THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY
presents
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI:
"Romans, Barbarians, and the
Transformation of the Roman World"
The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign
17-20 March 2005
The conference will take an
interdisciplinary look at new ways of understanding interactions between Romans
and barbarians and at the fate of the Roman world during the fourth through the
seventh centuries AD. It will provide a forum for the discussion of the most
up-to-date research and thought on the fate of the Roman world in the context
of Roman and barbarian relations. As in the past, we will bring together
scholars who represent different methodological, disciplinary, geographical,
and chronological perspectives. Contributions will deal with topics related to
(1) The creation/evolution of barbarian and/or Roman identity; (2) The nature
of the interaction between the Roman and barbarian cultural worlds (e.g.
language, literature, religion, material culture); (3) The interpretation of
the evidence of both literature and material culture; (4) Issues of
continuity/change with regard to social, political, and religious institutions;
(5) the historiography of perceptions of Romans and barbarians and its
significance for the modern world; and (6) Theoretical models that help to
interpret the nature of barbarian-Roman interactions.
SPECIAL EXHIBIT OF MEROVINGIAN ARTIFACTS
In conjunction with the conference, the university’s Spurlock Museum
will be mounting an exbibit of the museum’s extensive collection of Merovingian
artifacts, one of the best such collections in the country. Several conference
presentations will be devoted to discussion of the Merovingian collection.
LOCAL
ARRANGEMENTS
The Conference sessions will be held in the Illini Union on the
University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign . Sessions will run from mid
afternoon on Thursday, March 17, thorough the morning of Sunday, March 20. All
sessions will be plenary, and paperswill be aproximately 20 minutes each. There
will be regular breaks, with refreshments, allowing ample time for discussion
and personal interaction among the registrants.
TRANSPORTATION
Champaign/Urbana is easily accessible by plane, train, or car. Those
coming by air will arrive in Urbana/Champaign at Willard Airport (CMI), which
is served by Delta, United, and Northwest Airlines. Shuttle service from the
airport will be available for registrants who make known their arrival and
departure times. For those looking for budget flights, there are a many
airports within about 130 miles, including Chicago (O’Hare and Midway),
Indianapolis, Bloomington (IL), Springfield, and Peoria – for those flying into
any of these, it might prove more
convenient to rent a car at the airport. By land, Champaign/Urbana is easily
accessible by I-57 from Chicago and St. Louis, I-74 from Indianapolis, and I-72
from Springfield. The Amtrack “City of New Orleahs” train delivers passengers
from the north (Chicago) and south (Memphis) and stops in downtown Champaign.
ACCOMMODATIONS
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn, 1200 West University Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801,
Phone: (217) 337-1100 (voice) Fax: (217) 337-1143, at a special conference rate of $65 per
night for a single and $70 for a double. This is a very good rate! Reservations
must be made by March 1, 2005. When booking rooms, be sure to mention either
“Shifting Frontiers” or “Code SFC.” The Hampton Inn is a short 5-block walk
from the Illini Union, where most of the sessions will be held. Additional
guest rooms are available in the Illini Union itself, with rates ranging from
$75 for a single to $100 for a four-person room (which works out to $25 each!).
Reservations may be made at iuguestrooms@uiuc.edu,
and information may be consulted at http://www.union.uiuc.edu/services/guestrooms/rates.html..Those who would like to arrange shared rooms
should contact the organizers who will put you in touch with like-minded
persons. Parking is available at both the Hampton and the Union for guests who
have rooms.
REGISTRATION
Registration for the Conference is $100 ($50 for
students), and will include the abstract booklet, two continental breakfasts, a
lunch, the Sunday morning farewell brunch, five refreshment breaks, two evening
receptions with hors d’ouevres, and a Saturday evening dinner dance [This is a
real bargain! How many other conferences does one attend where all one gets for
$100 is a nametag?]. Students also may register at a reduced rate of $20 to
attend the sessions only. Seating space is be limited, so registration as early
as possible is encouraged.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@uiuc.edu
(Department of History, Univ. of Illinois B Urbana/ Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA:
217-244-5249) or Danuta Shanzer, shanzer@uiuc.edu (Department of
Classics, Univ. of Illinois B Urbana/ Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA:
217-333-1009).
