2018 UK Ancient Historians' Annual Meeting - 19-20/05/2017, Stevenage (England)

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 19-20/05/2017

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: The Holiday Inn (Stevenage, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Robin Osborne

INFO: ro225@cam.ac.uk

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: ro225@cam.ac.uk

£100

No residentes / non-residentes / non residenti: £25

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

Saturday 19 May

2.45 – 5.00 p.m. (with a break for tea) The Spatial Turn: a ‘spatial turn’ in history has been much vaunted, but what does it amount to? In what ways does taking space seriously change our perceptions of the past? Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck), Matthew Nicholls (Reading) and Amy Russell (Durham) offer insights from their own work.

5.00 – 7.00 pm William Mack (Birmingham) 'Citizenship and Property Ownership: From Solon to Ptolemy'.

7.45 pm Dinner

Sunday 20 May

9.30 – 12 noon (with a break for coffee) Historical commentary – what do we need and how do we get it? Simon Malloch (Nottingham), who is writing commentary on Tacitus, Stephen Todd (Manchester), who has written and is writing commentary on Lysias and Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) who is writing commentary on Dionysius of Halicarnassus, offer examples of what commentary can and should do for the historian.

12.00 – 1.00 Information exchange/business meeting.