[Note that this is an amended version of the notice that appeared in
CCB/BCEA 12.11.1]
The McMaster Classics Graduate Students will be hosting a Graduate
Conference on Saturday, September 30. The conference is entitled
"Strangers and Exiles in the Roman World" and we are thrilled to have
Dr. Erich Gruen (Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics
at UC Berkeley) as our keynote speaker. The thrust of the conference
will be exploring the manner in which outsiders were perceived and
treated in the Roman world — both how 'Romans' were treated abroad and
how 'non-Romans' (the terms themselves are obviously loose
constructions) were treated by the Romans and how typically
marginalized social groups were viewed by Roman officials. It is a
broad topic but focused enough that we have received, and now accepted,
many excellent papers from all over North America. These include: the
social acceptance and treatment of midwives, Ovid's perspective as an
exile, Tacitus' perceptions of the Britains, proto-Latin and the role
of language in cultural perception, the perceptions of magic and
magicians in Petronius, Josephus as the archetypal 'Roman' insider and
outsider, and more.
Registration ($15 for students and $25 dollars for
non-students) will take place on Saturday, September 30, from
8:30-9:00 am at Gilmour Hall, room 111 (McMaster University). Lunch is
included with registration if registered by September 21st. Anyone
wishing to contact us should email us at <
macgscc@gmail.com>.