Announcing:
Memory and Mourning: Death in Ancient
Rome
Saturday November 10, 2007 at the Open University,
Harborne, BIRMINGHAM.
10.00 Tea and coffee.
10.30 Valerie Hope and
Janet Huskinson (Open University):
Introducing Death in Ancient
Rome.
10.45 David Noy (Lampeter):
'Goodbye Livia': Dying in the
Roman Home.
11.30 Luke Houghton (Glasgow):
Death Ritual and Burial
Practice in the Latin Love Elegists.
12.15 Emma-Jayne Graham
(Cardiff):
Bits and Pieces: the Search for 'Secondary Treatment' in Roman
Mortuary Practices.
1.00 Lunch.
2.00 Maureen Carroll
(Sheffield):
'The mourning was very good.' Liberation and Liberality in
Roman
Funerary Commemoration.
2.45 Jean-Michel Hulls:
Poetic
Monuments: Grief and Consolation in Statius Silvae 3.3.
3.30
Depart.
To register please contact:
The Secretary,
The
Department of Classical Studies,
Open University,
Walton Hall,
Milton
Keynes, MK7 6AA.
Tel: 01908 653247. E.mail: B.M.Sharp@open.ac.uk
<mailto:B.M.Sharp@open.ac.uk>
Registration
ends 02/11/07.
The event will be held at the OU Regional Centre, 66 High
Street,
Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9NB. Note there is no conference fee.
Lunch
will not be provided. There are several cafes and sandwich shops on
the High Street.
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Pedar W. Foss http://homepage.mac.com/pfoss/
index.html
Associate Professor http://cgma.depauw.edu/
Dept. of
Classical Studies http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/
rome-arch/
DePauw University pfoss@depauw.edu
P.O. Box 37 Office
(104 Julian):
765-658-6314
Greencastle, IN 46135 CGMA lab:
765-658-5417
