Late Antiquity in Illinois II Symposium

[Robert Vermaat]

From the LT_ANTIQ list:

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Dear Colleagues...
Appended is the program for the second bienniel Late Antiquity in Illinois
Symposium, to be held in the Colonial Room, Illini Union, on the UIUC campus in Urbana, March 18, 8:30 AM - 6 PM (and later). It will feature discussions of the latest research projects of a number of our mid-American colleagues.
We hope that any of you who will be in the area will be able to attend.
Thanks to the very generous support of the UIUC Medieval Studies Program, we will be able to put on a very "user friendly" conference with a maximum of opportunity for colleagues, friends, faculty, and students to interact in the most comfortable of settings. There is no registration fee, but we do ask that if at all possible you let us know if you plan to attend so that we can arrange for a suitable supply of refreshments. For those who can stay later in the evening, there will be a banquet and dance, all for a nominal $10 admission (checks made out to "Late Antiquity Conference").
Please let us know by March 10 at the very latest if you would like to attend the banquet/dance.
Best regards, and hope to see you next month, Danuta and Ralph

Late Antiquity in Illinois II

A Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Colonial Room
103 Illini Union
Saturday, March 18, 2006

Generously sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at the Univ. of
Illinois

Program and Local Arrangements:
Danuta R. Shanzer (Dept. of Classics)
Ralph W. Mathisen (Dept. of History)

Schedule

8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:00 Welcomes

9:00-11:00

I. Religious Practices

Chair: Robert McKim (UIUC)

Richard Layton (UIUC)
"Did Christians Suppress the Funeral Lament: Unsettling a settled Question"

Rachel Havelock (Univ. of Ill.-Chicago)
"Origen and the Rabbis on Baptism and the Body?"

Carl Springer (S. Illinois Univ.)
"Of Roosters and Repetitio: Ambrose’s Aeterne rerum conditor"

Danuta Shanzer (UIUC)
"Ordeal by Oath on the Relics of the Saints"

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30

II. Material Culture

Chair: Charles Wright (UIUC)

Dennis Trout (U. of Missouri-Columbia)
"The Church of Cosmas and Damian and the New Late Ancient Rome"

Dan Sheerin (Notre Dame)
"'There's Clean, and Then There's Clean':
Versus balnearum and Baptistery Inscriptions"

Bailey Young (E. Illinois Univ.)
"Hardly a One-Horse Town: Tournai in
Transition from Roman to Merovingian Gaul"

12:30-1:30 Catered Lunch

1:30-2:45

III. Late Antique Imagery

Chair: TBA (UIUC)

Carol Neuman de Vegvar (O. Wesleyan)
"Visual Vectors: Late Antique Plated Vessels and the Transmission of
Imagery"

Emanuel Mayer (Univ. of Chicago)
"The Vagueness of Imperial Portraiture in Late Antiquity"

Ralph Mathisen (UIUC)
"Consular Ceremony in Late Antiquity"

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:15

IIII. Prosopography and Personalities

Chair: William M. Calder III (UIUC)

Jackie Long (Loyola-Chicago)
"Who Needs Nicomachus Flavianus?"

Edward Watts (Indiana U.)
"Gessius the Hollow: The Historical Transformation of an Iatrosophist's
Legacy"

Michael Allen (Univ. of Chicago)
"Lupus of Ferrières"

4:15-5:00

V. Soldiers and Barbarians

Chair: Richard Mitchell (UIUC)

Michael Kulikowski (U. of Tennessee)
"Barbaria, Barbaricum and the Location of the Barbarus"

Walter Kaegi (Univ. of Chicago)
"Reflections on Some Military Conditions and Practices in Byzantine North
Africa"

Fourth Floor, Levis Visitor Center

5:00-9:00 Reception/Banquet/Dance

DIRECTIONS/PARKING

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