International Spring School – Göttingen

Posted on 2017-10-31 by Alice Bencivenni

The Material Dimension of Religions:

Transcultural Approaches to Epigraphical and Archaeological Sources from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

 

The Material Dimension of Religions Spring School is aimed at graduate students and intends to examine theories and methods of investigating religions through epigraphical and archaeological sources in a transcultural and transhistorical approach. The schedule includes seven workshops on Ancient Greece, Imperial Rome, Late Antique Judaism, Early Christianity, Classical Islam, Christian Middle Ages, and Jerusalem as a transcultural place, and four keynotes on Greek epigraphy and religion, religion in the public space, the materiality of texts, and the city of Jerusalem as an example of coexistence and interaction of the materialities of religions.

The spring school will provide an intensive training for interpreting non-literary sources in a historical perspective. The participants will learn how to study religions from inscriptions and material culture. Furthermore, looking at the topography of cities like Rome and Jerusalem, the participants will increase the awareness of processes of interactions and exchanges between religious traditions in antiquity.

Spring School_Call for Applications

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«La seconda vita delle iscrizioni. Mobilità, reimpiego, collezionismo, riuso». Turin, 3 November 2017

Posted on 2017-10-28 by Lorenzo Calvelli

Università degli Studi di Torino – Ricerca scientifica finanziata «Linea B» 2016
«La seconda vita delle iscrizioni. Mobilità, reimpiego, collezionismo, riuso» – primo seminario

3 novembre 2017 – Università degli Studi di Torino
Sala Pellegrino, via Giulia di Barolo 3A

9.15 – 9.45
Introduzione a cura di Enrica Culasso Gastaldi
9.45 – 10.45
Lorenzo Calvelli (Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari)
«La lunga vita delle iscrizioni antiche di Venezia»
10.45 – 13.45 Presentazione dei progetti di ricerca–I
C. Lippolis – E. Devecchi – M. Viano – G. Cuniberti – D.Marchiandi – C. Lasagni
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.15 Presentazione dei progetti di ricerca–II
S.Giorcelli & D.Elia – M.C. Conti – A. Pellizzari – P. de Vingo – M. Zabbia

Locandina Linea B

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BSR Taught Course in Roman Epigraphy, July 16-25 2018

Posted on 2017-10-19 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Abigail Graham:

BSR Taught Course in Roman Epigraphy July 16th-25th 2018.

The fourth biennial taught course in Roman Epigraphy will take place on the 16th-25th of July 2018. Based at the British school at Rome, this taught course offers a ten day introduction to the scholarship, editorial practice, and publication of epigraphic materials from a variety of different approaches. The aim of the course, intended for postgraduate scholars of ancient history, archaeology, museum studies and the classics, is to provide training and a practical experience in the use of epigraphy as source. The course will examine the numerous contexts in which epigraphy is presented (in situ, museums, archives and in published formats (e.g. reference works and online databases) and explore the process of editing and publishing epigraphic materials. The use of digital resources, catalogues and the process of publishing texts in these formats will be addressed in lectures and interaction with the CIL (volume 6) archives at La Sapienza with Silvia Orlandi. Evening lectures and on site talks by international scholars and museum curators will allow participants to engage with varying epigraphic topics and ongoing research projects.

The course, which divides epigraphic materials into themes of a technical and cultural, consists of daily lectures, museum visits, epigraphic ambulatio through the city of Rome as well as research sessions at the British School’s library and a trip to Ostia. Museum and site visits will include gallery lectures by curators and special permits to collections that are not generally open to the public. Workshops at a series of different sites will develop skills in creating practical study materials such as drawings, rubbings, squeezes and photographs of inscriptions. A component of this will be an epigraphic journal, which will be used to record one’s work at each stage of the research process. Participants will also have an opportunity to further their own research through an independent project (generally a specific area of his/her epigraphic research) which will be developed during the course and presented in a short paper on the final day.

