SF VIIII
“Shifting Political
Frontiers in Late Antiquity”
22-24 JUNE 2011
Pennsylvania State
University (State College, PA, USA)
Organizer: Michael Kulikowski
(combined with meeting of
Heidelberg Late Antiquity Network)
Conference volume: None
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Wednesday, June 22
11:00am - 4:00pm Registration
Nittany Lion Inn (place to be announced)
1:30 -2:30pm Welcome
Michael Kulikowski and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner
Ballroom C
2:00 -3:30 pm SESSION
I
Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent University) "Public
Petitions and the Late Antique State"
Alexander Skinner "Centripetal Force in the
Fourth Century: Eastern Senate and Western Hellenes"
Marco Mattheis (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg) "Political Rituals in the Later Roman Empire"
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm SESSION II A & B
SESSION II
(A)
Patrick Sänger (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg) "Petitions and Imperial Law: New Developments during the
Severan Dynasty"
Thomas Kruse (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
"The strategos and the city council:
transformation(s) of local government in third-century Egypt"
Roland Prien (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
"Invisible elites? A case study on mechanisms of representation from the
East Alpine Region"
SESSION II (B)
Kevin Uhalde (Ohio University) "The Short Life
of the Late Roman Penitential Regime"
Young Richard Kim (Calvin College) "Bad Bishops
Always Corrupt Ignorant Emperors (and Imperial Officials)"
Kalani Craig (Indiana University) "Bishops and
balancing acts: divine and human agency in Gregory of Tours’ vision of
political authority"
6:00 - 7:00 pm Reception, Faculty Staff Club
Thursday, June 23
9:00 - 11:00 am Registration
9:00 - 10:30 am SESSION
III
Kate Cooper (University of Manchester)
"Province, Empire, and the Will of the Gods: Communication and Church
Councils in the Reign of Constantine"
Hugh Elton (Trent University) "Making Emperors
in the Eastern Roman Empire in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries"
10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm SESSION IV A &
B
SESSION IV
(A)
Sebastian Gairhos (Romisches Museum/Stadtarchäologie
Stadt Augsburg) "The End of the World (as we know it). The administrative
function of the late Roman frontier in South Germany"
Craig H. Caldwell (University of Georgia) "In
Praise of Mining in the Late Roman and Post-Roman West"
Martijn Icks (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
"Elevating the Unworthy: Negative Assessments of Imperial Accessions, AD
284-395"
SESSION IV
(B)
T. Christopher Lawrence (Penn State University)
"The last Roman? Flavius Aetius in the political life of the Huns"
Marie Roux (Université Paris Ouest nanterre la
Défence, Paris) "The praetorian prefecture of Gaul (337 - 473 AD): from
the core of Roman administrative government to the margins of Southern Gaul and
scale of dignities"
Corisande Fenwick (Stanford University) "Rural
Settlement and the Politics of land in Late Antique North Africa
(400-700)"
12:30 - 2:00 pm
SF/ILAN business meeting and discussion (catered
lunch)
2:00 - 3:30 pm SESSION V
Anne Hunnell Chen (Columbia University) "The
Politics of Family in Tetrarchic Visual Culture"
Meaghan McEvoy (Corpus Christi College, University
of Oxford) "Child-Emperors and the Transformation of the imperial office
in Late Antiquity"
Kerstin Sänger-Böhm (University of Vienna)
"Constructing the empress: continuity or discontinuity of the public image
of third-century female imperial titulature"
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm SESSION VI A & B
SESSION
VI (A)
Scott McDonough (William Paterson University)
"For the glory of whom? Aristocratic and imperial competition in the
churches of Ayrarat, 591–680 CE"
Lajos Berkes (Institut für Papyrologie,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) "Change and continuity in the village
administration of Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt: the case of village
headmen"
Roland Steinacher (University of Vienna)
"'Ethnicity' and Rome? Politics, local identities and new questions for
old problems"
SESSION
VI (B)
Sarah E. Bond (Washington and Lee University)
"Compel them to come in': political exclusion, heretics, and the
