BNA-contactdagen 2014: call for papers

February 6, 2014, 12:54 pm

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De Contactdagen voor Belgische en Nederlandse archeologen en bouwhistorici (BNA) 2014 zullen plaatsvinden op donderdag 15 en vrijdag 16 mei aan de Universiteit Leiden. Op het programma staan in ieder geval een sessie over numismatiek (sessievoorzitter Arent Pol) en een sessie over bouwhistorie (sessievoorzitter Dirk de Vries). Andere sessies liggen nog niet vast. Geïnteresseerde sprekers worden verzocht tegen uiterlijk vrijdag 28 maart een titel en een abstract van ca. 200 woorden aan te leveren. Ook bijdragen die niet aan een sessie gebonden zijn, zijn van harte welkom.

Met uitzondering van de key-note lezing is de voertaal op het congres Nederlands. Engelse of Duitse bijdragen zijn echter welkom. De abstracts kunnen gestuurd worden naar Roos van Oosten en Arjan den Braven. Het definitieve programma wordt begin april bekend gemaakt.

Download de volledige call for papers (pdf).

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Open Access Journal: Ars Adriatica

February 6, 2014, 1:06 pm

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Ars Adriatica
ISSN 1848-1590
ISSN 1848-7459 (Online)

Časopis Odjela za povijest umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zadru, "Ars Adriatica" izlazi jednom godišnje, a objavljuje recenzirane znanstvene i stručne članke iz područja znanosti o umjetnosti. U fokusu interesa su pitanja i pojave umjetničke baštine prostora jadranskoga bazena, njegovih urbanističkih i arhitektonskih, slikarskih i kiparskih, primijenjenih umjetnosti i teorije umjetnosti.

Područja pokrivanja: Humanističke znanosti; Znanost o umjetnosti; Povijest umjetnosti
Journal of the Department of Art History, University of Zadar, "Ars Adriatica" publishes reviewed scientific and professional papers in history and theory of arts, in scope that covers questions and phenomena of the artistic heritage of Adriatic basin, its urbanistic and architectural forms, paining, sculpture and applied arts, as well as the questions of artistic theories.

Scientific scope: Humanities, Art sciences, History of art.
2013
No. 3
2012
No. 2
2011
No. 1

2013
	No. 3
2012
	No. 2
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	No. 1

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Gregor Damschen et Andreas Heil, Brill's Companion to Seneca. Philosopher and Dramatist

February 6, 2014, 1:09 pm

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Gregor Damschen et Andreas Heil (éd.), Brill's Companion to Seneca. Philosopher and Dramatist, Leyde, 2013.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Brill's Companions in Classical Studies
xii, 884 pp. pages
ISBN : 9789004217089
162 €

This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author's philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.

Source : Brill

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Smuggled Cultural Property Returned to Bulgaria from Italy

February 6, 2014, 1:10 pm

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Daniel Nikolova, 'Stolen cultural artifacts returned to Bulgaria', Standart 6th Feb 2014:

A large collection of illegally trafficked historical artifacts has been seized by the Italian police while in the process of being sold, bTV reports. The collection, consisting mostly of coins and statuettes, will be returned to Bulgaria [...] The valuables were seized by Italian law enforcement agencies in cooperation with Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS). Both the Bulgarian and Italian sides underscored their satisfaction at their good joint work in the interception of trafficked culture and historical artifacts, said Dimitrov. The returned valuables will be presented at a press conference at the National Museum of History in Sofia in the coming days, he added.

Internationally famous cultural property legal specialist Peter Tompa is believed to be on a plane to Sophia at this moment. "There has been a terrible mistake", he told reporters on the tarmac before he boarded the IAPN-chartered private jet, "the Bulgarians have got the law totally wrong. These coins were not "illicit" but are openly sold in Bulgaria, I'm going to sort them out. A welcoming committee of the Bulgarian Brotherhood of Totally Legal Artefact Procurers is believed to be waiting to greet him.

