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An email has just been circulated announcing the results of the AIEGL elections:

A norma dello Statuto, per il periodo 2008-2012, il Bureau sarà così composto

Presidente Stephen MITCHELL
Vice-Presidente Manfred SCHMIDT
Segretario Generale Angela DONATI
Segretario Generale aggiunto Christian WITSCHELL
Tesoriere Anne KOLB

I’ve not seen this information on the AIEGL website yet (where is the AIEGL website anyway?–the three options thrown up by Google all seem either out of date or non-functional; I suppose aiegl.com is the most promising).

The organizers of the 13th Epigraphic Congress, to be held 2-7 September in Oxford, have promulgated the following essential information for presenters (digested from an email):

• Visual materials may be displayed during presentation either via a PowerPoint presentation or transparencies on a conventional overhead projector; 35mm slides will not be supported
• Printed handouts should be prepared in advance by speakers (200 copies for plenary talks; 30 for thematic sessions)
• Posters concerning epigraphic organizations or events are welcome
• See specific requirements (including advance preparation) below

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The 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy is just over a week away! If you plan to attend the congress in Oxford, the editors of CEp request your help in sharing the event with colleagues who cannot attend, as well as interested students and enthusiasts around the world.

How can you help? By committing to submit brief reports on one or more papers or sessions you attend via the CEp website. The basic requirements for a post here are minimal:

1. speaker’s name and affiliation
2. title of paper
3. a brief summary or judgment

Of course, additional material can be added, and would be very welcome (we’ll send you some guidelines if you volunteer).

So, if you can lend your hand, please contact Gabriel Bodard or Tom Elliott and we’ll get you one of those snazzy “I’m blogging CIEGL at currentepigraphy.org” badges to wear with pride!

The Photographic Database, a subsidiary database of the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg has gone online.

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Bertinoro (Italia), 21-23 giugno 2007 - Informazioni e programma

Circulated by AIEGL:

13th Epigraphy Congress – urgent accommodation and programme news

Dear Colleagues

We should like to urge you to complete your booking arrangements for the 13^th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 2-8 September 2007. The lower-price accommodation is St Edmund Hall is now almost entirely reserved, and there is only a limited number of double rooms still available at Christ Church. For these reasons we strongly advise you to complete your reservations now. The Congress registration fee is £100.

Congress Programme – Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences

We are delighted with the full programme, which will provide a comprehensive overview of the state of scholarship in Greek and Latin epigraphy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

• There will be 14 plenary lectures by leading scholars concerned with major historical themes in Greek and Latin epigraphy: ancient government, religion, population and demography, language, and economics.
• Lectures on the roles of information technology, paedagogy and the presentation of epigraphic texts in museum collections.
• Plenary sessions will report the progress of the major international epigraphy projects.
• Plenary meeting of the International Epigraphy Association (AIEGL) concerning elections and future organisation
• There will be 42 thematic panels containing over 160 presentations.
• Five panels are devoted to the epigraphy of Attica, and two each to the epigraphy of the Black Sea region, Rome’s north-western provinces, Roman military epigraphy, Greek Christian epigraphy, and instrumentum domesticum.
• Other panels cover the Latin inscriptions from the Balkans, Ephesus, Greek cult, ancient accounting, customs and tolls, the Roman administration of Asia, new inscriptions from Greece, memory and identity, and many other topics.
• More than 50 posters have been accepted to date.

Supporting programme and activities

• Reception hosted by Oxford University Press
• Musical concert
• Exhibition of epigraphic manuscripts in the Bodleian Library
• Visits and excursions to country houses near Oxford
• Expert guided tours of Oxford
• Access to the Bodleian and Sackler Classical libraries
• Full conference handbag containing summaries of lectures and other literature
• Displays and discounted sales by leading Classical publishers, including OUP, CUP, De Gruyter and Blackwell publishing.

Accommodation and Catering

The charges for accommodation in St Edmund Hall and Christ Church cover the cost of bed, breakfast and lunch for each day of the Congress. The cost of this accommodation, including the meals provided, is cheaper than in Oxford hotels and guest houses. Accommodation in Christ Church offers outstanding facilities; please check the college’s own web-site, http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/. You will be located in the heart of the city and will have a guaranteed experience of life in one of Oxford’s most famous and historic colleges.

• Extensive en-suite rooms
• Access to Oxford’s 12^th century cathedral
• Breakfast and lunch in the hall made famous by the ‘Harry Potter’ films
• Free access to the Christ Church picture gallery
• Use of computer and internet facilities

Please check these and further details, and complete your registration and accommodation bookings as soon as possible on the Congress web-site http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/.

If you have any questions regarding the booking arrangements, please contact Jackie Bowman (jackie.bowman@classics.ox.ac.uk).

