THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY

presents

SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI

"Romans, Barbarians, and the

Transformation of the Roman World"

The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign

March 17-20, 2005

Generously supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medieval Studies Program, Departments of History, the Classics, and English, and School of Art and Design at UIUC

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The conference will be held from 1:00 PM on March 17 until noon on March 20. It will take an interdisciplinary look at new ways of understanding interactions between Romans and barbarians and at the fate of the Roman world during the fourth through the seventh centuries AD. It will provide a forum for the discussion of the most up-to-date research and thought on the fate of the Roman world in the context of Roman and barbarian relations. As in the past, we will bring together scholars who represent different methodological, disciplinary, geographical, and chronological perspectives. Contributions will deal with topics related to (1) The creation/evolution of barbarian and/or Roman identity; (2) The nature of the interaction between the Roman and barbarian cultural worlds (e.g. language, literature, religion, material culture); (3) The interpretation of the evidence of both literature and material culture; (4) Issues of continuity/change with regard to social, political, and religious institutions; (5) the historiography of perceptions of Romans and barbarians and its significance for the modern world; and (6) Theoretical models that help to interpret the nature of barbarian-Roman interactions. Along with nearly 40 papers, plenary lectures will be delivered by Bailey Young on Auguste Moutié and the Pioneering Days of Merovingian Archaeology and by Richard Burgess on Romans, Barbarians, and the Fall of t he Roman Empire.

SPECIAL EXHIBIT OF MEROVINGIAN ARTIFACTS

In conjunction with the conference, the university’s Spurlock Museum will be mounting an exhibit of the museum’s extensive collection of Merovingian artifacts, one of the best such collections in the country. Several conference presentations will be devoted to discussion of the Merovingian collection.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

The Conference sessions will be held in the Illini Union on the University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign . Sessions will run from mid afternoon on Thursday, March 17, thorough the morning of Sunday, March 20. All sessions will be plenary, and papers will be approximately 20 minutes each. There will be regular breaks, with refreshments, allowing ample time for discussion and personal interaction among the registrants.

TRANSPORTATION AND DIRECTIONS

Champaign/Urbana is easily accessible by plane, train, or car. Those coming by air will arrive at Willard Airport (CMI) (http://www.willardairport.com/), which is served by Delta, United, Northwest, and Continental Airlines. Shuttle service from the airport will be available for registrants who make known their arrival and departure times. A taxi stand at the airport also will deliver for a standard $13 per person fare. For those looking for budget flights, there are a many airports within about 130 miles, including Chicago (O’Hare and Midway), Indianapolis, Bloomington (IL), Springfield, and Peoria – for those flying into any of these, it might prove more convenient to rent a car at the airport. O’Hare and Indianapolis Airports also connect to Champaign via the Lincolnland Express [N.B. The "Bluebird Bus" no longer is running!] The Amtrak “City of New Orleans” train (http://www.amtrak.com/) delivers passengers from the north (Chicago) and south (Memphis) and stops in downtown Champaign. The Greyhound bus station at 630 W. Harrison St. also provides very inexpensive service from Chicago to Champaign. The Clinton stop on the el coming in directly from O'Hare is just a few blocks away from both the Amtrak and Greyhound stations. For those who want to drive, Champaign/Urbana is easily accessible by I-57 from Chicago and St. Louis, I-74 from Indianapolis, and I-72 from Springfield. To get to the Hampton, take Exit 183 south (Lincoln Ave.) from I-74, then right 3 blocks on University Ave. For directions to campus, see also http://www.uiuc.edu/overview/visitors/directions.html , for campus maps see http://www.uiuc.edu/ricker/CampusMap

ACCOMMODATIONS

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn, 1200 West University Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, Phone: (217) 337-1100 (voice). Fax: (217) 337-1143 ( http://hamptoninn.hilton.com ), at a special conference rate of $65 per night for a single and $70 for a double. This is a very good rate! Reservations must be made by March 1, 2005. When booking rooms, be sure to mention either “Shifting Frontiers” or “Code SFC.” The Hampton Inn is a short 5-block walk from the Illini Union, where most of the sessions will be held. Additional guest rooms are available in the Illini Union itself, with rates ranging from $75 for a single to $100 for a four-person room (which works out to $25 each!). Reservations may be made at iuguestrooms@uiuc.edu, and information may be consulted at http://www.union.uiuc.edu/ services/guestroomsrates.html. Those who would like to arrange shared rooms should contact the organizers who will put you in touch with like-minded persons. Parking is available at both the Hampton and the Union for guests who have rooms.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the Conference is $100 ($50 for students), and will include the abstract booklet, two continental breakfasts, a lunch, the Sunday morning farewell brunch, five refreshment breaks, two evening receptions with hors d’oeuvres, and a Saturday evening dinner dance [This is a real bargain! How many other conferences does one attend where all one gets for $100 is a nametag?]. Students also may register at a reduced rate of $20 to attend the sessions only. Seating space is be limited, so registration as early as possible is encouraged.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, please contact Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@uiuc.edu (Department of History, Univ. of Illinois B Urbana/ Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA: 217-244-5249) or Danuta Shanzer, shanzer@uiuc.edu (Department of Classics, Univ. of Illinois B Urbana/ Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA: 217-333-1009).

