Autumn Colloquium and AGM 2026
Saturday, 14 November 2026
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London (room 261)
Morning Panel:
Epigraphy and Religion: Perception, Participation, Representation
Convenor: Federica Scicolone (Scuola Normale Superiore)
9.30-10.00
Erica Angliker (Università di Palermo): Voicing Hestia: Ritual Speech and an Inscribed Bothros in the Sanctuary of Apollo at Despotiko
10.00-10.30
Alessio Russo Barone (Scuola Superiore Meridionale): Oriental Religion and Greek Language at Pompeii
10.30-11.00
Idowu Alade (University of Ibadan): The Hipponion Gold Leaf: Epigraphic Puzzles and a Work in Progress
11.00 Coffee break
11.30-12.00
Giulia Valentino (Scuola Superiore Meridionale): Who are the ἀτέλεστοι? Reconsidering a Passage in a Curse Tablet from Lilybaeum
12.00-12.30
Ginevra Benedetti (Università di Siena): When Human Grammar Meets the Gods: Articulating Divine Powers in Latin Inscriptions
12.30 Lunch Break
14.00 AGM (Members only)
15.00-15.15
Alan Johnston (University College London): Cui bono?
15.15-15.45
Martina Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma & Columbia University): Tiberius’s vox in the SCPP and in Tacitus’s Annals
15.45-16.15
Luciel Adrian Molina Romero (Universidad Andrés Bello): Reappraising Female Civic Agency in Hellenistic Asia Minor: The case-study of Archippa and her Megaloméreia in IK Kyme 13
16.15 Coffee Break
16.45-17.15
Valentina Mignosa (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia): New Inscribed Laminae from the Agora of Selinus: Context, Interpretation and the Problem of Classification
17.15-17.45
Jonathan Prag (University of Oxford): Progress in FAIR Epigraphy
17.45 Finale: Posters & Drinks
Elisa Daga (Scuola Archeologica Italiana ad Atene): Dedicating Sickles and Dedication Time in the Spartan Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
Alessandra Esposito (King’s College London): Mobile Priesthoods in the Roman North-West: Diodora and the Circulation of Ritual Authority
Tommaso Fantin (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia): New Insights into the First Roman Officials of Cyprus Through the Lens of the Written Documentation
Valentina Vari (University of Groningen & Sapienza Università di Roma): Submerged Inscriptions: Epigraphic Finds from the Tiber during the Construction of the Embankment Walls (1876–1900)
Please register to attend the colloquium by emailing i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk by 6th November.
The Colloquium is generously supported by:
The Institute of Classical Studies
