Category Archives: ROMARCH

  • ROMARCH: ACOR in Amman, 2020-21 Fellowships

    25 September, 2019

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    ANNOUNCEMENT OF AMERICAN CENTER OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH IN AMMAN FELLOWSHIPS
    2020–2021

     

    Deadline for the following fellowships is February 1, 2020

    NEH Fellowship: Maximum single award of ten months for a scholar who has a Ph.D. or has completed his or her professional training. Other awards for minimum of four to nine months. Fields of research include, but are not limited to: modern and classical languages, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, heritage studies, comparative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Social and political scientists are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals living in the U.S. three years immediately preceding the application deadline. The award for ten months is $50,000 of which $32,000 is for stipend and travel and the remainder is for ACOR room and board. Shorter award periods are prorated accordingly (i.e., six months award for $30,000 includes $19,200 for stipend and travel); residency at ACOR is required. The award must be used between June 15, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Funding for this fellowship provided by the National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutes (FPIRI).

    ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Two or more two- to six-month fellowships for post-doctoral scholars and scholars with a terminal degree in their field, pursuing research or publication projects in the natural and social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines relating to the Middle East. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $32,400. Awards must be used between June 15, 2020 and December 31, 2021 and Fellows must reside at ACOR. Funding for this fellowship is provided by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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  • ROMARCH: Oxford Workshop: Textile Art in the Graeco-Roman World

    25 September, 2019

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    Oxford Workshop: Textile Art in the Graeco-Roman World

    Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September 2019

    Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU

    UPDATE: WORKSHOP WEBCAST

    Live webcast links are now available on our website (www.carc.ox.ac.uk) for this event on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September at The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’ (OX1 3LU).  These will be live shortly before each session starts.  Places to attend in person are still available and are free but please book by emailing: carc@classics.ox.ac.uk

    Edited podcasts will be available at a later date also via our website.

    Please be aware that our website will be temporarily unavailable for ten minutes early on the morning of the 26th whilst our IT services are doing an update.  All should be back to normal for the start of the workshop.

    The programme for our 2019 CARC workshop, kindly supported by Jean-David Cahn and Tony Michaels, is available on our website.  Textile Art in the Graeco-Roman World will focus on the visual imagery of ancient textiles from Archaic Greece to late antiquity, asking questions about a fundamentally important art tradition which we glimpse through extraordinary chance survivals and representations in other media. Subjects will have a wide chronological and geographical range, but will revolve around a shared set of art-historical and archaeological questions.

    Download the draft abstract here.

    Download the draft programme here. Please check the website for updates and time changes.

    Classical Art Research Centre

    www.carc.ox.ac.uk

    carc@classics.ox.ac.uk

    Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
    66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU

    Tel: +44 (0)1865 278083

    Fax: +44 (0)1865 610237

  • ROMARCH: Ancient Britain and Classical Art: Oxford Workshop

    17 July, 2018

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    Ancient Britain and Classical Art, 27th-28th September 2018 – draft programme for CARC workshop now out!

    The provisional programme is now available and we are taking free bookings for the 2018 CARC workshop, ‘Ancient Britain and Classical Art’, to be held in the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th September.

    Generously supported by Jean-David Cahn and Tony Michaels, this workshop examines the complex relationship between the visual cultures of ancient Britain and the Graeco-Roman traditions of the Continent and the Mediterranean over a period of almost a thousand years. Considering not only the period of Roman Britain but also the art of the pre-Roman Iron Age and the early Anglo-Saxon period, the workshop aims to stimulate dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.

    The full draft programme and abstract are available to download on http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/events/default.htm

    Please check for updates as the date of the workshop approaches.

    The workshop is free and all are welcome to attend, but please book a place by emailing carc@classics.ox.ac.uk

     

    Classical Art Research Centre

    www.carc.ox.ac.uk

    carc@classics.ox.ac.uk


    Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
    66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU

    Tel: +44 (0)1865 278083

    Fax: +44 (0)1865 610237

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • ROMARCH: Register for The Connected Past, Oxford 2018

    13 April, 2018

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    cropped-logo_website_headingREGISTRATION OPEN

