Workshop
On 8th May 2025 at 17:00 (CET), Emilio Rosamilia, Massimo Nafissi, Riccardo Massarelli, Samuele Ranucci, and Paolo Vitellozzi will present a talk entitled “Una laminetta magica in oro dall’area del Trasimeno.”
The event is organized within the framework of Officina Inscriptiones Graecae XIV2, with contributions by Roberta Fabiani.
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Lecture
Sophia Aneziri gives four lectures on the topic “For Eternity: the Foundations of Greek Antiquity between Individual and Collective History” at the Collège de France.
Foundations have been around for a long time. They are based on the donation-transfer of movable or immovable property and the use of this income to finance an objective defined by the donor. The protection of assets is an integral part of foundations. They must be left intact so that the objective can be pursued over time (ideally forever).
Internationally, the interest in the phenomenon of foundations over time is clear. In 2020, Borgolte published an 800-page book entitled ‘World History as a History of Foundations’, which examines religious foundations from Mesopotamia and Pharaonic Egypt through the medieval West to the monasteries of India and China. The political context of foundations is highlighted in a collective work entitled ‘Stiftungen zwischen Politik und Wirtschaft. Geschichte und Gegenwart im Dialog’, published in 2015 and edited by S. von Reden. Here, the foundations of modern and contemporary times are also taken into account and a dialogue is established between past and present.
The foundations of Greek antiquity are the material on which this series of lectures will be based. Although they are a diachronic phenomenon, foundations can only be fully understood in the political, social, economic and cultural context of their time, and at the same time they help considerably to understand that context. They will be examined, where methodology permits, over the long term, i.e. from the earliest evidence of the fourth century BC to the Roman period, but with the emphasis on Hellenistic cases and their historical context.
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Conference
Roberta Fabiani and Giulio Vallarino organise the Ninth Advanced Seminar on Greek Epigraphy (known as SAEG), 8-10 January 2025.
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5th EMCC-Lecture
Engelbert Winter and Michael Blömer give a lecture on “Exploring Urbanism and Religion in Ancient Nothern Syria. The Doliche Project” on 30th January 2025 at 6pm (CET) via Zoom.
Lukas Duisen introduces the EMCC degree programme
The University of Münster’s newspaper ‘wissen.leben’ published an article in which Lukas Duisen, an EMCC student, reports on the European Master in Classical Studies programme. He explains that the EMCC is worthwhile for students who want to deepen their knowledge in archaeology, philology and history. You should be enthusiastic about intercultural experiences and learning new languages. Thanks to the individual specialisations, you can adapt your studies to suit your needs.
wissen/leben. Die Zeitung der Universität Münster: Jg. 18, Nr. 6. S. 10.