HRC Colloquium 2024 - 'Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles'
Humanities Research Centre/ British Epigraphy Society Colloquium
Programme - Venue: Scarman House
9.15 Welcome (Alison Cooley, President of BES/Director of HRC)
Chair: Alison Cooley
9.30-10.15 Charlotte Woodhead (糖心TV Law School) 鈥楲egal perspectives on collecting in the British Isles鈥�
10.15-11.00 Hardeep Singh Dhindsa (King鈥檚 College London) 鈥楾he Classical and the Colonial: Visualising Spatial and Ideological Separation in Eighteenth-Century Collections鈥�
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
Chair: Thomas Corsten
11.20-12.05 Alexandra Solovyev (University of Oxford), 鈥�'Destruction committed chiefly by the English': British and Ottoman Responses to J. T. Wood's Excavations at Ephesus鈥�
12.05-12.50 Peter Liddel (University of Manchester), 鈥楾he Traffic in Greek Inscriptions. Nineteenth-Century Narratives about the British acquisition of Greek Inscriptions'
12.50-13.40 Lunch
Chair: Silvia Orlandi
13.40-14.25 Alan Montgomery (Independent scholar), 鈥楢uthentick Vouchers of Antiquity鈥�: Collecting Roman Inscriptions in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
14.25-15.10 Shushma Malik (University of Cambridge) and Jane Mass茅glia (University of Leicester), 鈥業t takes a village: actors and extras in the making of the 鈥楤ankes鈥� collection鈥�
15.10-15.55 Caroline Barron (Durham University), 鈥�A Museum of Learned Lumber: Romano-British inscriptions at Rokeby Hall鈥�
15.55-16.15 Tea break
Chair: Alex Mullen
16.15-17.00 Benet Salway (UCL) 鈥楢n unpublished cinerary casket and other Roman antiquities at Nymans House, Sussex鈥�
17.00-17.45 Alexander Thein (University College Dublin) 鈥楢 verse Latin funerary inscription in University College Dublin鈥�
17.45-18.15 Concluding roundtable discussion
18.15 Drinks - Radcliffe House
19.00 Dinner - Radcliffe House (at participants鈥� own cost)
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