Cambridge Ancient History Research Seminar Lent 2020
Seminars take place on Mondays at 17:15 in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics.
Please note that the seminar on 2 March will now take place in the Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College at 17:15.
The seminar on 9 March is postponed until next term on account of the UCU industrial action for fair pay and conditions.
20 January
Susanne Hakenbeck (Cambridge)
Inherited Privilege in Sixth-century Pannonia and Italy: A Bioarchaeological Study
27 January
Richard Payne (Chicago)
Epigraphic Monuments and the Making of an Ethno-Empire: Iran in the Third Century CE
3 February
Lisa Eberle (Tübingen)
Accumulation by Dispossession in Rome's Republican Empire
10 February
Nir Stern (Cambridge)
Dio Chrysostom and the Performance of Philosophy in Early Imperial Rome
17 February
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Cambridge)
The Resilience of the Ancient City
22 February
THE CORBETT LECTURE
2 March - Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College
Takashi Fujii (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Hellenistic and Imperial Cyprus: What was it like to be civic?
Postponed to Easter Term
Paul Millett (Cambridge)
Lending and Borrowing Revisited
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9-10 July 2020
Athens: Economy & Democracy Conference (in honour of P. Millett)
Faculty of Classics and Downing College, Cambridge
Organisers: Daniel Jew (National University of Singapore), Sitta von Reden (Freiburg), Robin Osborne (Cambridge)
This conference marks the retirement of Paul Millett, one of the most prominent of Finley’s students in economic history. We seek to focus on the city illuminated by Paul’s work: to attempt to understand the operation of the Athenian economy in detail, and to investigate its relationship to the structures, institutions and practices of democracy.
Planned lines of inquiry include women, work and leisure; religion and the economy; archaeology and democracy; slavery; behavioural economics; costs of living; lending and borrowing; trade and markets; luxury goods; wealth distribution; and property and aristocratic power.
Speakers: Claire Taylor (Wisconsin-Madison), Emily Greenwood (Yale), Emily Mackil (Berkeley), Jon Hesk (St Andrews), Jonathan Hall (Chicago), Mark Lawall (Manitoba), Moritz Hinsch (Humboldt), Noémie Villacèque (Reims), Paulin Ismard (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Ralph Anderson (St Andrews).
All welcome. If you wish to attend, please contact Daniel Jew (danieljew@nus.edu.sg).
(Please see notice here for further details.)
