PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, April 11

9-9:10 WELCOME

9:10-10:55 GLOBALIZATION

Steven Garfinkle, Western Washington University: The Eastern Mediterranean 1600-800 BC: The 'Global' Near East and the Coming of Empire
Allaire B. Stallsmith, Towson Univ., MD: The Cult of Demeter Malophoros in Selinus
Pierre Briant, Collège de France, Paris: Who Spoke to Whom? Languages and Communication in the Achaemenid World and Alexander's Empire
Jessica Nitschke, Georgetown: A Cultural Koine in the Hellenistic East? The Case of Phoenicia
Jeremy LaBuff, Univ. of Pennsylvania: Reading Peer Polity Interaction from sympoliteiai

10:55-11:25 BREAK

11:25-12:45 OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

Danielle Kellogg, Brooklyn College of CUNY: “Famous of Old for Brave Men”
Edward Dandrow, UCF: Being Greek and Persian under Rome: Personal History and Pontic Ethnography in Strabo's Geography
Michael Nerdahl, UNC Greensboro: The Greek Intellectual and the Roman State: Plutarch and the Redemption of Hellenic Culture
Julie Langford, USF: Privileging the Liminal: Caracalla’s Outside-In Imperial Strategy

12:45-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:45 NAVIES & NAVAL POWER

Fred Naiden, UNC Chapel Hill: Professional Officers Ashore and Afloat
Kenneth Harl, Tulane Univ.: Financing and Maintaining the Peloponnesian Navy
John Hale, Univ. of Louisville: Aegospotami: In Search of an Ancient Battle Site
Craig Caldwell, Furman Univ. SC: Improvising the Late Roman Navy
Philip de Souza, Univ. College, Dublin: Ancient Naval Warfare: answers to some big questions

3:45-4:15 BREAK

4:15-6:00 ROMAN LAW

Cynthia J. Bannon, Indiana University: A Disputed Water Channel (D. 8.5.18 Iul. 6 ex Minicio)
Susan D. Martin, University of Tennessee: The Roman Legal System and Skilled Workers
Kaius Tuori, New York University/Univ. of Helsinki: The Magic of Contract: Supernatural Elements and the Contractual Obligation
Paul Du Plessis, Edinburgh University: The Interdictum de Migrando reconsidered
Dennis Kehoe, Tulane University: Comment

SATURDAY, April 12

9:10-10:30 ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY

David Yates, Brown Univ.: The Rediscovery of the Roman Republic in 11th and 12 C Byzantine Historiography
Carrie Benes, New College, FL: Whose SPQR? Sovereignty and Semiotics in Medieval Rome
John W.I. Lee, UCSB: American Xenophons: The Anabasis and the U.S. Popular Imagination during the 19th Century
Steve Dyson, Univ. at Buffalo (SUNY): Dream Cities: Archaeology and the Creation of Myth-Identities in Early National Athens and Rome

10:30-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:45 ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY

Boris Rankov, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London: Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean
Christer Bruun, Univ. of Toronto: Herakles as a symbol of archaic tyranny in Rome?
Annalisa Marzano, Brasenose College, Oxford: Wine and Escargot: ‘Small’ Discoveries, Important Perspectives
Seth G. Bernard, Univ. of Pennsylvania: The Socioeconomic Impact of Urbanism: Using Archaeology to Read Livy on Mid-Republican Rome
Carolyn S. Snively, Gettysburg College: Golemo Gradište at Konjuh: Writing History without Sources

12:45-2:00 LUNCH

1:30-2:00 SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION

Travis Doering, Lori Collins, USF: Geomatics and Spatial Technologies: New Methods to Visualize the Past

2:00-3:45 OPEN SESSION

Donald Sanders, Inst. for the Vizualization of History: 3-D Visualization as a tool for ancient historians
Michael Seaman, DePauw Univ.: “Unwritten Laws” and Early Greek Warfare
Andrea Gatzke, Penn State University: Pirate Bands or Naval Fleets? Thoughts on the Classification of Piracy in the First Century BC
Sean Lake, Seton Hall: Redefining the Spolia Opima: A New Interpretation of the Ancient Sources
Kenneth R. Jones, Baylor Univ.: The Conflict of East and West as Propaganda during the Roman Period

4:00 AAH BUSINESS MEETING

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