SF VIII
“Shifting Cultural Frontiers
in Late Antiquity”
2-5 APRIL 2009
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN, USA)
Organizers: Deborah Deliyannis, Edward Watts
Conference volume: David
Brakke, Deborah M. Deliyannis, Edward Watts, eds., Shifting Cultural Frontiers
in Late Antiquity (Ashgate, 2012)
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409441496
https://www.routledge.com/Shifting-Cultural-Frontiers-in-Late-Antiquity/Brakke-Deliyannis/p/book/9781138275188
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Eighth Biennial
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
"Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late
Antiquity"
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
April 2-5, 2009
Wednesday, April 1
7:00-8:30 pm Pre-conference
lecture by Robin Lane Fox (sponsored by the Indiana University Program in
Ancient Studies)
Thursday, April 2
12:00 - 6:00 pm Registration
1:00-1:30 Welcome
1:30-4:00 pm SESSION I: Shared
Intellectual Space
Chair: Linda Hall, St. Mary's
College of
Maryland
Maja Kominko (University of
York, UK) “The Puzzles of Universe: Inspirations of Syriac Cosmography”
David Michelson (University of
Alabama) “"It is not the custom of our Syriac language’ ":
Reconsidering the Role of Translation in the Polemics of Philoxenos of Mabbug”
Ellen Muehlberger (DePauw
University) “Negotiations with Death: Ephrem's Control of Death in Dialogue”
Aaron Johnson (University of
Chicago) “Three Hellenized Phoenicians under Rome: A Reassessment of the
Interpretatio Graeca”
Kathleen Gibbons (University of
Toronto ) “Natural Law and Human Freedom in Bardaisan's Book of the Laws of the
Countries”
4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee
4:30 - 6:00 pm SESSION II:
Epistolographic Culture
Chair: Scott Bradbury, Smith
College
Jennifer Ebbeler (University of
Texas, Austin) “Augustine, the Donatists, and the Epistula Pacifica”
Robin Darling Young (University
of Notre Dame) “Urbane Exile in the Letters of Evagrius of Pontus”
Michele Renee Salzman
(University of California, Riverside) “Varro and his Influence in Late
Antiquity”
6:00 - 8:00 pm Reception,
Indiana University Art Museum
Friday, April 3
7:00 - 11:00 am Registration
7:30 - 8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 am SESSION III:
The Culturally Contested Body
Chair: Young Richard Kim,
Calvin
College
Linda Honey (University of
Calgary) “Glycerios and the Dancing Virgins”
Kyle Harper (University of
Oklahoma) “Shame and Sin: Prostitutes in Late Antique Culture”
Sofie Remijsen (Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven) “The Transformation of Athletics in Late Antiquity”
10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 pm SESSION IV:
Jewish, Christian, and Roman Cultural Negotiation
Chair: Hagith Sivan, University
of
Kansas
Harold Drake (University of
California, Santa Barbara) “Where High and Low Culture Meet: The Legend of the
Cross”
Rachel Neis (University of
Michigan) “The Rabbi as Icon”
Anne Kreps (University of
Michigan) “The People of the Earth in Roman and Jewish Legal Discourse”
12:00 - 1:30 am Catered Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm SESSION V: Roman
and Non-Roman Identity
Chair:
TBA�
Jonathan P. Conant (University
of San Diego) “Return to the Periphery: The The African Response to the
Byzantine Reconquest” African Response to the Byzantine Reconquest”
Michael Kulikowski (University
of Tennessee, Knoxville) “Murranus: Transcending Barbarism in the Later Roman
Empire”
Andrew J. Welton (Grove City
College) “As Far as the East is from the West: A comparative Study of Ghassanid
Ethnogenesis”
Ralph Mathisen (University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “Loan Words, Hair Styles, and Cross-Dressing:
Negotiating the Culture Wars in Late Antiquity”
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee
4:00 - 5:30 pm SESSION VI:
Cultural Manifestations in Christian Ritual
Chair: Tina Sessa, Ohio State
University
Eric Fournier (West Chester
University) “Rebaptism as a Ritual of Cultural Integration in Vandal Africa”
