Program: Saturday, September 20, 2008

8:30
9:00

9:30-10:45
9:30

9:45
10:00
10:15

10:45-11:15

11:15-12:15
11:15

11:45


12:15-1:45

1:45-3:00
1:45
2:00
2:15

2:30

3:00-3:30

3:30-4:30
3:30
4:00

4:30-8:00
6:00


8:00-9:30

Registration Begins
Pierluigi Piovanelli -- Welcome Address

Chapter Review, Panel #1; Presiding: TBA
Jitse Dijkstra, 'Review: An Introduction to Late Roman History (Chap. 1) and The Nature of the Evidence (Chap. 2)'
Karin Schlapbach, 'Review: The Roman Empire from Diocletian to Alaric (Chap. 3)'
Caroline Downing, 'Review: The Roman Empire of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (Chap. 4)'
Plenary Discussion

Break

Graduate Papers, Session #1; Moderator: Karin Schlapbach
J. Secord, 'Being a Greek Christian Under Rome: Irenaeus of Lyons and 'The Middle of the World''
H. Hunter, 'Goodbye Epicurus: Plotinus and His Part in the Forgetting of the Only Good Materialist Account of Free Will that the Ancient World Ever Produced'

Lunch Break

Chapter Review, Panel #2; Presiding: Theodore de Bruyn
Hugh Elton, 'Review: The Roman State (Chap. 5)'
Dominique Côté, ‘Review: From Pagan to Christian (Chap. 7)’
John Vanderspoel, ‘Review: Conversion to Christianity and the Politics of Religious Identity (Chap. 8)’
Plenary Discussion

Break

Graduate Papers, Session #2; Moderator: John Vanderspoel
A.W. Clay, ‘Constantine, the Sibyl, and Instinctu Divinitatis’
K. Gibbons, ‘Evagrius, Memory, and Interiority’

Dinner Break
Dinner: Haveli Indian Restaurant (39 Clarence St., in the Byward Market)
** Dinner guide group leaves the ARTS lobby at 5:45 **

Keynote Lecture; Location: ARTS 026
Hugh Elton, ‘Tales of Bandits and Bishops: Poverty in Isauria in the Late Roman Empire’

Program: Sunday, September 21, 2008

10:00-10:15

10:15-11:15
10:15
10:45


11:15-11:30

11:30-12:45
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15

12:45-1:45

1:45-2:30
1:45
2:15-2:25
2:25

Theodore de Bruyn -- Welcome

Graduate Papers, Session #3; Moderator: Geoffrey Greatrex
C. Lougheed, ‘The Limits of Free Expression: Macrobius’ Saturnalia 7. 1-3’
C. Bielmann, 'New Insight into Urban and Religious Transformation: The Impact of Late Antique Archaeology'

Break

Chapter Review, Panel #3; Presiding: John Osborne
George Bevan, ‘Review: The Political Economy of the Later Roman Empire (Chap. 9)’
Geoffrey Greatrex, ‘Review: The Challenges of the Later Sixth Century (Chap. 11)’
James Gould, ‘Review: The Final Reckoning of the Eastern Empire (Chap. 12)’
Plenary Discussion

Lunch Break

Closing Session
T. Pettipiece, ‘Early Islam and the Concept of ‘Late Antiquity’; Moderator: James Gould
Jitse Dijkstra – Plenary Discussion and Closing Address
Rajiv Bhola and Robert Edwards – A Word from the Coordinators