available through the Eduroam network, which allows you to sign in using your home institution user name and password. For more details see: http://www.eduroam.edu.au/.

Alternatively, you will be able to sign into the Victoria Guest wifi network using a current email address.

Weather

As always with Wellington it will be windy. If it is raining, don’t bother with an umbrella. Expect the mornings to be frosty and cold, but this tends to warm up considerably as the day goes on.

We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday, July 1st.

Jaimee, Joel, and Julia

Convenors, AMPHORAE IX

Key-note lecture and masterclass announced!

Go to our "about" page to find out the topics that will be discussed.

Call for Papers for the AWAWS Panel - AMPHORAE ix (1-3 July 2015, Wellington, NZ)

The study of the ancient world has always attracted both female and male scholars. Yet historically prominent female scholars have failed to receive academic and popular recognition in their lifetime due to gender discrimination. In the case of some women, their work was not officially recognised, with credit accruing to male relatives or professors with the result that they are little known. Even now, many female scholars still publish under their initials in order to disguise their gender, believing that they will be perceived as more credible by the academic community if they are thought to be men. This session aims to redress this oversight in our understanding of women in academia by raising the profile of female scholars of the ancient world and retelling their stories for a new audience. A greater female presence in textbooks, reading lists, and universities will show new generations of scholars that women have always been valuable contributors to our understanding of the ancient world, from the 19th century to the present day.

For the 2015 AMPHORAE ix meeting (Wellington, NZ), we are seeking submissions for an AWAWS panel on the history of women in the disciplines of Classics, Archaeology and Egyptology, and their unique and often unrecognized contribution to our understanding of the past. We are open to papers exploring:

The personal and professional histories of prominent female scholars, including current and past academics, aswell as those whose work was subsumed into that of their male relatives or professors.
The impact of feminism and social justice movements on the experiences of female scholars in academia and museum studies.
The relationship between graduate students and their professors and how this has affected recognition of female scholars, both past and present.
Intersectional discussions of the experiences and contributions of minority groups, particularly women of colour and queer individuals, to the study of the ancient world.
The influence of female scholars on the way we study the ancient world.
Forward-looking papers that address ways to compensate for historical inequalities and raise the profile of female scholars, both past and present.

Please submit your abstracts to socawaws@gmail.com by 5pm 29 May 2015 (the AMPHORAE deadline is 5 June 2015). Once your paper has been considered by the AWAWS Executive, we will forward all papers as a single panel to the conference organisers who will make the final decision on the panel’s acceptance. Abstracts need to match the guidelines found on the AMPHORAE ix website:http://amphoraeix.wix.com/amphoraeix.

Call for papers - Gender, identity, and intersectionality in antiquity: models of oppression and privilege

(Aug 31 – Sep 1 2015, Auckland, New Zealand)

Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 15th

Classics and Ancient History at The University of Auckland is pleased to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on gender and identity in the ancient world. We are seeking papers that focus on how gender intersected with aspects of identity including (but not limited to) ethnicity, class, and social status. We welcome submissions from researchers working on texts and/or material evidence from Egypt, the Near East, Greece, the Roman Empire, and the late antique world.

We invite speakers to situate their research on gender in antiquity within the framework of intersectionality, which is currently influential in the social sciences and in feminist writing outside the academy. The intersectional model holds that people with multiple marginalized identities experience discrimination based on the particular intersections of their identities. We seek to investigate how the evidence of antiquity might validate or complicate the intersectional model.

We are particularly interested in papers that examine evidence of gender and identity in antiquity with a view to big picture questions, such as:
Is there evidence of intersectionality in antiquity?
If so, how did intersectionality in antiquity manifest?
If not, what might that signify for the current model of intersectionality in other disciplines, feminisms, and the LGBTQI world?
How might the nature of our sources (fragmentary, often derived from the elite) affect our attempts to apply the intersectional model to antiquity?
Since intersectionality is a model that responds to modern concepts of race (and thus racism) and modern sexual orientation (and thus homophobia), how might it be problematic (or conversely productive) to apply this model to antiquity?

Please send abstracts (max. 350 words) to Dr Maxine Lewis at maxine.lewis@auckland.ac.nz

Feel free to contact Maxine if you have questions or if you wish to register your interest in attending.

This conference is organized in conjunction with the Auckland chapter of Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS), an organization that aims to foster gender equality in our fields (https://socawaws.wordpress.com/ ). Our objective in organizing the conference is to further this aim, and to engage people who have an active or nascent interest in ancient identity with modern political issues and the theoretical models currently being used to describe them

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ANNOUNCED!
Thank you to everyone who has already registered and sent us abstracts! We are now accepting registrations and abstracts for the second call for papers, the deadline for this will be Friday 5th June. Go to Registration for more info.

ATTENTION ALL ROMAN LITERATURE LOVERS!

Pacific Rim 29 Roman Literature Seminar, held at the University of Auckland from 8th- 10th July 2015, has announced a call for papers. The deadline for abstracts is 31 March. If you are interested in going to both Pac Rim 29 and AMPHORAE IX get in touch with us, or maybe try getting in touch with other AMPHORAE IX attendees via our facebook page to organise potential travel partners, etc.
For more information for Pac Rim 29 please visit their website here.

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The first call for papers for AMPHORAE IX Wellington has been issued. The deadline for abstracts is 16 March. For more details go to 'registration'.