Dayna S. Kalleres (University
of California, San Diego) “Idiom of Demonic Affliction as Cultural Resistance
in Late Antique Cities”
Scott F. Johnson (Washington
and Lee University) “Pilgrimage and Archive in Egeria”
5:30 - 6:30 pm Keynote Address:
Jas' Elsner, Oxford University
6:30 - 7:30 pm Reception, Lilly
Library
Saturday, April 4
7:30 - 8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 am SESSION VII:
Commemoration in an Urban Context
Chair: Bella Sandwell,
University of
Bristol
Dennis Trout (University of
Missouri) “Damasus, Bassa, and Bethesda: Borrowed Verse and Broken Narratives”
John Matthews (Yale University)
“Viewing the Column of Arcadius at Constantinople”
Jinyu Liu (DePauw University)
“Fora and Public Honor in the Western Cities (IV-V Centuries)”
10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 pm SESSION VIII:
Literary Culture
Chair: Scott McGill, Rice
University
Raymond Capra (Seton Hall University)
“Dioskoros of Aphrodite's encomium on Duke Kallinikos (H5, P. Cair. Masp. III
67315)”
James A. Francis (University of
Kentucky) “Late Antique Visuality: Blurring the Boundaries between Word and
Image, Pagan and Christian”
Gillian Clark (University of
Bristol) “The Ant of God: Augustine, Scripture, and the Curriculum”
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00 pm SESSION IX:
Material Culture
Chair: Bailey Young, Eastern
Illinois
University
Scott DeBrestian (College of Wooster)
“Home Cooking: Culinary Trends in Late Antique Hispania”
Kate da Costa (University of
Sydney) “Shining a Light on Shifting Fontiers: Cultural Uses of Ceramic Lamps
during Late Antiquity”
Leslie Dossey (Loyola
University of Chicago) “Sleeping Arrangements and Private Space in Late
Antiquity”
3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee
3:30 - 5:30 pm SESSIONS X a and
b
SESSION X a: Cultural
Representation in Historiographical Texts
Chair: Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio
State
University
Cristiana Sogno (University of
California, Irvine) “Curiositas nihil recusat: "High" vs.
"Low" Views of Historiography”
Peter Van Nuffelen (University
of Exeter) “Late Antique Historiography between Fragmentation and Integration”
Jan Willem Drijvers (University
of Groningen) “Ammianus Marcellinus and the Decline of Political Culture”
Jacqueline Long (Loyola
University Chicago) “Culture-Vultures of the Historia Augusta, Circling over
Roman Emperors”
SESSION X b: Presenting
Imperial Power
Chair: Sviatoslav Dmetriev,
Ball State
University
Joel Walker (University of
Washington) “From Heaven and the Sea: Pearls in the Arts and Imagination of
Late Antiquity”
Susanna Elm (University of
California, Berkeley) “"Trans-lating" Hellenism: Gregory of Nazianzus
and the Claim to Romanitas and Logoi”
Chuck Pazdernik (Grand Valley
State University) “"How then is it not better to prefer quiet, than the
dangers of conflict?": The Imperial Court as the Site of Shifting Cultural
Frontiers”
Susannah McFadden (Fordham
University) “History vs. Art History, When Textual and Visual Evidence
Disagree: The Case of Late Roman Thebes”
6:00 - 9:00pm Banquet, Tudor
Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Keynote Address: Seth Schwartz,
Jewish Theological Seminary
Sunday, April 5
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 am SESSION XI:
Negotiating the Imperial Frontier
Chair: Deanna Forsman, North
Hennepin Community
College
Scott McDonough (New York
University) “The "Warrior of the Lords": Smbat Bagratuni at the
Center and Periphery of Late Sasanian Iran”
Guido M. Berndt (Universitat
Paderborn) “Living on the Roman-Persian Border: the Suani”
Matthew Canepa (College of
Charleston) “Roman and Persian Identity Beyond the Borders of Empire: Client King
Poaching, Ceremony and Gift Giving”
Christine DeLaPlace (University
of Toulouse-II Le Mirail) “The So-called "Conquete de l'Auvergne"
(469-475) in the History of the Visigothic Kingdom. Relations between the Roman
Elites of Southern Gaul, the Central Imperial Power in Rome and the Military
Authoritity of the Federates on the Periphery”