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Call for Papers
From the Inside Looking Out: Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient History
The 1st Annual Graduate Conference in Ancient History of the Joint Collaborative
Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman History (University of Toronto and York
University=ColPAH)April 27-28, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Sara Forsdyke, University of Michigan
The historical record is full of places, people, and practices characterized as
strange or somehow different from the predominant cultural groups of any given
time. Most often these reputations are created by those within the mainstream
as they attempt to articulate how these outsider groups are distinctive from
themselves. This conference will focus on how the identities of such groups are
created, communicated, and disseminated to become something that is considered
strange, alien or in some way peculiar. How did people in the ancient world
perceive people, places and practices that were "strange" to them? How are
these perceptions manifested and transmitted in the historical record? Finally,
since the creation of such identities affects our own modern perception of these
"others", what lasting effects and prejudices do these portrayals engender in
the treatment of such marginalized groups within contemporary scholarship?We welcome and encourage submissions from all areas and aspects of ancient
history, including but not limited to history of religion, material culture,
social history, anthropology, iconography and historiography. Interested
graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are invited to submit titled
abstracts of up to 250 words for papers of approximately 15-20 minutes in
length to colpah AT gmail.com before December 1, 2011. For more information on the
Joint Collaborative Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman History please visit
http://www.yorku.ca/gradhist/collaborative/.
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