We look forward to seeing you in Oxford in September,

Yours sincerely

Professor Stephen Mitchell

Chairman, Congress Organising Committee

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy has a new URL:

http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/

Membership in ASGLE for one calendar year costs $30 USD for regular faculty, which also automatically enrolls you into the Association Internationationale pour l’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL). Students, retirees and independent scholars who do not wish to belong to AIEGL may pay $10 USD.

For those of you who wish to renew your membership or join for the first time, if you go to the Membership Page you will see that for a modest service fee you can now pay dues online with a credit card using PayPal. My understanding is that PayPal will accept multiple currencies, so those of you who wish to pay with other legal tender besides the USD and are willing to use a credit card, should be able to do so now. Neither I nor any other member of ASGLE will ever see your financial information. Of course for those who are more comfortable with the postal service, snail-mail is still available as well.

Those who register in the next few days will be eligible to receive a hard copy of the ASGLE Spring Newsletter, which is ready to go in the post and will contain Election Ballots for the offices of Vice President and Member-at-Large, a new text of IG II² 1069 by Elias Kapetanopoulos, and an epigraphical puzzler involving a Gothic painting, religion and sex!

Best,

Paul A. Iversen
Secretary-Treasurer, ASGLE
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
Case Western Reserve University

In an AIEGL announcement today, the 2007 FERCAN (Fontes Epigraphici Religionum Celticarum ANtiquarum) conference programme was announced (in PDF form). I don’t see this information online anywhere, so I have copied the entire programme into the full version of this posting (select “more…” below)

Vniversità degli stvdi di Milano
Dipartimento di scienze dell’antichità
Gargnano
Via al castello (palazzo feltrinelli)
9 -12 maggio 2007

Comitato scientifico:

• Manfred Hainzmann
• Antonio Sartori
• Claudio Zaccaria

Per informazioni: antonio.sartori@unimi.it

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Peter Liddell and Polly Low (Manchester University) have been working for a couple of years now on a collection of inscriptions “quoted or mentioned in ancient Greek and Latin literary texts”. For reference purposes, a prototype database showcasing some of their data and ideas for presentation has been made available. They now ask:

There appear to be two options for the next stage. One possibility is that we put together a major grant application to the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support an open-access database, based possibly in Manchester. The other possibility is collaboration with [an academic publisher]. Whichever option we decide on, the establishment of an editorial board which would oversee contributions by scholars working on assigned literary texts is a desideratum.

We would like to establish what other scholars would like to see in such a database, the kinds of fields and search-options that would be useful, how the management of such a database would work, and who would be willing to be involved on an editorial board.

With this in mind, we would like to invite [a small group] to a workshop to discuss the design and running of such a database. We intend to hold a meeting at the forthcoming 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Oxford in September 2007 at 4pm on Friday 7th of September. We would be very grateful for any advice that you are willing to offer, and if you were to extend this invitation to others who may be interested in the project.

The first question that I can think of, of course, is how to make sure that this collection becomes compatible with AIEGL-approved archival and interchange standards such as EpiDoc and the EAGLE databases.

Fonte (Secretariato dell’AIEGL, 16/03/07):

Su richiesta di alcuni Soci la scadenza per la presentazione delle domande é
rinviata al 30 maggio 2007.
Il bando é stato reso noto nell’ottobre 2006 in “Epigraphica” e nel sito
della AIEGL; all’inizio del mese di marzo é stato inviato  un messaggio
e-mail con l’indicazione della originaria scadenza al 31 marzo, che va ora
modificata.

The A.I.E.G.L. Scientific Committee approved the President’s and Bureau’s proposal to award two prizes for epigraphic publications at the next International Epigraphic Conference in Oxford: one will be awarded to a work in the field of Greek epigraphy, the other to a work in the field of Latin epigraphy. Each prize will consist of 3000 Swiss Francs.

The prizes are reserved to works almost ready for publication but not published yet. The works may consist in a corpus of inscriptions or in a study essentially concerned with epigraphic material; the prizes intend to support young researchers and therefore authors must be under age 40 when they submit their works.

The complete manuscripts should be sent in two copies, by registered mail and by the end of March 2007, to the Secretary general (Prof. Angela Donati, Dipartimento di Storia Antica, Via Zamboni, 38, I-40126 Bologna), together with a letter of recommendation by a member of A.I.E.G.L. and a letter of acceptance written by the editor of a scientific series or from a publishing house.

The Bureau will appoint two Committees of specialists, who will examine the works and will appoint the winners; the prizes will be awarded during the meeting of the A.I.E.G.L. which will be held in Oxford on September 7th, 2007; the works, once published, should acknowledge the financial support of A.I.E.G.L.

Manuscripts will not be returned.