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Items for this section may be sent to Dr. David J. Califf, The Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, 560 Sproul Road, Villanova, PA 19085; telephone: (610) 687-0650 ext. 174; fax: (610) 687-1912; e-mail: dcaliff@ndapa.org.
International Conference on the Book
The Fifth International Conference on the Book will take place in Madrid from October 20 to 22, 2007. The theme of this year's conference is "Save, Change or Discard—Tradition and Innovation in the World of Books." Main speakers will include leading thinkers and innovators in the areas of publishing, editing, librarianship, printing, authorship, and information technologies, as well as numerous presentations by researchers and practitioners. For information visit their Web site: www.Book-Conference.com.
Netherlands Conference on Orality and Literacy
The Eighth Biennial Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World will take place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from July 2 to 6, 2008. Papers addressing the key conference topics are invited: the use of oral performances or of written texts in Graeco-Roman religions, the representation of the divine in Greek and Latin literature, and sacred laws. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent by September 30, 2007, by mail or e-mail as Word attachments to Prof. A. Lardinois, Department of Classics (GLTC), Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands; e-mail: a.lardinois@let.ru.nl.
North Carolina Conference on Comparative Literature
The Southern Comparative Literature Association will host a conference on the theme of "otherness" at North Carolina State University from September 27 to 29, 2007. Provisional conference topics include exile and otherness, literature and its others (media, other arts, science, web culture, etc.), borderline genres, and texts and translations. Martin Puchner will be the keynote speaker. For information e-mail SCLA2007@chass.ncsu.edu or visit www.chass.ncsu.edu/scla2007.
Oxford Conference on Ancient Drama in Modern Opera
Sponsored by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, this multi-disciplinary conference will be held at the University of Oxford on July 12, 2007. The conference will focus on the influence of ancient drama in the first 200 years of opera's development (c. 1600–1800) and will draw speakers from the worlds of classics, modern languages, and music. After the papers there will be a wine reception and a short recital of arias from eighteenth-century tragic operas. For information, e-mail apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk or visit www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk.
South Carolina Conference on Plato
The University of South Carolina will hold an international and interdisciplinary conference on "Plato and Platonisms" from antiquity through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the present. To be held from March 20 to 23, 2008, this conference will address such topics as analytic and continental philosophy, political and literary theory, aesthetics, poetics, rhetoric, and law. Plenary speakers include Luc Brisson, John Dillon, Mary Louise Gill, [End Page 303] Stephen Halliwell, Richard Kraut, and Steven Shankman. Proposals of 250 words for twenty-minute papers or 750-word proposals for three-paper panels should be e-mailed by September 1, 2007, to pamiller@sc.edu. For information visit www.cas.sc.edu/dllc/cplt/activities.
Virginia Conference on Ancient Historiography
The Department of Classics of the University of Virginia will host a conference entitled "Proxima Poetis: Ancient Historiography and the Imperial Latin Poets" from April 11 to 12, 2008. This conference will focus on the relationship between poets and historians of the early imperial period (c. A.D. 20–120). The keynote speakers are Shadi Bartsch, Cynthia Damon, Denis Feeney, and Philip Hardie. For information contact J. F. Miller (telephone: (434) 924-3008; e-mail: jfm4j@virginia.edu) or A. J. Woodman (telephone: (434) 924-7747; e-mail: ajw6n@virginia.edu).
