There might be a ses­sion Clas­sics, Astro­nomy and Inter­dis­cip­lin­ar­ity at the Clas­sical Asso­ci­ation con­fer­ence next year. It’s being organ­ised by Alex­an­dra Smith at Cardiff Uni­ver­sity and I’m her glam­or­ous assistant.

She’s obvi­ously not one of life’s lucky people.

The aim of the ses­sion is to look at how you can integ­rate research from Clas­sics, which is often qual­it­at­ive, data and Astro­nomy, which is often quant­at­ive data, and com­bine the two mean­ing­fully. We’re expec­ted to provide three or four speak­ers, so if you have a vague commitment-free interest in talk­ing about Astro­nomy and Clas­sics then drop me a note in the com­ment box below and I’ll get in touch. I don’t have dates other than April 2008, or a venue other than Liv­er­pool, Eng­land yet. I plan to talk if we need to bring the num­bers up to three or not talk if it reduces the num­bers to four.

This isn’t a proper Call for Papers as the ses­sion is not con­firmed yet.

Alex her­self will prob­ably be talk­ing about the dat­ing of eclipses, which is some­thing she’s work­ing on a lot. What I’ve read is impress­ive, so I’ll make of point of vis­it­ing the AMPAH con­fer­ence when she’s speaking.