Second Annual Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable

September 14, 2011

The Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable (BAIR) will take place October 21 and 22, 2011 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. This will be the second edition of this annual event designed to bring together students of the archaeology, history, and art history of ancient Italy (broadly defined both geographically and chronologically) based in the Bay Area and further afield in the western United States. The aim of this initiative is to promote interaction among this group of scholars with a view to advancing the development of a more cohesive professional community.

The event will consist of a keynote address to be held on the evening of Friday, October 21, followed by a day-long conference on Saturday, October 22, at which several scholars will present short papers on their current research. Erich Gruen, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the Friday keynote address, entitled "Did Romans have an ethnic identity?" The Saturday conference will consist of two morning sessions, one with three papers on ethnicity in ancient Italy and the other with two papers on upheaval and response in Rome, and an afternoon session with four papers on ancient Sicily. For full details, see the preliminary program, presented below.

Persons interested in attending the Friday keynote address and/or the Saturday conference should indicate this to the BAIR Steering Committee by sending an email to the following address: bair- rsvp@berkeley.edu.

BAIR Steering Committee:

Chair: J. Theodore Peña (Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley)

Members:

Michael Anderson (Classics Department, San Francisco State University)

Louise Chu (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)

Mia Fuller (Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley)

Christopher Hallett (Departments of History of Art and Classics, University of California, Berkeley)

Carlos Noreña (Department of History, University of California, Berkeley)

Paolo Pellagatti (Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)

Steven Sullivan (Acme Bread Company, Berkeley, California)

Jennifer Trimble (Department of Classics, Stanford University)

Ruth Tringham (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)

Download the PDF program.

BERKELEY ANCIENT ITALY ROUNDTABLE, OCTOBER 22-22, 2011 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

KEYNOTE LECTURE Toll Room, Alumni House, 7:00 PM

Introduction: Susanna Elm, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Lecture: Erich Gruen Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley: Did Romans have an ethnic identity?

RECEPTION

Toll Room/Terrace, Alumni House, 8:30-9:30 PM

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

CONFERENCE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Kroeber Hall Room 160 8:00-8:50 AM

AM SESSION 1: ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

Chair: Emily Mackil, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

1. Christopher Hallett and Lisa Pieraccini, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley:

Etruscans on the Bay: Mario del Chiaro and Etruscan Studies at UC Berkeley

2. Sandra Gambetti, Department of History, The College of Staten Island - CUNY:

Apollo in Italy, or the art of Adaptation

3. M. Shane Bjornlie, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College:

Law, Property and Taxes between Romans and Barbarians in Late-Antique Italy

COFFEE BREAK

9:00 - 10:30 AM

AM SESSION 2: ROME: UPHEAVAL AND RESPONSE 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Chair: Carlos Noreña, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

1. Michele Renee Salzman, Department of History, University of California, Riverside:

Elite Contestations, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410

2. Michael J. Taylor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley:

The Roman Tax Revolt of 187 BC

RECESS FOR LUNCH 12:00 - 2:00 PM

PM SESSION: ANCIENT SICILY 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Chair: Giovanna Ceserani, Department of Classics, Stanford University

1. Claire Lyons and Alexandra Sofroniew. J. Paul Getty Museum:

Between Greece and Rome: Exhibiting Classical and Hellenistic Sicily

2. Shelley Stone, Department of Art, California State University, Bakersfield:

The Early Chronology of East Sicilian Medallion Cups

COFFEE BREAK

3. Randall Souza. Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley:

Gaius Aurelius and Tiberius Claudius: Roman authorities and incipient provincial administration in western Sicily

4. Laura Pfunter, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley:

The changing urban landscape of Roman Sicily