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20001 April. Words and Pictures: Early Christian Art and Thought, McAuley Campus, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane. For details contact Wendy Mayer (wendy.mayer@adelaide.edu.au) or Pam Ackroyd (Secretary, Centre for Early Christian Studies, ACU, PO Box 247, Everton Park QLD 4053).
1-4 April. Travel in the Byzantine World. 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Symposiarch: Ruth Macrides (rjm3@st-andrews.ac.uk).
15 April. Fifth Graduate Student Conference on Late Antiquity, UCLA. Interested students should contact Scott McDonough (sjm1@ucla.edu).
25-29 June and 2-5 July (approx.). VIIIth Symposium Syriacum and VIth International Conference of Christian Arabic Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
For registration details contact: Prof. Rifaat Ebied, Department of Semitic Studies A14, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia. Fax: +61 (02) 9351 6684. Email: Rifaat.Ebied@semitic.usyd.edu.au
18-19 November. Eighth Colloquium on Ancient and Medieval Mosaics and Painting, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massacusetts, USA. Held in conjunction with "Antioch" The Lost Ancient City", an exhibition held at the Worcester Art Museum, 7 October 2000 to 7 January 2001. At least one session of the colloquium will be devoted to Antioch mosaics. One-page abstracts should be sent to Christine Kondoleon by January 15, 2000: Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
8-10 December. Ancient Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies. Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Conveners: Michael DiMaio, Ralph Mathisen, Thomas Martin.
Interested participants should please send a 500-word abstract of the presentation they propose to Ralph Mathisen (N330009@VM.SC.EDU) no later than April 1, 2000. Individual presentations at the conference will be limited to twenty minutes. Text will be made available on the Web in advance of the conference. The conveners will also entertain suggestions for roundtables and panel discussions: please send queries to the address above, as soon as possible.
2001
20-22 April. Twelfth Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, University of Western Australia. Conf. Convenor: John Melville-Jones. Theme and details forthcoming.
19-25 August. XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines, Paris (Sorbonne and Collège de France). To register write to the Congress Secretariat: M.J.-F. Vannier, Collège de France, Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, F-75005 Paris. Fax: -33 (0)1 44 27 28 85.
Date To be announced. Conference on the Justinianic Plague. American Academy in Rome.
2002
Spring. International Conference, Late Antique Landscapes - Intellectual, Figural and Physical, UC Santa Barbara. Conf. organiser: Hal Drake.
July. Third International Triennial Conference Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church , Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. Theme: Life and Liturgy (details to be announced).
