The OU Greek Society, with the support of the University of Oxford, the University of Athens and the University of the Aegean (Lesvos), is organising a graduate-student workshop about the Aegean Koine : The Aegean and its cultures through the centuries. Contributors from other Greek and UK universities are also welcome.

The workshop will take place in Oxford on the 22nd and 23rd April 2005 and is planned to be the first in a series of research-exchange meetings. Short papers (c. 20 minutes) will be presented about different aspects of the Aegean history, archaeology, ethnology and literature from Prehistoric times to the 20th c. AD.

*** Keynote speakers of the workshop will be Professor Angelos Chaniotis (University of Heidelberg) and Professor Elizabeth Zachariadou (University of Crete)***

 THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE WORKSHOP: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~greeksoc/aegean/

The participants will be asked to speak about their research, so that they contribute to an inter-disciplinary discussion concerning different levels of interaction among Aegean societies (of the coastal areas and the islands) and their links with other areas of the Mediterranean world (Anatolia, Middle East, N. Africa, the West) in different periods. Among the crucial questions of the workshop will be the extent to which we can speak of a cultural Aegean koine. Other topics will involve the impact of a central power over the large geographical area, the study of trade links vis-a-vis the movement of ideas, the long-term interaction between island, coastal territories and inland areas, the cohabitation among different cultural groups, population movements, local dialects, literature and more.

The central aim of this workshop is to encourage the exchange of knowledge and the transfer of research experience for a variety of disciplines among graduate students on the basis of annual meetings alternating between Oxford and Greece, which could eventually lead to future research cooperation between the universities. UK-based students will have the opportunity to become familiar with parallel research projects organised by Greek universities and foster links with Greek scholars.

The UK participants are requested to send an abstract of their work in English (c. 1000 words) to the organising committee (consisting of a mixed group of graduate students and Oxford fellows) by 31st January 2005. English will be the official language. All papers will be published online and in print, and will be accompanied by short abstracts in both English and Greek. A number of travel grants will be available for the participants.

The OU Greek Society will be responsible for organising the first meeting of the Oxford/ Athens/ Aegean partnership. The second meeting of the workshop is planned to take place in Greece in 2006, organised by the Societies of Graduate students and the Faculties of the Athens and the Aegean university.

For more information and paper submissions:

Greek Society
c/o Georgios Deligiannakis
Lady Margaret Hall
Oxford OX2 6QA (UK)

greeksoc@herald.ox.ac.uk
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~greeksoc

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Scholars and specialists, and especially those working within the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology and philology, are kindly invited to partcipate in an international congress which is going to be held in Greek Thrace within November 2005. The subject of the conference will be

"The public festival: a diachronic look at its social and political function", the term festival taken here to mean a general gathering of people, associated with feasting and trading, on the occasion of a religious celebration - a sociocultural practice originating in the Neolithic.

The proceedings will be published.

A second circular with further details will follow soon.
For applications and correspondence, please address, if possible no later than April 1 2005, the congress' scientific co-ordinator ass. Professor Manolis Melas, University of Thrace, Dpt of History & Ethnology, Komotini, 69100 Greece - email: emelas@he.duth.gr - fax +2531039466 - tel. +2531039475, +6947579434

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3-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

21st, 22nd & 23rd June 2005

HEROD AND AUGUSTUS

Conference Advisers:  David JACOBSON and Nikos KOKKINOS

The past few decades have seen a blossoming of Herodian scholarship.  This has been largely stimulated by a series of excavations at sites in Israel and Jordan associated with Herod the Great (37-4 BCE), such as Caesarea, Paneas, Masada, Herodium, Machaerus and the enclosure of the Temple in Jerusalem.  These results are shedding important new light on various facets of the life and times of Herod, encompassing the art, architecture, technology, and economy of Herod's kingdom and its political, social and religious character.  This new information is adding clarity to our understanding of the culture of Herodian Judaea and its relationship with Hellenistic and Roman culture.  It is also helping to provide new insights regarding the interaction between Jews and Graeco-Roman society, and of the origins of Christianity.

The conference will bring together eminent experts in Herodian studies to present the results of their research, and create a forum for discussion.

Participants include:
Donald ARIEL, Jerusalem; Dan BAHAT, Toronto; Anthony BARRETT, Vancouver; Barbara BURRELL, Cincinnati, Ohio;  John CREIGHTON, Reading; Gideon FOERSTER, Jerusalem;  Karl GALINSKY, Austin,Texas; Joseph GEIGER, Jerusalem; David GOODBLATT, San Diego, California; Ittai GRADEL, Copenhagen;  Erich GRUEN, Berkeley, California; Malka HERSHKOVITZ, Jerusalem; Achim LICHTENBERGER, Muenster; Ehud NETZER, Jerusalem; Joseph PATRICH Jerusalem; Silvia ROZENBERG, Jerusalem; Denis SADDINGTON, Johannesburg;  Maurice SARTRE, Tours; Daniel SCHWARTZ, Jerusalem; Joseph SIEVERS, Rome; Mark TOHER, Schenectady, New York

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The IJS is supported by voluntary contributions   ADMISSION IS FREE

For further information please contact:
Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, Gower Street, WC1A
6BT
tel. 020 7679 3520;  fax  020 7209 1026
e-mail uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk;  webpage http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew jewish/ijs

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