This workshop from 5-6 June will bring together scholars working on the development of urban and rural settlement in Sicily from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Published 17 April). HTML Event details Date 5-6 June 2015 Friday 5 June 2015, 2.30pm – 6.30pm and Saturday 6 June 2015, 9am – 5.30pm Location G. 16, doorway 4, Old Medical Quad, Teviot Place, Edinburgh How to find us Event description This workshop includes experienced and early career researchers, who will present work-in-progress on this topic, and the workshop provides a unique opportunity for scholars from several major projects based in the USA, Italy, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands to exchange ideas and information directly with one another. Urban and Rural Change in Sicily Recent work on Sicily has revitalised the study of Sicilian urbanism from prehistory down to late antiquity. This work has ignited debate about the development of urbanism in Sicily and its relationship to rural settlement across history and between cultures. It has become clear that complex questions remain about how we combine analyses of urban centres with their rural hinterlands, and how the development of these two areas is interconnected. The combination of data and analyses from diverse geographical areas and chronological periods remains central to our understanding of historical change in Sicily from prehistory to the late Roman period. Workshop Programme There will be six formal sessions, with two sessions on Friday 5 June starting from 2:30pm, and four sessions on Saturday 6 June starting from 9am. Each speaker is allocated 50 minutes for paper delivery and ensuing discussion. Document Download the Sicily workshop programme (pdf) (193.57 KB / PDF) Speakers Our speakers at this event join us from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. Speaker University Topic Prof. Johannes Bergemann University of Göttingen, Germany ‘Monti Sicani. A non-Greek area in central western Sicily’ Dr Robert Leighton University of Edinburgh, UK ‘Site surveys and funerary landscapes of Sicilian prehistory‘ Prof. Luuk De Light University of Leiden, Netherlands ‘Cities from texts and architecture in Roman Sicily’ Prof. John Bintliff University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Leiden, Netherlands ‘Rural and urban survey in Roman Sicily’ Dr Oscar Belvedere University of Palermo, Italy ‘Sacred landscapes of Himera’s hinterland in archaic and classical times’ Dr Aurelio Burgio University of Palermo, Italy ‘The dynamics of rural population in the hinterland of Cignana (south-central Sicily) from Prehistory to Late Antiquity’ Dr Daniele Malfitana] Dr Giuseppe Cacciaguerra Dr Carmela Franco University of Catania, Italy IBAM, University of Catania, Italy University of Oxford, UK ‘Roman Sicily project: perspectives and views on material culture from production site to rural settlement.’ Dr Jonathan Prag University of Oxford, UK ‘I.Sicily: a new resource for utilising the epigraphic sources for ancient Sicily’ Dr Peter Morton University of Edinburgh, UK ‘The evolution of social order in Hellenistic Sicily’ Dr Emanuele Vaccaro University of Cambridge, UK To be determined Dr Laura Pfuntner University of California Davis, USA ‘Strabo’s Sicily’ Prof. Keith Rutter University of Edinburgh, UK ‘Coins and history - the case of Sicily’ Fees The workshop fee covers the registration for the event, refreshments throughout both days, a light sandwich lunch on Saturday 6 June, and a reception at the end of the proceedings on Friday 5 June. Two fee options are available; a reduced fee for all students, unwaged or University of Edinburgh staff, and a standard fee for all other attendees. Reduced fee £30 Standard fee £45 Register Please visit our online booking system to register. Register now via ePay Further information If you have any questions, please contact the event organiser Peter Morton. Dr Peter Morton Postdoctoral Fellow; Classics School of History, Classics and Archaeology University of Edinburgh Contact details Email: p.morton@ed.ac.uk This article was published on 2024-08-01
