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CAMPUS OF NOTTINGHAM - CONFERENCE

Statius and his epics: Work in Progress

The Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham and the Flavian Epic Network cordially invite participants for the following conference:

The University Club, University of Nottingham, Friday January 22, 2010

10.00 ARRIVAL AND COFFEE

Gender:

10.15 Alison Keith (Toronto) on female monsters

11.00 Mairead McAuley (King’s College, Cambridge) ‘Bodies and narrative in Statian Epic’

11.45 Dalida Agri (Nottingham) on pudor

12.30 LUNCH

Genre:

1.30 Martin Dinter (King’s College, London) ‘Intermediality: Ekphrastic Modes in Statius’

2.15 Peter Heslin (Durham) ‘The Hypsipyle Epyllion’

3.00 Jörn Soerink (Gröningen) ‘The significance of the Opheltes episode’

3.45 TEA

Commentaries:

4.15 Philip Mottram (Liverpool) and Alberto Pavan on Thebaid 6

5.15 Antony Augoustakis (Baylor) on Thebaid 8

6.00 CLOSING REMARKS AND WINE RECEPTION

If you would like to attend, please send a cheque (made payable to ‘The University of Nottingham’) for £20 (£15 students/unwaged), with an indication of any dietary requirements, by Monday January 11th to:

Helen Lovatt,

Department of Classics,

University of Nottingham,

University Park,

Nottingham

NG7 2RD

It is also possible to pay by credit card: please contact me for a form. There are 40 spaces in the room, so book early to avoid disappointment!

I am also organising dinner at a local restaurant; please let me know if you would like to join us. Information on travel to the University of Nottingham and campus maps is available from:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/universityparkcampus.aspx

The University Staff Club is no. 8 on the printable PDF map:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/documents/universityparkcampusmap.pdf

If you need accommodation overnight, there are some cheap B&Bs in Beeston, reasonably near to Beeston station and the place where I am planning to go for dinner. These are the Andrews hotel and the Hylands hotel; you can find many options on the tourist information site at http://www.visitnottingham.com/, although it doesn’t bring up the hotel nearest to campus, which is the Toby Carvery:

http://www.innkeeperslodge.com/lodgedetail.asp?lid=45 (a bit more expensive at £60 per night).

The university also has a hotel reservation service, which might be an easier way of doing it. Advisors provide up-to-the-minute information and will match a hotel to your particular requirements, taking care of all the administration for you. You will also benefit from pre-negotiated preferential rates with major city hotels providing you with substantial savings.

For further details please contact one of the Hotel Reservation Service advisers on:

Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 5011 / 13640

Fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5018

Email: hrs @nottingham.ac.uk

If there are any other problems or questions, please do get in touch with me by e-mail: helen.lovatt @ nottingham.ac.uk.

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NOTA BENE

Da apprezzare la cura degli organizzatori nel predisporre la migliore accoglienza per i partecipanti alla conferenza: albergo, B&B, servizio ristorante, mezzi di trasporto. Non manca persino una mappa del campus per agevolare gli ospiti nell’individuare il sito. Il massimo dell’ospitalità, non c’è che dire!