The Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies (CCANESA) in Sydney, Australia | Educational research centre

The Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies (CCANESA)

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: 91140925

Address: Rm 480, Madsen Building, The University of Sydney 2006 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/centre-for-classical-and-near-eastern-studies-of-australia.html

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24.01.2022 Call for Papers! @CCANESA @aaiasyd @WomenAncient (AWAWS) and @ccwm_sydney have teamed up to present the online conference, "‘Modern’ Women of the Past? Unearthing Gender and Antiquity." Abstracts of no more than 200 words may be sent to [email protected] by the 30th of November - for more details please see flyer image. The conference will be held over the 5-6th of March 2021, ahead of International Women’s Day on the 8th. Please save the date in your diaries for this exciting interdisciplinary event! #cfp University of Sydney

24.01.2022 You’re invited to the #Classics and Ancient #History/CCANESA online seminar on the 29th of October at 4pm! Our speaker Tonya Rushmer will explore the supply of grain in #Rome in the 70s BCE. Please register here: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-29-10-2020/ All welcome! Image: Francesco Z CC 2.0

21.01.2022 The Classics and Ancient History online seminar series continues next Thursday the 7th of May at 4:15pm with Dr Robert Cowan (University of Sydney). Dr Cowan will present on inversions and perversions of generational identity and the third life cycle in Aristophanes’ Wasps. Please click the link below to Join our online research community and register for what promises to be a fun and intriguing presentation!

19.01.2022 You’re invited to our first #Classics and Ancient History/CCANESA online #seminar for semester 2. Marguerite Heery will present her paper Hippocrates, the Medical Revolutionary at 4:15pm on Thursday, the 3rd of September. For registrations, please follow this link: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-03-09-2020/ Please join us for the first in a fabulous program of papers! ... Image: An Arabic version of later Greek physician Dioscorides’ ‘De Materia Medica.’ Public Domain. @sydney_uni #ancientgreece See more

18.01.2022 We've hit 80,000! Two years ago our natural history team embarked on the epic job of hand-numbering the 300,000 specimens in the Macleay entomological collectio...n. These are some of the oldest insects in Australiaand this week entomologist Matt Huan reached the milestone achievement of numbering the 80,000th specimen. Number 80,000 belongs to the Buprestidae family of beetle, sometimes called ‘jewel beetles’ because of their stunning iridescent colours. To Matt’s disappointment, this particular specimen is a less alluring brown and black Stigmodera macularia. This important work not only assists scientists in their research but is vital for exhibitions and online access to this collection. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for more behind the scenes news: https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/subscribe

17.01.2022 This parasitic wasp, Ichneumon suspiciosus, is here as a reminder that Dr. Robert Cowan (University of Sydney) will be presenting on the third life cycle in Aristophanes’ Wasps next Thursday May 7th at 4 for 4:15 pm, at the Classics online research seminar. To join our online community, please click the link below and register! Image credit: Mike Pennington. https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-7-may-2020/

16.01.2022 We're super excited to announce the Teaching Classical Languages Symposium for 2020 will be being hosted online by CCANESA on Friday the 14th of August, from 9am to 12pm. Please join us for this exciting free event to see speakers from several Australian universities and NSW secondary schools reveal their insights and strategies for teaching Latin and Ancient Greek. The forum provides 3 hours of NESA Registered Professional Development for Classical Language teachers, and is the inaugural offering for an anticipated biennial Classics event. Please click the link to register: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/tcls-2020/ Image: Public Domain

16.01.2022 We love dogs at CCANESA! So we’re especially excited to announce our final online Classics research seminar, on Thursday the 4th of June at 4:15pm! Our speaker will be the amazing Alyce Cannon (University of Sydney) who’ll present her PhD research on dogs in ancient Greece, in a paper titled ‘Transitional Friends: Dogs, Choes, and the Iconography of Attachment.’ Please register through Sophi events for our concluding seminar of this semester. We look forward to seeing you t...here! https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calend/cah-04-june-2020/ Image: The Book of dogs: An intimate study of man’s best friend, Baynes and Fuentes, 1919.

