Seminars

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.

The Centre hosts the following lecture in Trinity 2026:

Roberta Mazza (University of Bologna): Beyond Provenance: Publishing Papyri and Other Manuscripts from Egypt in 2026

A critical reflection on the history of papyrology and papyrus collecting, discussing problems and issues in current policies and practices in the field. Prof. Mazza’s book, Stolen Fragments: black markets, bad faith, and the illicit trade in ancient artefacts, was a winner of the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her scholarly detective skills were instrumental in the important  revelation of the provenance of items purchased for the Green Collection and Museum of the History of the Bible, Washington, DC.