Conflict, Consensus, and the Crossing of Boundaries in the Premodern World

The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to host the 3rd Biennial Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Borderlands. The full conference program appears below.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH

COFFEE/ MEET AND GREET– starting at 2:00pm

INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOMING COMMENTS– 3:00pm
Dean David Marshall, Prof. John W. I. Lee, Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser, Peninah Wolpo

PANEL ONE: GEOGRAPHIES, REAL AND IMAGINED– 3:30-4:30
1)”Love and Wine: The Ancient Mediterranean and the Geographies of Space and Time”
-Andrew Tobolowsky, Brown University, Department of Religious Studies
2)“Strabo’s Representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland”
-Hamish Cameron, University of Southern California, Department of Classics

Comments: Dr. Felix Racine, University of St. Andrews, School of Classics

KEYNOTE ADDRESS– 4:30pm
Prof. BRADLEY PARKER, University of Utah, Department of History

RECEPTION– 5:30pm
GRADUATE STUDENT DINNER– 7:30pm

SATURDAY, APRIL 14TH

COFFEE– starting at 8:45am

PANEL TWO: DEFINING THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY– 9:50am
Chair: Prof. Frances Hahn, UCSB, Department of Classics
1)“The so-called Assyrian Fortifications in the Iron IIC Western Negev: a Comparative Approach”
-Heidi Dodgson, UCLA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
2)“Deconstructing Town and Country: Reconsidering Urban, Suburban and Rural in Ancient Rome”
-Tracey Watts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History
3)“Bounding the Conceptual City: The Roman Pomerium”
-Alison Turtledove, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History

PANEL THREE: CONSTRUCTING AND CONCEALING IDENTITY IN THE FRONTIERS– 11:15am
1)“Outliers and Interactions: The Face of Loro Ceramics”
-Deborah Spivak, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Art History
2)“Druidic Relations: Bridging Gaul and Rome”
-Regina Loehr, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Classics
3)“Antique Antiques in Roman Hispania: Archaeological Heirlooms as Indicators of Indigenous Identity and Cultural Resistance in Roman Frontier Zones”
-Linda Gosner, Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Comments: Prof. Mary Hancock, UCSB Departments of History and Anthropology;

LUNCH 12:35-2:00pm

PANEL FOUR: DISCOURSES OF THE OTHER– 2:00pm
Chair: Prof. Dayna Kalleres, UCSD, Department of Literature
1)”Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance”
-Conrad Harter, University of California, Irvine, Department of History
2)“Ethnicity, Hybridity, and the Perception of Community: The Role of Law in Shaping Ethnicity in the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands”
-Michael Hill, Rutgers University, Department of History
3)“Your Impurity is My Purity: The ‘Jewish’ Persecution of Christ in P. Heidelberg, inv. G 1101”
-Joseph Sanzo, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of History

Comments: Prof. Heidi Marx-Wolf, University of Manitoba, Department of Religion

PANEL FIVE: PIRATES! POLICING THE BOUNDARIES– 3:30pm
1)“Pompey’s Pet Pirates: Making Subjects from Outlaws”
-Jason Shattuck, University of Washington, Department of History
2)“Laws and Lines: Monsters, Boundaries and the Rise of ‘Cilician’ Pirates”
-Andrew Roller, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History
3)“Arrrr! There be Pirates in Homer!”
-Daniel Bellum, UC Irvine, Department of Classics

Comments: Prof. Michele Salzman, UC Riverside, Department of History;

CLOSING COMMENTS– 5:00pm
Prof. GREG FISHER, Carleton University, Department of Greek and Roman Studies

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