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2nd Ancient Borderlands Conference
April 16, 2010 @ 12:00 am
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th floor)
Friday, 4/16, 1:00 – 6:00 pm
Saturday, 4/17, 8:30 am – 4:15 pm
Sunday, 4/18, 8:30 am ? 2:00 pm
Borderlands: frontier zones lying along given boundaries, limits beyond which something– a discipline, an ethnic group, a “nation”– transforms into something else. Borderlands Theory is an experimental division of scholarship that examines the creation, maintenance, and transgression of identity occurring within these zones. The UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group has been a pioneering group in the application of this theory, seeking new insights about what it was like to live in the ancient world. Following in the path of our successful 2008 conference, the second Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on these themes from multiple disciplines.
The conference is also pleased to welcome to UCSB our keynote speaker, Dr. Greg Fisher of Carleton University. Dr. Fisher’s keynote address, “Trapped on a Rock between Two Lions”: The Arabs between Rome and Iran in Late Antiquity,” will be presented Monday, April 16, 4:00-5:00 pm.
Beyond Borders conference website
For information about the 2008 conference, visit the web site of the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 18.i.2010, 31.iii.2010