BES Spring Meeting 2024

SPRING MEETING 2024

Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles

Saturday 11th May 2024
University of Warwick (Coventry)
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The British Epigraphy Society and the Humanities Research Centre at Warwick are delighted to invite you to a colloquium on 'Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles'. We very much hope to attract a broad range of speakers interested not just in inscriptions, but also in the place of inscriptions within wider narratives of collecting from the 16th century onwards.

Registration deadline is 20th April
Please register via this link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/cab/
£20 standard / £15 BES members & Uni of Warwick staff / £10 students

Programme

9.15 Welcome (Alison Cooley, President of BES/Director of HRC)

9.30-10.15 Charlotte Woodhead (Warwick Law School) ‘Legal perspectives on collecting in the British Isles’

10.15-11.00 Hardeep Singh Dhindsa (King’s College London) ‘The Classical and the Colonial: Visualising Spatial and Ideological Separation in Eighteenth-Century Collections’

11.00-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-12.05 Alexandra Solovyev (University of Oxford), ‘'Destruction committed chiefly by the English': British and Ottoman Responses to J. T. Wood's Excavations at Ephesus’

12.05-12.50 Peter Liddel (University of Manchester), ‘Scholarship and Safeguarding: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Narratives about Greek Inscriptions in the British Isles’

12.50-13.40 Lunch

13.40-14.25 Alan Montgomery (Independent scholar), ‘Authentick Vouchers of Antiquity’: Collecting Roman Inscriptions in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

14.25-15.10 Shushma Malik (University of Cambridge) and Jane Masséglia (University of Leicester), ‘It takes a village: actors and extras in the making of the ‘Bankes’ collection’

15.10-15.55 Caroline Barron (Durham University), ‘A Museum of Learned Lumber: Romano-British inscriptions at Rokeby Hall’

15.55-16.15 Tea break

16.15-17.00 Benet Salway (UCL) ‘An unpublished cinerary casket and other Roman antiquities at Nymans House, Sussex’

17.00-17.45 Alexander Thein (University College Dublin) ‘A verse Latin funerary inscription in University College Dublin’

17.45-18.15 Concluding roundtable discussion
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18.15 Drinks

19.00 Dinner (at participants’ own cost)

BES Autumn Colloquium 2023

Autumn Colloquium and AGM 2023

Saturday, 18 November 2023
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London (r. G37)

Programme

​9.30-10.00
Registration & Coffee
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10.00-10.30
Andrea Raggi (Pisa) & Pierangelo Buongiorno (Macerata), A new imperial letter from southern Etruria

10.30-11.00
Chiara Battisti (Princeton), The heroised dead and the hero cult in eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Local and regional perspectives

11.00-11.30
Jean-Sébastien Balzat (Mariemont), New epigraphic documents from Roman Sparta

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00-12.30
Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw), STONE-MASTERS: A new ERC-funded project exploring the world of stonecutters and mosaicists in Late Antiquity

12.30-13.00
Annie Burman (Uppsala), Epigraphy’s true colours: Polychromy and the development of laboratory analysis of paint pigment on paper squeezes

13.00 Lunch Break

14.30 AGM (Members only)

15.00-15.30
Federico Ugolini (Siena) & Deborah Cvikel (Haifa), Inscriptions from the timber of the Late Antique Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck

15.30-16.00
Alfredo Tosques (Bologna), The inscription of Frentrani and Hercules Nouritanus at Lilybaeum (AE 2016, 622 = I.Sicily 004368)

16.00-16.30
Evelien de Graaf (Leuven), Saskia Peels-Matthey & Silvia Stopponi (Groningen), Potential and challenges of AGILe, the first automatic lemmatizer for ancient Greek inscriptions

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00-17.30
Marco Dosi (KCL), The dissemination of Belisarius’ consulship in Ostrogothic Italy, AD 535

17.30-18.00
James Hua (Oxford), Speleopigraphy: The spatiality of inscriptions in ancient Greek caves, ritual, and social identities

18.00-18.15 Short Report
Benet Salway (UCL), Publication of the new edition of Diocletian's Prices Edict from Aphrodisias

18.15 Finale: Posters & Drinks

• Charlotte Bell (Liverpool), Senātus Femina: A consideration of the epigraphic evidence for the female senate in Roman Britain

• Thijs Kersten (Nijmegen), Religion and language selection in funerary inscriptions from Roman Imperial Syracusae and Catina, 1-500 CE

• Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen), PPRET: Inscriptions pertaining to the Praetorian Prefects from 284 to 395 AD​

Please register to attend the colloquium by emailing i.bultrighini@ucl.ac.uk by 13 November 2023.
There is a registration fee (£15 for ordinary participants; £10 for student participants; £8 for BES members; £5 for BES student members), which includes light refreshments during the day (tea, coffee & biscuits, but not lunch) and a glass of wine and nibbles at the end of the colloquium.


​The Colloquium is generously supported by The Institute of Classical Studies

Impressions from the 2023 Autumn Colloquium and previous Colloquia!

In Memoriam P.J. Rhodes

A one-day colloquium of work on and informed by Greek epigraphy
In memory of Professor P.J. Rhodes

A colloquium held under the auspices of the British Epigraphy Society (BES) and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE).
Organised by Profs. Ted Kaizer and Polly Low.

Thursday, 23 June 2022, Durham

REGISTRATION:
The conference is free to all participants (in person and online), but registration is essential. If you plan to attend in person, please register by 12 noon on Friday 10th June: Colloquium-Registration.

PROGRAMME:

09.20 - 09.30 Welcome

09.30 - 10.30 Mirko Canevaro (University of Edinburgh), The Athenian boulē: honour, power and inclusion

10.30 - 11.30 Andrea Giannotti (Istituto italiano per gli studi Storici "Benedetto Croce"), The theatre of honours: Athenian honorific practice on stage, once again

11.30 - 12.00 COFFEE/TEA

12.00 - 13.00 Lene Rubinstein (Royal Holloway, University of London), Debts and divinities: how to evade your creditors in Classical and Hellenistic Greece

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 - 15.00 Tom Coward (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), Philonikos the all-star statesman and Arideikes the poet-philosopher: two Rhodian funerary verse inscriptions

15.00 - 16.00 Polly Low (Durham University), Nothing to see here? Inscriptions and the early Athenian Empire

16.00 - 16.30 COFFEE/TEA

16.30 - 17.30 Adele Scafuro (Brown University), Returning confiscated land to exiles: reconciliation, arbitration, and court judgment

17.30 - 18.30 Christopher de Lisle (Durham University), The Roman Athenian boulē: participation and exclusion

19.00 - late DRINKS & DINNER.


VENUE:
Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU. It will also be possible to participate via Zoom: please state when registering whether you will be attending in person or online. For information on any C19-mitigation measures in operation at the venue, please contact the meeting organisers closer to the date of the event. Information on how to get to the venue, as well as regarding accommodation in Durham, can be found on the Registration-site.