We would like to invite you to the next Epigraphic Conversation hosted by the British Epigraphy Society on ‘Why were inscriptions reused or reinscribed?’
The Conversation will take place on Friday, 28 May 2021, 4-6 pm (UK summer time) on Zoom.
SPEAKERS & TOPICS
Dr Aaron Schmitt (Freiburg): ‘A contextual and praxeological approach to the study of reused and reinscribed monuments in ancient Mesopotamia’
Prof. Polly Low (Durham): ”Pragmatic’ vs ‘symbolic’ erasures in the inscriptions of Classical Athens’
Dr Muriel Moser-Gerber (Frankfurt): ‘The reuse of old statue monuments, and their inscriptions, in Roman Athens’
Dr Anna Sitz (Heidelberg): ‘Politics and religion: erasing the pagan past on select inscriptions in Late Antiquity’
REGISTRATION
To register for this meeting, please e-mail Tomas Schauermann at schauermann@em.uni-frankfurt.de, putting ‘BES Conversation’ in the subject line. All welcome.