The UK Punic Network Graduate Workshop creates an opportunity for graduate students working on Phoenician and Punic topics at Masters and Doctoral level to meet and discuss their work with students and staff with similar interests based at other universities.
The Workshop will take place on Friday, 22 Feburary 2019 at the University of Liverpool (Arthur West Room (8-11 Abercromby Square).
10:00 – 10:30 Registration/ Coffee
10:30 Alfred M. Hirt (University of Liverpool) Introduction
10:45 Alex J. Thomas (University of Leicester) ‘Territory and tribute: the Sicilian epikrateia reconsidered’(20-25 mins)
11:15 Harold Miles (University of Cardiff). ‘The Legality of Carthaginian Generals: rab mahanet and rab sheni’(20-25 mins)
11:45 Andrew Hill (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Hamilcar of Barce? The proto-history of the Barcid dynasty and Polybius’ mixellenes’(20-25 mins)
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Octavio Torres Gomariz (University of Alicante). ‘A house in the outskirts: Punic features in the domestic units of the Balearic Islands (Spain)’ (20-25 mins)
14:00 Leonardo Bison (University of Bristol). ‘Organic residue analyses on pottery and foodways: a case study from Phoenician and Punic Sardinia’. (20-25 mins)
14:30 Russell Clark (University of Cambridge). ‘The Historical and Religious Context of the Ur Ivory Box’(20-25 mins)
15:00 Lamia Sassine (University of Sheffield). ‘Elusive Phoenicians: perceptions of Phoenician identity and material culture as reflected in museum records and displays’(20-25 mins)
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00 Natalie Mendes (University of Sydney). ‘Before Rome: The Bir Chana Mosaic and Phoenician Identity Politics’ (20-25 mins)
16:15 Ademar Quint Camara (University of Liverpool). ‘Iron Age Inscriptions’(5-10 mins)
16:30 María de los Reyes Lopez Jurado (University of Seville) ‘Up the river. Cerro del Berrueco and the Phoenician and Punic presence in the central inland areas of the Cadiz province (southern Spain)’(5-10 mins)
17:45 Sibylle Hiblot-Giudicelli (Sorbonne, Paris). ‘First Phoenician Settlements in Andalusia’(5-10 mins)
17:00 Final Discussion
For those interested in attending please contact [email protected].
This year the UK Punic/Phoenician Network Graduate Workshop will be running conjointly with the Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (22-24 Feburary 2019). More details here.