Annual Report 59 for 2011-12

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES Annual Report 59 1 August 2011 – 31 July 2012 SENATE HOUSE MALET STREET LONDON WC1E 7HU STAFF DIRECTOR and EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS: Professor Mike Edwards, BA, PhD (until 31 December 2011) ACTING DIRECTOR and EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS: Professor John North, BA, DPhil (from 1 January 2012) DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Olga Krzyszkowska, BA, MA, PhD, FSA DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS: Richard Simpson, MA, Dip.Arch, FSA PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS ASSISTANT: Sarah Mayhew, BA, MA ADVISORY COUNCIL 2011-12 Chairman: Emeritus Professor J.K. Davies, MA, DPhil, FBA, FSA Ex officio Members: The Dean of the School of Advanced Study (Professor Roger Kain, FBA) The Director (to 31 December 2011 (Professor Mike Edwards, BA, PhD) The Acting Director (from 1January 2012 (Professor John North, MA, DPhil) Two persons on the nomination of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Professor C. Carey, MA, PhD Dr D. Thomas (Hellenic Society Treasurer) Two persons on the nomination of the Roman Society Dr A. Burnett, MA, PhD, FSA (until 13 June thereafter the new President) Dr Philip Kay (Roman Society Treasurer) Fifteen Teachers of Classics or of cognate subjects in the University of London Professor G. D’Alessio, Dott.Lett, Dipl.c.o. (KCL) Dr C. Constantakopoulou BA, MA, Dphil (Birkbeck) Professor C. Edwards, MA, PhD (Birkbeck) Professor W. Fitzgerald, BA, PhD (KCL) Dr D. Gwynn, PhD (RHUL) Professor E. Hall, MA, DPhil (RHUL) Professor J. Herrin, MA, PhD, (KCL) Dr N. Lowe, MA, PhD (RHUL) Professor D. Ricks, MA, PhD (KCL) Dr J. Tanner, MA, PhD (UCL) Professor H. van Wees, DrLitt (UCL) Professor M. Wyke, MA, PhD (UCL) Three vacancies Four persons holding appointments in other Universities or Learned Institutions J.L. Fitton, BA, FSA, Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, The British Museum Professor B. Gibson, MA, DPhil (Liverpool) Professor S. Oakley, MA, PhD, FBA (Cambridge) Professor R. Parker, MA, DPhil, FBA (Oxford) Five other persons Dr T.E.H. Harrison, MA, DPhil, Liverpool Professor A.J.N.W. Prag, MA, DPhil, FSA (Manchester) Mr Denis Reidy (British Library) V. Solomonides, Embassy of Greece One vacancy Student representatives Two vacancies By invitation Professor R. Alston, BA, PhD (RHUL, Chair of Finance Committee) C.H. Annis, MA, ALA (Librarian) Professor P. Mack (Director, Warburg Institute) Staff of the Institute Dr O. Krzyszkowska, BA, MA, PhD, FSA (Deputy Director) Miss S. Mayhew, MA (Publications and Events Assistant) Mr R.W. Simpson, MA, Dip.Arch., FSA (Managing Editor) FELLOWS WEBSTER FELLOW Professor C. W. Marshall (Vancouver) TRENDALL FELLOW Professor Tyler Jo Smith (Virginia) HONORARY FELLOWS Senior Research Fellows Professor Christopher Carey (UCL) Professor Michael Crawford (UCL) Professor Mike Edwards (Trinity St David) Professor William Furley (Heidelberg) Professr Richard Green (Sydney) Dr Alan Johnston Mr David Ridgway Professor Richard Sorabji (Oxford) Dr Christopher Stray (Swansea) Honorary Senior Fellows Professor Eric Handley (Cambridge) Professor John Jory (Western Australia) Professor Herwig Maehler (Vienna) Professor Geoffrey Waywell (KCL) AFFILIATES Associate Fellows Professor Peter Adamson (KCL) Professor Giambattista D'Alessio (KCL) Professor William Fitzgerald (KCL) Dr Simon Mahony (UCL) Professor Dominic Rathbone (KCL) Dr Anne Sheppard (RHUL) Professor Hans van Wees (UCL) Professor Ruth Whitehouse (UCL) Dr John Wilkins (UCL) Visiting Fellows Professor John Hilton (Durban) Professor Richard Janko (Michigan) Dr Elizabeth Langridge-Noti (Athens) Professor Greg MacIsaac (Carleton University) Dr Yulia Ustinova (Ben Gurion University) Dr Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz (Tel-Aviv) INTRODUCTION The new academic year was soon overshadowed by the decision of the Director Professor Mike Edwards, after holding the office with great success and distinction for five years, to move to a Chair at Trinity St David, at the end of the calendar year 2011. An Acting Director, Professor John North, was appointed with effect from 1 January on the understanding that he would hold office until the HEFCE Review of the School of Advanced Study, anticipated in the autumn, had clarified the financial position of the School and hence of the Institute. At this point, the contribution of the Institute and the Classics Library to the statement to be submitted to the HEFCE Review Committee (the Acton Committee) was already in an advanced draft, with only the final adjustments to be overseen. There was some short-term anxiety over the Institute’s current financial position, which had sharply deteriorated from 2010/11; all the same, it was decided that the Institute’s website was not adequate and had become largely