Bir sort notice this....
Hello,
I wanted to let you know that we have a conference at the end of next week in
which you might be interested. Details of how to register are on our
departmental web page:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/death.html
If any of you want to attend, let me know and I will try to find a post-grad
here who can out you up for a night or two.
All the best
Sally
'Living through the Dead: the material culture and social context of
commemoration of the dead from antiquity to the eighteenth century'
Friday 26th May
9.30 Dr. Maureen Carroll (Sheffield), Remembered for eternity or damned to
oblivion? The role of inscribed texts and images in Roman funerary
commemoration
10.00 Dr. John Pearce (London), Spaces of the dead: Tombs and topography in
Roman north-west Europe
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Dr. Christina Riggs (Manchester), Mourning and memory in Roman Egypt
11.45 Dr. Celina Gray (Hamilton, Canada), Constructing identity in the Athenian
burial ground: the case of the Milesians
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Dr. Manuela Struck (Mainz, Germany), Preserving memory through ritual: the
archaeological evidence in the northern Roman provinces
2.30 Prof. Nancy Wicker (Oxford, USA), Transformations in commemoration of the
dead in Scandinavia in the wake of Christianization
3.15 Coffee
3.45 Dr. Dawn Hadley (Sheffield), Gender and funerary commemoration in
Viking-Age England
4.15 Dr. Howard Williams (Exeter), Monumentalising early medieval memories: a
rasher interpretation of hogback stones
Saturday 27 May
9.30 Dr. Hugh Willmott (Sheffield), The materialisation of commemoration in
post-medieval England
10.00 Dr. Susan Russell (Rome), Innocent X, Pontifex Optimus Maximus, and the
church of S. Agnese: A mausoleum for the Pamphilj 'forum'
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Dr. Jane Rempel (Sheffield), Mounded burial traditions on the north coast
of the Black Sea: Continuity and revival
11.45 Dr. Emma-Jayne Graham (Rome), From fragments to ancestors: re-defining os
resectum and its role in rituals of purification and commemoration in
Republican Rome
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Mr. Martin Ryan (Manchester), Commemorating the Special and Not-So-Special
Dead in Anglo-Saxon England: The Evidence of the Continental Calendars
2.30 Prof. Bonnie Effros (Binghamton, USA), Hoarding Sanctity: Commemorating
Long-Forgotten Saints in Merovingian Gaul
3.15 Coffee
3.45 Dr. Sarah Tarlow (Leicester), Remembering persons, rewriting selves
Sally Smith
Teaching Development Officer
Department of Archaeology
University of Sheffield
Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield S1 4ET
Ph: 0114-2222-947
|