Ancient History Colloquium: Language Showcase Series
| Event Name | Ancient History Colloquium: Language Showcase Series |
| Start Date | 16th Oct 2009 2:00pm |
| End Date | 16th Oct 2009 5:00pm |
| Duration | 3 hours |
| Description | 2 - 5pm. Seminar Room, Museum of
Ancient Cultures, Building X5B. A Language
Colloquium As part of
the 40th anniversary celebration of Ancient History at Macquarie
University, the 10th installment of the Museum of Ancient Cultures
Language Showcase Series looks back over the history of the Language colloquium
series, and onto the future of research on the ancient languages at Macquarie,
with a program taking in Biblical, Classical, and Egyptological linguistic
work. PROGRAM First Session 2 - 2.10pm:
Welcome 2.10 - 2.45pm:
Ian Young, Late Language, Loanwords, and
Linguistic Dating of Books of the Hebrew Bible 2.45 - 3.20pm:
Marie-Louise Craig, Pioneers and No Through-Roads: The
Story of Early Hebrew-English Lexicons 3.20 - 3.50pm:
Afternoon Tea Second Session 3.50 - 4.25pm:
Trevor Evans, Counting Chickens in a Third-Century
BC Papyrus 4.25 - 5pm:
Boyo Okinga, Topicalisation and the assassination
of King Amenemhet I - The Instruction of Amenemhet to his Son §7c-d Convenors
and contact details: Malcolm
Choat, email: malcolm.choat@mq.edu.au; phone: (02) 9850 7561. Trevor
Evans, email: trevor42evans@gmail.com; phone: (02) 9850 8780. John Lee,
email: lee120@ozemail.com.au; phone: (02) 9399 7808. |