On the occasion of the “International Workshop on Boiotia” the Dipartment of History and Classical Studies McGill University, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal will be presenting a one-day workshop: “The Dancing Floor of Ares. Local Conflict and Regional Violence in Central Greece” with the participation of Prof. Claudia Antonetti.
November 9, 2017 – from 9am to 5pm Free Admission
McGill University
Thomson House Ballroom
Conference in English
The conference is meant as an interdisciplinary enterprise on ancient Boiotia, with papers pertaining to themes in History, Epigraphy and Archaeology. Topics include, among others, relations with neighbouring regions, borders, religion and sanctuaries, mythology, political and economic relations. Prof. Antonetti will attend the conference bringing her experience on Central and Western Greece History and presenting the general conclusions.
Claudia Antonetti (Master and PhD in the Universities of Padua and Bologna), followed a research training in France (PhD at Lyon II), Greece (scholarship at the KERA) and Germany (AvH research fellow); she is full professor of Greek history at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and directs the Laboratory of Greek Epigraphy. Her main research interests include Greek epigraphy as a prime source for the study of socio-cultural contexts, the religious and colonial history (Corinth, Megara, and Sicily), and the historical survey on peripheral Greece, primarily on North-Western Greece. She has published, in addition to about eighty essays, Sigle epigrafiche greche di Tauromenio (Venice 1985), Les Étoliens: image et religion (Besançon-Paris 1990), various volumes on colonial history, and she has inaugurated with Lo spazio ionico e le comunità della Grecia nord-occidentale. Territorio, società, istituzioni (Pisa 2010, ETS) the editorial series Diabaseis, specifically dedicated to the interrelations between Western Greeks and West Greece.
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