Posted for Elizabeth Foley, Martin Hallmannsecker and Leah Lazar:
We, the organisers, are excited to announce the programme for New Voices in Epigraphy – International Graduate Conference on 12th and 13th April 2018 at the University of Oxford.
Attendance is open to academics and researchers at every stage of their career. Registration for the conference is not required, but if you wish to join the conference dinner at your own cost on Thursday 12th April, we ask you to email gradepigraphyconference@gmail.com before 9th March to confirm.
The conference will take place at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, which is fully wheelchair accessible.
We have a limited number of small travel bursaries intended to contribute to student attendees’ travel costs. If you are interested, please contact gradepigraphyconference@gmail.com before 9th March.
Please see the programme below!
Elizabeth Foley, Martin Hallmannsecker and Leah Lazar
Thursday April 12th 2018
12:00 – 12:15 Opening remarks Conference organisers12:15 – 13:25 Panel I Chair: Cristina González Mestre, University College London
Doctor! Doctor! IG XII, 5.824: Tenos, a Nesiotic League, and Rhodes in the Second Century BCE
Elizabeth Foley, Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath – Trinity College DublinImmortalizing Hegemonic Obligation: A New Reconstruction of the Spartan War Fund
Jesse Obert, University of California, Berkeley
13:25 – 14:00 Light food14:00 – 15:45 Panel II Chair: Martin Hallmannsecker, University of Oxford
Epigraphic News from the Cayster Valley: New Inscriptions from the Tire Museum
Hüseyin Uzunoğlu, Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Antalyaἀναγράψαι δὲ τὸ ψήφισμα: the ‘textual monuments’ of Hellenistic Iasos
Evelien Roels, Universität HeidelbergBringing inscriptions back to their context. History and development of an epigraphic collection on the Appian Way
Francesca D’Andrea, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
15:45 – 16:10 Refreshment break16:10 – 16:30 Introduction to the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD)
Dr. Charles Crowther, University of Oxford
16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Lecture: What’s new in Epigraphy?
Prof. Charlotte Roueché, King’s College London17:30 – 18:30 Drinks reception
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday April 13th 2018
9:00 – 10:45 Panel III Chair: Eleni Theodorou, Universität WienRebuilding the Cypriot political-administrative structure during the Iron Age
Beatrice Pestarino, University College LondonGreek funerary inscriptions from the Cyclades
Violeta Gomis García, Universidad Autónoma de MadridLate Laconian dialect inscriptions and spoken Laconian in the Imperial Period
Tore Rovs Kristoffersen, Københavns Universitet10:45 – 11:15 Refreshment break
11:15 – 13:00 Panel IV Chair: Leah Lazar, University of Oxford
From ‘Sacred Laws’ to ‘Ritual Norms’: Boiotia in Antiquity as a case study for religious norms
Anne-Charlotte Panissié, Université Paris-NanterreSocial Networks and the Socioeconomics of Public Land Leasing in Hellenistic Thespiai
Talia Prussin, University of California, BerkeleyRediscovering the North – Epigraphy in the Context of the Social History of Hellenistic Macedonia
Filip Mitričević, Универзитет у Београду (University of Belgrade)13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:10 Panel V Chair: Bradley Jordan, University of Oxford
Tesserae “Nummulariae”: The Quest to Recover a Forgotten Category of Inscriptions Lindsay Holman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Making numbers count? Perspectives on the imperial census through epigraphy
Tuuli Ahlholm, University of Oxford
15:10 – 15:40 Refreshment break15:40 – 16:50 Panel VI Chair: Sabina Fiolna, University of Oxford
Imitating the Roman Emperor: The examination of the epigraphic sources from the Graeco-Roman East (31BC-235AD)
Giorgos Mitropoulos, Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)Schemes, Whispers, and Inscriptions: Pertinax’s dismissal in 170 CE and his rivals
Paul Jarvis, University of Edinburgh17:00 – 18:00 Concluding remarks
Dr. Riet van Bremen, University College London
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks reception
We are grateful for support from the British Epigraphy Society, the Classical Association, the Craven Committee, the David Lewis Memorial Fund, the Department of Classics of Trinity College Dublin, the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford and New College, Oxford.