ROSTER OF PRESENTATIONS
Edward
Watts (Indiana Univ.) "Pope Leo the Antichrist and the Fall of the Western
Roman Empire"
Mary
Williams (San Mateo) "Polybius and Ammianus on Barbarians"
Cristiana
Sogno (Cornell University) "Barbarians as Spectacle: An Interpretation of
Symm. Or. 2.10-12"
Jason
Moralee (Illinois Wesleyan Univ.) "'The Barbarous-Sounding Enemy':
Commemorating the Defeat of Barbarians in a Recently Discovered Epigram from
Late Roman Petra"
Yuval
Shahar (Tel Aviv University (Israel)) "Unifying or dividing the
barbarians? Diocletian, the Jews and the Samaritans"
Andrew
W. White (Univ. of Maryland--College Park) "Proper Care and Feeding of the
Wild Mime: A Study in Domestication from Late Antiquity"
Jeremy
Schott (Duke Univ.) "Porphyry's Allegorical Interpretations of Barbarian
Religion and Philosophy and the Construction of Identity in the Later Roman
Empire"
Elizabeth
Digeser (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara) "Hellenes, Barbarians, and
Christians: Religion and Identity Politics in Diocletian's Rome"
Young
Kim (Univ. of Michigan) "A Theological and Historical Definition of
Barbarism in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus"
Moshe
Fischer (Tel Aviv. Univ.) "Assimilation, Acculturation, Barbarization: The
Corinthian Capital in the Eastern Mediterranean as an Example"
Johanna
K. Sandrock (LSU) "Cernunnos ego sum: The Myth of Actaeon on
Provincial Roman Funerary Reliefs"
Katharine
C. Hunvald (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia) "Breaching a Seventh-century
Artistic Frontier: The Warnebertus Reliquary"
Scott
de Brestian (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia ) "Vascones and Visigoths:
Creation and Transformation of Identity in Northern Spain"
Linda
Ellis (San Francisco State Univ.) "To Be or Not To Be Roman: Geographic
Approaches to Analyzing Human Relatedness in the Lower Danube Region (2nd-7th
Centuries)"
Michael
Jones (Bates College) "Text, Artifact and Genome: The Disputed Nature of
the Anglo-Saxon Migration into Britain"
Greg
Fisher (McGill Univ. (Canada)) "The Transformation of romanitas:
Creating a New Identity for Post-Roman Britain"
David
Klingle (FSU) "Romano-British vs. Anglo-Saxon Identity in England: The
Evidence of Burials"
Gillian
Clark (Univ. of Bristol (England)) "Augustine and the Merciful
Barbarians"
Kevin
Uhalde (Ohio Univ.) "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and Christian
Scruples: Aug. Ep. 46-47"
David
Riggs (Indiana Wesleyan Univ.) "Vandal Contributions to the
Christianization of North Africa"
Salim
Faraji (Claremont Graduate University) "Rome and Kush: Cultural Encounter
on the Egyptian Southern Frontier"
Scott
John McDonough (UCLA) "Were the Sasanians Barbarians? Roman Writers on the
'Empire of the Persians'"
Jan
Willem Drijvers (Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)) "Rome's Image of the
'Barbarian' Sassanians"
Kimberly
Kagan (Yale Univ.) "Spies Like Us: Treason and Identity in the Later Roman
Empire"
Michele
Renee Salzman (Univ. of California--Riverside) "Symmachus and the
'Barbarian' Generals"
Edward
James (University College, Dublin (Ireland)) "Rex Francorum, Rex
Romanorum Revisited"
Steve
Fanning (Univ. of Illinois--Chicago) "Reguli in the Later Roman Empire and
the Germanic Kingdoms"
Amelia
Robertson Brown (Univ. of California-- Berkeley) "The Overthrow of the
Temples and the Ruin of the Whole of Greece: Rhetoric and Archaeology in
Barbarian Invasions of Late Roman Greece"
David
T. Fletcher (Indiana Univ.) "Constantine III and the Barbarian Invasion of
Gaul"
Walter
Goffart (Yale Univ.) "The Three Meanings of 'Migragion Age'"
Ekaterina
Nechaeva (Univ. of Sienna (Italy)) "The Problem of Deserters in
Roman-Barbarian Diplomatic Relations in Late Antique "
Noel
Lenski (Univ. of Colorado) "Slavery, Captivity, and Romano-Barbarian
Interchange"
Hartmut
Ziche (Univ. of Antilles and Guyana) "Barbarian Raiders and Barbarian
Peasants: Models of Ideological and Economic Integration"
Cam
Grey (Univ. of Chicago) "The ius colonatus as a model for the
settlement of barbarian prisoners-of-war in the late Roman Empire?"
Andreas
Schwarcz (Univ. of Vienna) "Visigothic Settlement, Hospitalitas and Army
Payment Reconsidered"
Dmitry
Starostin (Univ. of Toronto (Canada)) "Barbarians and/or Romans:
Discourses of Justice in Merovingian Court Verdicts and Narrative Sources"
Bailey Young (Eastern
Illinois Univ.)/Patrick Périn (Directeur du Musée des
Antiquités nationales, France), Plenary
Lecture: "The Importance of Merovingian Archaeology"
REGISTRATION FORM
SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI:
"Romans, Barbarians,
and the Transformation of the Roman World"
The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign
17-20 March 2005
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Registration Fee
The full registration fee of $100 includes conference banquet. Students may register for $50 for all
events or $20 to attend sessions only.
I wish to register for ____ persons and enclose $__________
Please make checks/money orders payable in U.S. dollars to: “Late
Antiquity Conference”
And mail to: Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History, 309 Gregory Hall,
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
61800, USA