Accordia/Institute of Classical Studies Literacy Seminar
A series of seminars on the theme of 'Language,
Literacy and Identity in the
Ancient Mediterranean' will take place in Semester 2, 2005. This aims to
explore the role of written and spoken language in the formation of
individual and group identities in the ancient Mediterranean. It
will explore issues such as the impact of literacy on emergent state
societies, the interaction of competing languages and literacies in
the context of growing social complexity and cultural change, and the
role of written and spoken language in the formation of individual
identities or those of sub-groups below the level of the state. It
will also examine these aspects in the context of other cultural markers
and will seek to evaluate the role of language and literacy within the
context of the wider culture of the ancient world.
Time and Place
All seminars take place on Tuesdays, at 5.15, and
are held in Room 331, Institute of Classical Studies. For further
details, please contact Kathryn Lomas (K.Lomas@ucl.ac.uk).
Programme
January 25th
Kathryn Lomas (UCL): Invoking Zeus. State, ritual and society in
South-east Italy
February 1st
Graham Oliver (Liverpool): Self-recognition: Greek epigraphy and
state identity
February 8th
Corinna Riva (Oxford): Inscriptions on Etruscan bucchero. A form
of gender identity?
February 22nd
Eddie Herring (Galway): Priestesses in Puglia? An archaeological
perspective on the Messapic tabara inscriptions.
March 1st
Zosia Archibald (Liverpool): title to be confirmed
March 22nd
Timo Sironen (Oulu): The Identities and Literacy of the Sabellian
Populations of Central and Southern Italy in the 5th-1st
centuries B.C.
April 26th
Tim Cornell (ICS): title to be confirmed
May 10th
Ruth Whitehouse (UCL): title to be confirmed
