2.00pm-5.00pm: Papers by graduate students

2.15pm: Thom Russell (Oxford)
‘The Land of Inachus: Mythology and Local Competition at the Bosporus’

2.45pm: Claire Jacqmin (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie)
‘Leaena or the Public Recognition of a Woman’s Action’

3.30pm: Emma Rix (Oxford)
‘A witness to identity? The language of commemoration in pre-Hellenistic Tlos’

4.00pm: Guillaume Biard (École Française d’Athènes)
‘Private and Honorific Statuary in Hellenistic Times: Some Aspects of a Blurred Distinction’ 

5.00pm: Keynote Lecture

“The statues of Theogenes of Thasos : Glory and Outrage”

Vincent Azoulay (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée/Institut Universitaire de France)

Lecturer in ancient history, Junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research areas are the anthropology of politics in classical Greece, practical and intellectual representations in Athens, honorary statues in the Greek world, the interplay of the body and apparel in ancient Greece, Isocrates and Xenophon. He is the author of Périclès. La démocratie à l’épreuve du grand homme, Paris, Armand Colin 2010 for which he received in 2011, the « Prix du Sénat du livre d'histoire ».