Friday 21 October 2011
9.00 Registration Opens
9.30 - 11.30 Session One
Panel A - Cities Remembered and Regained Tory 2-79
- Ehud Ben-Zvi, University of Alberta
Shaping and Balancing Memories of pre-temple Jerusalem in late Persian Yehud - Tim Langille, University of Toronto
Traumatic Memory, Liturgical Time, and the Return to Jerusalem in Damascus Document and Pesher Habakkuk - Owen Ewald, Seattle Pacific University
Imperial Roman Cities as Places of Memory in Augustine’s Confessions - Sonia Sabnis, Reed College
Ausonius and the Noble Cities of Empire
Panel B - Urban Landscapes of Ancient Italy Tory 2-44
- Fabio Colivicchi, Queen's University
Idea of the Etruscan City: The Mundus of Caere and the Role of Religion in Early Etruscan Urbanization - Tanya Henderson, MacEwan University
Constructing an Oscan Cityscape: Pompeii and the Eituns Inscriptions - Christer Bruun, University of Toronto
The Civic Identity of Roman Ostia - Katherine Tipton, University of Calgary
Insulae: Identity and Housing in Roman Italy
11.30 - 1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 3.30 Session Two
Panel A - Cities in the Landscape Tory 2-79
- Megan Daniels, Stanford University
Sacred Exchange: The Function of Trade and the Divine in the Growth of Ancient Mediterranean Cities - Rodney Fitzsimons, Trent University
A Tale of Three Cities: Urbanisation and Socio-Political Development at Archaic Azoria, Crete - Matthew Maher, University of British Columbia
In Defense of Arkadia: The City as Fortress
Panel B - Roman Topography in Verse Tory 2-44
- Eric Kondratieff, Temple University
Future City in the Heroic Past: Rome, Romans and Roman Landscapes in Aeneid 6-8 - Sanjaya Thakur, Colorado College
Poetic Representations of Augustan Rome - Rebecca Nagel, University of Alberta
Country Food for City People
3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon Break
4.00 - 5.30 Session Three
Panel A - Urban Construction in the Abstract Tory 2-79
- Ricardo Apostol, Case Western Reserve University
“First of All, by Nature, the Polis”: The City as Logically Prior in Greco-Roman Thought - Christina Williamson, Groningen University
Civic Oaths in Ritual Space as a Rational Device in the Hellenistic Period - Luan Wandsnider, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The Differential Persistence of the Citizen-City Structure in Hellenistic Anatolia and Provincial Asia Minor: A Multi-level Evolutionary Approach with a Costly Signaling Mechanism - Emily Varto, Dalhousie University
The Family and the Ancient City in 19th-Century Ethnography and Classical Scholarship
Panel B - Cities on the Page Tory 2-44
- Ian Wilson, University of Alberta
The Seat of Kingship: Literary Constructions of Cities and Royalty in the Ancient Levant - Francis Landy, University of Alberta
Jerusalem, Joy of All the Earth (Ps.48.3, Lam.2.15) - Mostafa Younesie, Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran)
Herodotus’ Account of Ecbatana: Colors Conducive to Divinity - Daniel Berman, Temple University
Myth and Two Cities: Greek Thebes on the Athenian Stage
7.30 - 8.30 Opening Keynote Lecture
Josef Wiesehöfer, University of Kiel.
Greek Poleis in the Near East and Their Parthian Overlords
reception to follow