Saturday 11th May 2024
University of Warwick (Coventry)
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Please note that the registration deadline is 20th April
Please register via this link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/cab/
£20 standard / £15 BES members & Uni of Warwick staff / £10 students
Programme
9.15 Welcome (Alison Cooley, President of BES/Director of HRC)
9.30-10.15 Charlotte Woodhead (Warwick Law School) ‘Legal perspectives on collecting in the British Isles’
10.15-11.00 Hardeep Singh Dhindsa (King’s College London) ‘The Classical and the Colonial: Visualising Spatial and Ideological Separation in Eighteenth-Century Collections’
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.05 Alexandra Solovyev (University of Oxford), ‘’Destruction committed chiefly by the English’: British and Ottoman Responses to J. T. Wood’s Excavations at Ephesus’
12.05-12.50 Peter Liddel (University of Manchester), ‘Scholarship and Safeguarding: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Narratives about Greek Inscriptions in the British Isles’
12.50-13.40 Lunch
13.40-14.25 Alan Montgomery (Independent scholar), ‘Authentick Vouchers of Antiquity’: Collecting Roman Inscriptions in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
14.25-15.10 Shushma Malik (University of Cambridge) and Jane Masséglia (University of Leicester), ‘It takes a village: actors and extras in the making of the ‘Bankes’ collection’
15.10-15.55 Caroline Barron (Durham University), ‘A Museum of Learned Lumber: Romano-British inscriptions at Rokeby Hall’
15.55-16.15 Tea break
16.15-17.00 Benet Salway (UCL) ‘An unpublished cinerary casket and other Roman antiquities at Nymans House, Sussex’
17.00-17.45 Alexander Thein (University College Dublin) ‘A verse Latin funerary inscription in University College Dublin’
17.45-18.15 Concluding roundtable discussion
18.15 Drinks
19.00 Dinner (at participants’ own cost)
