Συνέδριο για την πολυγλωσσία στην αρχαιότητα και το Μεσαίωνα

Ένα ενδιαφέρον συνέδριο θα λάβει χώρα στο διάστημα 29-30 Μαΐου 2009 στο Faculty of Classics. Διοργανωτής του είναι το Classical and Indo-European Linguistics Caucus, Faculty of Classics, University ofCambridge (Alex Mullen and Patrick James)

Θέμα του είναι:
"Multilingualism from Alexander to Charlemagne: cross-cultural themes and perspectives"

Friday 29th May 2009

Registration: 8.30-11.309.30-11.00 [Speakers and chairs only]

Introduction and round-table sessionon methodology (particularly the practice of interdisciplinarity and the application of modern bilingualism theory to the study of ancientlanguages) Alex Mullen (Lumley Research Fellow, Magdalene College,Cambridge)

11.30-1.00 Issues in the nature and interpretation of evidence for bilingualism

Chair: Pippa Steele

Dr Alderik Blom (Katharine Jex-Blake Fellow in Celtic Studies, Girton College, Cambridge) 'Multilingualism and ritual language'

Professor Rosanna Sornicola (Professor of Linguistics, Department of Modern Philology, University of Naples Federico II)

'Multilingualism in Sicily and Southern Italy in the Early Middle Ages: issues in the nature and interpretation of the evidence'

2.30-4.00 Micro and macro-communities and regional variation

Chair: Eleanor Dickey

Dr Oliver Simkin (Research Associate, the Greek Lexicon Project, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge) 'Language contact in Ancient Spain: direct and indirect evidence'

Dr Trevor Evans (Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University, Australia) 'Complaints of the natives in a Greek dress: the evidence of the Zenon Archive for a Greek-Egyptian micro-community'

4.30-6.00 The function of languages in multilingual societies

Chair: Patrick James

Dr James Clackson (Senior University Lecturer, Faculty of Classics,Cambridge) 'Stable and unstable bilingualism'

Professor Andrew Wilson (Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, School of Archaeology, Oxford) 'Punic and Latin inscriptions in Roman North Africa: function and display'

6.30-7.30 Reception: the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Classics

Saturday 30th May 2009

9.30-11.00 Bilingual education and literacy

Chair: (t.b.c.)

Professor Scott Bucking (Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, USA) 'Archaeology, papyrology, and thestudy of Greek-Coptic education in late antique Egypt'

Dr Pádraic Moran (Research Officer, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse andCeltic, Cambridge) 'Multilingualism and the Medieval Irish learned tradition'

11.30-1.00 The linguistic and cultural implications of translation

Chair: Robert Crellin

Professor Coulter George (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Virginia, USA) 'Expressions of time in the Septuagint and the NewTestament'

Professor David Langslow (Professor of Classics, Department of Classics andAncient History, Manchester) 'Typologies of translation techniques insituations of language contact'

2.30-4.30 Continuity and change in the East and West after 500 AD

Chair: Geoff Horrocks

Dr Bert Vaux (University Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Cambridge) 'Linguistic manifestations of Greek-Armenian contact in Late Antiquity and Byzantium'

Dr Paul Russell (Reader in Celtic, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge) 'Habes linguam Latinam? Non tam bene sapio: a view from the early-medieval West'

5.00-6.15 Multilingualism and multiculturalism

Professor Robin Osborne (Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge) 'Cultures as languages and languages as cultures: reflections from Classical Athens'

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορεί κανείς να απευθυνθεί στις εξής διευθύνσεις: Alex Mullen (alm45@cam.ac.uk) or Patrick James (pj221@cam.ac.uk).