    The Connected Past Oxford 2018

    Registration for The Connected Past Oxford 2018 is open now.
    A two-day international inter-disciplinary conference featuring 46 talks about network research on a wide variety of topics including Archaeology, Physics, History and Computer Science.
    When? 6-7 December 2018
    Where? University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Keynotes? Dr. Nathalie Riche (Microsoft Research) and Dr. Matthew Peeples (Arizona State University)
    How do social networks evolve over huge time-scales? How did geography constrain or enhance the development of past social networks? These are fundamental questions in both the study of the human past and network research, yet our ability to answer them is severely hampered by the limited development of spatiotemporal network methods. PastNet is an inter-disciplinary network that aims to stimulate the development and application of such methods through networking meetings, a conference and a workshop.
    Formal network methods are increasingly commonly applied in a wide range of disciplines to study phenomena as diverse as the connectivity of neurons in the human brain, terrorist networks, a billion interlinked Facebook profiles, and power grids. Despite this diversity and the decades-long tradition of using network methods in the social sciences, physics and computer science, the development of techniques for the study of spatial networks and long-term network change has so far been largely neglected. Network research is also becoming more common in disciplines concerned with the study of past human behaviour: archaeology, classics and history. These disciplines have a strong tradition in exploring long-term human behavioural change and spatial phenomena, despite being forced to use fragmentary textual and material sources as indirect evidence of such phenomena.
    By bringing together network researchers from archaeology, classics, computer science, digital humanities, history, mathematics, network science, oriental studies, physics, psychology, and sociology, The Connected Past 2018 conference in Oxford aims to foster cross-disciplinary exchange to push network research further. The historical disciplines will contribute new spatiotemporal approaches and datasets to network research, whereas the traditional network research disciplines will further stimulate the critical application of network approaches to the study of the human past.
    This event is made possible thanks to the generous support of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and is organised by the TORCH research network PastNet: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/themes/pastnet-network
    Presentations will be delivered on the topic of spatial and temporal network approaches, addressing the challenges posed by the use of or apply network approaches in historical/archaeological research contexts, with case studies drawn from all periods and places. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
    • Spatial networks
    • Temporal networks
    • Archaeological network research
    • Historical network research
    • Missing and incomplete data in archaeological and historical networks
    • What kinds of data can archaeologists and historians use to reconstruct past networks and what kinds of issues ensue?
    • Formal network analysis vs qualitative network approaches: pros, cons, potential, limitations
    Hope to see you all there!

  • ROMARCH: 2018 Archaeological Field School: Trasimeno (Italy)

    12 February, 2018

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    The Trasimeno Archaeology Field School of the Umbra Institute in Perugia provides a curricular concentration in Archaeology and History based in Castiglione del Lago on the shores of Lake Trasimeno between Umbria and Tuscany.

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    The fieldwork takes place on an archaeological area located on the shores of Lake Chiusi, on the Umbrian-Tuscan border just a few miles from Castiglione del Lago and Lake Trasimeno. On fieldwork days, a bus will take students, faculty, and staff to the site for a full-day’s work and research. Lunch will be on-site, and students will return home in the mid-afternoon. Alternating days will be spent in class, at the local museum, or on field trips to nearby sites of interest. This archaeological site was only recently discovered and this project is the first scientific investigation. After a season of survey and two seasons of excavation, findings indicate the presence of a 2nd-c BC-3rd c. AD Roman villa, including a bath complex, tile manufacturing, and a possible Roman road. The Archaeological Field School is a long term project run in cooperation with local institutions. Every summer, students contribute to the uncovering of the site and the display of artifacts in the expanding archaeological museum of Castiglione del Lago.

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    Castiglione del Lago is a charming medieval town in Umbria, located on top of a small peninsula along the southwestern shores of Lake Trasimeno. It featured in a recent article by The Guardian as one of the best lakeside towns in Europe.  A member of the prestigious I Borghi più Belli d’Italia Association (The Most Beautiful Villages in Italy, www.borghitalia.it), Castiglione lies among renowned historical cities, such as Orvieto, Chiusi, Arezzo, Cortona and Perugia. All Field School participants stay in Castiglione during the summer term, only a few miles away from Perugia and easily accessible either by bus or train.

    The Academic Program

    The Field School consists of two courses, one theoretical and one practical, both held in Castiglione del Lago. The program aims to provide students with a comprehensive overview of up-to-date theories and methods of archaeological research and fieldwork as applied to the civilizations that shaped the history and culture of central Italy. The Field School runs for 6 weeks. Program dates for the summer 2017 will be May 26th (arrival in Italy) to July 7th (departure). 

    The course ARFW 350: Archaeological Field Workshop is an archaeology practicum. Students will work alongside professional archaeological staff to gain fundamental skills in archaeological research and apply them to the project.
    Course Credit: 3

    The course ARCL 340: Archaeology in Central Italy: The Etruscan and Roman Heritage, introduces students to the region’s history and heritage, and provides context for the archaeological research project.
    Course Credit: 3

    Both courses are non-prerequisite and mandatory. They include fieldtrips to various archaeological and cultural sites, including an overnight trip to Rome. Fieldtrips are designed to enhance student understanding of the territory’s history, while also providing the opportunity to study and visit neighboring archaeological sites and major museum collections.

    Click on the host website: http://www.umbra.org/academics/archaeology-summer/

    Or visit the project blog, including links to publications: https://archaeotrasimeno.wordpress.com

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  • ROMARCH: Late Antique Archaeology Conference, 17 March 2018, Birkbeck College, University of London

    12 February, 2018

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    The Late Antique Archaeology conference reviews the state of late antique funerary practices, on a thematic basis, from scientific examinations of skeletons and their DNA, to treatments of the deceased body, to the nature of memorial structures and how they were treated over time.

