Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy (UCB), would like to announce an international symposium:
The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia:
New Finds, New Developments
September 2-3, 2011
University of California, Berkeley
370, Dwinelle Hall
Friday, September 2
Session 1: The New Epigraphy of Thebes
9.10-9.20 N. Papazarkadas, Welcome and introduction
9.20-10.00 V. Aravantinos, Inscriptions from the temenos of Herakles at Thebes
10.00-10.40 A. P. Matthaiou, Two new bronze tablets from Thebes
10.40-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.40 V. Aravantinos & N. Papazarkadas, New Theban epigrams
11.40-12.20 M. Bonanno-Aravantinos, New inscribed funerary stelai from Thebes
12.20-12.40 Discussion
[Lunch Break]
Session 2: Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes (part 1)*
3.10-3.50 C. Grenet, The chronology of the Chaironeian slave-dedications: new considerations
3.50-4.30 I. Pernin, Land administration and property law in the proconsular edict from Thisbe, Syll.3 884
4.30-4.50 Discussion
4.50-5.30 F. Marchand, The Theos Tauros in Thespiai
5.30-5.40 Discussion
* A. Schachter will participate in this session in absentia with his paper ‘Tlepolemos in Boiotia’. The paper will be circulated.
Saturday, September 3
Session 3: Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes (part 2)
9.20-10.00 Y. Kalliontzis, Digging in storerooms of antiquities: unpublished inscriptions from the Archaeological Museum of Thebes
10.00-10.40 A. Robu, The epigraphy of Hellenistic Megara: towards a new chronology
10.40-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.40 R. Pitt, Contractors and temple builders at Lebadeia
11.40-11.50 Discussion
[Lunch Break]
Session 4: Boeotian History: New Interpretations
2.10-2.50 E. Mackil, Creating a common polity: religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Boiotian koinon
2.50-3.30 C. Müller, A koinon after 146? Reflections on the political and institutional situation of Boeotia in the second half of the 2nd century B.C.
3.30-3.50 Discussion
3.50-4.30 H. Beck, The language of (dis)unity. Ethnic identity and integration in Boeotian epigraphy
4.30-5.10 D. Knoepfler, ΕΧΘΟΝΔΕ ΤΑΣ ΒΟΙΩΤΙΑΣ. The expansion of the Boiotian koinon towards Central Euboia in the beginning of the 3rd century B.C
5.10-5.30 Discussion
5.30-6.30 End of the Symposium – Drinks
Organization: Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy (University of California, Berkeley) in collaboration with the Collège de France, with the generous financial support of the France-Berkeley Fund and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
* For further information please contact Nikolaos Papazarkadas (papazarkadas@berkeley.edu)
