The OU Greek Society presents:

Dr. V. Pantazis
(Geography Faculty, University of the Aegean)

“Something is rotten in the State of Mycenae”

Homeric Geography and Homeric Age:
The Homerisation of Ancient Greece and the Problem of Mycenae

Monday, 8th of November (week 5), 5 pm
University of Oxford, Exeter College, Saskatchewan Lecture Room

[…] “Almost all contemporary research related to the Homeric Geography and the Homeric problem in general starts from the presupposition that the places which bore Homeric place-names in antiquity had been holding them since the pre-Homeric era – whichever that was. But this universally accepted starting-point is NOT scientifically valid…”

1£ admission fee for non-members of the Greek Society
drinks and refreshments will be offered after the talk

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::Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:23:12 AM::

Call for papers
Graduate Workshop

Aegean Koine
A diachronic approach to the Aegean World and its cultures

3000 BC ¨C AD 2000

University of Oxford
22 - 23 April 2005

The OU Greek Society is organising an exchange workshop about the Aegean World, for graduate students from the universities of Oxford, Athens and the Aegean (Lesvos). *Contributors from other UK universities are also welcome* The first meeting will take place in Oxford on 22nd and 23rd April 2005. Short papers (c. 20 minutes) will be presented in a two-day workshop about different subjects of the Aegean history, archaeology, ethnology from Prehistoric times to the 20th c. AD.

The participants will be asked to speak about their research, so that they contribute to an inter-disciplinary discussion concerning different levels of interaction among Aegean societies (of the coastal areas and the islands) and their links with other areas of the Mediterranean world (Anatolia, Middle East, N. Africa, the West) in different periods. Among the crucial questions of the workshop will be the extent to which we can speak of a cultural Aegean koin¨¥. Other topics will involve the impact of a central power over the large geographical area, the study of trade links vis-¨¤-vis the movement of ideas, the long-term interaction between island, coastal territories and inland areas, the cohabitation among different cultural groups, population movements, local dialects, literature and more.

The central aim of this workshop is to encourage the exchange of knowledge and the transfer of research experience for a variety of disciplines among graduate students on the basis of annual meetings alternating between Oxford and Greece, which could eventually lead to future research cooperation between the universities. UK-based students will have the opportunity to become familiar with parallel research projects organised by Greek universities and foster links with Greek scholars.

The UK participants are requested to send an abstract of their work in English (c. 1000 words) to the organising committee (consisting of a mixed group of graduate students and Oxford fellows) by 31st January 2005.  English will be the official language. All papers will be published online and in print, and will be accompanied by short abstracts in both English and Greek.

The OU Greek Society will be responsible for organising the first meeting of the Oxford/ Athens/ Aegean partnership. The second meeting of the workshop is planned to take place in Greece in 2006, organised by the Societies of Graduate students and the Faculties of the Athens and the Aegean university.

For more information and paper submissions:

Greek Society
c/o Georgios Deligiannakis
Lady Margaret Hall
Oxford OX2 6QA (UK)

greeksoc@herald.ox.ac.uk
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~greeksoc

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::Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:21:45 AM::