NACGLE 2016:  Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

NACGLE 2016: Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

The Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (NACGLE) was held Monday through Wednesday, January 4-6, 2016, at the University of California, Berkeley. A preliminary program is available here.

The congress was held in conjunction with the Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco (Wednesday through Saturday, January 6-9, 2016) and was the largest epigraphical event in the world for the year 2016. Building on the successful first NACGLE, which was held in 2011 at San Antonio, TX (click here for the proceedings), we continue our efforts to promote epigraphical studies in North America by inviting an array of young and senior international scholars to present their work to a large audience. The second NACGLE included parallel sessions on Greek and Roman epigraphy, graffiti, calendars, and digital epigraphy; plenary sessions on new Greek and Latin texts, and one devoted to the epigraphy of Greek religion; and two keynote addresses by Angelos Chaniotis (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), and Alison Cooley (University of Warwick).

The presentation of a Festschrift to honor Ron Stroud.
The presentation of a Festschrift to honor Ron Stroud.

The congress was sponsored by the Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy, theDepartment of Classics, the Department of History, and the Graduate Group of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA) at UC Berkeley, as well as the Townsend Center for the Humanities, under the aegis of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE). Additional support is offered by the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL), and Brill Publishers.

The Organizing Committee:

John Bodel (Brown University, President of ASGLE)

Paul Iversen (Case Western Reserve University, Vice-President of ASGLE)

Emily Mackil (University of California, Berkeley)

John Morgan (University of Delaware, Member-at-Large of ASGLE)

Carlos Noreña (University of California, Berkeley)

Nikolaos Papazarkadas (University of California, Berkeley)

James Sickinger (Florida State University, Secretary of ASGLE)

 

ASGLE book prizes for the best paper read by a graduate student at NACGLE:

Greek:

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (University of California, Berkeley):
“Inscribed Incantations for Bleeding: A Hematite Gem and its Tradition”

Roman: 

Riccardo Bertolazzi (University of Calgary):
“From the CIL Archives: a New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis”

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