Comments on: Craven Seminar, University of Cambridge, 31 May-1 June 2008 http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/04/25/craven-seminar-university-of-cambridge-31-may-1-june-2008/ ISSN 1754-0909 (Online) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:04:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Olga Tribulato http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/04/25/craven-seminar-university-of-cambridge-31-may-1-june-2008/#comment-4408 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:19:37 +0000 http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/04/25/craven-seminar-university-of-cambridge-31-may-1-june-2008/#comment-4408 Thank you for advertising the 2008 Cambridge Craven Seminar on your blog. The programme you received was in a preliminary form: I paste the up-dated programme below. For those from outside Cambridge who wish to participate there will be a small registration fee (around £10). The seminar will take place in Room G21 of the Cambridge Classics Faculty. Please email Olga Tribulato (ormt2@cam.ac.uk) for further details. Craven Seminar 2008 Sikelia: Multilingualism and cultural interaction in ancient Sicily An interdisciplinary seminar Room G21 Classics Faculty Cambridge Saturday 31st May Morning session: 9.30 – 12.30 Languages and peoples of Sicily 1: Sicel and Elymian (9.30-10.50) Chair: Torsten Meissner Paolo Poccetti (Univ. Rome “Tor Vergata”) Evidence for and Problems of the Sicel Language: A Survey Simona Marchesini (Univ. Verona) Hints for the Identity of the Elymian Language Coffee break (10.50-11.15) Languages and peoples of Sicily 2: Punic (11.15 – 12.30) Chair: Geoffrey Khan Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (Univ. Rome “La Sapienza”) Punic in Sicily Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University) Translating Gods and Heroes: Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily Lunch (12.30 – 2.00) Afternoon session: 2.15 – 5.15 Greek in Sicily 1 (2.15-3.30) Chair: Geoffrey Horrocks Susana Mimbrera (Univ. Complutense de Madrid / Sicilian Greek Cambridge) Giovanna Rocca (Univ. Milan “IULM”) Cults and Rites from Greece to Sicily (new inscriptions from Selinus) Tea (3.30 – 4.00) Greek in Sicily 2 (4.00 – 5.15) Chair: Richard Hunter Albio Cesare Cassio (Univ. Rome “La Sapienza”) Intimations of Koine in Epicharmus' Sicilian Doric Andreas Willi (Univ. Oxford) “We talk Peloponnesian” – Tradition and Linguistic Identity in Postclassical Sicilian Literature 7pm: Drinks reception 7.30pm: Seminar dinner Sunday 1st June 2008 9.30 – 12.30 Historical and archaeological background: new perspectives (9.30-10.50) Chair: Robin Osborne Matthew Fitzjohn (Univ. Liverpool) Building Identities in Sikelia Franco De Angelis (Univ. British Columbia) The Language of Conquest and the Dialect of Complexity: Rethinking Land and Labour in Early Greek Sicily Coffee break (10.50-11.15) Bilingualism and language contact (11.15-12.30) Chair: James Clackson Gerhard Meiser (Univ. Halle) Traces of Language Contact in Sicilian Onomastics Olga Tribulato (Univ. Cambridge) Siculi bilingues? A glimpse into Early Roman Sicily End of seminar Thank you for advertising the 2008 Cambridge Craven Seminar on your blog.
The programme you received was in a preliminary form: I paste the up-dated programme below. For those from outside Cambridge who wish to participate there will be a small registration fee (around £10). The seminar will take place in Room G21 of the Cambridge Classics Faculty. Please email Olga Tribulato (ormt2@cam.ac.uk) for further details.

Craven Seminar 2008
Sikelia: Multilingualism and cultural interaction in ancient Sicily
An interdisciplinary seminar
Room G21 Classics Faculty Cambridge

Saturday 31st May
Morning session: 9.30 – 12.30

Languages and peoples of Sicily 1: Sicel and Elymian (9.30-10.50) Chair: Torsten Meissner
Paolo Poccetti (Univ. Rome “Tor Vergata”) Evidence for and Problems of the Sicel Language: A Survey
Simona Marchesini (Univ. Verona) Hints for the Identity of the Elymian Language

Coffee break (10.50-11.15)

Languages and peoples of Sicily 2: Punic (11.15 – 12.30) Chair: Geoffrey Khan
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (Univ. Rome “La Sapienza”) Punic in Sicily
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University) Translating Gods and Heroes: Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily
Lunch (12.30 – 2.00)

Afternoon session: 2.15 – 5.15

Greek in Sicily 1 (2.15-3.30) Chair: Geoffrey Horrocks
Susana Mimbrera (Univ. Complutense de Madrid / Sicilian Greek
Cambridge)
Giovanna Rocca (Univ. Milan “IULM”) Cults and Rites from Greece to Sicily (new inscriptions from Selinus)

Tea (3.30 – 4.00)

Greek in Sicily 2 (4.00 – 5.15) Chair: Richard Hunter
Albio Cesare Cassio (Univ. Rome “La Sapienza”) Intimations of Koine in Epicharmus’ Sicilian Doric
Andreas Willi (Univ. Oxford) “We talk Peloponnesian” – Tradition and Linguistic Identity in Postclassical Sicilian Literature

7pm: Drinks reception
7.30pm: Seminar dinner

Sunday 1st June 2008 9.30 – 12.30

Historical and archaeological background: new perspectives (9.30-10.50) Chair: Robin Osborne
Matthew Fitzjohn (Univ. Liverpool) Building Identities in Sikelia
Franco De Angelis (Univ. British Columbia) The Language of Conquest and the Dialect of Complexity: Rethinking Land and Labour in Early Greek Sicily

Coffee break (10.50-11.15)

Bilingualism and language contact (11.15-12.30) Chair: James Clackson
Gerhard Meiser (Univ. Halle) Traces of Language Contact in Sicilian Onomastics
Olga Tribulato (Univ. Cambridge) Siculi bilingues? A glimpse into Early Roman Sicily

End of seminar

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