Appel à contribution – Conference: Epigraphy on Ceramics

Conference: Epigraphy on Ceramics – Call for Papers

Ghent University, in cooperation with the Université libre de Bruxelles, plans to organise on the 17th and 18th December 2015 a conference on the specific problems of Epigraphy on Ceramics. The aim of this conference is to prepare a synthetic volume on this topic of research. The contributions should provide a first basis for a collective analysis of this particular type of inscriptions. The acts of the conference will thereafter be structured as a single and detailed companion to Epigraphy on Ceramics.

 In all periods from the Bronze Age to the Late Antiquity, throughout the Mediterranean Basin, ceramics were frequently used as a material support for inscriptions. Precise genres of texts used to be written on ceramics, painted or engraved either before or after firing, as for example economic or more widely speaking administrative data, religious dedications, marks of property. These so-called minor genres are well documented, but, partly because the corresponding texts are short and often difficult to read, the inscriptions of ceramics have not been as thoroughly studied in past research as other epigraphic genres, especially monumental inscriptions.

 At least five kinds of approaches should be followed in the analysis of inscriptions on ceramics. First of all, the texts whose content can be broadly classified as administrative provide important data for the history of ancient economies. Furthermore, as many of these texts were written on the behalf or within the frame of ancient armies, they are also a major source for military history with all its components, from the study of Rangordnung to the analysis of the movements and strategies of ancient states. A third approach takes into account the inscriptions found in sanctuaries, mainly religious dedications, as a source for the history of religion. Two other genres, marks of property and gift dedications, allows for significant conclusions on the social structures and relationships in various societies. Last of all, independently from the epigraphic genre of the texts, inscriptions on ceramics are also an important source for the linguistic and sociolinguistic study of ancient societies.

 The conference and the subsequent volume should include synthetic reports on the main aspects of these topics of research in the geographical and chronological frame of the Mediterranean Basin in antiquity. Keynote speakers will read general introductions to each of these five issues. Scholars who should be interested in any of these five paths of research are kindly invited to submit an abstract for a synthetic talk, taking into account either a wide geographical area or a particularly relevant period or a significant transversal feature shared by all or by many of the inscriptions in question. As the conference is organised as a preliminary step to the publication of a collective synthesis, the participants should send a first version of their paper to the organisers before the conference itself; this preliminary text should circulate among the participants, in order to develop further discussion, before the participants provide a definitive version of the chapter they have undertaken to write.

 Gent, the 6th November 2014
Wim Broekaert (UGent), Alain Delattre (ULB), and Emmanuel Dupraz (ULB)

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Deadlines

 Submitting of the abstracts: 31th January 2015
Selection of the abstracts: 31th March 2015
Submission of a preliminary text (to be circulated): 30th November 2015

Conference: 17th and 18th December 2015

Definitive version of the papers: before the 31th January 2016

Appel à contribution – University of Birmingham

Call for papers for the 16th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies (CBOMGS), University of Birmingham, on the theme of ‘Fragmentation: The Eastern Mediterranean in Conflict and Cohesion’, on 30th May 2015.

Abstracts in English are welcome. They should be no more than 250 words, and submitted by the 31st March 2015 to cbomgs.colloquium@gmail.com. Unfortunately, funding will not be available for participants but coffee breaks and lunch will be provided.

Pdf ici –> CBOMGS call for papers

Journée d’étude — Anatolie de l’époque archaïque à Byzance

affiche_JEanatolieLa journée d’étude de l’école doctorale 1: Mondes anciens et médiévaux de l’université Paris-Sorbonne aura lieu le samedi 8 novembre 2014  à la maison de la recherche, rue Serpente (Paris VIe) en salle D035.

Le programme en pdf ici

Voir également le site de paris sorbonne

Programme

09h00                    Accueil des participants

 

9h30                                      Markus EGETMEYER

François LEFÈVRE

Giusto TRAINA

Introduction

 

Session 1 : Échanges et interactions linguistiques en Anatolie.

 

10h30                                   Sarah BERNARD

« Sur les traces des alphabets anatoliens : entre emprunts et innovations. »

 

11h00-11h15       Pause Café

 

11h15                                   Milena ANFOSSO

« Le phrygien: une langue balkanique perdue en Anatolie. »

 

11h45                                   Florian RÉVEILHAC

« Inscriptions officielles et inscriptions privées en Lycie : le statut du grec et celui du lycien. »

 

12h15                                   Anahide KÉFÉLIAN

« Les inscriptions romaines d’Arménie : aperçu des interactions entre l’Anatolie romaine et le Royaume d’Arménie. »

 

12h45-13h15       Discussions

 

13h15-14h30       Repas

 

Session 2 : Construire l’Histoire : l’Anatolie et ses sources.

 

14h30                                    Germain PAYEN (Universités de Laval/ Paris-Sorbonne)

« La guerre d’Eumène II et ses alliés contre Pharnace (182-179 a.C.). Problèmes et lectures géopolitiques des suites du traité d’Apamée. »

 

15h00                                   Alexis PORCHER

« La Pisidie de Strabon : enjeux et problèmes. »

 

15h30-15h45       Pause café

 

15h45                                   William PILLOT

« La cité d’Ilion et le koinon d’Athéna Ilias : identité civique et culture régionale en Troade. »

 

16h15                                   Anaïs LAMESA

« Le territoire cappadocien : entre perceptions et réalité. »

 

16h45                                    Simone PODESTÀ (Université de Gênes/ Paris-Sorbonne)

« Histoire de la Lycie : les rapports entre les fragments historiographiques et les autres sources historiques. »

 

17h15-17h45       Discussions

 

17h45                    Guy LABARRE (Université de Franche-Comté, EA 4011)

Conclusion

Journée d’étude — ENS Lyon Pouvoir et religion

Journée d’études
POUVOIRS ET RELIGION À BYZANCE
Vendredi 25 avril 2014
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, site Ferdinand Buisson
Institut Français de l’Éducation, salle de réunion n°3

Programme téléchargeable ici

09h40 Accueil des participants

10h00 Présentation de l’AEMB (Jeanne DEVOGE) et introduction (Jérôme BASTICK)

10h20 Isabelle BROUSSELLE (Lille III, UMR 8164 HALMA-IPEL) :
« Vue de Byzance, la légende noire des derniers Mérovingiens »

11h00 Corinne JOUANNO (Caen, UMR 6273 CRAHAM) :
« La christianisation de la figure d’Alexandre le Grand à Byzance »

11h40 Matthieu PARLIER (Lyon II, UMR 5648 CIHAM) :
« Constantinople dans les éloges impériaux : nouvelle Rome, nouvelle Jérusalem »

12h20 Déjeuner

14h00 Lucile HERMAY (Paris IV, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerrannée) :
« Higoumènes de Patmos, réseaux et pouvoirs »

14h40 Marie-Myriam CARYTSIOTIS (Aix-Marseille, UMR 7298 LA3M) :
« La survie d’une île monastère : la diplomatie des moines de Patmos »

15h20 Pause

15h40 Jean SCHNEIDER (Lyon II, UMR 5189 HiSoMA) :
« Maxime Planude et Andronic II : leurs relations d’après les lettres de Planude »

16h20 Christophe GIROS (Lyon II, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerrannée) :
« L’exercice de l’autorité au Mont Athos aux XIVe et XVe siècles »

17h00 Conclusions (Jérôme BASTICK et Jacques BEAUSEROY)