14.01.2022 Stimulating article exploring recent research on 48,000-year-old arrow heads found in a Sri Lankan cave, with comment from University of Sydney archaeologist, Ian Gilligan. The find may shed light on how early humans moved to the rainforest, and their use of technology and trade: https://www.nationalgeographic.com//tools-human-early-mig/ Image credit: Ravindu Thaksara / CC BY-SA

13.01.2022 Please join us for our next CCANESA/Classics and Ancient History online research seminar! Our modified schedule of fortnightly seminars continues Thursday the 21st of May at 4 for 4:15pm with what promises to be a most stimulating paper: Associate Professor Trevor V. Evans (Macquarie University, Sydney) How many Ancient Greek authors does it take to make ‘make a letter’ Greek?... Abstract: The expression ‘make a letter’ ( ) turns up in a Greek papyrus from Egypt of the third century BCE. How Greek does it look to you? In classical and post-classical Greek it seems to be quite isolated and a little exploration suggests it is an example of bilingual interference from Demotic Egyptian. Then two other examples appear in highly educated writers of much later times. And then the expression disappears and is even removed from a relevant copying tradition. What is the explanation? Is it really Greek or not? This presentation investigates the possibilities. Please register your interest for this free series here if you have not already done so: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-21-may-2020/ We very much look forward to seeing you as we bring our research community together in this new online space! Image: Public Domain

07.01.2022 Awesome piece from Atlas Obscura’s ‘Wonder from Home’ series offers a remedy for those longing to be in the library. ‘Armchair archivists’ are needed to transcribe innumerable works including the private correspondence of Rosa Parks, oral histories collected by the New York Public Library, and the almost inscrutable scribblings of physicist and astronaut Sally Ride. Follow the links to help document history from home:

05.01.2022 Lovely story about the newest yet oldest philosophy honours graduate from the University of Palermo!

05.01.2022 Please join us #online on Thursday the 17th of September at 4pm for our next #Classics and Ancient History/CCANESA #seminar! Yasmin Haskel (UWA) will present her paper: ‘Pagan powers, passions and their proxies: the gods in Jesuit Latin epic.’ Register here: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-17-09-2020/ All welcome! @sydney_uni Image: Aeneas departs from Carthage, Met Museum (public domain)

04.01.2022 Please join for the next #Classics and Ancient History #online seminar on Thursday the 15th of October at 4:15pm! Stephen Clarke will present on the structural rhetoric of Demosthenes in deliberative oratory. Please register for this free event - https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-15-20-2020/. All welcome! Image credit: Marble head of Demosthenes, Metropolitan Museum of Art

04.01.2022 We are delighted to announce that the University’s Classics and Ancient History seminars will be restarting this semester online! A modified schedule of seminars will be presented fortnightly via Zoom, the remote conferencing application. Notifications of each event (or changes to its details) will be sent out one week before the scheduled date and further details can be found on the SOPHI Events site. The seminars will recommence on Thursday, APRIL 23rd at 4.15pm with the wo...nderful Natalie Mendes (University of Sydney): Poor Offerings by Late Antique Peasants: Evidence for Pagan Ritual in Post-Constantinian North Africa. Please register your interest for this event here: https://fass-comms.sydney.edu.au//zzzz5e954/interface.html Zoom event details and any pre-circulating materials will be sent to registered attendees by email. We very much look forward to seeing you as we bring our research community together in this new online space!

01.01.2022 Please join us for the free online #Classics and Ancient History #seminar on October 1st at 4pm! Our speaker will be amazing University of Sydney HDR student, @jimmywinestock presenting ‘The effects of plunder on non-elite Italians, 200-167 BCE.’ All are most welcome to join this fascinating exploration of the motivating power of plunder in the Roman world! Please follow the link in register! https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/cah-01-10-2020/ Image: Roman coin, French National Library, CCO.