Sessions 1A-1B: Friday, March 16, 2007
9-10:40 a.m.

ROOM C400

ROOM C130

1A. The Geography of Luxury in Literature

1B. Advertising Rome to its Subjects

Session Chair Leanne Bablitz

Session Chair James Russell

Robin Greene
(University of Washington)

“Gems of Hellenism: Origin and Incorporation in the Lithika of Posidippus”

Caroline Blonce
(Centre Gustav-Glotz, Paris)

“L’arc honorifique de Trajan à Constantin: le triomphe de la romanitas”

Barbara Weinlich
(University of Montana)

“The Geopolitics of Idealization in Propertius 3.13 and 14”

Charmaine Gorrie
(University of British Columbia)

“The Secular Games: Bigger than the Olympics”

Alison Keith
(University of Toronto)

“Imperial Leisure”

Ethan Adams
(Loyala Marymount University)

“The Disneyfication of Rome: Spectacles of Nature and Urban Theme Parks”

Catherine Connors
(University of Washington)

“Say it with Silk: Some Roman Representations of Persia and Parthia”

Andrew Goldman
(Gonzaga University)

“Truly a ‘Provincia Inermis’? New Evidence for Roman Soldiers in Galatia (Turkey)”

Sessions 2A-2B: Friday, March 16, 2007
11:05 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

ROOM C400

ROOM C130

2A. Literacy and Language as Global Tools

2B. Culture in Transition

Session Chair Paul Mosca

Session Chair Roger Wilson

Jillian Shoichet
(University of Victoria)

“If Not Now: Writing and Identity in Rabbinic Judaism”

Julia Armstrong
(University of British Columbia)

“Mediterranean Iron Age Trade and Interaction: A View from the West”

Walter Aufrecht
(University of Lethbridge)

“Aramaic as a Global Language”

Margaret Butler
(Stanford University)

“Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be: Socio-cultural Change in Ancient Macedon and the Greater Aegean World”

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Zosia Archibald
(University of Liverpool)

“Tricks of the Trade: Learning to make Extraordinary Things”

Sessions 3A-3B: Friday, March 16, 2007
2-3:40 p.m.

ROOM C400

ROOM C130

3A. Personal Tastes in a World Setting

3B. Subcultures and Problems of Identity in Ancient Society

Session Chair Susanna Braund

Session Chair David Creese

Justin Walsh
(Louisiana State University)

“Consumption and Choice in Ancient Sicily”

Timothy Power
(University of Washington)

“The Noise made by Women: ‘Asiatic’ Cult Music in Classical Athens”

David Smith
(San Francisco State University)

“A Regional Literary Culture? The Case of Syracuse”

Ilaria Battiloro
(University of Alberta)

“Indigenous Lucanian Settlements in Early Roman Colonization”

David Cuff
(University of Toronto)

“Quem genuit terra Mauretana p(eregrina) obruit terra: auxiliary epitaphs of Germania”

Pauline Ripat
(University of Winnipeg)

“Subcultures and Purges in the Early Empire”

Jeremy Rossiter
(University of Alberta)

“When the Circus comes to Town: Provincial Interpretations of a Roman Sporting Event”

Joy Connolly
(New York University)

“Questions of ‘Global’ and ‘Local’ Identity Formation under Roman Rule”

Sessions 4A-4B: Friday, March 16, 2007
4:05-5:20 p.m.

ROOM C130

ROOM C400

4A. Transmission of Religious Ideas and Motifs

4B. Hybridity and Connectivity

Session Chair Robert Cousland

Session Chair Thomas Hikade

Michael Griffin
(University of Oxford)

“Ithaca on the Nile”

Bernard Knapp
(University of Glasgow)

“Insularity, Connectivity and Hybridity: Rethinking the ‘Aegean Colonisation’ of Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age”

Alison Barclay
(St. Mary’s University)

“Influence, Inspiration or Innovation? The Importance of Contexts in the Study of Iconography”

Jackie Murray
(Temple University)

“The Sons of Phrixus: Racial and Generic Hybridity in Apollonius’ Argonautica”

Ann Nicgorski
(Willamette University)

“Apollo akersekomas and the Magic Knot of Heracles”

Benedetta Bessi
(John Cabot University, Rome)

“The African Adventure of Liber Pater between Regional Culture and Globalization”

Sessions 5A-5B: Saturday, March 17, 2007
9-10:15 a.m.

