Social History & Epigraphic Evidence conference (11-12 Sept 2026, OSU)

Posted on 2026-09-05 by lgawlinski
Conference invitation: “Social History and Epigraphic Evidence”
Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Fri, September 11 – Sat, September 12, 2026, 8:15 am – 5:30 pm (EDT)
Ohio Union, Barbie Tootle Room – 3rd Floor Room 3156
There is also a webinar for participants to join virtually.
Program and virtual participation information can be found here: https://epigraphy.osu.edu/events/epigraphy-conference-social-history-and-epigraphic-evidence
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Bologna 2027 – XVII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae – Call for papers

Posted on 2026-07-21 by Alice Bencivenni

The submission deadline for the 17th CIEGL Call for Papers is approaching — all proposals must be received by 30 September 2026.
You can find all the details and submission instructions at: https://site.unibo.it/epigrafia-greca-latina-bologna/en/call-for-papers

 

 

 

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Digital Epigraphy training – Gent and Leuven, autumn 2026

Posted on 2026-07-20 by davidemassimo

 

SAVE THE DATE – Digital Epigraphy training – 30/11-2/12/2026 

On behalf of the organising committee, we would like to invite any interested party to save the date for the following event:  

From Stone to Screen: Digital Tools for Epigraphy 

A training event aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers, which will take place in person this autumn (Monday 30 November to Wednesday 2 December) at Ghent University and KU Leuven in Belgium. 

The training program will cover topics such as text encoding, epigraphic datasets and databases, AI tools, Linked Open Data for epigraphy, and planning the digital component of a digital epigraphy project. A detailed program will be announced in September 2026. The instructors will be researchers with experience in Digital Epigraphy based in Belgium and abroad. The event will also feature members of the Centre for Digital Humanities in Ghent and the LECTIO Institute at KU Leuven. 

Participation in the training event will be free of charge and open to participants from any country. However, the number of participants will be capped (provisional limit: 20-30, to be confirmed). If interest exceeds capacity, participants will be selected by the organising committee on the basis of an application. Thanks to generous funding from DARIAH, we expect to be able to offer five bursaries to participants based in Belgium and five bursaries to participants based in other EU countries to help cover travel and accommodation costs (up to a fixed amount). These bursaries will be allocated based on individual circumstances following the submission of a short application form. 

No hybrid option will be available. However, the workshop training materials (slides, handouts, and potentially some recordings) will be made freely available to all. 

Stay tuned for more details about the program and the application procedure! 

The organising committee

Davide Massimo (Ghent University)
Tom Gheldof (CLARIAH-VL+, KU Leuven)
Daria Köhler (LECTIO, KU Leuven)

 

 

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The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 9 (2026)

Posted on 2026-07-16 by Lorenzo Calvelli

We are delighted to inform you that The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 9 (2026) has just been published.

We would be very grateful if you could circulate the leaflet in attachment—advertising the publication of JES 9 (2026), including also a subscription form as well as a call for papers for JES 10 (2027).

The Journal welcomes articles written in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. AIEGL members benefit from a special discount for subscriptions to JES, as well as from a 10% discount for the purchase of other journals and books published by Fabrizio Serra Editore.

Depliant The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 9 2026

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SAEG Papers

Posted on 2026-07-12 by Alice Bencivenni

The SAEG Papers series publishes papers presented at the Advanced Seminars on Greek Epigraphy. This publication aims to reflect the variety and richness of the content offered by this important biennial event, which has been held at a variety of Italian universities since 2009.

Number 1 (2025) is available via open access here.

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CFP: The Future of Digital Epigraphic Corpora: Opportunities and Challenges (Bologna, Aug–Sept 2027)

Posted on 2026-06-22 by Gabriel Bodard

This is a call for papers for Parallel panel 21 at the International Epigraphic Congress (CIEGL). Parallel sessions are intended to collect 20-minute presentations. Proposals may be submitted according to the procedure and template outlined in the CFP to: ciegl2027@unibo.it.

