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Bourse de doctorat – The Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Two fully-funded PhD positions in ancient history

Research project: ‘Constraints and Tradition. Roman power in changing societies’

The Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

The project ‘constraints and tradition’ analyses how traditions influence the ways in which new systems of rule are communicated, contested and accepted in changing societies. Within the project, developments in specific ancient ‘media’ are traced over a long period of time (50BC to AD565) in order to show which traditions formed constraints in presenting Roman power. Findings will be analysed through notions of ‘shared field of experience’ and ‘anchoring’, adapted from communication theory and social psychology.

As PhD within the project, you will analyse your own ‘medium’ and trace chronological and geographical developments. In collaboration with the other researchers in this project, you will further develop the relevant theoretical notions. Alongside writing your PhD, you will also collaborate in research papers with the other researchers, and help organize (international) workshops.

Project 1 analyses developments in Roman central coinage. This was a crucial medium for broadcasting imperial representation. The PhD project pays attention to moments in which emphasis on ‘traditions’ in central coinage changed and on the development of ‘traditional’ messages on coins over time.

Project 2 analyses the ways in which imperial portraiture (busts and statues) emphasised or rejected tradition. Imperial portraits could resemble those of predecessors, or be iconographically innovative. This project will trace which styles or individual rulers were used as example of ‘tradition’, and when (within or between reigns) such role models were employed or disbanded.

For further information contact Prof. Olivier Hekster (Telephone: +31-(0)24 3612289; E-mail: o.hekster AT let.ru.nl)

The vacancy closes: 29-09-2016 (vacancy number 23.37.16).

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Bourses – Dumbarton Oaks

Opportunities for Scholars at Dumbarton Oaks

 

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an institute in Washington, D.C., administered by the Trustees for Harvard University. It supports research and learning internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships, internships, meetings, and exhibitions.

Fellowships

Fellowships are awarded to Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian scholars on the basis of demonstrated scholarly ability and preparation of the candidate, including knowledge of the requisite languages, interest and value of the study or project, and the project’s relevance to the resources of Dumbarton Oaks. We place great value on the collegial engagement of fellows with one another and with the staff.

Application and instructions are available online. The application deadline is November 1.

Fellowships are awarded to scholars who hold a PhD or appropriate final degree, or who have established themselves in their field and wish to pursue their own research.

Junior Fellowships are awarded to degree candidates who at the time of application have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a PhD or appropriate final degree, and plan to work on a dissertation or final project while at Dumbarton Oaks, under the direction of a faculty member from their own university.

Summer Fellowships are awarded to scholars at any level beyond the first year of graduate (post-baccalaureate) study.

Mellon Fellowships, an initiative in urban landscape studies, are offered by the Garden and Landscape Studies program, and are intended for scholars and designers to pursue research on the history and current conditions of urban landscapes. Mellon Fellowships are governed by unique terms, and applications are due February 1. You may learn more about this opportunity on our website.

 

Additional Research Opportunities

Project Grants support scholarly projects by applicants holding a PhD or the equivalent. Support is generally for archaeological research, preservation of historic gardens, and the recovery, recording, and analysis of materials that would otherwise be lost.

Short-Term Predoctoral Residencies support advanced graduate students preparing for their PhD general exams, writing doctoral dissertations, or expecting relevant final degrees. Each residency provides up to four weeks of lodging and weekday lunches. Applications must be submitted at least sixty days before the preferred residency dates.

One-Month Research Awards support scholars with a PhD or other relevant final degree who are working on research projects that require use of Dumbarton Oaks’ books, objects, or other materials in the collections of the library or museum.

More information is available on our website.

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Colloque – John Malalas’ World Chronicle and Late Antique Memorial Culture (October 6-7 2016)

John Malalas’ World Chronicle and Late Antique Memorial Culture /
Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas im Kontext spätantiker Memorialkultur


The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Seminar for Ancient History, Tübingen are pleased to announce an international conference on « John Malalas’ World Chronicle and Late Antique Memorial Culture », organised by the Academy’s research group « Philological-Historical Commentary on John Malalas » (situated at Tübingen) and to be held at Evangelisches Stift, Tübingen on October 6th and 7th 2016.

PROGRAMME:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th 2016

2:00 pm Welcome Address
Mischa Meier | Tübingen

2:15 – 3:45 pm
Christian Gastgeber | Vienna
Klassisch-paganes Erbe: Was bleibt in der memoria der Weltchronik?
Ralf Behrwald | Bayreuth
Stadt und Reich im Geschichtsbild des Malalas

4:15 – 5:45 pm
Raf Praet | Groningen
Malalas the antiquarian? Malalas and antiquarian memory in sixth century Constantinople
Volker Menze | Budapest
Remembering Dioscorus: Non-Chalcedonian Construction of Orthodoxy in the Sixth Century

6:30 pm Evening Lecture
Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp | Cologne
Mythen, Monumente und andere Medien: Die ‚Corporate Identity‘ der gens Fabia

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7th 2016

9:00 – 10:30 am
Sebastian Watta | Marburg
Materielle Erinnerung. Formen der memoria in den kirchlichen Mosaikpavimenten des Nahen Ostens
Philipp Niewöhner | Berlin/Göttingen
Byzantinische Baudenkmalpflege am Beispiel von Milet und anderen Orten

