Current Epigraphy
ISSN: 1754-0909

Leeds Classics Department Research Seminar

(papers of possible interest to epigraphers)

Wednesdays at 3pm
Room 101, Parkinson Building
University of Leeds

January 31st
Sybille Haynes Formerly British Museum
New Light on the Etruscans of Chiusi (with slides / powerpoint)

February 8th (NB on Thursday at 5pm)
Peter Liddel University of Manchester
The decree-cultures of ancient Greece

March 6th (CA — Tuesday at 5 for 5:30)
Charlotte Roueché Kings College London
Entertainments in the ancient city

May 2nd
Rosalind Thomas Balliol College, Oxford
Title TBA

May 3rd (CA — Thursday at 5 for 5:30)
Emma Stafford University of Leeds
A cock to Asklepios: Sacrificial practice and healing cult

For any further information about the series, please contact Drs. Roger Brock (r.w.brock@leeds.ac.uk), Regine May (r.may@leeds.ac.uk) or Penny Goodman (p.j.goodman@leeds.ac.uk).

Recently seen:

See our new year offers on recent Accordia publications for limited period

• Across Frontiers (Ridgway Festschrift) (hardback 552pp) (List 88). offer £70 / Members £50
• Oenotrians Near Sybaris (List 32) offer £25 / Members £20
• Ligurian Landscapes (List 36) offer £25 / Members £20

Further info coming soon or go to our website www.ucl.ac.uk/accordia

British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting 2007
The University of Edinburgh, School of History and Classics
May 5th 2007

The BES spring meeting 2007 will be held at the University of Edinburgh on May 5th, 2007. The Meeting is organised by the School of History and Classics at Edinburgh University, and will take place in the David Hume Tower Conference Room. The Meeting will concentrate on epigraphic manifestations at the borders of empire - in both a geographic and an ideological sense.

The Meeting will be preceded by the Gordon MacKay Public Lecture on May 4th 2007, to be given by Prof. Paco Beltran (Zaragoza).

A complete programme and the booking form will be available shortly at: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm

Programme:

May 4th 2007, 18.00:
Prof. Paco Beltran (Zaragoza), ‘The first epigraphies in Spain: 2nd to 1st centuries BC’

May, 5th, 2007, 10.00:
Prof. L.J.F. Keppie (Hunterian, Glasgow), ‘The distance slabs from the Antonine wall: an introduction’
and
Prof. David J. Breeze (Historic Scotland), ‘The distance slabs in their international setting’

12.00:
Dr Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh), ‘Milestones: misunderstood stone monuments?’

14.30:
Short reports

15.30:
Dr Bjorn Paarmann (Fribourg), ‘Editing and commenting on the Athenian Tribute Lists in 2007′

17.00:
Reception

For further information and a booking form please contact the organiser, Dr Ulrike Roth (U.Roth@ed.ac.uk) or visit our web-site: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm (from December 1st)

New Perspectives on the Etruscans II: the Etruscans and Central Italy

February 20th: Judith Toms (Oxford): The development of organised pottery workshops in the early Etruscan culture: a case study from southern Etruria

February 27th: Simon Keay (Southampton): Recent work at the Faliscan settlement of Falerii Veteres (Vignale, Civita Castellana)

May 8th: Federico Russo (Pisa): Rome between Latins and Greeks. The idea of consanguinitas in Ancient Italy

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/accordia/seminars

May 15th: Kathryn Lomas (UCL): Approaches to Etruscan literacy

Seminars will take place on Tuesdays @ 5.15, in Room NG16, Senate House, North Block, London WC1E.