CFP: Letter writing in the Roman empire (from Serena Connolly, Rutgers):
The Roman Epistulae Project invites abstracts for the conference 'Empire of Correspondence: Roman Imperial Letters as Literature and State Messaging, 31 BCE–534 CE' to be held in Boulder, Colorado, 4-5 October 2024.
Papers should examine the role of imperial correspondence in Roman society and governance.
Livestreamed conference: Synchronic and diachronic issues of Postclassical Greek
A livestream will be available for this linguistics conference hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki that runs from TOMORROW through Saturday (12-14 October 2023).
Many papers deal with the Roman period and Egyptian papyri.
Full information, including abstracts and link to the livestream, may be found here:
Roman history job posting, Washington Univ. (St. Louis, USA):
The Department of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Roman History, to begin fall semester 2024. We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in the Roman Empire and in one or more of the following areas: social history, slavery, race and ethnicity, law.
We’re back in the thick of things with the years 418–416 BCE. Rome struggles with their neighbours, and faces strife from within from tribunes looking to make things right for the little people!