One of the aims of the BES is to promote the study of epigraphy in the UK at all levels, including schools. To this end, several members of the Society have agreed to appear on a list of speakers (compiled by the Society) willing to visit schools in order to lecture on a variety of topics inspired by inscriptions. Schools are invited to contact speakers directly at the addresses given below. Some attempt has been made to offer a range of topics and geographical scope in speakers' origins. Please contact a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk if you have any suggestions concerning this initiative. In most cases, subject matter can be moulded to school/local syllabus requirements.

List of Speakers

• Prof. Michael Crawford (UCL) - Roman Epigraphy

  'Aere perennius: from public to private in the Roman Empire'

  Address: Dept. of History, University College London, Gower Street, London. WC1E 6BT

   

• Dr Alison Cooley (University of Warwick) - Roman Epigraphy

  'Scratching a living: graffiti in the Roman world'

  'Pompeian life inscribed on stone '

  'Germanicus and Piso' (GCSE)

  Address : Dept. of Classics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, Coventry. CV4 7AL. a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk

   

• Prof. John Davies (University of Liverpool) - Greek Epigraphy

  'From record to monument: the formal side of Greek and Roman assembly government'

  Other topics: gravestones; dedications.
  
  Address: SACOS, 12 Abercromby Sq., The University, Liverpool. L69 7WZ. Tel: 0151 794 2400, fax: 0151 794 2442.

   

• Prof. David Langslow (University of Manchester) - Topics include: Archaic Latin; Imperial and Late Latin; Vulgar Latin; the inscriptions of pre-Roman Italy; Greek dialect inscriptions; and Linear B and Mycenaean Greek
  
  Address: Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.  Tel: 0161 275 3105

• Dr Graham Oliver (University of Liverpool) - Greek Epigraphy; Epigraphy - Past and Present

'Epigraphy! What's that?'
'Keep taking the tablets - inscriptions and Greek history'
'Written on stone: the epigraphy of death'
'Text and context: where do inscriptions come from?'
'"I am the boundary": organising life in the Athenian polis'

        Address: Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, 67 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LS
        Tel./fax: 01865 288266; graham.oliver@lithum.ox.ac.uk

• Dr Tessa Rajak (University of Reading) - Jewish and Christian Epigraphy

  "Life and death among Jews and Christians: inscriptions of the Roman Catacombs"

  Address:Dept. of Classics, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading. RG6 6AA.

   

• Susan Sorek (University of Wales, Lampeter) - Epigraphy on coins in Roman Empire

  'Money Talks.'

  Address:Dept. of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 7ED

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