Preliminary Programme

Showing: Antiquity (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
S-1 ANT05 Social Order in Antiquity
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Nicholas Fisher
Organizers: - Discussant: Nicholas Fisher
Natalie Angel : Beyond the Pale: Lower Class Women in Ancient Roman Society
António Joaquim Ramos Dos Santos : 'Social Order in Ancient Babylonia
Hans Van Wees : 'Social (dis)order in archaic Greece'.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
S-3 ANT01 Demography and labour: Migration in the Roman World I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Alex Conison : Slaves and the Self-Selected Migrant
Bruce Frier : Roman Migration and Migration Theory
Claire Holleran : Migration and the Urban Economy of Rome
Laurens E. Tacoma : The Urban graveyard effect in Rome



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
S-4 ANT02 Trade, Traders and Mobility in the Greek East. Migration in the Roman World II
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Claudia Moatti
Organizers: - Discussant: Claudia Moatti
Neville Morley : 'Migration, mobility and globalisation in the Roman Mediterranean
Onno Van Nijf : Roman traders in Greek cities
Arjan Zuiderhoek : Italians in Asia Minor during the Roman Republic: “internal migration” in the Roman world



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
S-5 ANT03 Elite mobility and elite identity. Migration in the Roman World III
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Laurens E. Tacoma
Organizers: - Discussant: Laurens E. Tacoma
Elena Isayev : Contested meanings of homeland and belonging in ancient Italy
Claudia Moatti : Mobility and controls in the roman empire
Danielle Slootjes : Locally relevant elites and their positions of power within local conflicts and crises, A.D. 193-284



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
S-6 ANT04 The other as neighbour. Alterity and acculturation in the ancient world
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Onno Van Nijf
Organizers: - Discussant: Onno Van Nijf
Frederick Naerebout : Orontes, Nile, Kefissos and Tiber: miscible or immiscible waters? Some thoughts on acculturation in the Roman Empire
Miguel John Versluys : Modernity at large? Cultural dimensions of Romanisation
Greg Woolf : Othering the ancestors: how Romans made their past a foreign country



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
Q-7 ANT09 Visions of Greece in Imperial Britain
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Antiquity Chair: Ian Macgregor Morris
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Macgregor Morris
Doohwan Ahn : Xenophon and the Greek tradition in British republican thought
Akca Atac : An Attempt at Restoring the Antique Imperial Wisdom: Ancient Greek History Texts of Eighteenth- Century Britain
Rachel Sternberg : Cyrus the Great's Pity for Panthea



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
S-9 ANT11 Pompeii in the popular imagination
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Ian Macgregor Morris
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Macgregor Morris
Kate Fisher, Rebecca Langlands : ‘This way to the red light district’: the interplay of academic and popular imaginations in Pompeii
Shelley Hales : Spiritualism and the (im)materiality of Pompeii
Joanna Paul : ‘I fear it’s potentially like Pompeii’: Disaster, mass media, and the ancient city



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
B-10 NMANT Network meeting: Antiquity
Cave B
Network: Antiquity Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
W-11 ANT12 Approaches to Ancient Warfare
Room 2.12
Network: Antiquity Chair: Kurt Raaflaub
Organizers: - Discussant: Kurt Raaflaub
Francisco Caramelo : Thinking about war in ancient Mesopotamia: a prophetic discourse of legitimacy
Fernando Echeverria : Technological determinism. The Argive shield and the origins of the Greek phalanx
José Varandas : The Roman Army in the Western Iberia: military, political and social impacts in the Atlantic coastline at the time of Punic Wars.



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
S-12 ANT08 'Aristocracy' and social mobility in ancient Greece
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Hans Van Wees
Organizers: - Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Nicholas Fisher : 'Aristocratic' or 'elite' values and practices in ancient Greece
Olivier Mariaud : Honour and Genealogy. Megas, his Ancestors and Strategies of Social Differentiation in Archaic Samos.
Gillian Shepherd : Nouveaux Riches? Status and Social Mobility in Western Greece
Edward van der Vliet : Status Inconsistency in Early Greece



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
F-13 ANT07 Ancient Armies: Modes of Persuasion and Social Cohesion
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Antiquity Chair: Fernando Echeverria
Organizers: - Discussant: Fernando Echeverria
Philip De Souza : From Local Leadership to Leadership in War
Vincent Gabrielsen : Army Leadership and Divination in Ancient Warfare
Alexander Thein : Sulla and the 'demagogue generals', 88-87 B.C.



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
M-14 ANT06 Thinking about Peace in the Ancient World
Room 5.2
Network: Antiquity Chair: Hans Van Wees
Organizers: - Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Susanne Bickel : The Concept of Peace in Ancient Egypt
Johannes Bronkhorst : Thinking about peace in Ancient India
Kurt Raaflaub : Thinking about Peace in Ancient Greece
Robin D. S. Yates : Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
M-15 ANT10 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity I
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Mary Harlow
Organizers: - Discussant: Nelleke Bakker
Patricia Baker : Children and Health in the Greco-Roman World
Ray Laurence : Children in the Roman City: Taking another look at Pompeii
Ville Vuolanto : Socialisation of the Children in the Family Discourses of the Ascetic Fathers in Late Antiquity



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
M-16 ANT13 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity II
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Ray Laurence
Organizers: - Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Susan Blundell : Engendering childhood: boys and girls in Attic vase painting
Mary Harlow : Childhood and sibling relationships at Rome
Tim Parkin : Ancient children and their demography
Louise Revell : Breaking the paradigm: experiences of childhood in the Roman provinces



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
W-17 ANT14 Ancient Demography: a round table discussion of M.H. Hansen's: The Shotgun Method
Room 2.12
Network: Antiquity Chair: Frederick Naerebout
Organizers: - Discussants: John Davis, Renzo Derosas, Bruce Frier, Mogens Herman Hansen


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