The Language of Law in Ancient Documents: Transformation and Continuity of Legal Formulae in Diachro
The Leiden Papyrology+ Group organizes a yearly international conference in Leiden under the general heading of 'Papyri in a Changing World'.
This year's conference, to be held on 22-24 November 2018, is entitled ‘The Language of Law in Ancient Documents: Transformation and Continuity of Legal Formulae in Diachronic and Geographic Perspective’.
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 22-23-24/11/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Law Faculty, Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw - University Library (Leiden, Netherlands)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Leiden Papyrology Group; Steffie van Gompel; Quintijn Mauer; Cisca Hoogendijk; Koen Donker van Heel
INFO: web - f.a.j.hoogendijk@hum.leidenuniv.nl
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday 22 November 2018
14:00 - 15:00 Registration, coffee and tea
15:00 – 15:15 Opening by Francisca Hoogendijk
15:15 – 16:00 Schafik Allam - Hiring and Buying a Donkey in Pharaonic Egypt
16:00 – 16:45 Werner Eck - Bürgerrechtskonstitutionen der römischen Kaiser: Änderungen in Formular und Inhalt von Claudius bis zum Beginn des 4. Jh.
16:45 – 18:15 Drinks at the Law Faculty (Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw)
18:30 Dinner
Friday 23 November 2018
09:30 – 10:15 Boudewijn Sirks - Different Styles in Roman Legal Texts
10:15 – 11:00 Quintijn Mauer - Greek Legal Formulae and Roman Law: A Case Study on Dig. 17.1.60.4 (Scaev. 1. Resp.)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffeebreak
11:30 – 12:15 José Luis Alonso - Legal Transplants and Institutional Translations
12:15 – 13:00 Joseph Manning - Ptolemaic Legal Texts: Form and Function
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 -14:45 Stephen Moore - On the Making of Legal Formulae: Scholastic Influence on the Early Cuneiform Legal Tradition
14:45 – 15:30 Ruwan van der Iest - Marrying Abroad: A Comparative Study of the Jewish Marriage Contracts from Elephantine and Babylonian Marriage Contracts Containing Judeans
15:30 – 15:45 Coffeebreak
15:45 – 16:30 Cary Martin - The Demotic Legal Manuals - Or Codes - Or Recueils - Or Commentaries - Or Case Laws? Does Modern Terminology Help or Hinder Us in Interpreting These Texts?
16:30 – 17:15 Alain Delattre - Asking for Justice in Coptic
18:30 Dinner
Saturday 24 November 2018
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and tea
10:30 – 11:15 Steffie van Gompel - Demotic Marital Property Settlements
11:15 – 12:00 Maria Nowak - Illegitimate or Fatherless? Illegitimate Children in Papyri, Roman Law Sources, and Inscriptions
12:00 – 12:45 Joanne Stolk - Linguistic Change and the Formulation of Legal Formulae in Greek Papyri
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:00 Jakub Urbanik - Dioskoros' Legal Latin
15:00 – 15:45 Koen Donker van Heel - How the Language of Law Changed Almost Overnight in 6th Century BCE Thebes
15:45 – 16:00 Closing statements by Steffie van Gompel and Quintijn Mauer