![[The University of Leicester]](unilogo.gif)
Our Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on 
Workshop
Crossing the Divide: Archaeology and Ancient History
A Workshop Examining the Relationships Between the Disciplines
November 19, 2011. University of Leicester, UK
Attenborough Building, Seminar Block 001
INTRODUCTION
The relationship between ancient sources, material culture and contemporary scholarship is an uneasy one. The Classical world is typically studied either through the lens of ancient text or material culture; when they are brought together it is usually as a complementary or subsidiary source of information. Historians use material culture to either amend or support ancient texts, and archaeologists use text to aid in the interpretation of remains, or to dispute the assertions of historians. But the role of texts and objects in contemporary conceptions of the ancient world cannot be understated – rarely are the divisions between the two as clear cut as we would like. This conference will examine a range of approaches to dealing with these complex and frequently contradictory relationships. Placing emphasis on how the relationship between people and things changes over the long term, and how we present that relationship, this conference critically questions the importance of places, artefacts and texts.
SCHEDULE
| 9:30-10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 | Introduction | Dan Stewart: "Seeing the Divide" |
| 10:10 | Session One: | Peopling Antiquity |
| 10:10-10:40 | Rachel Mairs | The ‘Nomad Conquest’ of Bactria: what archaeology and narrative history can’t tell us |
| 10:40-11:10 | Sara Strack & Ben Millis |
Dispersal of populations at Aegina (431BC) and Corinth (146BC): two case studies |
| 11:10-11:40 | Maria Cristina Biella & Massimiliano Di Fazio |
Reconstructing identities in ancient pre-Roman Italy: archaeology and history in conflict? The case studies of the Faliscans and the Volscians |
| 11:40-12:00 | Coffee | |
| 12:00 | Session Two: | Accessing Belief |
| 12:00-12:30 | Erica Angliker | The cult of Homer on Ios |
| 12:30-1:00 | Sarah Miles | Human and divine relations: material culture, Attic drama and Greek society |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch |
|
| 2:00 | Session Three: | Topography in Tension |
| 2:00-2:30 | Chris Dickenson | The myth of the ‘Ionian Agora’: investigating the enclosure of public space in the post-Classical polis |
| 2:30-3:00 | Stefano Berti | Close encounters: ancient history and archaeology in the debate on the monument for the Athenian victory over the Boeotians and the Chalcidians (IG I3 501) |
| 3:00 | Session Four: | Objectifications |
| 3:00-3:30 | Richard Adam | Maya stelae: both archaeological monument and historical text |
| 3:30-4:00 | Nathan Elkins | Ancient coins, texts, and archaeology: the case of Juvenal 1.95-146 |
| 4:00-4:30 | Dan Stewart | Shifting Value of Texts and Objects |
| 4:45 | Coffee |
|
| 4:45 | Session Five: | Towards A Synthesis? |
| 4:45-5:45 | Roundtable Discussion | Chair: Eberhard Sauer |
| 7:00 | Dinner | Kayal Restaurant, 153 Granby Street, LE1 6FE |
There is no cost for attendance, but prior registration is advised as places are limited. Tea and coffee are provided, and lunch is reasonably priced at many of the fine on-campus dining facilities.
To register, send an email containing your name, institutional affiliation, and contact details to the address below.
Directions and campus maps are available at:
For further details, please contact:
Dan Stewart
ds120@le.ac.uk
