Registration is £40 (which includes a drinks reception on the Thursday
evening, and lunch on the Friday and Saturday), or £20 for one day. Cheques
should be made payable to ‘The University of Oxford’ (with ‘Derow
Conference’ on the rear), and sent to Dr S.J. Heyworth, Derow Conference,
Wadham College, Oxford OX1 3PN, preferably before 10th February.
There are 20 subsidized places for graduate students at £20 for all three
days (including the reception and lunches): to claim one of these please
email stephen.heyworth AT wadh.ox.ac.uk
There is some accommodation available in Wadham: for details please email
stephen.heyworth AT wadh.ox.ac.uk
Please forward to any colleagues or students who might be interested.
Stephen Heyworth
Andrew Erskine
Jo Quinn
Liv Yarrow
Peter Thonemann
Thursday 2 April 2009
2.00 Registration
2.30 Welcome
Opening Session: Polybius
2.45 Brian McGing (Trinity College Dublin), Polybius and his predecessors I
3.15 Timothy Rood (Oxford), Polybius and his predecessors II
3.45 Georgina Longley (Oxford), Thucydides, Polybius and human nature
4.15-4.45 Coffee/Tea
4.45 David Langslow (Manchester), The language of Polybius since Foucault and Dubuisson
5.15 Jean-Marie Bertrand (Paris), Polybe lecteur de Platon
6.00 Reception
Friday 3 April
Perspectives on Roman Imperialism
9.30 Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh), Polybius among the Romans
10.00 Christopher Smith (St. Andrews), Middle Republican views on early Roman expansion
10.30 Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham), Catullus and the East and Imperialism
11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Amy Russell (Berkeley), Aemilius Paullus sees Greece
12.00 Liv Yarrow (CUNY), After the Fighting: Boards of Ten
LUNCH
Frontiers and Boundaries
2.00 Matthew Peacock (Galway), The East Starts Here: the Roman Republic and the Balkan Border
2.30 Nikola Casule (Oxford), In part a Roman sea: Rome and the Adriatic in the third century BC
3.00 Ed Bispham (Oxford), Rome and Illyria
3.30-4.00 Coffee/Tea
4.00 Charles Crowther (Oxford) Chios between Rome and the East (in the first centuries BC and AD)
4.30 Jonathan Williams (British Museum), From Polybius to the Parthenon: cultural property and the ancient world
5.00 Timothy Barnes (Edinburgh/Toronto), Peter Derow in Toronto
Saturday 4 April
From Hellenistic to Roman
9.30 Daniel Ogden (Exeter), Alexander, Scipio and Augustus: serpent sires in Macedon and Rome
10.00 John Ma (Oxford), Honorific statues and Hellenistic history: from narrative to representation
10.30 Olivier Hekster (Nijmegen), Client kings and regime change in the late Roman Republic
11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Andy Meadows (American Numismatic Society), Deditio in Fidem. The Ptolemaic Conquest of Asia Minor
12.00 Robert Morstein-Marx (UC Santa Barbara), New Light on the Roman Response to Attalus III’s Death
LUNCH
Approaching the Divine
2.00 Barbara Kowalzig (Royal Holloway), Hellenistic Gods and their Economic Associations
2.30 Hugh Bowden (KCL), Rome and the East: Religious Encounters
3.00 Bruce Gibson (Liverpool), Festivals and Games in Polybius
Tea/coffee
Tree ceremony: names plates will be placed by the trees planted in the Fellows’ Garden in memory of George Forrest and Peter Derow
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