Workshop at The British School at Athens, 16-17 December 2019
Keynote speakers: Quinn DuPont and John H. Kroll
This workshop forms part of ‘Tokens and their Cultural biography in Athens from the Classical Age to the End of Antiquity’ project, a MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No AMD-794080-2.
Workshop Programme
Monday 16th December 2019
1.30-2pm Registration
2-2.30pm Welcome Mairi Gkikaki (University of Warwick)
Session 1: Communication, community and social cohesion
2.30-3pm Tragic tokens: Sophoclean symbola in context
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)
3-3.30pm Symbola in the polis life
Mairi Gkikaki (University of Warwick)
3.30-4.30pm Coffee
Session 2: ‘Breaking the code’: the cryptic character of tokens
4.30-5pm Nike on Hellenistic lead tokens: Iconography and meaning
Martin Schäfer (Archaiologiki Etaireia)
5-5.30pm Athenian clay tokens: New types, new series
Stamatoula Makrypodi (University of Athens)
5.30-6pm A New Type of Roman Period Clay Tokens from Jerusalem
Yoav Fahri (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
6-6.15pm Break6.15-7pm Keynote Address by John H. Kroll (University of Texas at Austin)
The Corpus of Athenian Tokens: 150 Years of Expansion and Study from Postolakas to the Present
From 7pm onwards: Reception
Tuesday 17th December 2019
Session 3: Political devices of the participatory democracy
10-10.30am Tokens and Tribes: an Iconographic Overview
Daria Russo (University of Rome Tor Vergata – University of Heidelberg)
10.30-11am Tokens and Corruption in Fourth Century BC Athens
Alessandro Orlandini (University of Milan)
11-11.30am Symbola and Political Equality in Classical Athens
James Kierstead (Victoria University of Wellington)
11.30-12am Coffee
12-12.45pm Keynote Address by Quinn Dupont (University College Dublin) The Social Order of “Crypto” Communities
1-2.30pm Lunch
Session 4: New Finds
2.30-3pm Tokens from the Koile Area
Olga Dakoura-Vogiatzoglou (Ephory of Antiquities of the City of Athens)
3-3.30pm New Hellenistic and Roman clay tokens from Sicily through local identities, museum and archival Research
Antonino Crisà (Ghent University)
3.30-4.30pm Coffee
Session 5: Athenian tokens in the world of the Eastern Mediterranean
4.30-5pm Contextualising Athenian Tokens
Clare Rowan (University of Warwick)
5-5.30pm Lead tokens in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A Reassessment of Dating and Purpose
Denise Wilding (University of Warwick)
5.30-6pm Alexander the Great’s images in the post-Alexander world: The evidence of Greek and Roman tesserae (1st–5th centuries AD).
Christian Mondello (University of Warwick)
6-6.15 Break
6.15-6.30pm Thanks and Farewell