Activities

1-3 July 2010 – Faculty of Classics, Oxford

Our colloquium ‘New worlds out of old texts: interrogating new techniques for the spatial analysis of ancient narratives’ brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars working on different aspects of space. A complete programme for the colloquium is now available (Download PDF) as are colloquium abstracts (Download PDF). Some places are still available: to register, please email Elton Barker: elton.barker@chch.ox.ac.uk.

The full line-up of speakers, including topics and institutional affiliation, is as follows:

Mathieu de Bakker (Amsterdam) Space, cults and networks in Herodotus (the eastern Aegean)
Tom Brughmans (Southampton) Understanding Roman table ware distributions in the Mediterranean
Marco Buchler (eAQUA, Leipzig) Graph mining applications in the eHumanities
Paola Ceccarelli (Durham) Marine space in Greek historiography
Greg Crane (Perseus, Tufts) The consequences of technology
Stuart Dunn (Centre for e-Research, KCL) Changing practices in visualization[s] of the ancient world
Oyvind Eide (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, KCL) Verbal expressions of geographical data
Jon Holmen (Oslo) Time reasoning and story-telling: the CIDOC-CRM event and time span model (Oslo)
Leif Isaksen (Southampton) Underlying structure in Ptolemy's Geography
Elpida Makriyannis/Liam Green-Hughes (OLnet, Open) Open learn educational resources
Donald Murray (Durham) Herodotus and Mesopotamian cosmic geography
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury/Lin Foxhall (Leicester, et al) Tracing networks
Tim Rood (Oxford) Mapping spatial and temporal distance in Greek historiography
Kathryn Stevens (Cambridge) Spatial ideas in Aristotle and Theophrastus
Claire Taylor, Trinity College, Dublin – Social networks in the Mediterranean world
Agnes Thomas (Arachne, Koeln) CIDOC-CRM-modelling of Thucydides
Oliver Thomas (Oxford) Functions of space in the Homeric Hymns

Elton Barker – Introductions
Leif Isaksen – Applying ICT to the analysis of an ancient text
Stefan Bouzarovski – Paradigm shifts in spatial theory in the discipline of Geography
Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen – Networks in Herodotus
Chris Pelling – A view from the boundary: the experience of a classical scholar
Elton Barker – What next?

Previous Presentations of HESTIA

• Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn? An International Conference in Classical Reception (http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Conf2010/confpage2010.htm), The Open University – 18-20 June 2010
• International Seminar on Historical GIS, European University of St Petersburg, Russia – 4 June 2010
• Classical Association Annual Conference 2010, University of Cardiff – 7-10 April 2010
• School of Archaeology, Classics and & Egyptology, University of Liverpool – 25 March 2010
• School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies, University of Birmingham – 15 March 2010
• Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) UK Chapter Meeting, University College London – 19-20 February 2010
• OLnet (Open Learning Network) spring seminar (http://olnet.org/), The Open University – 10 Feburary 2010
• DFG–Perseus Workshop on Historical Texts (http://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/institut/professuren/korpuslinguistik/events-en/nehdfg/), Tufts University, Boston – 13-14 January 2010
• Högre seminarium i klassika språk Institutionem för lingvistik och filologi, Uppsala University, Sweden – 4 December 2009
• TOPOI: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations, Workshop on Herodotus (http://topoi.org/), TOPOI, Berlin – 9 October 2009
• Classical Studies Department Research Day, The Open University – 8 October 2009
• Mapping Information with and without Geography: Approaches to Data Visualization and Structure in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1005/), e-Science Institute, Edinburgh – 30 September - 1 October 2009
• 4th International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities: The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East (1st Millennium BC – 5th Century AD), Faculty of Letters, Istanbul – 14-18 September 2009
• Digital Classicist seminar series, King's College London Download this talk as an mp3 file; View the presentation slides – 31 July 2009
• The Classical Association and the Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference 2009, Glasgow – 3-6 April 2009
• Text and Cultural Construction Seminar, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham – 20 November 2008

Space in the Ancient World Workshop, Faculty of Classics, Oxford –13 January 2009

• Introduction to HESTIA
• Session 1: Ideological Space
The Aegean islands, between East and West – Paola Ceccarelli (Durham)
On rivers: being transgressed and assisting the ‘good' – Katherine Clarke (Oxford)
Networks of narrative – Nicholas Purcell (Oxford)


• Session 2: Narratological Space
Greek mythological landscape – Mathieu de Bakker (Amsterdam)
Linear models of space – Roger Brock (Leeds)
Aristagoras/5.49ff, Thucydides and Xenophon – Tim Rood (Oxford)


• General discussion chaired by Chris Pelling