Technologies of Daily Life in Ancient Greece, Swansea 2-3 July, registration
Swansea
University will host the first Society for the Promotion of
Hellenic
Studies Regional Conference on 2-3 July 2015. The topic is
Technologies
of Daily Life in Ancient Greece. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/todl/
Talks
on a variety of everyday ancient Greek technologies, some with
demonstrations,
and all with Q & A, will run from late afternoon on
Thursday
through to Friday evening, concluding with a reception and
lecture
at the Waterfront Museum Swansea, sponsored by the Learned
Society
of Wales, and held there jointly with the British Society for
the
History of Science.
There
will be multiple opportunities for delegates to try their hand at
some
of the ancient arts and crafts featured, such as gem-cutting, food
production
and preservation, drilling and grinding, and cosmetic-,
medicine-
and pigment-production.
The
conference will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn about the
quotidian
technologies of Ancient Greece. To register, please go to our
website: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/todl/ and follow the link.
Closing
date for registration is 12 June 2015.
Please
contact Tracey Rihll (t.e.rihll@swansea.ac.uk)
or Laurence
Totelin
(totelinlm@cardiff.ac.uk) for more
information.
During
the day on Thursday 2nd, before the conference begins, 95
children
from local primary schools and 35 from local secondary schools
will
be attending workshops of their choice on a variety of everyday
ancient
technologies, including grinding grain, making rope, or
concocting
pharmaceuticals. For more information, please contact Evelien Bracke