Language and Cultural Interactions in the Roman World: The Impact of Inscriptions – 6-7 March 2025

Date: 6-7 March 2025

Venue: University of Groningen

Credits: 1 ECTS

The conference ‘Language and Cultural Interactions in the Roman World – The Impact of Inscriptions’ explores cultural interaction through the lens of inscriptions. The focus is on the language used in inscriptions and the way in which various language choices functioned in their original context. The organisers advocate that inscribed monuments should be seen as a medium through which interaction between different social groups could be negotiated, taking the material and physical context of the monuments into account when interpreting their inscriptions. The Roman provinces and the Italian Peninsula between the 3rd c. BCE and the 3rd c. CE constitute the conference’s spatial and temporal scope.

Organisers: Valentina Vari (v.vari@rug.nl), Caroline van Toor (c.j.toor@rug.nl), Prof. Dr Onno van Nijf and Dr Saskia Peels, in collaboration with OIKOS Research Group Cultural Interactions in the Ancient World and with the patrocinium of the Association Internationale d’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL).

Program: Invited speakers include Prof. Dr Alex Mullen (University of Nottingham, University of Oxford), Prof. Dr Bruno Rochette (Université de Liège) and Prof. Dr Silvia Orlandi (president of AIEGL). The full program can be found via the conference website, https://languageandculturalinteractionsintheromanworld.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/program-copy/.

Registration: via the registration form on the conference website https://languageandculturalinteractionsintheromanworld.wordpress.com/.

Credits: 1 EC for attending the conference and handing in a report (to secretary@archonline.nl).