[gothic-l] Late Antiquity Conference Program

Mon Feb 14 15:24:16 UTC 2005

CONFERENCE UPDATE
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI
ROMANS, BARBARIANS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION
OF THE ROMAN WORLD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
MARCH 17-20, 2005

Registration information: www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/sf6reg.htm
and home.earthlink.net/~ruricius/sf6reg.htm

Further information: Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm at uiuc.edu

	PROGRAM
	THURSDAY, MARCH 17
1:00-2:45	Registration
1:45-2:45	Guided Tour of the Spurlock Museum's Collection of 
Merovingian Artifacts by Barbara Oehlschlaeger Garvey (Early 
American Museum)
	SECTION I: DEFINING BARBARIANS
3:00-4:30	SESSION I: Literary Perspectives on Barbarians and 
Romans
Mary Williams (San Mateo) "Polybius and Ammianus on Barbarians
Cristiana Sogno (Cornell University) "Barbarians as Spectacle: An 
Interpretation of Symmachus, Oratio 2.10-12"
Jason Moralee (Illinois Wesleyan Univ.) "'The Barbarous-Sounding 
Enemy: Commemorating the Defeat of Barbarians in a Recently 
Discovered Epigram from Late Roman Petra"
5:00-6:00	SESSION 2: Internal 'Barbarians'
Chair: Judith Evans Grubbs (Washington University)
Yuval Shahar (Tel Aviv University) (Israel) "Unifying or Dividing 
the Barbarians? Diocletian, the Jews, and the Samaritans"
Andrew W. White (Univ. of Maryland--College Park) "Proper Care and 
Feeding of the Wild Mime: A Study in Domestication from Late 
Antiquity"
7:00-8:00 	Plenary Lecture introduced by William M. Calder III 
(Univ. of Illinois--	Urbana)
Richard Burgess (Univ. of Ottawa) (Canada) "Romans, Barbarians, and 
the Fall of the Roman Empire"
	FRIDAY, MARCH 18
8:30-10:00	SESSION III: Religion and the Construction of 
Roman/Barbarian Identity
Chair: Sarolta Takacs (Rutgers University)
Jeremy Schott (Duke Univ.) "Porphyry's Allegorical Interpretations 
of Barbarian Religion and Philosophy and the Construction of 
Identity in the Later Roman Empire"
Elizabeth Digeser (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara) "Hellenes, 
Barbarians, and Christians: Religion and Identity Politics in 
Diocletian's Rome"
Young Kim (Univ. of Michigan) "A Theological and Historical 
Definition of Barbarism in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus"
10:30-12:00	SESSION IV: Artistic Manifestations of Romanitas and 
Barbaritas
Chair: Elizabeth Teviotdale (Medieval Institute, Western Michigan 
Univ.)
Moshe Fischer (Tel Aviv Univ.) (Israel) "Assimilation, 
Acculturation, Barbarization: The Corinthian Capital in the Eastern 
Mediterranean"
Johanna K. Sandrock (Louisiana State Univ.) "Cernunnos ego sum: The 
Myth of Actaeon on Provincial Roman Funerary Reliefs"
Katharine C. Hunvald (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia) "Breaching a 
Seventh-Century Artistic Frontier: The Warnebertus Reliquary"
12:00-1:30 	Lunch in the Levis Center
	SECTION II: ROMAN-BARBARIAN ENCOUNTERS
1:30-3:00 	SESSION V: The Transformation of Identity in Post-
Roman Britain
Michael Jones (Bates College) "Text, Artifact and Genome: The 
Disputed Nature of the Anglo-Saxon Migration into Britain"
Greg Fisher (McGill Univ.) (Canada) "The Transformation of 
Romanitas: Creating a New Identity for Post-Roman Britain"
David Klingle (Florida State Univ.) "Romano-British vs. Anglo-Saxon 
Identity in England: The Evidence of Burials"
3:30-6:00	SESSION VI: The Construction of Identity in Western 
Frontier Zones
Chair: 	Edward James (University College, Dublin) )(Ireland)
Linda Ellis (San Francisco State Univ.) "To Be or Not To Be Roman: 
Geographic Approaches to Analyzing Human Relatedness in the Lower 
Danube Region (2nd-7th Centuries)"
Scott de Brestian (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia) "Vascones and 
