The Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting 2017 - 04-05-06/05/2017, Providence (RI, USA)
- fasticongressuum
- 4 mar 2017
- 3 Min. de lectura
Brown University is proud to host the annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians which returns to Providence for the first time since 1989.
This year's meeting addresses a range of themes that will build on current research interests and themes relevant to students in the 21st century classroom. The conference opens on Thursday May 4 and ends on Saturday May 6: there is no Sunday session. The conference organizers have tried to present thematic panels that blend Greek, Roman, and non-Greco-Roman regions/periods of ancient history.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 04-05-06/05/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Brown University (Providence, RI, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Graham Oliver; John Bodel.
INFO: web - Graham_Oliver@brown.edu - John_Bodel@brown.edu
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Deadline: 27/04/2017
Viernes / Friday / Venerdi - $85
Sábado / Saturday / Sabato - $75
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday, May 4, 2017- Plenary Address and Reception
6:00-7:00 pm Opening Session and Plenary Address (venue: 85 Waterman Room 130): Greg Woolf, "The Politics of Syncretism in Classical Antiquity"
7:00-8:30 pm Reception (venue: Sayles Hall)
Friday, May 5, 2017
8:30 -10:30 am: Session 1 (venue: Alumnae Hall): 8:30 Duane Roller, “Harbor Culture and Greek Intellectualism” 9:00 Raymond Capra, “The Merchants and Boatwrights of Emporion” 9:30 Denise Demetriou, “Phoenician Associations in Harbor Towns: Trade, Immigration, and Citizenship” 10:00 Steven Payne, “Harboring Rome: ”Piraeus and Navigating Roman Imperialism in Lucian's Ships”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break (Alumnae Hall Lobby)
11:00 am-12.30 pm: Session 2 (venue: Alumnae Hall): Refugees and Asylum 11:00 Nicholas Cross, “The Hearth as a Place of Refuge and Reception in Ancient Greece” 11:30 Matt Simonton, “Refugees, Demagogues, and Material Culture in the Teisamenos Decree from Athens” 12:00 Randall Souza, “Refugees and the Economy of Human Resources in the Ancient Greek Mediterranean”
12:30-2:30 pm: Lunch (participants can go to local eateries)
2:30-4:00 pm: Session 3 (venue: 85 Waterman Room 130): Contingency and the Ancient Economy I 2:30 Cristina Carusi, “Temple Building in Classical Athens: A Matter of Labor Contingency?” 3:00 David Ratzan, “Honoring Debt in Roman Egypt” 3:30 Antonino Crisa, “To be or not to be a Coin? Ancient Tokens in Italy as an Economic Source and the Representation of Local Communities”
4:00-4:30: Tea/Coffee Break (85 Waterman Lobby)
4:30- 6:00 pm: Session 4 (85 Waterman Room 130): New Religions 4:30 Mary Frances Williams, “Two Transformations of Historiography in Sulpicius Severus: Shifting Chronologies and a Christian Rejection of Autopsy” 5:00 Muhammet Yücel, “The Reaction against a New Religion in the Early Sassanian Period” 5:30 Camilla Campedelli, “On the Significance of the New Features of Late Magical Rituals”
Saturday, May 6, 2017
8:30 -10:30 am: Session 5 (venue: Alumnae Hall): Slaves and Family 8:30 Luke Hagemann, “The Emperor’s New Slaves” 9:00 Tristan Husby, “Manumission and Fraternal Rivalry: Cicero and Tiro, Quintus and Statius” 9:30 William Owens, “Psyche Ancilla; Apuleius’ Psyche as Exploited Domestic Slave” 10:00 Beth Severy-Hoven, 'The Freed as Family at the Port of Rome”
10:30 -11:00 am: Coffee Break (Alumnae Hall Lobby)
11:00 am-12:30 pm: Session 6 (venue: Alumnae Hall): The Reception of Ancient Historians and Ancient History in the New World 11:00 John Lee, “Receptions of Achaemenid Persia in U.S. Textbooks, ca. 1870-1930” 11:30 Kaius Tuori, “Romans in A Brave New World: Refugee Scholars and the Transformation of Ancient History and Roman Law” 12:00 Scott Perry, “A North American Princeps? John Buchan and H. J. Haskell on Augustus in the 1930s”
12:30-2:30 pm: Lunch (participants can go to local eateries)
2:30-4:00 pm: Session 7 (venue: Alumnae Hall): Contingency and the Ancient Economy II 2:30 Kelcy Sagstetter, “Gone Clubbing: From Debtors to Bodyguards in the Wake of Solon’s Seisachtheia” 3:00 Paul Johstono, “Bulls and Bubbles: Considering the Strategic Economic Awareness of the Diadochi” 3:30 Zachery Herz, “Risk Management and the Demon Barber of the Via Sacra”
4:00-4:30 pm: Tea/Coffee Break (85 Waterman Lobby)
4:30-5:30 pm: AAH AGM & Business Meeting (venue: 85 Waterman Room 130)
7:00-10:00 pm: Banquet and After Dinner Talk (venue: Alumnae Hall)
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