Labeca – the Laboratory for the Study of the Ancient City at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo – will hold its 1st International Symposium, entitled Khoríon – Space in the Greek World, from 25 to 28 June 2013, in the Amphitheatre of the Geography/History building of FFLCH-USP.
The event will discuss topics related to the occupation and ordering of space in the societies of the ancient Greek world. Foreign specialists will attend, including Prof. Emanuele Greco (Director of the Scuola Italiana di Archeologia di Atene), Dr. Maria Constanza Lentini (researcher and Director of the archaeological site of Naxos, Sicily), and Professors Patrick Marchetti (University of Namur, Belgium) and Giovanni Marginesu (University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy). Brazilian participants include Prof. Adriene Baron Tacla (UFF/RJ), Dr. Camila Diogo de Souza (CNRS researcher, Paris) and Fabio Morales Soares, MA (doctoral student in the Social History Programme, DH-USP).
Labeca researchers will also present recent results of their work. Finally, the Nausitoo-Labeca database, which brings together thousands of pieces of information on the Greek cities of antiquity, will be launched.
Kind regards,
The Organising Committee.