A reminder that the 8th UK Punic Network Graduate Workshop will take place 11am-7pm, this Wednesday, 29 March, at the Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles, Oxford. The programme is below and at: http://punic.classics.ox.ac.uk/meeting.htm We are pleased to announce that the keynote paper will be live-streamed as a web-cast on the day (and recorded for future availability). The web-cast will be available at 5pm at: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=634b3c82-98ba-4bba-9bf8-dc40383a6357 Prof. Carolina López-Ruiz (The Ohio State University) "The Phoenicians and the "orientalizing Mediterranean": A view from Tartessos" Attendance on the day is free, but if you plan to attend, please register to provide an idea of numbers, by sending an e-mail to [log in to unmask] Best wishes Jonathan Prag & Josephine Quinn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UK Punic Network Graduate Workshop VIII University of Oxford 11 am- 7 pm, 29 March 2017 Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles, Oxford 11.00-11.30: Registration & coffee 11.30-13.00 (first session) Meir Edrey (Tel Aviv) The Origins of the Western Tophets in Light of Recent Discoveries Marcello Lusvarghi (Bologna) About the function of the Punic tradition in the Augustinian texts: language, identity, necessity. 13.00-13.40: Lunch 13.40-15.00 (second session) Evgenia Tachatou (Durham/Mainz) Content Analysis via Gas-Chromatography on Phoenician carinated shoulder amphorae from the late 7th - early 6th century BC excavated at Tell el-Burak/Lebanon Pascual Perdiguero (Alicante) Coastal productive networks in the western Mediterranean Francisco Machuca Prieto (Malaga) A Phoenician way to be roman 15.00-15.20: Tea 15.20-16.40 (third session) Andrzej Dudzinski The Carthaginian garrisons in Sicily - a historical approach Thea Sommerschield(Oxford) Interactions in the religious mentalities and ritual practices of western Sicily, C6-C4 BC 16.40-17.00: break 17.00-18.30: Keynote Carolina López-Ruiz (The Ohio State University) The Phoenicians and the "orientalizing Mediterranean": A view from Tartessos 18.30: Reception