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Emanuèle Caire | Aix-en-Provence
Malalas et la mémoire d’Antioche
Laura Mecella | Rom
Antiochia und die historische Erinnerung der Römisch-Parthischen Kriege

2:00 – 3:30 pm
Carlo Scardino | Düsseldorf
Historische und theologische Diskurse in den lateinischen Chroniken des 5. und 6. Jh. n. Chr.
Erika Juhász | Vienna
Die Spuren der christlichen Memoriakultur in der Osterchronik: Die Behandlung der Märtyrer

4:00 – 6:15 pm
Hanns Christof Brennecke | Erlangen
Hagiographie als Kaisermemorie: Kaiser Zenon in der Vita Danielis
Olivier Gengler | Tübingen/Heidelberg
Memoria und Gesetzgebung: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in den Justinianischen Novellen
Jonas Borsch | Tübingen/Heidelberg
Schriftliche Bildnisse. Personalisierte Erinnerung in Malalas’ Kaiserportraits

6:30 pm Final Discussion

To register (free of charge), please send an email to Jonas Borsch (jonas.borsch@uni-tuebingen.de) by Monday September 26th with your name and university affiliation (if applicable).

For more details about the conference see https://www.academia.edu/27808718/Die_Weltchronik_des_Johannes_Malalas_im_Kontext_sp%C3%A4tantiker_Memorialkultur_Conference_T%C3%BCbingen_2016-10-6_7_

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Appel à contribution – Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between scribal work and language use (Athènes, 6-8 avril 2017)

Call for Papers

Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between scribal work and language use

A Workshop

Date: April 6–8, 2017 (+ excursion on Sunday, April 9, to be informed later)

Venue: The Finnish Institute at Athens (Zitrou 16, GR-117 42 Athens)

The project Act of the Scribe (Academy of Finland) organises a workshop for scholars discussing various aspects of scribal work and how these relate to language use and language change in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Currently, we see a growing interest on scribal practices and their role in language change, and an on-going tradition of (socio)linguistic studies has been established in the field of Classical languages. However, some fields of study are still under-represented and hinder the ability to form a comprehensive general picture of the linguistic situation at hand; for example, studying the multilingual situation in especially Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Byzantine times continues to be challenging due to a gap between the disciplines of Greek and Latin on the one hand, and Demotic and Coptic research on the other. One of the aims of this workshop is to promote dialogue between the various written languages in Antiquity to be able to enhance the picture of ancient scribal practices. The general focus of the workshop lies in studying the interface between scribal work, including its technical properties, and language use.

Confirmed speakers with provisional titles include

·         Rodney Ast (Heidelberg): Professional Literacy in Late Antiquity

·         Klaas Bentein (Ghent): Documentary papyri as « multimodal » texts: Some observations on the interrelationship between language choice, linguistic register and handwriting in the Nepheros archive (III – IV AD)

·         Jenny Cromwell (Copenhagen): Terminological and palaeographic innovations among scribes in the administration of early Islamic Egypt

·         Katherine McDonald (Cambridge): The goddess Reitia and learning to write in the Veneto

·         Timo Korkiakangas (Oslo):  Relationship between spelling correctness and morphosyntactic conservativeness – a corpus study of early medieval Italian charters

·         Tonio Sebastian Richter: TBA

·         MariaChiara Scappaticcio (Naples): A Babrius’ Latin translation (P.Amh. 26): authors, scribes, and ‘mistakes of mistakes’

·         Joanne Stolk (Oslo/Ghent): Scribal corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt

·         Nicholas Zair (Cambridge): Old-fashioned spelling and sub-elite education in the Roman Empire

We invite interested scholars to submit abstracts (max. one page) by October 31, 2016 at the latest (actofscribe-athens2017@helsinki.fi). Topics that are of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to, e.g.

•           scribal education in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

•           writing and copying methods affecting linguistic output

•           written standards, substandard and register

•           cross-cultural effect on second language use: transfer of linguistic elements, scribal practices and orthographic conventions

•           the role of the scribe in language change and development

•           the varying treatment of loanwords in contact situations

Organizing committee :
Martti Leiwo – Sonja Dahlgren – Hilla Halla-aho – Marja Vierros

 http://blogs.helsinki.fi/actofscribe/

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Call for papers – Special session (2), Medieval Congress (Leeds, 3-6 July 2017)

Call for papers

Grey-zone saints in Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages

Medieval Congress – Leeds, 3-6 July 2017

The Cult of Saints is a major five-year research project, based at the University of Oxford, which is investigating the origins and development of the cult of saints in all cultural zones of ancient Christianity up to around AD 700. At the forthcoming Medieval Congress in Leeds (3-6 July 2017) the project-team is organising a strand on grey-zone, or marginal, saints in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. A limited number of Christian heroes, mostly New Testament figures and martyrs, were renowned across Christendom. Many more struggled hard to gain a wider prominence, or even local recognition, and often remained saints only in the eyes of single partisans or restricted groups. Their sainthood was suggested but not fully accepted, or promoted but contested; their cults almost succeeded, but finally failed. Sometimes their very existence was put into question. Those interested in presenting papers on such saints and their cults, particularly if focused on the period before c.900, are requested to send title and short abstract (c. 100 words) to Bryan Ward-Perkins (bryan.ward-perkins@history.ox.ac.uk) or Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl) by 20 September. Please, note that, sadly, the project is unable to fund speakers’ expenses.