{"id":31303,"date":"2019-09-06T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?p=31303"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:54:11","slug":"novel-perspectives-on-communication-practices-in-antiquity-towards-a-historical-socio-semiotic-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/novel-perspectives-on-communication-practices-in-antiquity-towards-a-historical-socio-semiotic-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity. Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

03-05 October 2019, Ghent, Belgium <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main aim of this conference, which forms the opening event of the ERC-project \u2018Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. A socio-semiotic study of communicative variation\u2019 (2018-2023; www.evwrit.ugent.be<\/a>), is to explore to what extent it is possible and desirable to found a discipline such as historical social-semiotics, parallel to historical socio-linguistics. Such a novel, interdisciplinary approach is particularly relevant for \u2018everyday\u2019 documentary texts: since these texts represent autographs, their external characteristics can also be brought into the interpretation. Jean-Luc Fournet (2007), for example, has recently argued for a \u2018pal\u00e9ographie signifiante\u2019, noting that \u2018l\u2019analyse mat\u00e9rielle d\u2019un document peut \u00eatre porteuse de sens\u2019 (2007:353), not only when it comes to text type, but also with regard to the socio-cultural context of writing, and the provenance of the document. Other external characteristics to be considered as expressions of social meaning (functioning as \u2018semiotic resources\u2019) are \u2013 but are not limited to \u2013 writing material, document format, and language choice. Their analysis reveals information concerning hierarchy, status and social relations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 3, 2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8:45-9:15: 
Registration <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:15-9:30: 
Welcome Greetings <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning session: Genre and multimodality 
Chairperson: Klaas Bentein <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30-10:00: 
Klaas Bentein (Ghent University) 
Introduction <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00-10:30: 
Sarah B\u00e9thume (INCAL\/CEMA, UCLouvain) 
\u201cThe \u2018exposed writings\u2019: how the study of the \u2018pluricode\u2019 message of ancient Greek inscriptions can shed light on the archaic and classical dialectal variation\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30-11:00: 
Nicola Reggiani (University of Parma) 
\u201cTowards a socio-semiotic analysis of Greek medical prescriptions on papyrus\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30-12:00: 
Francesca Murano & Mariarosaria Zinzi (University of Florence) 
\u201cA social-semiotic analysis of Greek defixiones from South Italy\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00-12:30: 
Jimmy Wolfe (The Ohio State University) 
\u201cImagining faith: images, scripts, and texts of early Christian inscriptions from the Roman Near East\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30-14:00: Lunch Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afternoon session: Texts and intra-semiosis 
Chairperson: Yasmine Amory <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00-14:45: 
Key-note speaker, Antonella Ghignoli (Sapienza \u2013 University of Rome) 
\u201cThis is the catalogue! A so far unknown latin documentary papyrus from 6th century Italy\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:45-15:15: 
Martti Leiwo (University of Helsinki) 
\u201cHands and language in ostraca letters from Roman praesidia in Egypt\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:15-15:45: 
Giulio Iovine (University of Naples \u201cFederico II\u201d) 
\u201cDescriptum et recognitum. A survey of Latin closing and acknowledging formulae in Latin and Greek papyri and ostraca\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:45-16:15: Coffee Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:15-16:45: 
Antonia Apostolakou (Ghent University) 
\u201cHow to sign a contract in Late Antique Egypt: a study of linguistic variation\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:45-17:15: 
Simona Russo (Istituto papirologico \u201cG. Vitelli\u201d) 
\u201cRome as New York, fashion capital?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Reception at Alice <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 4, 2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning session: Sociolinguistic variation 
Chairperson: Mark Janse <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:15-10:00: 
Key-note speaker, James Clackson (University of Cambridge) 
\u201cStandard languages, language standards and language norms in the Greco-Roman world\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00-10:30: 
Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki) 
\u201c\u0422he forest\u2019s broken branches: discontinuity in Greek word order in documentary papyri from III c BCE to III c CE\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30-11:00: 
Alek Keersmaekers (UK Leuven) 
\u201cSociolinguistic variation in the Greek papyri: a corpus-based, bottom-up approach\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30-12:00: 
Emmanuel Roumanis & Geert De Mol (Ghent University) 
\u201cThe Abinnaeus archive: lexical and orthographic features\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00-12:30: 
Alessandro Papini (Ghent University) 
\u201cA preliminary investigation on the graphemic oscillations in Italian Latin inscriptions of the Republican age\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30-14:00: Lunch Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afternoon session: Visual and material aspects of texts 
Chairperson: Joanne Stolk <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00-14:45: 
Key-note speaker, Jean-Luc Fournet (Coll\u00e8ge de France \u2013 EPHE) 
\u201cBeyond the text: the contribution of the \u2018pal\u00e9ographie signifiante\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:45-15:15: 
Marco Stroppa (Istituto papirologico \u201cG. Vitelli\u201d) 
\u201cBig & small: the size of documents as a semiotic resource for Graeco-Roman Egypt?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:15-15:45: 
Nina Sietis (Sapienza \u2013 University of Rome) 
\u201cAbbreviations in Greek documentary texts. A case study of \u2018significant palaeography\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:45-16:15: Coffee Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:15-16:45: 
Eleonora Conti (Istituto papirologico \u201cG. Vitelli\u201d) 
\u201cSpread and persistence of Latin document features in some Greek letters of high chancery on papyrus\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:45-17:15: 
Yasmine Amory (Ghent University) 
\u201cVisual signs of deference in Late Antique letters\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:30: 
Visit at the Archaeological Collection of Ghent University at Het Pand <\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:30: Dinner at Sint Jorishof (optional, pre-reservation required) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, October 5, 2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning session: Multimodal aspects of writing 
Chairperson: Giovanbattista Galdi <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:15-10:00: 
Key-note speaker, Mark Depauw (UC Leuven) 
\u201cSplitting words in Greek letters and petitions. Quantitative research based on Trismegistos\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00-10:30: 
Joanne Stolk (Ghent University\/University of Oslo) 
\u201cThe social meaning of scribal corrections in final versions of papyrus letters\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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