CONF: Workshop on ‘Water and identity in the Ancient World’

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):

Water and Identity in the Ancient World: a workshop
Department of Classics & Ancient History, Ritson Room, 22-23 March 2010.

Programme:

22 March, 9.30am to 10am:
Welcome and coffee.
10 am to 1 pm:
Paola Ceccarelli (Durham), Introduction. Water, identity and culture: some
issues.
Penny Wilson (Durham), Twin Towns: The Relationship Between Towns Separated
by Nile branches in the Egyptian Delta
Johannes Haubold (Durham), The Achaemenid empire and the sea.
Robin Skeates (Durham), The place of the sea in the construction of
identities in Maltese prehistory.

Buffet Lunch

2pm to 6.30 pm:
Mario Lombardo (Lecce), Small and Big Islands in Greek Colonisation.
Flavia Frisone (Lecce), Rivers and identity in ‘colonial’ scenarios. River
names and land constructing in Greek Western apoikia.
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck), Identity and resistance: discourses of
insularity in the Aegean world.
4.15 to 4.45pm: Tea.
Zena Kamash (Oxford), From the Euphrates to the Thames: exploring attitudes
towards water in Roman Britain and the Near East.
John Donaldson (International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham), Water
Boundaries and Geopolitics in the Modern World.
General discussion.

Conference dinner

23 March, 9 am:
Steve Willis (Kent) Sea, Coast, Estuary, land and Culture in Iron Age
Britain
Jon Henderson (Nottingham) Expressing difference: Western Atlantic
Identities in the first millennium BC
Adam Rogers (Leicester), Water, identity and myth in Late Iron Age and Roman
Britain: some case studies.
11.15 to 11.45: Coffee.
Richard Hingley (Durham), Hadrian¹s Wall as an inlet of the sea?

Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), discussant
Michael Shanks (Stanford), discussant

1pm: Lunch for those who do not have to leave.
And, potentially, further discussion!

The workshop is open to all, but if you wish to attend please contact the
organizers: Dr Richard Hingley (richard.hingley AT durham.ac.uk) or Dr Paola
Ceccarelli (paola.ceccarelli AT durham.ac.uk).