The BES Autumn Colloquium 2019 is provisionally scheduled to take place on 16 November 2019.
Information on the meeting will become available here in the summer of 2019.
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Information on the meeting will become available here in the summer of 2019.
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The BES Autumn Colloquium 2018 took place in London on 10 November 2018 (Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, G.22/26). The programme can be viewed below.
10.00-11.00 Registration and Morning Coffee
11.00 Pier Luigi Morbidoni (Edinburgh): ‘Divine Brothers. The role played by the deification of Lucius Verus and Commodus in imperial inscriptions’
11.45 Dr Katherine McDonald (Exeter): ‘Dedications to the goddess Reitia’
12.30 Dr Brad Bitner (Oak Hill): 'NewDocs 11: Ephesus: New directions in an epigraphical resource for scholars of the New Testament and Early Christianity'
13.15 Lunch Break
14.00 Lapides Londinienses A ‘lapidary walk’ through central London, guided by Dr Ruth Siddall (UCL), to study the building stones of Bloomsbury (several of which are inscribed) to think about the relationship between text, material and monument. Please note: this walk will take place no matter what the weather .... if you plan to take part, please come suitably equipped (with brolly, raincoat and wellies if necessary!).
MEET @ reception desk in Senate House (in front of the lifts) at 13.55!
15.00 AGM (Members only)
15.30 Prof. Lene Rubinstein (RHUL): ‘Childless widows, spinster aunts, and the manumission of slaves by fictitious sale and consecration’
16.30 Afternoon Tea
16.45 Dr Lorenzo Calvelli (Venice): ‘Trick or real? The curious case of some inscribed bronze tablets’
17.30 Short reports
Prof. M. H. Crawford (UCL): ‘Sacred rescripts?’
E. Theodorou (Vienna): ‘Two unpublished inscriptions from Ariassos (Pisidia)’
Dr L. Calvelli (Venice): ‘Investigating epigraphic forgeries: from Italy to Europe’
18.15 Finale: Posters and drinks
Dr L. Calvelli (Venice): 'Processing data on fake inscriptions: How to build the new Epigraphic Database Falsae (EDF)'
A. Ghiringhelli (Edinburgh): '“Xanthos to Men the Lord”: a slave-founded cult of Men in Attica'
Dr T. Sandon (Edinburgh): 'To be or not to be a slave child... Identifying enslaved children in Latin inscriptions'
19.30 Colloquium Dinner (aux frais des participants)
How to get to central London: Info sheet.
Where to stay in central London: Info sheet.
The Colloquium was generously supported by:
The Institute of Classical Studies
The Classical Association
Below: Impressions from the 2014 and 2015 Autumn Colloquia!
10.00-11.00 Registration and Morning Coffee
11.00 Pier Luigi Morbidoni (Edinburgh): ‘Divine Brothers. The role played by the deification of Lucius Verus and Commodus in imperial inscriptions’
11.45 Dr Katherine McDonald (Exeter): ‘Dedications to the goddess Reitia’
12.30 Dr Brad Bitner (Oak Hill): 'NewDocs 11: Ephesus: New directions in an epigraphical resource for scholars of the New Testament and Early Christianity'
13.15 Lunch Break
14.00 Lapides Londinienses A ‘lapidary walk’ through central London, guided by Dr Ruth Siddall (UCL), to study the building stones of Bloomsbury (several of which are inscribed) to think about the relationship between text, material and monument. Please note: this walk will take place no matter what the weather .... if you plan to take part, please come suitably equipped (with brolly, raincoat and wellies if necessary!).
MEET @ reception desk in Senate House (in front of the lifts) at 13.55!
15.00 AGM (Members only)
15.30 Prof. Lene Rubinstein (RHUL): ‘Childless widows, spinster aunts, and the manumission of slaves by fictitious sale and consecration’
16.30 Afternoon Tea
16.45 Dr Lorenzo Calvelli (Venice): ‘Trick or real? The curious case of some inscribed bronze tablets’
17.30 Short reports
Prof. M. H. Crawford (UCL): ‘Sacred rescripts?’
E. Theodorou (Vienna): ‘Two unpublished inscriptions from Ariassos (Pisidia)’
Dr L. Calvelli (Venice): ‘Investigating epigraphic forgeries: from Italy to Europe’
18.15 Finale: Posters and drinks
Dr L. Calvelli (Venice): 'Processing data on fake inscriptions: How to build the new Epigraphic Database Falsae (EDF)'
A. Ghiringhelli (Edinburgh): '“Xanthos to Men the Lord”: a slave-founded cult of Men in Attica'
Dr T. Sandon (Edinburgh): 'To be or not to be a slave child... Identifying enslaved children in Latin inscriptions'
19.30 Colloquium Dinner (aux frais des participants)
How to get to central London: Info sheet.
Where to stay in central London: Info sheet.
The Colloquium was generously supported by:
The Institute of Classical Studies
The Classical Association
Below: Impressions from the 2014 and 2015 Autumn Colloquia!
