This colloquium will bring together Roman historians from German and US academic environments to explore their own work and discuss methodologies. Each speaker will offer a 40-minute presentation exploring the results of recent research and discussing how their particular academic environment influences their questions and methodologies: how does working in a contemporary German / American university impact one’s choice of problems, methodologies, and results?
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9:00am: Noel Lenski (Yale) - Enslavement as punishment in Qin/Han/Tang China and the Roman and post-Roman west
10:00am: Simone Mehr (Erlangen) - Why the philosopher Themistios’ praise of the Emperor Valens posed a threat to the pagan philosophers
11:00am: Amia Davis (Yale) - Reimagining the late antique Balkans: a de-Romanized landscape
12:00pm: Catered lunch
1:00pm: Michael Wendler (Konstanz/Yale) - ne successor in incerto foret - The question of succession as a structural problem of the (early) Roman principate (27 BC - 96 AD)
2:00pm: Muriel Moser (Frankfurt) - The sound of Roman emperors: adventus in Rome
3:00pm: Keynote: Michael Kulikowski (Pennsylvania State University) - Revisiting Spanish late antiquity: twenty-first-century developments in history and archaeology
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Zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/j/94784107303
Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics.