5A. Movement of Ideas and Goods: From Predynastic Egypt to Iron Age Iberia

5B. Communication: Problems and Resistance

Session Chair Elisabeth Cooper

Session Chair Alison Keith

Thomas Hikade
(University of British Columbia)

“Hierakonpolis and the Interregional Trade in Cedar Wood in the 4th Millennium BC”

Susanna Braund
(Stanford University)

“Barbarian Inflections”

Chrisitan Wastlhuber
(Ludwig-Maximilians Universität)

“The Relationship between Egypt and the Levant during the 12th Dynasty”

Julia Wilker
(Freie Universität, Berlin)

“Globalising Opposition”

“Imitation and Adaptation: The Phoenicians and the Orientalizing Phenomenon in the Mediterranean from 1000 t0 700 BC”

Sessions 6A-6B: Saturday, March 17, 2007
10:40 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

ROOM C130

ROOM C400

6A. The Hellenistic West (Special Panel)

6B. Poetry as the Voice of Panhellenism

Session Chair Hector Williams

Session Chair Shirley Sullivan

Josephine Quinn
(University of Oxford)

“Negotiating Power in the Hellenistic West: Numidian Architecture in Context”

Mark Buchan
(Princeton University)

“Homer, and the Origins of Greek Ignorance”

Jonathan Prag
(University of Oxford)

“Epigraphic Cultures in the Western Mediterranean: A Hellenistic Phenomenon?”

Allen Romano
(University of Chicago)

“Explanatory Myth and the Fallacy of Poetic Panhellenism”

Edward Bispham
(University of Oxford)

“The Hellenistics of Death: Mortuary Practice, Funerary Rites and Identity in Adriatic Italy, 350-150 BC”

Agis Marinis
(University of Cambridge)

“Panhellenism and Religion in Pindar”

Roger Wilson
(University of British Columbia)

“Between East and West: Regional Idiosyncracies and Pan-Mediterranean Perspectives in Later Hellenistic Sicily”

Raymond Capra
(Fordham University/Seton Hall University)

“The Pan-Hellenic career of Ibycus”

Sessions 7A-7B: Saturday, March 17, 2007
2:00-3:40 p.m.

ROOM C130

ROOM C400

7A. Cultural Centres and Native Margins

7B. Diet and Economy

Session Chair Zosia Archibald

Session Chair Geoffrey Kron

Gocha Tsetskhladze
(University of Melbourne)

“The Greek Bosporan Kingdom: Regionalism and Globalism in the Black Sea”

Eleanor Irwin
(University of Toronto)

“What grows where and can it grow here? Some Greek Observations on Climate and Microclimates”

Jane Rempel
(University of Sheffield)

“Local Burial Traditions on the North Coast of the Black Sea: Regional Negotiations and Global Connections”

Alexandra Grigorieva
(Moscow State Lomonosov University)

“Regional Foods of Antiquity in Global Context, Roman and Greek Cross-references”

Stephanie Langin-Hooper
(University of California, Berkeley)

“Temples, Texts, and ‘Tyrants’: The Reactions of Local Priesthoods to the Hellenistic Kings of Egypt and Babylonia”

Michael MacKinnon
(University of Winnipeg)

“Assessing ‘Romanization’ from Zooarchaeological Remains: Theoretical Foundations and Preliminary Examinations”

Michael Sommer
(University of Liverpool)

“Glocalising an Empire: Rome in the 3rd Century CE”

Katherine Blouin
(Université Laval and Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)

“Fiscal Regionalism in Roman Egypt: The Case of the Mendesian Limnitic Land”

Sessions 8A-8B: Saturday, March 17, 2007
4:05-5:20 p.m.

ROOM C400

ROOM C130

8A. From Local to International: Ritual, Food, Medicine

8B. Artefacts: Local Exchange and Beyond

Session Chair Pauline Ripat

Session Chair Jane Rempel

Christine Lane
(University of British Columbia)

“The Delphi Connection: The Role of Apollo in Magna Grecia and Sicily”

Johannes Verstraete
(University of Cincinnati)

“Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity: The Amuq Valley (Turkey)”

Karen Aberle
(University of British Columbia)

“The Macellum: Local Grocer, or Global (Super) Market?”

Ulrike Krotscheck
(Stanford University)

“Greek Marseille: Joining Global and Local Networks of Exchange”

Eric Nelson
(Pacific Lutheran University)

“Coan Regional State Promotions and the Birth of the Hippocratic Legend”

Joseph Skinner
(University of Liverpool)

“Fish Heads and Mussel-shells: Visualizing Greek Identity”