The new Trismegistos Places (www.trismegistos.org/geo) is now live

The new Trismegistos Places (www.trismegistos.org/geo) is now live. We think it is a real 2.0 version, with more faceted searching, pie charts, timelines and better export possibilities. It is part of a continuing effort to update our interface (after Collections (www.trismegistos.org/coll), Editors (www.trismegistos.org/edit), Words (www.trismegistos.org/words), and Authors (www.trismegistos.org/authors)).

We hope the new site is more intuitive and user-friendly than the complicated search forms of the old version, but make sure to read the About page to know what you are looking at. And remember that Trismegistos is not complete … We’re also preparing video’s to show how everything works, but we’re also happy to come and give workshops to demonstrate all functionalities of Trismegistos for those who want.

Of course we know there are still many things to be corrected, especially when it comes to coordinates. We hope you can help us with that, and we plan to cooperate closer with projects like Pleiades and Pelagios to improve on this and other things (we are working on an API, for example). In the mean time, we have made it easier for you to send an email to Herbert Verreth, our Monsieur Toponyme.

Please enjoy TM Places as much as we have enjoyed creating it!

For Trismegistos,

Mark Depauw (PHP / MySQL)

Yanne Broux (HTML / CSS)

Blogging Pompeii: A blog for all those who work on Pompeii and the other archaeological sites of the Bay of Naples

Blogging Pompeii: A blog for all those who work on Pompeii and the other archaeological sites of the Bay of Naples

Blogging Pompeii is a forum for scholars engaged in the study of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the other sites of the Bay of Naples to share news and information, and to discuss their work.

If you work on Pompeii or any of the other Vesuvian sites and you would like to be a contributor to this blog, please write to bloggingpompeii@gmail.com.

If you are not a named contributor, but would like to comment on any of the posted items, you can email your comment to bloggingpompeii@gmail.com and we will post it for you. 

Alternatively you can comment freely on the Blogging Pompeii Facebook page.


Blogging Pompeii by Named contributors of Blogging Pompeii is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale 2.0 Inghilterra & Galles License.

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Call for Papers: Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture

CFP, Edition 8: “Yesterday’s Contemporaneity: Finding Temporality In The Past” 

 

In recent decades art historians across the discipline have offered new insights into how communities in the global past understood their own positions in time. For example, Marvin Trachtenberg has made the case that twelfth- and thirteenth-century European architecture articulated a form of medieval modernism. Conversely Paul Binski has argued for how the same material could be understood as not only innovative, but also firmly historicist in nature. Studies of eschatology in artworks ranging from Renaissance wall paintings in Italy to Pure Land Buddhist Mandalas in Japan have highlighted how people in the past used theology to conceptualize their own place in time in the face of an uncertain but infinite future beyond their death. Meanwhile, studies of the visual cultures that emerged under different eras of imperialism and colonialism have illuminated how local and foreign definitions of time, history, and contemporaneity could directly shape the identities of both conquered and conquering peoples.  

 

Contemporaneity asks what it means to be contemporary. The term is often invoked in reference to the current lives of citizens of today’s world, but this edition seeks to highlight contemporaneity across a wider variety of historical contexts. The aim is to uncover how cultures throughout the global past have negotiated temporalities, modernities, and historicisms, to come to terms with what it means to be present in their own moment. How can both history and modernity be visualized, contextualized, or conceptualized to create a sense of contemporaneity? How have institutions created temporalities for the cultures they study, and how can a historical object or space shape a person’s perception of an entire culture’s identity or agency? What is at stake in defining a work of art’s place in time? 

 

Submissions on all topics will be considered. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: 

 

-modernism, medievalism, and historicism 

-modernity and history in a global context 

-anachronisms, futurisms, and revisionist histories  

-Orientalism and other uses of the temporal in cross-cultural exchange 

-spoliation, re-use, and/or appropriation 

-museums, the ethics of collecting and “Grand narratives” 

-traditional or historical art and crafts and the preservation of style 

-contemporary interventions on historical objects or sites  

-creation myths, apocalypses, beginnings and end times 

 

 

The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2018. Manuscripts (circa 6,000 words) should include an abstract, 3-5 keywords, and adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. To make a submission, visit contemporaneity.pitt.edu, click Register and create an author profile to get started. Proposals for book and exhibition reviews, interviews, or other scholarly contributions will also be considered, and we recognize that these submissions may take many forms.

Proposals and questions can be directed to the editors at contemporaneityjournal@gmail.com

Contemporaneity is a peer-reviewed online journal organized by the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Visit contemporaneity.pitt.edu and constellations.pitt.edu for more information.