Notes for Applicants:
Applications are invited from postgraduate and Ph.D track students in Classics, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Museum Studies and related disciplines. Please note that this course is physically demanding with hours of walking in (at times) intemperate heat, students are expected to prepare accordingly. Further details of the upcoming course, reports from previous courses (including a Syllabus), as well as application information can be found on the courses webpage:
https://www.bsr.ac.uk/welcome-to-rome/taught-courses/epigraphy

Please email any further queries to the course coordinator Dr. Abigail Graham
Abigail.Graham@warwick.ac.uk

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Visible Words workshop (Brown, Oct 6-7, 2017)

Posted on 2017-10-06 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for John Bodel:

Visible Words: Digital Epigraphy in a Global Perspective
An international workshop at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
John D. Rockefeller Library, 6-7 October 2017

This workshop, which is free and open to the public, will bring together experts in the epigraphic cultures of different languages and scriptural traditions from the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, South and East Asia, and Mesoamerica who are also involved in creating (or developing) digital editions and databases of inscriptions, to explore shared interests and challenges during a day-and-a-half of short presentations and group round-table discussions.

The workshop will be immediately preceded by an EpiDoc workshop (5-6 October) designed to introduce the basics of the EpiDoc editing system; the Epidoc workshop is also free and open to the public but space in it is limited and advanced registration is required. For further information about both workshops, see here: https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/visible-words-workshop

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Herculaneum Society lecture: Roger Tomlin on Roman Writing-Tablets (Oxford, Oct 7, 2017)

Posted on 2017-10-06 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Robert Fowler:

The Herculaneum Society is very pleased to sponsor a talk by Dr Roger Tomlin, Wolfson College, Oxford, entitled ‘Roman London’s First Voices: New Writing-Tablets from Roman Britain’, Saturday 7 October in the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford, at 4:00 pm. A drinks reception will follow. All are very welcome; an RSVP would be helpful to herculaneum@classics.ox.ac.uk.

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EpiDoc Workshop — Brown University, Oct. 5-6 2017

Posted on 2017-09-18 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Scott DiGiulio:

We are pleased to announce a 1.5 day Introduction to EpiDoc workshop at Brown University on Oct. 5-6, to be held in conjunction with the conference “Visible Words: Epigraphy in a Global Perspective,” taking place Oct. 6-7 (for more information on the conference itself, please see https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/visible-words-workshop).

This workshop will provide an introduction to the EpiDoc schema for editing epigraphic and papyrological texts. EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a community of practice as well as a specialized customization of the XML schema developed by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient texts. It has been used to publish digital epigraphic projects including Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (https://insaph.kcl.ac.uk), the US Epigraphy Project (https://usepigraphy.brown.edu),the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (https://papyri.info/), the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Digital_Corpus_of_Literary_Papyri), and many more. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object descriptions, identifying and linking to external person and place authorities, and project workflow and management.

Draft Schedule: https://goo.gl/VNNhBE

The workshop is limited to 25 participants, so we ask you to please fill out the application form: https://goo.gl/forms/Qxf8lnNiwuZJQZd02.

Instructors will include Scott DiGiulio (Mississippi State University), Elli Mylonas (Brown University); Hugh Cayless (Duke University); Tom Elliot (NYU) and others.

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Theodor Mommsen in Italia settentrionale. Milan, 21-22 September 2017

Posted on 2017-09-16 by Lorenzo Calvelli

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) in Italia settentrionale: una ‘presenza’ non ancora passata. Studi in occasione del bicentenario della nascita

Milan, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 21-22 September 2017

https://www.ambrosiana.eu/cms/content/29302-20170921-22-convegno-di-studi-su-theodor-mommsen-in-italia-settentrionale-nel-bicentenario-della-nascita-1817–2017.html

Programme attached

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Call for Papers: New Voices in Epigraphy, 12-13 April 2018

Posted on 2017-09-05 by Gabriel Bodard
Call for Papers: ‘New Voices in Epigraphy’ Graduate Conference
12-13 April 2018
Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Charlotte Roueché
Concluding Remarks: Riet van Bremen


We invite Masters and Doctoral students working on or with Greek and/or Latin inscriptions to submit abstracts for a conference entitled ‘New Voices in Epigraphy’. The aim of this conference is to give graduate students a forum to discuss their epigraphic research, as well as to facilitate a conversation about the future of the field. As epigraphic studies, particularly Greek epigraphy, have been somewhat dominated by male scholars in the past, we intend to achieve fair gender representation in speakers (and, we hope, attendees), and to highlight the contribution of women epigraphists.
 