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

(Sessions in the General Lounge, Illini Union)

1:00-2:45 Registration

1:30-2:30 Guided Tour of the Spurlock Museum's Collection of Merovingian Artifacts by Barbara Oehlschlaeger Garvey (Early American Museum)

2:45-3:00 Welcomes

SECTION I: DEFINING BARBARIANS

3:00-4:30 SESSION I: Literary Perspectives on Barbarians and Romans

Mary Williams (San Mateo) "Polybius and Ammianus on Barbarians

Cristiana Sogno (Cornell University) "Barbarians as Spectacle: An Interpretation of Symmachus, Oratio 2.10-12"

Jason Moralee (Illinois Wesleyan Univ.) "'The Barbarous-Sounding Enemy: Commemorating the Defeat of Barbarians in a Recently Discovered Epigram from Late Roman Petra"

4:30-5:00 Refreshment Break

5:00-6:00 SESSION 2: Internal 'Barbarians'

Chair: Judith Evans Grubbs (Washington University)

Yuval Shahar (Tel Aviv University) (Israel) "Unifying or Dividing the Barbarians? Diocletian, the Jews, and the Samaritans"

Andrew W. White (Univ. of Maryland--College Park) "Proper Care and Feeding of the Wild Mime: A Study in Domestication from Late Antiquity"

6:00-7:00 Reception

7:00-8:00 Plenary Lecture introduced by William M. Calder III (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Richard Burgess (Univ. of Ottawa) (Canada) "Romans, Barbarians, and the Fall of the Roman Empire"

FRIDAY, MARCH 18

(Sessions on the Third Floor, Levis Center)

7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:00 SESSION III: Religion and the Construction of Roman/Barbarian Identity

Chair: Sarolta Takacs (Rutgers University)

Jeremy Schott (Duke Univ.) "Porphyry's Allegorical Interpretations of Barbarian Religion and Philosophy and the Construction of Identity in the Later Roman Empire

Elizabeth Digeser (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara) "Hellenes, Barbarians, and Christians: Religion and Identity Politics in Diocletian's Rome"

Young Kim (Univ. of Michigan) "A Theological and Historical Definition of Barbarism in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus"

10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break

10:30-12:00 SESSION IV: Artistic Manifestations of Romanitas and Barbaritas

Chair: Elizabeth C. Teviotdale (Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.)

Moshe Fischer (Tel Aviv Univ.) (Israel) "Assimilation, Acculturation, Barbarization: The Corinthian Capital in the Eastern Mediterranean"

Johanna K. Sandrock (Louisiana State Univ.) "Cernunnos ego sum: The Myth of Actaeon on Provincial Roman Funerary Reliefs"

Katharine C. Hunvald (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia) "Breaching a Seventh-Century Artistic Frontier: The Warnebertus Reliquary"

12:00-1:30 Catered Lunch in the Levis Center

SECTION II: ROMAN-BARBARIAN ENCOUNTERS

1:30-3:00 SESSION V: The Transformation of Identity in Post-Roman Britain

Chair: Stephen Jaeger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Michael Jones (Bates College) "Text, Artifact and Genome: The Disputed Nature of the Anglo-Saxon Migration into Britain"

Greg Fisher (McGill Univ.) (Canada) "The Transformation of Romanitas: Creating a New Identity for Post-Roman Britain"

David Klingle (Florida State Univ.) "Romano-British vs. Anglo-Saxon Identity in England: The Evidence of Burials"

3:00-3:30 Refreshment Break

(Sessions in Colonial Room, Illini Union)

3:30-6:00 SESSION VI: The Construction of Identity in Western Frontier Zones

Chair: Edward James (University College, Dublin) (Ireland)

Linda Ellis (San Francisco State Univ.) "To Be or Not To Be Roman: Geographic Approaches to Analyzing Human Relatedness in the Lower Danube Region (2nd-7th Centuries)"

Scott de Brestian (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia) "Vascones and Visigoths: Creation and Transformation of Identity in Northern Spain"

Luis Garcia Moreno (Univ. of Alcala de Henares) (Spain) "Building an Ethnic Identity for a New Gothic and Roman Nobility: Cordoba, 615 A.D."

