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Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World
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> School of History, Classics and Archaeology
> University of Edinburgh, 4-6th July 2012
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> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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> While the representation of the ancient world in modern popular culture has
> received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years, ancient
> popular culture has generally been neglected. However, Jerry Toner’s recent
> Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 2009) and Nicholas Horsfall’s
> The Culture of the Roman Plebs (London, 2003) have shown the possibilities
> offered by this fascinating field. This conference aims to bring together
> scholars representing a diverse range of subjects, interests and approaches,
> to explore the challenges of investigating a field ignored by traditional
> classical scholarship.
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> Crucial questions include:  Was there such a thing as popular culture in the
> ancient world? How can we, as scholars, locate it? What defined it? Which
> themes were prominent?  What are the political implications of studying the
> ‘popular’ in the ancient world?
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> Papers are invited on a broad range of subjects related to ancient popular
> culture: including (but not exclusively):
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> •     theoretical and comparative approaches to ancient popular culture
> •     culture and class
> •     popular visual culture (e.g. graffiti, artefacts)
> •     popular performance (e.g. comedy, mime)
> •     popular literary texts (e.g. fiction, oracles, fables)
> •     popular religion (e.g. festivals, the role of Christianity)
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> Confirmed speakers include Jerry Toner, Pavlos Avlamis, Serafina Cuomo and
> Ruth Webb.
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> 30-minute papers are welcomed from scholars at all stages of their career.
> Please send abstracts of up to 500 words by 1st February 2012.
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> Please send abstracts, queries or expressions of interest to the conference
> organiser:
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> Dr Lucy Grig, Classics, University of Edinburgh
> lucy.grig@ed.ac.uk