    SCHEDULE:

    (A) DEMOGRAPHY

    (i) OSTEOLOGY: LATE ANTIQUE LIVES FROM BONES

    09.45-10.45 Flavio de Angelis (Sop. Arch. Di Roma) and Andrea Battistini (Sop. Arch. Di Roma) Lives from Bones: Anthropological Evaluation in the City of Rome

    (ii) BIOMOLECULES IN LATE ANTIQUITY (ISOTOPES, DIET, MIGRATION, EPIDEMIC, ENDEMIC DISEASE)

    11.00-11.30 Alexandra Chavarria (Padova) Northern Italy

    11.30-12.00 Mathew Emery (McMaster) Southern Italy (via Skype)

     

    (B) RITUALS AND IDENTITIES: DEATH RITUALS AND TREATMENT OF THE BODY

    12.15-12.45 Rhea Brettell (Bradford) Organic residues from mortuary contexts (Britain).

    12.45-13.15 Thibaut Devièse (Oxford) Colourants and dyes

    Respondant: Béatrice Caseau (Paris IV) Treatment of the body: Ointments and perfumes

     

    (C) COMMEMORATION, MONUMENTS, FUNERARY TOPOGRAPHY

    (i) MEMORIALS – LATE ANTIQUE COMMEMORATION,

    14.00-14.30 Zsolt Magyar (?Budapest) Mausolea in Pannonia

    14.30-15.00 Chris Sparey-Green (Kent) Mausolea in NW Europe

    (ii) SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF DEAD TO LIVING

    15.15-15.45 Judit Ciurana Prast (Barcelona) Funerary Landscapes of Catalonia

    15.45-16.15 Efthymios Rizos (Oxford) Christian elite burials in Anatolia / Constantinople & the cult of relics

    (iii) MEMORIAL AND OBLIVION: SPOLIA AND ATTITUDES TO TOMBS

    16.30-16.45 Luke Lavan (Kent) Spolia and the archaeology of memory

    16.45-17.15 Douglas Underwood (Kent) City walls and tomb destruction (Skype)

    17.15-17.45 Nick Mishkovsky (Kent) City walls and tomb preservation

    17.45-18.00 Conclusion.

     

    Date: Saturday, 17 March, 2018

    All are welcome. Admission 25 GBP, 10 GBP Students.

    Registration is via Eventbrite: https://laaburial2018.eventbrite.co.uk

    Venue: Room 421 inside Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Metro: Russell Square.

    Conveners: L.Lavan/M.Mulryan (Kent) T.Penn (Edin.) R,Darley (Birkbeck).

    Sponsors: University of Kent, Birkbeck (University of London), J.Beale, Brill.

    https://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com

  • ROMARCH: CAA-GR (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) Conference

    7 February, 2018

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    On behalf of the organizing committee of the CAA-Gr 2018 conference to be held in Limassol on 19-20 June 2018, I would like to inform you that the submission deadline has been extended until February 15th. The same date applies to those who want to organize a workshop on June 18th.

    More information can be found at the conference website https://www.caa-gr2018.org/

    You can submit your paper here: https://openconf.caa-gr2018.org/openconf.php

    For any information please do not hesitate to contact us through conference@caa-gr2018.org  or regarding papersubmissions at submissions@caa-gr2018.org

    Concerning registration and accommodation, please contact smartevents@cytanet.com.cy

    On behalf of the CAA-Gr 2018 organizational committee

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    Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι,

    Εκ μέρους της οργανωτικής επιτροπής του CAA-Gr 2018, το οποίο θα διοργανωθεί στη Λεμεσό στις 19 και 20 Ιουνίου 2018, θα ήθελα νασας ενημερώσω ότι έχει δοθεί παράταση υποβολής εργασιών μέχρι και τις 15 Φεβρουαρίου.

    Σας υπενθυμίσω για τη δυνατότητα όπως διοργανώσετε στα πλαίσια του συνεδρίου θεματικό εργαστήριο (workshop)στις 18 Ιουνίου. Γιαοργάνωση workshop, παρακαλώ όπως υποβάλετε το προτεινόμενο θέμα και πάλι μέχρι τις 15 Φεβρουαρίου.

    Περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να βρείτε στην ιστοσελίδα του συνεδρίου https://www.caa-gr2018.org/

    Για υποβολή εργασιών:  https://openconf.caa-gr2018.org/openconf.php

    Για οποιεσδήποτε πληροφορίες μπορείτε να στείλετε ηλεκτρονικό μήνυμα στο conference@caa-gr2018.org

    Για θέματα που αφορούν την  υποβολή εργασίας αποτείνεστε  στο submissions@caa-gr2018.org

    Θέματα που αφορούν την εγγραφή στο συνέδριο και διαμονή μπορείτε να στείλετε ηλεκτρονικό μήνυμα στοsmartevents@cytanet.com.cy

    Εκ μέρους της οργανωτικής επιτροπής CAA-Gr 2018

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    Professor Vasiliki (Lina) Kassianidou

    Director, Archaeological Research Unit

    Archaeological Research Unit, Department of History and Archaeology

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS

    P.O. Box 20537.  CY-1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

    tel. +357 22 893564,  FAX. +357 22 22895489