Panel 21: The Future of Digital Epigraphic Corpora:
Opportunities and Challenges

Chairs: Gabriel Bodard, Irene Polinskaya

The last 20 years have witnessed a steady increase in the number of regional and thematic collections of ancient inscriptions published in digital format (from half a dozen in 2005 to hundreds in 2025, many but by no means all based on EpiDoc XML). This growth testifies to the appreciation of digital format as an effective mode for structuring and publication of large epigraphic data and as a versatile tool for research. We trace three stages in the development of this practice:

  1. Pioneering work in this area exemplified by projects including Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, US Epigraphy and Vindolanda Tablets Online
  2. Formative period where the experience and example of the first projects and tools were applied to new bodies of inscriptions from different geographic regions and in several languages, such as the Northern Black Sea, Greek Cyrenaica, Roman Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, Sicily, and non-Mediterranean corpora including Og(h)am and DHARMA.
  3. Mature phase, where the epigraphic discipline (and the digital humanities community, more widely) is now reflecting on big questions around digital methods including open data and standards; findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (FAIR); collective benefit, authority, responsibility and ethics (CARE); sustainability of digital resources and tools; affordability of labour and hosting.

The digital epigraphic community today is also concerned with the relationship between individual digital epigraphic publications and the large, discipline-wide corpora (EDCS, PHI), with work led by EAGLE, IDEA,  Epigraphy.info, etc. Discussions of intersections between digital and print cultures are ongoing, sometimes fed by scepticism about digital philology and epigraphy, as well as by concerns about the impact of machine learning. Recent cybersecurity issues have exacerbated stability of online provision, at the same time as some of the older corpora suffer from ageing infrastructure or expiring institutional support contracts. At the same time, moves toward standardisation of metadata, vocabularies and references form a lively tension with a diversifying field of publication tools and formats.

Now is an apposite moment to take stock of developments in this area of digital epigraphy and consider future opportunities and challenges. We would like to invite creators and curators of digital epigraphic corpora of Greek and Latin (and related) inscriptions to share their experiences, insights, and advice to others currently working on or planning digital epigraphic corpora. Reflections are invited on the  OPPORTUNITIES and CHALLENGES of digital presentation for epigraphic corpora, including but not limited to:

Findability and accessibility

  • Freedom of access, open standards, formats and licenses.
  • Multiple tables of contents, indexes, search options and views of the content.
  • Multiple images and other media (e.g. RTI, 3D models, geo-visualisation), and other novel technologies for capturing and analysing material and textual facets of inscriptions.
  • Explicit recording of context, transmission, issues with provenance and the
    antiquities market.
  • Costs, both financial and labour, of development, hosting and other stages of digital publication.
  • Sustainability of publication: while fragile, preservation of online publication is ensured by multiple copies, use of repositories, open licensed and reused content, treating underlying data and code as publication, as much as specific rendered content

Interoperability and reusability

  • Via adoption of EpiDoc Guidelines, Schema and code (Stylesheets, EFES).
  • Consistency of format between publications (with wide customisation).
  • Simple implementation with supported tools and widely available expertise.
  • Integration with Linked Open Data—ontologies, multilingual vocabularies (EAGLE, EpiVoc, FAIR Epigraphy) or Wikidata properties.
  • Issues with citation and versioning of subsequent editions, republications of lemmata or collections, or archiving.
  • Impact of machine learning and other advanced computational methods.

We welcome presentations from both veterans and beginners and encourage discussions equally of difficulties and of promising innovations in the field of digital epigraphy.

