Local Identities in the Ancient Mediterranean

Conference Schedule

a conference in memory of Corinne Crawford


All talks will be held in Room 370, Dwinelle Hall


Friday, November 7

5:30 Opening Remarks, Kickoff Address
Nino Luraghi (Princeton)
"Structure and history in Greek ethnic identities"

Saturday, November 8

9-10 breakfast
10-11:15 Panel I. "Double Identities"
Kelcy Sagstetter (University of Pennsylvania)
"Asian fusion: intellectual resistance to Greco-Scythian cultural mixing"
Duncan Macrae (Harvard)
"The Two Catulli of Verona: Hybrid Identity and Social Performance"
11:45-1 Panel II. "Integration?"
Christelle Fischer (Berkeley)
"Encountering the Other: ethnic interaction in the gymnasium of Egypt"
Annika Kuhn (Oxford)
"Local Identity Formation in the Roman Colony of Alexandria Troas"
1-2 Lunch
2-3:45 Panel III. "Polis and Politics, Ethnos and Ethnicity"
John Tully (Princeton)
"Achaioì egénonto: Negotiating Local and Regional Identity in the Northern Peloponnese"
Natalie Abell (University of Cincinnati)
"Insularity without Isolation: Rethinking Identity Construction in the Maltese Temple Period"
Jason Aftosmis (Stanford)
"Problems of Language and Colonization in Callimachus's Aitia"
4:15 Keynote Address
Nicola Terrenato (Michigan)
"The Romanization of Rome"