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Olga Spevak, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose

February 6, 2014, 1:14 pm

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Olga Spevak, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose, Leyde, 2014.

Éditeur :
Collection : Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology
375 pages
ISBN : 9789004265684
134 €

The internal ordering of Latin noun phrases is very flexible in comparison with modern European languages. Whereas there are a number of studies devoted to the variable placement of modifiers, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose proposes an entirely new approach: a discussion of the semantic and syntactic properties of both nouns and modifiers. Using recent insights in general linguistics, it argues that not only pragmatic factors but also semantic factors (whether we are dealing with an inherent property, the author's assessment, or a further specification of a referent) are responsible for the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases. Additionally, this book discusses prepositional phrases functioning as modifiers, and appositions, which have received little attention in the literature.

Source : Brill

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Erosion Threatens England’s Archaeology

February 6, 2014, 1:15 pm

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LONDON, ENGLAND—Storms and flooding in Britain this winter have eroded away archaeological sites and uncovered shipwrecks. Among the damaged sites is the lost medieval port town of Dunwich, which was slowly swallowed up by the North Sea beginning with a three-day storm in 1286. The Museum of London Archaeology is therefore recruiting volunteers to help archaeologists address the emergency. “We cannot halt the erosion or destruction of some of these sites but can ensure that the information about the remains is not lost. By creating a standardized, web-based recording system and providing training and new skills, we see this as an extraordinary opportunity for people across the country to create a lasting record that will benefit us all for years to come,” Taryn Nixon, chief executive of the museum, told The Guardian.

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Peter Kuhlmann et Helmuth Schneider, History of Classical Scholarship. A Biographical Dictionary

February 6, 2014, 1:23 pm

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Peter Kuhlmann et Helmuth Schneider (éd.), History of Classical Scholarship. A Biographical Dictionary, Leyde, 2013.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Brill's New Pauly
lxvi, 746 pages
ISBN : 9789004245938
249 €

This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the history of classical studies. Alphabetically arranged, it provides biographies of over 700 scholars from the fourteenth century onwards who have made their mark on the study of Antiquity. These include the lives, careers and works of classical philologists, archaeologists, ancient historians, students of epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, Egyptology and the Ancient Near East, philosophers, anthropologists, social scientists, art historians, collectors and writers. The biographies put the scholars in their social, political and cultural contexts while focusing on their scholarly achievements and their contributions to modern classical scholarship.

Source : Brill

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What the PAS in the USA Would be "For"

February 6, 2014, 1:30 pm

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Tekkie-loving archaeology graduate Lisa McIntyre (February 4, 2014 at 8:30 pm enthuses about setting up a PAS-like scheme in the USA.

The voluntary idea is great. I would be curious as to how many would participate. I especially like the idea of using a university as the repository for those who wish to donate finds. Students could be utilized to organize inventory and documentation.

She seems to think the PAS gathers finds rather than information about them, but then has already expressed a lack of intellectual curiosity about what it is the real PAS does, or about why dealers' lobbyist Peter Tompa is so keen on the idea of PAS. She's a fresh graduate, knows it all, you see. Meanwhile detectorist pal Stout has other problems (February 6, 2014 at 9:16 am):

Have been thinking about the college idea and wondered if detectorists would be protected under such a plan. i.e., could their finds be confiscated or could they be subject to prosecution, etc.? There would have to be upfront guarantees for everyone to feel comfortable with it. JMO.

Not if they've been detecting illegally. Somehow I do not think the idea has really made it across the Atlantic properly.

Vignette: Do US academic institutions have the right of Sanctuary?

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The Loss of Syria’s Cultural Heritage

February 6, 2014, 1:48 pm

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK—Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO’s assistant director-general for culture, announced at a press conference that the European Union has donated 2.5 million euros to a program intended to fight looting and improve the available information about Syria’s endangered cultural heritage. During the continuing civil war, illegal digging has taken place at the sites of Mari, Elba, Palmyra, and Apamea. “All of them have been subject to this phenomena, some of them to an extent that is unimaginable. Apamea—it’s completely destroyed,” Bandarin told the Associated Press. In an effort to stem the flow of antiquities out of Syria, UNESCO has been training police and customs forces in neighboring countries to identify looted artifacts. “We certainly have intercepted a very, very small amount of what has been pillaged,” said Bandarin.

