FIEC REPORT BERLIN 2009
REPORT: FIEC CONFERENCE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BERLIN
24-29 AUGUST 2009
- CASA was well represented at the conference which
featured 19 panels and some 400 papers. Seven members of CASA presented
papers, which were well received: Annemarie Kotzé, Johan Thom, Sjarlene Thom
(Stellenbosch), Betine van Zyl Smit (Nottingham), Elke Steinmeyer, Cullen
Mackenzie, and Michael Lambert (UKZN). There was a morning session devoted
to South Africa
and classical reception, which included papers from Italian and Spanish
scholars. The hosts of the conference (the Mommsen-Gesellschaft) and the
conference organizers at the Humboldt issued delegates with free passes for
a week on all forms of transport and free entrance to all museums. This was
especially appreciated by cash-strapped (or euro-challenged) South Africans,
some of whom went to the Pergamon Museum
three times!
- At the General Assembly, CASA was represented by
Michael Lambert and Johan Thom. Apart from
South Africa, Malawi was the only other
African country represented at the assembly. The following committee was
elected for the next quinquennium:
Dame Averil Cameron (UK-President), Pascal Arnaud (France-VP), Ana María
González de Tobia (Argentina-VP), Paul Schubert (Switzerland-Secretary
General), Franco Montanari (Italy-Treasurer), Gunhild Vidén (Sweden),
Susan Alcock (USA). Professor Montanari is also VP of the International
Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences, the UNESCO agency under whose
aegis FIEC falls. THE NEXT FIEC CONFERENCE WILL BE IN NICE (FRANCE)
IN 2014! Make every effort to attend as the combination of classics and the
French and Italian rivieras will be irresistible.
- News for South African classicists. As you all
probably know, L’Année Philologique
is now fully online. As each volume (the hardcopy) now runs to 2000
pages, these hardcopies will be phased out eventually. Three fascicles of
the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae have
been published since 2007 and we have now reached Fascicule X 2, 16 (pubertas-pulso).
FIEC makes an annual contribution to the
TLL.
- PLEASE NOTE THAT FIEC HAS A WEBSITE AND THAT THERE
IS A SPECIAL PAGE FOR NEWS. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICAN CLASSICISTS ARE
WELCOMED.
- It is also worth noting that FIEC (together with
ICPHS) supported six delegates at the conference (from Colombia,
Venezuela,
Georgia, Argentina,
Iran
and Malawi)
with grants of 1000 euros each. These grants are intended for scholars with
limited funding outside of Europe, North America, Japan and Oceania.
Watch the FIEC website for possible grant applications for the conference in
2014.
Michael Lambert (CASA delegate to FIEC, 2009)
03.09.2009