The British Epigraphy Society:

Conferences, Lectures and Seminars

BES AUTUMN COLLOQUIUM AND AGM 2009

FOREIGN EPIGRAPHY (OR "Epigraphy, but not as we know it") and XIII ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Saturday, 21 November 2009, MBI Al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Programme
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee & Registration

11.00 – 11.45: Dr. Elizabeth Frood (St. Cross College, Oxford) Claiming Space and Memory: the Development of Priestly Inscriptional Practices in Late New Kingdom Egypt.
11.45 - 12.30: Prof. Matthew Canepa (Charleston / Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford) Inscriptions, Landscape, and the Built Environment in the Eastern Mediterranean and Iran in Late Antiquity.

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch

13.30 – 14.30: Annual General Meeting

14.30 - 15.00: Tea

15.00 –15.45: Dr. Silvia Ferrara (St. John's College, Oxford): Writing in Cypro-Minoan: Beyond Decipherment.
15.45 - 16.30: Dr. Elizabeth Solopova (Bodleian Library, Oxford) The Earliest Runic Inscriptions: Problems of Language and Interpretation.

16.30-16.45: Break

16.45 – 17.30: Short Reports:
Dr. Nicholas Milner (British Institute at Ankara), New work at Oinoanda
Dr. Ulrike Roth (Edinburgh), Albert Rehm.
Dr. Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford), The Taormina Financial Inscriptions

17.30: Close

Colloquium fees:
Registration including tea, coffee, and the sandwich lunch:
£10.00 (BES members), £5.00 (BES student members), £25.00 (non-members).
Registration without lunch: £8.00 (members), £3.00 (student members), £20.00 (non-members).

Booking: To reserve a place at the colloquium and a sandwich lunch, please contact the Secretary, Peter Haarer, by e–mail to peter.haarer @ classics.ox.ac.uk or by post to 19 Purcell Road, Marston, Oxford, OX3 0EZ, by Tuesday 17 November and include details of any special dietary requirements. Please note that you will be signed in for the lunch unless you say that you do not want this. Please pay all fees due on the day during registration by cheque (no coins / notes if possible) to the Treasurer, Nicholas Milner.

Bursaries: Existing student members of the BES may apply for a bursary to contribute towards the cost of attending the meeting (write to peter.haarer @ classics.ox.ac.uk with details of your expected expenses, and a brief statement of how the Colloquium will benefit your studies).

How to find Corpus Christi College:http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/p/How-to-find-us/

FUTURE MEETINGS

The Spring Meeting, 2010, will be held in Dublin on 24th April 2010; the Autumn Meeting, 2010, will be held in Cambridge (provisional date: 20 November 2010).