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Google books lets me down badly

February 6, 2014, 2:02 pm

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I’ve just had a very bad experience, because I relied rather uncritically on a volume that I found on Google books. It’s a warning, and I doubt I shall forget it in a hurry.

I have someone out in the Middle East transcribing the Arabic from Erpenius’ 1625 edition of the 13th century Coptic historian, al-Makin. Of course I got a copy from google books and sent it off, and thought no more about it.

The text is 300 pages. It turns out that various pages are missing, others appear out of order, or several times. Of course the transcriber was chosen for their Arabic skills, and, although they’ve done their best, have been utterly confused by this. Worse yet, they live in a region where internet access is poor, so downloads are very slow.

I have had to spend the entire evening working on the Erpenius PDF in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro; indicating, page by page, whether the page should be included or not; marking up individual pages with red crossings out; inserting missing pages from another copy.

I’ve had to do this so that the transcribe can go through their transcription, in the order of the original defective PDF, and find the material in the right places.

It’s a hideous job.

Moral: never rely on a Google books PDF. Take the time and just go through it and collate it. It will take 15 minutes at most, and it will save you a world of frustration.

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Opportunity: Sackler Fellowship in Chinese Numismatics

February 6, 2014, 2:04 pm

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The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is looking for a Chinese numismatics specialist for a three-year fellowship.

photo: Reading Tom

Ashmolean Museum and Worcester College, Oxford: Sackler Fellowship in Chinese Numismatics
Applications due 07 March 2014

The College, in conjunction with the Museum, invites applications from suitably qualified men and women for a Research Fellowship, to be held in the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum, for a period of three years. The post will be defined as a Senior or Junior Research Fellowship according to the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate. The appointment will commence from 1st October 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Chinese coinage represents one of the two principal monetary traditions in the world. There are very few experts in Chinese coinage outside Asia. The radical under-representation of the subject in the West presents a significant strategic opportunity to develop this field of numismatics and economic and monetary history. There is great scope for developing the subject in Oxford, where the large and important collection of Chinese coinage has never been properly exploited.
The principal role and duties of the Fellow will be to work under the direction of the Assistant Keeper (South Asia) to put the collection of Chinese coins in good order, to capture data on the Chinese numismatic collection and enter details on a museum database, and to undertake and publish research, including a catalogue of part of the collection, the scope of which might depend on the interests and expertise of the successful candidate.

Full details here.

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"Looking at persuasive circumstantial evidence"

February 6, 2014, 2:20 pm

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Returned from Dallas.
Source: Dallas Museum of Art

Julia Halperin and Javier Pes have written about the attitude of North American museums towards repatriation ("US museums' about-face on restitution", The Art Newspaper, February 2014). There are comments from Kaywin Feldman, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, who now holds a more informed position than the one presented in December 2010: "It’s been a landslide change in collecting policy, procedures and ethics". There is a reference to the return of the Athenian red-figured krater (September 2011) that was recognised from the Medici Dossier and thence to hands of Robin Symes. Maxwell Anderson was also interview indicating his proactive position that led to the voluntary return of a range of objects from Dallas.

Feldman reports that some potential donors are "frustrated" by the new AAMD Guidelines. But it has probably saved some potentially damaging acquisitions. And Fordham University would have been wise to have researched a donation from a private collection.

The report mentions the Egyptian mummy mask in the St Louis Art Museum that is known to have been excavated at Saqqara but somehow left its place in an archaeological store. Although the collecting history that was provided cannot be accurate, an official from SLAM was quoted as saying that the museum's "position on its legal ownership of the mask has not changed". This position contrasts with Anderson's transparent ethical stance for Dallas.

