[gothic-l] Late Antiquity Conference

Mon Dec 6 00:56:45 UTC 2004

THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

presents

SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI:

"Romans, Barbarians, and the
Transformation of the Roman World"

The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign

17-20 March 2005

Generously supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 
the Medieval Studies Program, the Departments of History, Classics, 
and English, and the School of Art and Design at UIUC

The conference will take an interdisciplinary look at new ways of 
understanding interactions between Romans and barbarians and at the 
fate of the Roman world during the fourth through the seventh 
centuries AD. It will provide a forum for the discussion of the most 
up-to-date research and thought on the fate of the Roman world in 
the context of Roman and barbarian relations. As in the past, we 
will bring together scholars who represent different methodological, 
disciplinary, geographical, and chronological perspectives. 
Contributions will deal with topics related to (1) The 
creation/evolution of barbarian and/or Roman identity; (2) The 
nature of the interaction between the Roman and barbarian cultural 
worlds (e.g. language, literature, religion, material culture); (3) 
The interpretation of the evidence of both literature and material 
culture; (4) Issues of continuity/change with regard to social, 
political, and religious institutions; (5) the historiography of 
perceptions of Romans and barbarians and its significance for the 
modern world; and (6) Theoretical models that help to interpret the 
nature of barbarian-Roman interactions.

SPECIAL EXHIBIT OF MEROVINGIAN ARTIFACTS

In conjunction with the conference, the university's Spurlock Museum 
will be mounting an exbibit of the museum's extensive collection of 
Merovingian artifacts, one of the best such collections in the 
country. Several conference presentations will be devoted to 
discussion of the Merovingian collection.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

The Conference sessions will be held in the Illini Union on the 
University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign . Sessions will run from 
mid afternoon on Thursday, March 17, thorough the morning of Sunday, 
March 20. All sessions will be plenary, and papers will be 
approximately 20 minutes each. There will be regular breaks, with 
refreshments, allowing ample time for discussion and personal 
interaction among the registrants.

TRANSPORTATION

Champaign/Urbana (also known as "Chambana" or "Shampoo/Banana") is 
easily accessible by plane, train, or car. Those coming by air will 
arrive in Urbana/Champaign at Willard Airport (CMI), which is served 
by Delta, United, and Northwest Airlines. Shuttle service from the 
airport will be available for registrants who make known their 
arrival and departure times. For those looking for budget flights, 
there are a many airports within about 130 miles, including Chicago 
(O'Hare and Midway), Indianapolis, Bloomington (IL), Springfield, 
and Peoria – for those flying into any  of these, it might prove 
more convenient to rent a car at the airport. By land, 
Champaign/Urbana is easily accessible by I-57 from Chicago and St. 
Louis, I-74 from Indianapolis, and I-72 from Springfield. The 
Amtrak "City of New Orleans" train delivers passengers from the 
north (Chicago) and south (Memphis) and stops in downtown Champaign. 

ACCOMMODATIONS 

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn, 1200 West 
University Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, Phone:  (217) 337-1100 
(voice)   Fax:  (217) 337-1143, at a special conference rate of $65 
per night for a single and $70 for a double. This is a very good 
rate! Reservations must be made by March 1, 2005. When booking 
rooms, be sure to mention either "Shifting Frontiers" or "Code SFC." 
The Hampton Inn is a short 5-block walk from the Illini Union, where 
most of the sessions will be held. Additional guest rooms are 
available in the Illini Union itself, with rates ranging from $75 
for a single to $100 for a four-person room (which works out to $25 
each!). Reservations may be made at iuguestrooms at uiuc.edu, and 
information may be consulted at 
http://www.union.uiuc.edu/services/guestrooms/rates.html..Those who 
would like to arrange shared rooms should contact the organizers who 
will put you in touch with like-minded persons. Parking is available 
at both the Hampton and the Union for guests who have rooms.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the Conference is $100 ($50 for students), and will 
include the abstract booklet, two continental breakfasts, a lunch, 
the Sunday morning farewell brunch, five refreshment breaks, two 
evening receptions with hors d'oeuvres, and a Saturday evening 
dinner dance [This is a real bargain! How many other conferences 
does one attend where all one gets for $100 is a nametag?]. Students 
also may register at a reduced rate of $20 to attend the sessions 
only. Seating space is be limited, so registration as early as 
possible is encouraged. 