We encourage abstracts for 25-minute papers in English relating to Greek or Latin inscriptions from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity, dealing with but not limited to:
  • Textual readings and reconstructions
  • Historical discussion and interpretation
  • Inscriptions as monuments
  • Quantitative approaches to epigraphy
  • Digital approaches to epigraphy
  • History of epigraphic studies
The conference will take place at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, which is fully wheelchair accessible, from 13:00 on Thursday 12th April to 18:00 on Friday 13th April 2018. Attendance will be open to academics and researchers at all stages of their career. Accommodation for speakers will be provided for two nights. We also intend to offer some financial support for travel costs for students who would otherwise be unable to participate. 

Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words and a short biography (including current position and preferred pronouns) to gradepigraphyconference@gmail.com by 15 December 2017. Any enquiries may be sent to the same address. 

Organisers: Elizabeth Foley (PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin) 
Martin Hallmannsecker (DPhil candidate at New College, University of Oxford) 
Leah Lazar (DPhil candidate at New College, University of Oxford)
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Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN)

Posted on 2017-09-03 by Pietro Liuzzo

reposted from Classicist and MARKUP list

Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (abbreviated CGRN):

https://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/

The collection contains 222 inscriptions belonging to the category of so-called “sacred laws”, for which we have preferred the designation “ritual norms” (on this subject, see the programmatic introductory article found here: https://kernos.revues.org/2115). The texts included in the collection thus far concern the themes of sacrifice and purification. Each inscription is presented in an up-to-date published edition (occasionally, a new edition is offered), with information about its context, essential bibliography, French and English translations, and a detailed commentary. All of the files have been encoded in TEI-XML Epidoc, are fully searchable, and may be used and downloaded in Open Access.

The project behind the development of the CGRN, financed by the Fonds pour la recherche scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium) at University of Liège, is still ongoing. Updates to the website will be made on an annual basis. Additionally, a print-on-demand edition will soon become available on the website. The printing, sale and distribution of the work will be undertaken by Éditions De Boccard.

We are very interested in receiving your feedback about the CGRN at the following address:cgrn@ulg.ac.be.

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels

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Assyriology – Cuneiform texts and culture (Stefan Jakob, Heidelberg)

Posted on 2017-08-31 by franciscaferaudi

Assyriology – Cuneiform texts and culture
by Stefan Jakob, Heidelberg

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Digital Edition of IGCyr and GVCyr

Posted on 2017-08-30 by Pietro Liuzzo

The  Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica and Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica have been published and are now available at https://igcyr.unibo.it/

Dobias-Lalou, Catherine. Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica in collaboration with Alice Bencivenni, Hugues Berthelot, with help from Simona Antolini, Silvia Maria Marengo, and Emilio Rosamilia; Dobias-Lalou, Catherine. Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica in collaboration with Alice Bencivenni, with help from Joyce M. Reynolds and Charlotte Roueché. Bologna: CRR-MM, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 2017. ISBN 9788898010684, https://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR.

The corpus, edited in TEI EpiDoc, is available in English, French, Italian and Arabic. It contains almost 1000 inscriptions including numerous new texts, with metadata, images, translations in English, Italian  and French, apparatus, commentary and bibliography.

Texts and descriptions can be searched and browsed by a number of indexes provided.

Images are also separately available at https://amshistorica.unibo.it/epigrafi

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L’Année épigraphique 2014

Posted on 2017-08-22 by Tom Elliott

Mireille Corbier (corbier@msh-paris.fr), directeur de L’Année épigraphique, fait savoir que L’Année épigraphique 2014 (1661 notices et 1000 pages dont 230 pages d’index) a été publiée en août 2017 et est disponible. Les commandes doivent être adressées aux Presses Universitaires de France (revues@puf.com).

Mireille Corbier (corbier@msh-paris.fr), director of L’Année épigraphique, announces that L’Année épigraphique 2014 (containing 1661 entries, and 1000 pages, including 230 pages of index) was published in August, 2017, and is now available. Orders should be sent to Presses Universitaires de France at revues@puf.com

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