Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians
May 3-6, 2007 • Princeton University
Program
Please see the campus map available under "Accomodations and Directions" for locations
| Thursday, May 3rd | |
| 6:00 | Welcoming reception Andlinger Center for the Humanities, East Pyne |
Friday, May 4th ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN ROOM 101, FRIEND CENTER Breakfasts and coffee will be served in the vestibule |
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| 8:45 - 9:30 | Continental breakfast |
| 9:30 | Opening Remarks: Denis Feeney, Princeton University |
| 9:45 | First Session: Exchange, Coinage, Money Moderator: Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Exchange and Early Mesopotamian States Emily Haug, University of California, Berkeley Empire, Coinage, and Julio-Claudian Gaul |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
Jinyu Liu, DePauw University Inscribed Generosity: Continuity and Changes in the Fourth Century CE Walter Scheidel, Stanford University The Monetary Economies of the Roman and Han Empire |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch break Lunch served in the Carl Fields Center |
| 1:30 | Second Session: Rome in the Middle Republic Moderator: Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University Craige Champion, Syracuse University Historiographical Aspects of the Roman Decision for War in 264 BCE Jessica H. Clark, Princeton University The Redefinition of Ignominia in the Second Punic War Eric Orlin, University of Puget Sound "Alien Knowledge, Citizen Disposition”: Foreign Priests in Republican Rome Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley Subverting Stereotypes in the Mid-Republic: Punica Fides and the Roman Imagination |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee break |
| 4:00 | Third Session: Medicine and Medical Knowledge Moderator: T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University Leslie Dean-Jones, University of Texas, Austin The Itinerancy of the Ancient Physician Susan P. Mattern, University of Georgia The Case History in Antiquity: Narrative and Medical Knowledge Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton The Physician as Historian |
| 6:00 | Reception, Princeton University Press Office of the Press, 41 William Street, Princeton |
Saturday, May 5th |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 | Fourth Session: Greek Cities and the Near East Moderator: Marc Domingo Gygax, Princeton University Robert W. Wallace, Northwestern University The Speedy Rise and Fall of Electrum Coinage Matt Waters, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Tracking Greek-Persian Initiatives: the Case of Argos and Persia Nathanael Andrade, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Redefining Hellenism: Antiochos IV and the Greek Cities of the Seleukid Kingdom |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Fifth Session: Democracy and Democratic Political Thought Moderator: Michael Flower, Princeton University Alex Watts-Tobin, Stanford University A Cold War Kleon Jonathan Perry, York University “The New Frontier”: Lily Ross Taylor’s Roman Voting Assemblies and American Democracy Werner Riess, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “I Curse Your Tongue, Feet, and Soul”: the Charms of Athenian Democracy Josiah Ober, Stanford University Democratic Institutions and Competitive Success: How Athens Thrived |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Lunch break Lunch served in the Friend Center |
| 2:30 | Sixth Session: Iconographic Evidence and History Moderator: William A. P. Childs, Princeton University Katherine Welch, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Judicial Process, Punishment, and Public Visibility in the Roman Forum and Greek Agora Kathy L. Gaca, Vanderbilt University Warfare against Women in Greek, Macedonian, and Roman Artwork Marc Kleijwegt, University of Wisconsin, Madison Cultivating the Memory of Slavery: Trimalchio and the Slave-Market Leanne Bablitz, University of British Columbia Representing Justice: Images of the Roman Courtroom |
| 4:30 | Business Meeting Room 101, Friend Center |
| 6:30 | Reception Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School lower lobby |
| 7:30 | Banquet Woodrow Wilson School Dining Room |
| 8:30 | Keynote Speaker: Ramsay MacMullen, Yale University What I Don't Know (Brief Remarks) |
Sunday, May 6th |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Continental breakfast |
| 10:00 | Seventh Session Moderator: Edward Champlin, Princeton University Susan Satterfield, Princeton University A Question of Timing: Roman Expiation and the Calendar Andrea U. De Giorgi, Rutgers University On Oil and Public Doles. Management and Distribution Systems in Antioch under the Early Roman Empire Serena Connolly, Yale University The Disticha Catonis and Popular Attitudes towards Law Bruce W. Frier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Configuring Dowry: the Freedom to Alter Basic Property Arrangements |
| 12:00 | Jack Cargill, Rutgers University 26 Conventions and Other Memories of AAH |
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