I am quoted in the report and call for improved documentation for acquired objects. Published collecting histories need to demonstrate the authenticated sources.

And the Art Newspaper notes that social media allow individuals to identify material that has been acquired my museums. So we can expect more returns.

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Conference: ASEASUK 2014

February 6, 2014, 2:24 pm

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The Association of South-east Asian Studies in the UK is holding its 28th annual conference in September. Panel proposals closed a week back, but papers are being accepted right up to the end of march. There are a few panels that would be of interest to archaeologists.

ASEASUK 2014 Conference
University of Brighton
12th to 14th September 2014
Deadline for paper proposals: 31 March 2014

ASEASUK is pleased to announce that its 28th Annual Conference will take place at the University of Brighton, UK from 12th to 14th September 2014. The conference provides a first class opportunity to share research and network with established and early career scholars of South East Asia from across a wide range of academic disciplines in a convivial and friendly setting.

Themed panels are as follows:

Framing South East Asia: The role of the Museum. Contact: Helen Mears, helen.mears@brighton-hove.gov.uk and Susan Conway sc66@soas.ac.uk
Southeast Asian Performing Arts: Tradition in Modernity. Contact Margaret Coldiron (mcoldi@essex.ac.uk) and/or Matthew Cohen (matthew.cohen@rhul.ac.uk)
Malay/Indonesian Manuscript Studies. Contact: Dr Mulaika Hijjas, mh86@soas.ac.uk
Digital/Ritual: Southeast Asia and new global media. Contact: d.c.mckay@keele.ac.uk and jco10@leicester.ac.uk
Contemporary architectural and urban practices in Southeast Asia. Contact: Ofita Purwani s0912002@sms.ed.ac.uk and Wido Prananing Tyas w.p.tyas@ncl.ac.uk.
Resilience and responsibility in tourism. Contact: Dr Janet Cochrane, Leeds Metropolitan University, j.cochrane@leedsmet.ac.uk
Assembling Infrastructure: Development, Counterinsurgency and Political Struggle in Myanmar/Burma. Contact: Robert Farnan robert_a.farnan@kcl.ac.uk and Arash Sedighi as124@soas.ac.uk
Political ecology, resilience and environmental justice in a changing Southeast Asia. Contact: Becky Elmhirst r.j.elmhirst@brighton.ac.uk
Conceptualizing political modernity in Southeast Asia. Contact: Carlo Bonura cb84@soas.ac.uk
Illiberal Pluralism in SE Asia’s Economic Reform Experience. Contact: Thomas Jandl thjandl@yahoo.com
Contemporary Politics in Cambodia. Contact: Prof Jörn Dosch joern.dosch@uni-rostock.de
Constitutional Politics in Burma/Myanmar. Contact: Andrew McLeod andrew.mcleod@law.ox.ac.uk
Gender, Migrations and Racialisation in Southeast Asia. Contact: Julien Debonneville Julien.debonneville@unige.ch
Rethinking Gender and Development in Southeast Asia: Methodological Entanglements. Contact: Becky Elmhirst r.j.elmhirst@brighton.ac.uk
Emerging Scholars Panel. Contact: PJ Thum <pingtjin.thum@history.ox.ac.uk>.
Open panel. Contact: Becky Elmhirst r.j.elmhirst@brighton.ac.uk

For more information click here.

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La Mésie inférieure entre Orient et Occident

February 6, 2014, 2:38 pm

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Jacob, M. (2013) : Moesia Inferior între Orient şi Occident identitatea culturală şi economică a provinciei în contextul lumii romane, Bucarest [La Mésie inférieure entre Orient et Occident : identité culturelle et économique de la province dans le contexte du monde romain].

L’ouvrage aborde la Dobroudja romaine d’un point de vue culturelle et économique. Il présente cette région comme se situant au croisement des influences orientales et occidentales.

Résumé et sommaire en français

http://www.cultura.postdoc.acad.ro/cursanti/sinteze/iacob_mihaela.pdf