Departmental Lecture: Dr. Grace Erny (UC Berkeley)

When and Where

Friday, January 17, 2025 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
220
Lillian Massey Building
125 Queens Park

Speakers

Dr. Grace Erny

Description

The Department of Classics invites you to join us in welcoming Dr. Grace Erny from the University of California, Berkeley, for the next instalment of the Departmental Lecture Series.

Dr. Erny will be presenting a paper on "Traditionalism and Emulation in Archaic Crete"

This paper investigates how the populations of East Crete created new kinds of historical consciousness in the Archaic period, a time of settlement reorganization and political change. I discuss several case studies of engagement with older landscape features and ways of life, including the construction of megalithic rural estates and the display of “Eteocretan” inscriptions. I argue that material engagements with real or imagined pasts were key strategies for consolidating power during a period of demographic growth, competition for resources, and emerging forms of social inequality in the seventh through the fourth centuries BCE.

The Classics Departmental Lectures Series is open for all to attend.

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