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• 17 nov 2013

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Elites and crises in ancient societies

  Franco-German research workshop for young researchers

  Le complexe thématique « élites et crises dans les sociétés antiques » met en avant deux notions fondamentales pour les sciences de l'Antiquité. Malgré un état de la question et des sources globalement favorables, le rapport entre élite(s) et crise(s) n'a guère été analysé de manière systématique. Ce rapport est pourtant primordial pour comprendre les structures d'une société, non seulement pour l'Antiquité. L'atelier de recherche s'adresse aux doctorants et post-doctorants de toutes les disciplines des sciences de l'Antiquité d'Allemagne et de France, et souhaite donner aux jeunes chercheurs l'opportunité de présenter leurs travaux de recherche et leurs approches dans un cadre pluridisciplinaire et binational.

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• 31 oct 2013

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods? Formulary, Ritual and Status in Hellenistic Ruler Cult

  Panel to be held at the Eighth Celtic Conference in Classics

  Despite recent and widespread interest in Greek hero and ruler cult, evaluating the processes that lead to the bestowal of cultic honours on Hellenistic sovereigns still remains a controversial matter. Political readings of such honours within the framework of contemporary international diplomacy and euergetic discourse have picked up on polarities widely discussed by previous bibliography, such as "dynastic vs. civic", "living vs. posthumous", etc. Yet the main focus is still limited to a "top-down" perspective, which leaves aside the fascinating dialectics between "private" and "public", or to perhaps phrase this more accurately, between "institutional" and "non-institutional" actors.

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