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, please contact Ralph Mathisen at 
ralphwm at uiuc.edu (Department of History, Univ. of Illinois B Urbana/ 
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA: 217-244-5249) or Danuta Shanzer, 
shanzer at uiuc.edu (Department of Classics, Univ. of Illinois B 
Urbana/ Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA: 217-333-1009).

ROSTER OF PRESENTATIONS

Edward Watts (Indiana Univ.) "Pope Leo the Antichrist and the Fall 
of the Western Roman Empire"

Mary Williams (San Mateo) "Polybius and Ammianus on Barbarians"

Cristiana Sogno (Cornell University) "Barbarians as Spectacle: An 
Interpretation of Symm. Or. 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"

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"

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"

Moshe Fischer (Tel Aviv. Univ.) "Assimilation, Acculturation, 
Barbarization: The Corinthian Capital in the Eastern Mediterranean 
as an Example"

Johanna K. Sandrock (LSU) "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"

Scott de Brestian (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia ) "Vascones and 
Visigoths: Creation and Transformation of Identity in Northern Spain"

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)"

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 (FSU) "Romano-British vs. Anglo-Saxon Identity in 
England: The Evidence of Burials"

Gillian Clark (Univ. of Bristol (England)) "Augustine and the 
Merciful Barbarians"

Kevin Uhalde (Ohio Univ.) "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and 
Christian Scruples: Aug. Ep. 46-47"

David Riggs (Indiana Wesleyan Univ.) "Vandal Contributions to the 
Christianization of North Africa"

Salim Faraji (Claremont Graduate University) "Rome and Kush: 
Cultural Encounter on the Egyptian Southern Frontier"

Scott John McDonough (UCLA) "Were the Sasanians Barbarians? Roman 
Writers on the 'Empire of the Persians'"

Jan Willem Drijvers (Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)) "Rome's Image 
of the 'Barbarian' Sassanians"

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 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"

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'"

Ekaterina Nechaeva (Univ. of Sienna (Italy)) "The Problem of 
Deserters in Roman-Barbarian Diplomatic Relations in Late Antique "

Noel Lenski (Univ. of Colorado) "Slavery, Captivity, and Romano-
Barbarian Interchange"

Hartmut Ziche (Univ. of Antilles and Guyana) "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) "Visigothic Settlement, 
Hospitalitas and Army Payment Reconsidered"

Dmitry Starostin (Univ. of Toronto (Canada)) "Barbarians and/or 
Romans: Discourses of Justice in Merovingian Court Verdicts and 
Narrative Sources"

Bailey Young (Eastern Illinois Univ.)/Patrick Périn (Directeur du 
Musée des Antiquités nationales, France), Plenary Lecture: "The 
Importance of Merovingian Archaeology"

REGISTRATION FORM

SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI:

"Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World"

The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign

17-20 March 2005

Name:________________________________________________________________
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Affiliation/Place of 
Residence:_____________________________________________

Address: 
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Phone: Office ___________________ Home _________________________ 

EMAIL ___________________ FAX _________________________ 

Arriving on _______________ airline at __________ (time) on 
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Registration Fee 

The full registration fee of $100 includes the book of abstracts, 
continental breakfast, 5 refreshment breaks, 2 evening receptions, 
Saturday lunch, Sunday farewell brunch, and Saturday evening 
dinner/dance. Students may register for $50 for all events or $20 to 
attend sessions only. 

I wish to register for ____ persons and enclose $__________ 

Please make checks/money orders payable in U.S. dollars to: "Late 
Antiquity Conference" 

And mail to: Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History, 309 Gregory Hall, 
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL  61800, USA

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