Dmitry Starostine (Univ. of Toronto) (Canada) "Barbarians and/or Romans: Discourses of Justice in Merovingian Court Verdicts and Narrative Sources"

Bailey Young (Eastern Illinois Univ.) "Auguste Moutié and the Pioneering Days of Merovingian Archaeology"

6:00-7:00 Reception

7:00-8:00 Plenary Lecture introduced by Bailey Young (Eastern Illinois Univ.)

Patrick Périn (Musée des Antiquités nationales) (France) "Identity and Ethnicity in the Era of Migrations and Barbarian Kingdoms in the Light of Archaeology in Gaul" (co-author M. Kazanski)

SATURDAY, MARCH 19

(Sessions in the Colonial Room, Illini Union)

7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:00 SESSION VII: Romans, Barbarians and Religion in North Africa

Chair: Dennis Trout (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia)

Gillian Clark (Univ. of Bristol) (England) "Augustine and the Merciful Barbarians"

Kevin Uhalde (Ohio Univ.) "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and Christian Scruples: Augustine, Epist. 46-47"

David Riggs (Indiana Wesleyan Univ.) "Vandal Contributions to the Christianization of North Africa"

10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break

10:30-12:00 SESSION VIII: Romans and Barbarians beyond the Eastern Frontiers

Chair: Hal Drake (Univ. of California--Santa Barbara)

Salim Faraji (Claremont Graduate Univ.) "Rome and Kush: Cultural Encounter on the Egyptian Southern Frontier"

Scott John McDonough (UCLA) "Were the Sassanians Barbarians? Roman Writers on the 'Empire of the Persians'"

Jan Willem Drijvers (Univ. of Groningen) (Netherlands) "Rome's Image of the 'Barbarian' Sassanians"

12:00-1:00 Lunch on your own

SECTION III: ROMANS, BARBARIANS, AND POLITICS

1:00-3:30 SESSION VIII: Romans and Barbarians in Imperial Politics

Chair: Tom Burns (Emory Univ.)

Kimberly Kagan (Yale Univ.) "Spies Like Us: Treason and Identity in the Later Roman Empire"

Michele Renee Salzman (Univ. of California--Riverside) "Symmachus and the 'Barbarian' Generals"

Edward Watts (Indiana Univ.) "Pope Leo the Antichrist and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire"

Edward James (University College, Dublin) (Ireland) "Rex Francorum, Rex Romanorum Revisited"

Steve Fanning (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) "Reguli in the Later Roman Empire and the Germanic Kingdoms"

3:30-4:00 Refreshment Break

4:00-6:00 SESSION IX: The Barbarian Invasions

Chair: Scott Bradbury (Smith College)

Amelia Robertson Brown (Univ. of California--Berkeley) "'The Overthrow of the Temples and the Ruin of the Whole of Greece': Rhetoric and Archaeology in Barbarian Invasions of Late Roman Greece"

David T. Fletcher (Indiana Univ.) "Constantine III and the Barbarian Invasion of Gaul"

Walter Goffart (Yale Univ.) "The Three Meanings of 'Migration Age'"

7:00-11:00 Banquet and Dance (Illini Union 170)

SUNDAY, MARCH 20

(Sessions in the Colonial Room, Illini Union)

SECTION IV: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

8:30-11:00 SECTION X: Social and Economic Manifestations of Roman-Barbarian Encounters

Chair: Richard Mitchell (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Ekaterina Nechaeva (Univ. of Siena) (Italy) "The Problem of Deserters in Roman-Barbarian Diplomatic Relations in Late Antiquity"

Noel Lenski (Univ. of Colorado) "Slavery, Captivity, and Romano-Barbarian Interchange"

Hartmut Ziche (Univ. of the Antilles and Guyana) (France) "Barbarian Raiders and Barbarian Peasants: Models of Ideological and Economic Integration"

Cam Grey (Univ. of Chicago) "The ius colonatus as a Model for the Settlement of Barbarian Prisoners-of-War in the Late Roman Empire?"

Andreas Schwarcz (Univ. of Vienna) (Austria) "Visigothic Settlement, Hospitalitas and Army Payment Reconsidered"

11:00-12:30 Farewell Brunch and Business Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity

REGISTRATION FORM

SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI:

"Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World"

The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign

March 17-20, 2005

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Registration Fee

The full registration fee of $100 includes the book of abstracts, continental breakfast, 5 refreshment breaks, 2 evening receptions, Saturday lunch, Sunday farewell brunch, and Saturday evening dinner/dance. Students may register for $50 for all events or $20 to attend sessions only.

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Please make checks/money orders payable in U.S. dollars to: “Late Antiquity Conference”

And mail to: Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61800, USA