Visigoths: Creation and Transformation of Identity in Northern Spain"
Luis Garcia Moreno (Univ. of Alcala de Henares) (Spain) "Building an 
Ethnic Identity for a New Gothic and Roman Nobility: Cordoba, 615 
A.D." 
Dmitry Starostine (Univ. of Toronto) (Canada) "Barbarians and/or 
Romans: Discourses of Justice in Merovingian Court Verdicts and 
Narrative Sources"
Bailey Young (Eastern Illinois Univ.) "Auguste Moutié and the 
Pioneering Days of Merovingian Archaeology"
7:00-8:00 	Plenary Lecture introduced by Bailey Young (Eastern 
Illinois Univ.)
Patrick Périn (Musée des Antiquités nationales) (France) "Identity 
and Ethnicity in the Era of Migrations and Barbarian Kingdoms in the 
Light of Archaeology in Gaul" (co-author M. Kazanski)
	SATURDAY, MARCH 19
8:30-10:00	SESSION VII: Romans, Barbarians and Religion in 
North Africa
Chair: Dennis Trout (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia)
Gillian Clark (Univ. of Bristol) (England) "Augustine and the 
Merciful Barbarians"
Kevin Uhalde (Ohio Univ.) "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and 
Christian Scruples: Augustine, Epist. 46-47"
David Riggs (Indiana Wesleyan Univ.) "Vandal Contributions to the 
Christianization of North Africa"
10:30-12:00	SESSION VIII: Romans and Barbarians beyond the 
Eastern Frontiers
Chair: Hal Drake (Univ. of California--Santa Barbara)
Salim Faraji (Claremont Graduate Univ.) "Rome and Kush: Cultural 
Encounter on the Egyptian Southern Frontier"
Scott John McDonough (UCLA) "Were the Sassanians Barbarians? Roman 
Writers on the 'Empire of the Persians'"
Jan Willem Drijvers (Univ. of Groningen) (Netherlands) "Rome's Image 
of the 'Barbarian' Sassanians"
12:00-1:00 	Lunch on your own
	SECTION III: ROMANS, BARBARIANS, AND POLITICS
1:00-3:30	SESSION VIII: Romans and Barbarians in Imperial 
Politics
Chair: Tom Burns (Emory Univ.)
Kimberly Kagan (Yale Univ.) "Spies Like Us: Treason and Identity in 
the Later Roman Empire"
Michele Renee Salzman (Univ. of California--Riverside) "Symmachus 
and the 'Barbarian' Generals"
Edward Watts (Indiana Univ.) "Pope Leo the Antichrist and the Fall 
of the Western Roman Empire"
Edward James (University College, Dublin) (Ireland) "Rex Francorum, 
Rex Romanorum Revisited"
Steve Fanning (Univ. of Illinois--Chicago) "Reguli in the Later 
Roman Empire and the Germanic Kingdoms"
4:00-6:00	SESSION IX: The Barbarian Invasions
Chair: Scott Bradbury (Smith College)
Amelia Robertson Brown (Univ. of California--Berkeley) "'The 
Overthrow of the Temples and the Ruin of the Whole of Greece': 
Rhetoric and Archaeology in Barbarian Invasions of Late Roman Greece"
David T. Fletcher (Indiana Univ.) "Constantine III and the Barbarian 
Invasion of Gaul"
Walter Goffart (Yale Univ.) "The Three Meanings of 'Migration Age'"
7:00-11:00 	Banquet and Dance (Illini Union 170)
	SUNDAY, MARCH 20
	SECTION IV: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
8:30-11:00	SECTION X: Social and Economic Manifestations of 
Roman-Barbarian Encounters
Chair: Richard Mitchell (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ekaterina Nechaeva (Univ. of Siena) (Italy) "The Problem of 
Deserters in Roman-Barbarian Diplomatic Relations in Late Antiquity"
Noel Lenski (Univ. of Colorado) "Slavery, Captivity, and Romano-
Barbarian Interchange"
Hartmut Ziche (Univ. of Antilles and Guyana) (France) "Barbarian 
Raiders and Barbarian Peasants: Models of Ideological and Economic 
Integration"
Cam Grey (Univ. of Chicago) "The ius colonatus as a Model for the 
Settlement of Barbarian Prisoners-of-War in the Late Roman Empire?"
Andreas Schwarcz (Univ. of Vienna) (Austria) "Visigothic Settlement, 
Hospitalitas and Army Payment Reconsidered"
11:00-12:30	Farewell Brunch and Business Meeting of the Society 
for Late Antiquity

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