Charlotte Spence

Bearers of Faith: Local Practice, Communal Ritual, and the Expression of Religious Identity in the Ancient and Late -Antique Mediterranean c. 200BC-AD 600

This conference is hosted at the Institute of Classical Studies. My paper is entitled: seu gen(tili)s seu Ch(r)istianus: The Bath Curse Tablets and the questions of individual versus traditional ritual practice

European Association for the Study of Religions

My paper is entitled: Communication with the Superhuman Through the Creation of Curse Tablets. 

Leeds International Medieval Conference (IMC)

I am delivering a paper entitled: Curse Tablets and Personal Religion in Late Antiquity as part of a strand of 3 panels on Christian Entanglements of the Supernatural in Late Antiquity co-organised by myself and Dr. Ryan Denson. 

The Use/ Misuse of History and Literature

I co-organised this conference alongside my colleague F. Kimpton. Papers covered topics such as Late Antique political history, current affairs, the use of DNA analysis, the interpretation of Ovid, and the reception of various religious groups from the Middle Ages. I presented a paper entitled The Use and Misuse of DNA Analysis.

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference

My paper was entitled: Individual Approaches to Personal Rituals in the Roman World: Curse Tablets.

The Institute of Classics Education

I was invited to give a paper at the Institute of Classics Education, New York entitled: Private Religion in the Ancient World. 

Exeter Postgraduates Work In Progress (Exewip): The Transfer of Magical Knowledge from the second to the fourth centuries CE

Leeds International Medieval Conference (IMC)

What Authority? The Law and the Creation of Curse Tablets in Late Antiquity as part of the panel: Social and Literary Authority in Late Antiquity III: Inscribing Authority 

Exeter Postgraduates Work In Progress (Exewip)

Matieral Culutre and Real Ancient History? 

A discussion on the use and abuse of DNA and isotope analysis. 

ROMAN CARTHAGE. A REAPPRAISAL

Paper title: The peculiarities of curse tablets from Carthage within the wider North African tradition and contrasted with those from the pan-Mediterranean vernacular tradition.

INDIVIDUALS BEHIND DOCUMENTS Papyri & inscriptions as a socio-cultural source?

What can the British Curse Tablets tell us about the sharing of magical knowledge in the second to fourth centuries CE?

Late Antiquity Network: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Late Antiquity

Ambiguity in the Creation of Curse Tablets in Late Antiquity

I also chaired a pannel on material culture.

Apotropaia and Phylakteria Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece

An International Conference in Athens organised by the Swedish Institute at Athens. 

Paper Title: Curse Tablets as an 'Everyday' Ancient Means of Confronting Evil 

British Epigraphy Society online Conversation

Regional Epigraphic Cultures Across the Ancient Wider Mediterranean (Part 2)

Hosts: Ilaria Bultrighini (UCL) and Irene Salvo (Exeter)

I have been invited to contribute to an international conversation on regional variations in curse tablets. 

http://www.britishepigraphysociety.org/epigraphic-conversations.html

Exeter Postgraduates Work In Progress (Exewip)

South-West and Wales Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine Network 2nd Annual Summer Colloquium – Theme: Connectivity and Networks, 300-1200 CE

Local adaptions and the interconnectedness in the use of curse tablets

The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH)

The Gods as Proxy? Crimes and Criminal Intent in Curse Tablets.

Exeter Postgraduates Work In Progress (Exewip)

Reflections on a Pandemic: Isolation in Antiquity through the Prism of Curse Tablets 

Crime in Classical Antiquity, Utrecht University, Netherlands

I was invited to deliver a talk for Teiresias (the student association of Antiquity of Utrecht University, Netherlands) as part of their symposium on Crime in Classical Antiquity.

Paper title: An Examination of Criminal Behaviour in Antiquity through Curse Tablets

UWICAH 2020

Paper title:  Curse Tablets and Isolation in the Ancient World 

Exeter Postgraduates Work In Progress (Exewip)

The Restless dead as witnesses and intermediaries in curse tablets and the rise of the cult of relics and martyrs 

The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL)

Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Epidemic

I was due to present a paper entitled:  The Creation of Curse Tablets as a Response to and in Spite of Fear in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

Classics Isolation Creation Sessions

During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown I jointly set up 'Isolation Creation Sessions' to present works in progress and papers. 

In this joint session I presented on the idea of the restless dead alongside Rebecca Grose who presented ideas on how aborted foetus souls work alongside the concept of the restless dead.  

PGR Humanities Conference: Contagion: People, Place, Ideas

Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Epidemic

I was due to present a paper entitled: The Contagion of Magical Curse Tablets in the Ancient World

The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH)

Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Epidemic

I was due to present a paper called: The Power of the Restless Dead in Greek and Latin Curse Tablets

I was also to chair a panel entitled: Money Talks: Tax, Trade, Value which contained papers looking at fluctuations in trade and taxation in Rome's Indian Ocean trade, quantitative models and the Greek economy c. 800- 300 BCE, and the numismatic evidence in Livy book 34. 

Exeter Postgraduates Work In Progress (Exewip)

I presented a 30 minute paper and handout entitled: Ancient Curse Texts: Who or What was the Source of the Magical Power?

Exewip is an informal gathering of postgraduates every week which allows students to present a full length paper and recieve feedback and questions. 

Sexual Knowledge Symposium

Paper title: Power, Sex, and Spells: Erotic Magic in Curse Tablets.  

The Open University: Digital Humanities: Humanities research in the digital age

British School at Athens Short Course ‘Byzantine Material Culture and Topography

Research Workshop Greek and Latin Epigraphy Dept. of History, Leiden University

Course run by Dr. L.E. Tacoma (Leiden) and Dr. C. Holleran (Exeter)