II semester Bachelor of Arts Workshop "Those treasures in Byzantine manuscripts: reading, bibliography and database for philological use" 1 CFU Lecturer: Arianna Magnolo Start: to be determined Time and place: to be determined Mode:in-person. To enrol send an email to the email address arymag@hotmail.it taking care to indicate as subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, matriculation number, course of study, curriculum, year of course.. Objective and content: The workshop is necessary to enable students to learn how to read manuscripts and to orientate themselves in the tools necessary to carry out a three-year thesis in an acceptable timeframe. Programme Elements of Greek palaeography and codicology; exercises in reading and transcription of manuscripts; online consultation of digitised collections of manuscripts; use of online bibliographical resources of Byzantinistics, lexicons and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, with exercises. Sanskrit language workshop 1 CFU Lecturer: Rosa Ronzitti Start: to be determined Time and place: to be determined Mode:in person. To enrol send an email to the email address rosa.ronzitti@unige.it taking care to indicate as subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, matriculation number, course of study, year of course.. Through the presentation of texts and images, the workshop aims to provide the fundamental tools for understanding the ancient Indian language (Vedic and Sanskrit) and its alphabet (devanāgari). A particular aim is to show students how Greek, Latin, Germanic and Slavic languages are related to the North Indian language varieties, and to give them practice in consulting the relevant etymological dictionaries. It will be possible to listen to performances sung by today's Brahmans of the texts presented in the lecture and to practise the devanagaric script, which is the basis of all modern scripts in the Indian Union and Nepal, Bangla Desh, Sri Lanka. Workshop 'Environment and Identity in the Ancient World'. How to interpret the Greek and Roman ethnographic tradition Lecturer: Francesco Carriere Start: to be determined Time and place: to be determined Methods: in person To enrol send an e-mail in January to the e-mail address francesco.carriere@edu.unige.it taking care to indicate as subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, first name, course of study, year of course. Objectives and contents: Ethnography is one of the richest strands developed by historiography and more generally by ancient literature, from the classical era to the Roman imperial age and has met with great fortune even in modern times; it is, however, also one of the most complex and difficult to evaluate, because it is subject to conditioning of an ideological, deterministic, moralistic nature. Starting from these premises, the workshop intends to offer the basic methodological tools for analysing, according to up-to-date research criteria, the classical tradition concerning the relationship between man and the environment (geographical, political, cultural). In particular, attention will be devoted to the ways in which Greek authors linked the geographical dimension (nature, resources, climate) to the physical characteristics, life habits and moral values of 'foreign' peoples, describing them according to their own interpretative parameters. With the unification of the Mediterranean world under the Romans, descriptions of distant peoples and countries took on a new and special interest, because of their relationship to Roman rule, and enriched the debate among intellectuals. The workshop (25 hours) is aimed at students interested in deepening their understanding of the dynamics of defining peoples of antiquity, through examples of fact-checking of the ancient ethnographic tradition. Personal work by the students will also be an integral part of the workshop, with the aim of consolidating skills related to the preparation and presentation of the content deduced from the research carried out.
