The Centre hosts the following lecture in Trinity 2026:

Gunnar Seelentag (Hannover and Münster): Monumentalising Norms, Not Names: Cartelisation and Colossality in Archaic Crete.

Reinterpreting early Greek inscriptions with normative content, placing their materiality, mediality, and social embedding at the centre of analysis, this paper will argue that the emergence of large-scale stone inscriptions in the late seventh century BCE marks a transformation in epigraphic practice: authority was no longer anchored in individuals or performative speech alone, but materially fixed in architecturally embedded, impersonal, prose texts.