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XXIV Stage epigrafico nei Musei archeologici nazionali del Veneto

Posted on 2026-06-21 by Lorenzo Calvelli

XXIV Stage epigrafico nei Musei archeologici nazionali del Veneto
22-27 June 2026

Direzione: Lorenzo Calvelli, Giovannella Cresci Marrone

Lunedì 22 giugno 2026
9.00-13.00 Parco archeologico di Altino
G. Cresci, A. Marinetti
Introduzione allo stage e al sito di Altino. Le iscrizioni altinati in lingua e alfabeto venetico

14.00-17.30 Parco archeologico di Altino
G. Cresci, A. Marinetti
Le iscrizioni altinati di età repubblicana

Martedì 23 giugno 2026
9.00-13.00 Parco archeologico di Altino
G. Cresci, S. Pesce
Le iscrizioni onorarie

14.00-17.30 Parco archeologico di Altino
G. Cresci, S. Pesce
Le iscrizioni sacre e sepolcrali

Mercoledì 24 giugno 2026
10.00-13.00 Este, Museo nazionale atestino
G. Cresci, A. Marinetti
Ateste: realtà venetiche, realtà romane

14.00-17.00 Este, Museo nazionale atestino
G. Cresci, A. Marinetti
Le tecniche di calco cartaceo

Giovedì 25 giugno 2026
10.00-13.00 Portogruaro, Museo nazionale concordiese
L. Calvelli, F. Luciani
La colonia di Iulia Concordia: iscrizioni senatorie, equestri, municipali e tardoantiche

14.00-17.00 Concordia Sagittaria, Area archeologica
L. Calvelli, F. Luciani
Le iscrizioni dell’Area archeologica di Iulia Concordia

Venerdì 26 giugno 2026
9.00-13.00 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi umanistici, Sala Geymonat
L. M. Bevilacqua, S. Pesce, T. Tommasi
I corpora epigrafici e le tecniche dei facsimili cartacei

14.00-17.00 Venezia
L. M. Bevilacqua, S. Pesce, T. Tommasi
Passeggiata a caccia degli spolia epigrafici fra le calli di Venezia

Sabato 27 giugno 2026
9.00-13.00 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi umanistici, Sala Geymonat
L. Calvelli, F. Luciani
La schedatura digitale EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma)

This event is promoted by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the Italian Ministry of Culture (Direzione Regionale Musei del Veneto, Parco Archeologico di Altino), Terra Italia APS, AIEGL – Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine

Locandina Stage epigrafico 2026

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British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium, London, 14 November 2026

Posted on 2026-04-22 by Gabriel Bodard

British Epigraphy Society – Autumn Colloquium
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London
14 November 2026

The BES Autumn Colloquium is an annual gathering of the Society, open to members and non-members alike, which brings together researchers from the UK and beyond for a day of discussion and exchange on –especially but by no means exclusively– Greek and Latin epigraphy, framed by a set of oral paper presentations as well as poster presentations.

The next Autumn Colloquium is scheduled to take place in London on Saturday, 14 November 2026.

The BES Steering Committee would like to invite you to present a paper or poster relating to your epigraphic research. This can be a discussion of an individual inscription or set of inscriptions, or a synthesis of work with inscriptions. It can deal with any type of epigraphy, whether from the classical Mediterranean or further afield. You are welcome to present challenges of reading and interpreting inscriptions with which you would like help! This is a chance to discuss work in progress. We aim to create a friendly and supportive atmosphere in which you can try out your ideas.

Submissions are welcome from scholars at all career stages, including students and postdocs.

In addition to papers and posters, proposals are also invited for brief reports on ongoing epigraphic projects or new discoveries.

Student and postdoc participants will be eligible to apply for a bursary intended to help with attendance at the meeting.

Please submit a short abstract of your proposal to the Society’s Secretary at i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk by 15 June 2026.

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Digital Epigraphy and FAIR Data Practices: Community Survey 2026

Posted on 2026-03-13 by Alice Bencivenni
[Posted in behalf of the senders]

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate in the Digital Epigraphy and FAIR Data Practices: Community Survey 2026.

This survey assesses current digital epigraphy practices and identifies ongoing challenges in implementing FAIR principles across epigraphic projects. Your responses will directly inform future tool development and ensure resources address the community’s actual needs and support sustainable, interoperable digital scholarship.

