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The University of Birmingham would like to invite papers from postgraduatestudents and early career researchers for Day One of a colloquium, takingplace from the 5th to the 6th of July 2010 on:Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient CityThe possibilities offered by Cultural Memory as a methodological tool forreading and understanding modes of behaviour in antiquity have beensteadily gaining currency in recent years. The aim of thisinterdisciplinary colloquium is to bring together scholars and researchstudents working on the texts and material culture of the ancient world inorder to exchange ideas and approaches relating to using Cultural Memoryto analyse religion in various ancient urban contexts.The colloquium will be arranged over two days; papers given on the firstday will explore new research by postgraduates and early careeristscurrently working on Cultural Memory in ancient societies. On the secondday we will turn our gaze on Rome as a case study for lieux de mémoirewith papers given by invited scholars.We warmly welcome papers from postgraduate or early career researchers onany aspect of the theme of cultural memory and religion in the ancientcity. We encourage abstracts relating to any area of the ancientMediterranean from the third millennium BC to Late Antiquity. Potentialtopics for papers could include but are not limited to:•       Religious traditions and the role of memory in their conceptionand performance•       Architectural conceptions•       Geographical places of memory•       Memory and myth•       Religious commemoration of historical eventsIt is hoped that a combination of speakers from a variety of disciplinesand at different stages in their work and careers will generate somefascinating and stimulating discussion that will be of use both toindividual research projects and to those who are interested in takingmore collaborative approaches. Our keynote speaker is Professor KarlGalinsky (who is leading the Memoria Romana project at Ruhr University,Bochum), and provisionally agreed invited speakers include ThomasKuhlmann, David Larmour, Maureen Carroll and Alain Gowing. It isanticipated that selected papers will be published as part of a series ofBirmingham volumes on Cultural Memory.Please send abstracts of c.300 words to Phoebe Roy (prr320@bham.ac.uk) andJuliette Harrisson (JGH139@adf.bham.ac.uk) by Friday, 8th January 2010.