Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians
May 3-6, 2007 • Princeton University
Call for Papers
The meeting will include seven sessions for the presentation of scholarly papers:
(i) Exchange/Coinage/Money: This panel will focus on the place of money – culturally and symbolically, as well as economically – in the whole range of exchange and transfer of goods and services in antiquity. Although the emphasis will be on exchanges involving monetary currency, broader forms of economic exchange will also be considered part of the session.
(ii) Rome in the Middle Republic: Papers that engage with current debates on Roman political culture, economy, demography, or imperialism in this period are particularly welcome. However, the panel does not aim simply to stay within the bounds of contemporary debates and ways of presenting the issues: new approaches and topics are also of special interest.
(iii) Medicine and Medical Knowledge: This session will consider the role of doctors and their professional knowledge in the Greek and Roman worlds. Papers will be welcome on the knowledge and practice of medicine per se, on their wider impact on non-medical thinking and writing, and on patient health.
(iv) Greek Cities and the Near East: This session aims to deal with the relationships, broadly defined, between Greek communities and Near Eastern culture. Presentations may consider political, economic, or cultural interactions between Greek poleis and Near Eastern states and communities in any period from the archaic age to Late Antiquity.
(v) Democracy and Democratic Political Thought: The theme of this session includes both the role and nature of political thought in the ancient world and its relevance to contemporary political debates. We are particularly interested in contributions that employ new methods or perspectives, which draw on insights from other disciplines or fields, and which compare the Greek experience with that of non-Greek communities, whether ancient or more modern.
(vi) Iconographic Evidence and History: These papers will consider any aspect of representational art, whether individually or mass produced, in terms of its significance for the interpretation of historical problems. Paper will be especially welcome that attempt analytically or theoretically to bridge the gap between art historical modes of interpretation and those applied to literary sources by historians.
(vii) Open Session: This session is open to the submission of papers that do not fit into any of the above categories.
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words by mail to:
Edward Champlin
Department of Classics
141 East Pyne
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
or by e-mail to champlin@princeton.edu.
All submissions must be received by December 1st, 2006. It is presumed that all papers will run about 20 minutes, to be followed by discussion.
Copyright 2006, Department of Classics, Princeton University