In 2022, we ran a similar survey focusing on Open Science practices and accessibility of resources: you can read that report at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6610696. This new survey builds on those findings and reflects the rapid developments in the field since then.

>>> SURVEY LINK <<<

The survey will remain open until 10 April 2026. Completion takes approximately 20 minutes. Results will be published as an anonymised report and shared with the epigraphic community. Individual responses will be anonymised; email addresses will not be shared.

Please feel free to share this survey with colleagues working within epigraphy.

For questions, you can contact Petra Heřmánková (petra.hermankova@uni-mainz.de) or the FAIR Epigraphy team (fair.epigraphy@inscriptiones.org).

With best wishes,

The FAIR Epigraphy Team

Petra Heřmánková, Marietta Horster, Jonathan Prag, and Imran Asif

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Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates, Friday 20th February 2026

Posted on 2026-02-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates

Friday 20th February 2026 14:00–15:30 GMT (online only)

Register for the Zoom link.

Organisers: Caroline Barron (Durham University), Gabriel Bodard (University of London).

Page from Wood notebook 14 (Hellenic and Roman Library)

The primary source for some epigraphic editions may not be the stone, or the editor’s own autopsy and photographs, but epigraphic notebooks, manuscripts, squeezes or other archival material from earlier editors, travellers or collectors. Typical epigraphic editions, as currently well-supported in EpiDoc Guidelines (https://epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/), focus on the materiality, provenance and other context of the text-bearing object itself. When a historical surrogate is (additionally or solely) the object of study and sometimes the primary (or only) source for the inscription, different needs and priorities may shape the epigraphic edition.

This workshop seeks to open a discussion about what marking up such materials requires in the context of the existing EpiDoc Guidelines. These might include, but are not limited to, features of the surrogate edition that go beyond the epigraphic text, such as the relationships between texts and their layout on the page, manuscript features such as corrections, editorial errors, marginalia and later hands, the history of the surrogate’s discovery or collection and its object biography, its citation and inclusion in contemporary and later bibliographies. The discussion shall explore how these features can be expressed in EpiDoc, and their relationship to other formats (such as Genetic TEI and ALTO). It is hoped that this will ultimately lead to the coherent and transparent expression of the relationship between manuscript and epigraphic editions.

We hope the workshop will lead to concrete recommendations for the EpiDoc Guidelines and the definition of scope and collection of desiderata for further recommendations and questions. This discussion is likely to lead to further action and possibly the creation of a community of practice and working group, or at least some follow-up conversations.

All are welcome to join this workshop and working group, whether your interest is in EpiDoc, epigraphy, archives and manuscripts, early historiography, exploration and collection, or archives, and whatever your level of technical and epigraphic expertise.

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Bologna 2027 – XVII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (II)

Posted on 2026-02-12 by Alice Bencivenni

The second circular for the 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, which will take place in Bologna from 30 August to 4 September 2027, is now available. It contains the call for papers, with a deadline of 30 September 2026.

You are invited to submit proposals for individual contributions to one of the 25 panels, or to submit proposals for stand-alone papers on any topic.

The second circular in full, along with other preliminary information (including the option to subscribe to the mailing list and receive updates), can be found on the website of the 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy.

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Officina di IG XIV² – 2026 events

Posted on 2026-02-11 by Alice Bencivenni

‘Officina di IG XIV²’ aims to support and accompany the development of the new edition of volume XIV of Inscriptiones Graecae, stimulating knowledge, scientific debate and the publication of Greek epigraphic documents from Italy.

This page provides access to the IG XIV² Workshop seminar calendar and links to the remote meetings.

The next meetings are:

Nuovi dati sul testimone locrese degli Ephesia grammata
Lavinio Del Monaco
17 February 2026, 17:00 (CET)

Nuovi frammenti epigrafici dall’agorà di Selinunte
Valentina Mignosa, Melanie Jonasch
12 May 2026, 17:00 (CET)

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