From lwright@cac.washington.edu Sun Oct 8 09:44:39 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA161560 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:44:38 -0700 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA17615 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:44:38 -0700 Received: from shiva1.cac.washington.edu (shiva1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.100.201]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA08070 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:44:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (lwright@localhost) by shiva1.cac.washington.edu (8.10.1+UW00.04/8.10.1+UW00.04) with ESMTP id e98GibP16559 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:44:38 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Linda Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Duke/UNC graduate colloquium (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:44:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Gil Renberg To: Linda Wright Subject: Duke/UNC graduate colloquium CALL FOR PAPERS 2001 Duke/UNC-Chapel Hill Classics Graduate Student Colloquium Saturday, March 24, 2001 GODS AND MONSTERS: DIVINIZATION AND DEMONIZATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD In classical antiquity mortals were often presented as either more or less than human for various personal, political, and artistic ends. The cults of renowned poets, the identification of rulers with specific gods, heroic or divine imagery on grave monuments, and elaborate encomia are all examples of the divinization of individuals. Conversely, the depiction of political rivals as impious or even monstrous, foreign cult practices as deviant, and mythological characters as shorn of their humanity through physical or behavioral transformations testify to the willingness of the Greeks and Romans to assign subhuman characteristics to people. We invite graduate students in the fields of Classical Literature, Art and Archaeology, Ancient History, Religion, and Philosophy to submit papers which examine such uses of divinity and monstrosity in the ancient world. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words by mail, email, or fax no later than January 17, 2001. Provide your paper title, name, address, phone number, email address, and affiliation separately, not on the abstract. Participants will be notified by Jan. 31, 2001. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Limited travel funding may be available. Contact/submission address: John Bauschatz Department of Classical Studies Duke University 236 Allen Building, Box 90103 Durham, NC 27708-0103 Fax: 919-681-4262 Email: jfb4@duke.edu .