inoperable. Much energy in the latter part of the year was put into the creation and operation of a new website, with the support of the School. This proved a great success. The Deputy Director also developed a stunning new logo for the Institute, using Hermes/Mercury as the symbol of our purpose to foster communication about the Ancient World in the twenty-first century. Despite these various distractions, the programme of the Institute, as organized by Mike Edwards and the Deputy Director Olga Krzyszkowska, flourished. The year began with a special event (held in association with the EES and BSA) on 28 September in memory of John Pendlebury, who died seventy years ago, recalling his achievements and his legacy to contemporary archaeology. On 6 October 2011, there was a colloquium in honour of the 85th birthday of Professor Eric Handley, who had been the Director of the ICS from 1967-84, when he left to be Regius Professor in Cambridge; papers were given relating to many of his great range of interests. The Webster Lecture, on 28 February was given by Professor Toph Marshall (British Columbia), on The Masks of Pompeii. The Trendall Lecturer was Professor Tyler Jo Smith (University of Virginia), who spoke on Myth, Cult and Performance: Sir John Soane’s Cawdor Vase, discussing the vase still on show in the Soane Collection in Lincoln’s Inn. The Barron Lecture on 13 June was a major event, celebrating London’s Olympic year in style, with splendid support from the Greek Archaeological Committee. The lecture was delivered by Prof. Panos Valavanis (Athens) on Athletics and Politics in the Ancient Greek Games. This lecture was the climax of several celebratory Olympic events, in the ICS, the British Museum and UCL. By the end of the year the new website was well established and the Institute’s own financial prospects for 2012/13 had also improved considerably. However, the expected date for the publication of the Report of the Acton Committee had been deferred to early 2013, so the overall financial uncertainties for the whole School were persisting. In the meantime, the School required the Institute to move from its offices to a much smaller set closer to the entry to the second-floor offices, in order to increase the supply of bookable large rooms for SAS meetings. The move was understood to be a holding operation pending the reuniting of the Institute with the Classics Library on the third floor. We hope that ICS will be able to occupy the rooms in the space adjacent to the classics Library, currently occupied by the IHR Library, which is due to move back to the North Block in 2014. These were the rooms originally designed for the Institute at the time of the move from Gordon Square. The last days of the academic year were saddened by news of the death in Athens of a great friend of the Institute and long-term Senior Fellow, David Ridgway. He and his wife had come to London in 2003, after a career at Edinburgh University, during which he established himself as one of the great authorities on the archaeology of pre-Roman Italy. John North Acting Director ACADEMIC PROGRAMME 2011-12 PUBLIC LECTURES ICLS Guest Lectures Tony Long (Berkeley) Marcus Aurelius on the self (23 January) Dyfri Williams (British Museum) Up close and personal: revisiting the Parthenon’s East Pediment (21 February) Greg MacIsaac (Carleton College) The man of the law courts and the philosopher in Plato’s Theaetetus (26 March) Elizabeth Pender (Leeds) and Celebrating the elite or just elitism? The Ancient Olympics and Emma Stafford (Leeds) contemporary academic values (8 May) Yulia Ustinova (Ben Gurion) Modes of ancient prophecy: modern arguments in support of the ancient approach (6 June) J D S Pendlebury Event (ICLS–EES–BSA) 28 September 2012 Chris Naunton (EES) and John Pendlebury in Egypt and on Film Olga Krzyszkowska (ICLS) John Pendlebury on Crete and 70 years on Followed by the launch of The Pottery of Karphi: A Reexamination by Leslie Preston Day (BSA Studies 19) T. B. L. Webster Lecture (28 February) C. W. Marshall (UBC) The masks of Pompeii Trendall Lecture (15 May) Tyler Jo Smith (Virginia) Myth, cult, and performance: Sir John Soane’s Cawdor Vase J. P. Barron Memorial Lecture (13 June) Panos Valavanis (Athens) Athletics and politics in the Ancient Greek Games The Mycenaean Series Organizers: John Bennet (Sheffield), Cyprian Broodbank (UCL), and Olga Krzyszkowska (IClS) Mark Peters (Sheffield) Spinning a communications web: media interactivity and the political management of Mycenaean Messenia Yannis Fappas (Thessaloniki) Mycenaean production and use of oil in its East Mediterranean context Matthew Haysom (Cambridge) Cacophony and silence: the place of religion in Neopalatial Crete Lyvia Morgan (UCL) The power of paint: Kea and beyond Colin Renfrew & The settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros and the later Early

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