The Human Adventure

 [First posted in AWOL 16 May 2014, updated 27 March 2018]

The Human Adventure, James Henry Breasted's 1935 film centered around the archaeological projects of the Oriental Institute is online at The Oriental Institute's Youtube Channel.

This 1935 film, produced by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. James Henry Breasted was written and told by his son, Charles Breasted. Though we no longer think about archaeology in the same way, this film gives us insight into the early days of the field.

For some additional information, go here.

Open Access Journal: DigItalia, rivista del digitale nei beni culturali

DigItalia, rivista del digitale nei beni culturali
ISSN: 1972-621X

DigItalia, rivista del digitale nei beni culturali, edita dal 2005 dall'ICCU, si colloca nel campo dell’editoria periodica specializzata in Italia, individuando quale obiettivo primario lo studio ed il dibattito critico sulle tematiche relative all’applicazione delle tecnologie digitali alle varie tipologie del patrimonio culturale. Dal 2012 su piattaforma OJS con il supporto dell'Università di Macerata. La piattaforma OJS consente funzionalità di ricerca nei metadati e nei full text, che non era possibile nella precedente versione online.

DigItalia è disponibile anche nella versione a stampa.

Consultabile online anche sul portale PA, Sistema Modus-Biblioteca virtuale-Pubblicazioni ufficiali dello Stato

2017

Vol 2017

Volume unico dell'anno 2017

2016

Vol 2016

Volume unico dell'anno 2016

2015

Vol 2015

Volume unico dell'anno 2015

2014

Vol 2 (2014)

Vol 1 (2014)

2013

Vol 2 (2013)

Vol 1 (2013)

2012

Vol 2 (2012)

Vol 1 (2012)

2011

Vol 2 (2011)

Vol 1 (2011)

2010

Vol 2 (2010)

Vol 1 (2010)

2009

Vol 2 (2009)

Vol 1 (2009)

2008

Vol 2 (2008)

Vol 1 (2008)

2007

Vol 2 (2007)

Vol 1 (2007)

2006

Vol 2 (2006)

Vol 1 (2006)

2005

Vol 1 (2005)

See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Oline Exhibition: Sortir du gynécée. un nouveau regard sur la Grèce antique

Sortir du gynécée. un nouveau regard sur la Grèce antique

Trop de clichés circulent sur la Grèce antique : les femmes y seraient recluses, voilées ou loin des regards, dans un gynécée ; elles n’auraient aucune fonction civique ou collective. Privées d’éducation ou de culture, elles vivraient dans l’ombre des hommes, dans une cité misogyne. Sans sous-estimer l’inégalité entre les hommes et les femmes, cette exposition a pour objectif de proposer un autre regard sur la Grèce antique (VII^e-II^e siècle av. J.-C.). En intégrant les nouveaux acquis des travaux des philologues, des épigraphistes et des archéologues, et en recourant aux outils récents de la recherche en histoire des femmes et du genre, les historien.nes de cette exposition permettront aux visiteurs de découvrir des champs d’action et des domaines où les femmes antiques agissaient, géraient, pensaient, créaient, aimaient.

Le genre, en tant que méthode d’analyse qui postule l’historicité des catégories hommes/femmes et la dimension sociale et culturelle des identités, permet de se défaire des clichés et de percevoir ce qui fait la spécificité de la société grecque : l’importance primordiale de la distinction libres/esclaves, une définition différente du politique et la variété des contextes d’action individuelle.

Exposition issue d'un programme de recherche de l'UMR 8210 ANHIMA, "Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes antiques"

Plan de l'exposition

• Présentation
• Éternelles mineures ?
• Des non-citoyennes ?
• L'introuvable gynécée
• Privées de culture ?
• Exclues du sport ?
• Corps féminin
• Des femmes voilées ?
• Sappho n'est pas un mythe
• Les Amazones, un mythe ?
• Cléopâtre, femme fatale ?

Library of Digital Latin Texts: Call for Submissions

Library of Digital Latin Texts: Call for Submissions

The SCS Committee on Publications and Research is pleased to announce the opening of a new online publication effort in collaboration with the Digital Latin Library (DLL). Among other things, the DLL will host open-access online critical editions of Latin texts from the ancient period through the era of Neolatin texts — the Library of Digital Latin Texts (LDLT). Editions of classical texts in the LDLT are to be evaluated and approved by the SCS. 

The Committee has now established the procedures and policies to be applied and welcomes the submission of pre-proposals. You can read the editorial procedures and policies here.

Potential editors are invited to familiarize themselves with the SCS procedures and with the Guidelines for Encoding Critical Editions for the Library of Digital Latin Texts.