application of infamia in Late Antiquity"
Adam Levine (Corpus Christi College, Oxford
University) "The Image of Christ and Identity Politics in Late Antiquity
"
5:45 - 6:45 pm Plenary Lecture: Hartmut Leppin,
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt
"'Justinian under Justin"
7:00 - 8:00 pm Reception, Faculty Staff
Club
Friday, June 24
9:00 - 10:30 am SESSION VII
Jan Willem Drijvers (University of Groningen) "Culture
of Imperial Leadership in Late Antiquity"
Noel Lenski (University of Colorado) "The
Visigothic settlement of 418 and the politics of barbarian resettlement over
the longue
durée"
10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm SESSION VIII A & B
SESSION VIII (A)
Muriel Moser (University of Cambridge) "Golden
statues for a Praetorian Prefect: re-asserting imperial authority in Late
Antiquity"
John Weisweiler (University of Chicago) "The
Sharpening Pyramid: The Senatorial Office-holding System in Early and Late
Empire"
Sanne van Poppel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
"The Ardent Desire of both Senate and the People': Imperial Presence in
Rome in Late Antique Panegyrics"
SESSION VIII (B)
Sean Lafferty (Trinity College, University of
Toronto) "Law and order in the age of Theoderic the Great (493-526)"
Antonio Donato (Queens College, CUNY) "Politics
and the Philosopher in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy"
Christine Radtki (University of Cologne) "The
Ideal Prince: Theodoric as civilis princeps in Ostrogothic Italy"
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch Break (on your own)
2:00 - 3:30 pm SESSION
IX
Linda Jones Hall (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
"Crispus, fortissimus Caesar: the testimony of Optatianus Porfyrius"
Sebastian Schmidt Hofner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg) "Law as communication: legislation and dynastic change, AD
364-365"
Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) "The
Political Crisis of 375-376"
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm SESSIONS X A & B
SESSION X
(A)
Ralf Bockmann (Landesmuseum fuer Vorgeschichte,
Landesamt fuer Denkmalpflege und Archaeologie Sachsen-Anhalt) "Felix Karthago and the consequences:
center and periphery in Vandal North Africa"
Eric Fournier (West Chester University of
Pennsylvania) "Reacting Emperors and Proactive Barbarians? The Case of
Vandal Africa"
Robin Whelan (University of Cambridge) "The
politics of re-integration: patronage and power in reconquest Carthage"
SESSION X
(B)
Manuela Kessler (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
"The religious policies of emperor Marcian before the council of
Chalcedon"
Clare Coombe (University of Reading) "The
Return of the Giants: Politics, Power and Cosmic Upheaval in the Poetry of
Claudian"
Eirini Zisimou (University of Birmingham)
"Church and Politics in Early Christian Greece"
5:45 - 6:45pm Plenary Lecture: Simon Corcoran,
University College London
"Shifting Fragments: Making Sense of New and
Old Evidence for the Gregorian Code and its Context "
7:00 - 8:00pm Reception
8:00 - 10:00pm Banquet
Saturday, June 25
8:30 - 10:00am SESSION
XI
Hans-Ulrich Wiemer (Friedrich-Alexander Universität,
Erlangen) "Voces populi: Acclamations as a means of political communication in the Later Roman
Empire"
Christopher Kelly (Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge) "Pliny and Pacatus: Past and Present in Imperial
Panegyric"
10:00 - 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00pm SESSION XII A & B
SESSION XII
(A)
Lieve Van Hoof (Research Foundation, Flanders)
"Rhetoric as an entrance ticket to the senate: Politics and Paideia in the Fourth Century
AD"
Mark Tizzoni (University of Leeds) "Dracontius'
Poetry and the Politics of Vandal North Africa"
Johannes Wienand (Heidelberg) "Performing Gratitude:
Aristocratic Competition and the Consular Speech of Thanks in Late
Antiquity"
SESSION XII
(B)
Mary Frances Williams (Independent Scholar)
"Theodosius I and the New Political Imperative to Fight Tyranny"
Richard Flower (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
"tamquam
Figmentum Hominis: Ammianus, Constantius II and the Portrayal of Imperial Ritual "
Hartmut G. Ziche (University of the Antilles and Guyane) "The Bureaucrats of the Fourth and Fifth Century, An Emerging Socio-Economic Group"