ACCORDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Accordia Lectures and Research Seminars, 2004-2005
The Italy Lectures
October 12th: Dr Gavin Kelly (University of Manchester), When the Emperor comes to Rome imperial visits to Rome in late antiquity
November 9th: Dr Robert Leighton (University of Edinburgh), Where are the houses? Recent work in the Sicilian Iron Age
December 14th, Accordia Anniversary Lecture: Dr Ian Campbell (Edinburgh College of Art), The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657). Collecting prints and drawings in seventeenth-century Rome: the architectural drawings after the Antique of Pirro Ligorio (c. 1513-83)
January 18th: Dr Francesca Serra Ridgway, Revisiting the Etruscan Underworld
February 15th: Dr Richard Miles (University of Cambridge), A Punic Empire? Carthaginian imperialism in Sicily and Sardinia revisited
March 8th: Dr Nick Vella (University of Malta), The western Phoenicians without texts
May 3rd: Dr Sue Hamilton (Institute of Archaeology UCL), Phenomenology and Italian prehistory the Tavoliere-Gargano Project
Research Seminars
Language, Literacy and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
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: Edward Herring (Galway), Priestesses in Puglia? An archaeological perspective on the Messapic tabara inscriptions.
March 1st: Zofia Archibald (Liverpool), Language and the written word north and east of Mount Olympos: Macedon and Thrace in the second half of the first millennium BCE
March 22nd: Timo Sironen (Oulu), The Identities and Literacy of the Sabellian Populations of Central and Southern Italy in the 5th-1st centuries BC
April 26th: Tim Cornell (ICS), Language, literacy and identity in Cato's Origines
May 10th: Ruth Whitehouse (UCL), Writing and identity in theory and practice: Italy in the 1st millennium BC