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Pessac

The ruins still echo their steps — The material and immaterial circulation in Greek monuments (7th century-31 BC)

Studies on Greek monuments are rarely confronted with socio-historical works. However, new researches tend to prioritize interdisciplinarity. When these programs seem mainly concerned with monumental complexes and outdoor spaces, our workshop wants to focus on material and immaterial circulations inside public and religious buildings in the Greek world, from archaic times to the early Roman Empire.

oct

Toulouse

Thinness and slimness in Antiquity. Greece, East, Rome

This symposium will bring together researchers coming from France and from foreign countries, and from diverse backgrounds: philologists, historians (of food, of medicine), sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, literary persons, archaeologists (in particular in the domains of the bioarchaeology, paleopathology, osteology), art historians. All the aspects of the question will be analyzed. The history of the crisis in supply, the food practices of limitation under the circumstances will be approached in particular (famine, disease, diet), as the definition and the representations of the thinness and the slimness on the ancient societies, in art and literature. The approach will try to combine, even to confront, the history of mentalities and the study of the realities in Antiquity.

jui

Paris

Treatment - from the physical notion to its metaphorical representations in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Lors de cette journée d’étude, nous étudierons la notion de traitement en nous concentrant sur le monde gréco-romain, de l’époque classique (V^e siècle avant J.-C.) jusqu’à l’antiquité tardive (jusqu’au VI^e siècle après J.-C.), afin d’analyser les divers types de traitements et leurs représentations et afin d’interpréter leur évolution au cours des siècles. Le traitement (en grec θεραπεύειν, ἰατρεύειν, ἰᾶσθαι ou en latin curare) est une notion assez large, c’est pourquoi nous souhaitons l’appréhender dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire.

jui

Minorities in ancient civilisations - Volumen journal of the study of Antiquity

Revue d'études antiques Volumen

Le prochain numéro de la revue d'études antiques Volumen (n°15-16, 2016) sera consacré à la question des minorités dans les civilisations antiques : minorités ethniques, linguistiques, religieuses, culturelles ou autres.

jan

Aix-en-Provence

Water Management in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC

IIIe symposium international HYDRΩMED

The aim of the meeting is to compare the different modes of adaptation of the Ancient Mediterranean populations to the environmental resources, especially their hydric resources. In a climate marked by unequal distribution of water, the ancient societies, whether Phoenician-Punic, Greek or Etruscan, responded in different ways to the various situations, let alone the hydric crises which may have affected them. The meeting will associate systemic theoretical reflections as well as case studies on ancient sites, to outline the mutations and the permanencies, the possible technological transfers from one society to another. Here, as in other fields of human activity, we shall query the existence of an ancient Mediterranean koine around the knowledge and the technical practices, around the cultural and cultural traditions. The chronology considered runs from the 8^th to the 1^st century BC, i.e. before the diffusion of the Roman models and techniques.

jan

Paris

Conceiving and representing the notion of change in the Greco-Roman world

L'étendue chronologique de la période communément reconnue comme l'Antiquité gréco-romaine inclut nécessairement des phases de changements et de mutations, à divers niveaux. L'objectif de ce colloque jeunes chercheurs, interdisciplinaire et international, est d'étudier la manière dont les Anciens concevaient la notion de changement, que ce soit au niveau personnel, social, culturel ou historique, ainsi que d'analyser les représentations qu'ils en proposaient, tout en se concentrant sur cette question en termes de transformation ponctuelle, d'apparition ou de renouvellement.