Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
Int 594AB: Ancient Borderlands
List of presenters and topics, 2009-2010
October 5: Opening Reception
October 19, 12 pm: Daniel Schowalter, Co-Director of Omrit Excavations
“Too Many Temples: Interpreting the Evidence at Omrit in Northern Israel”
- Reading distributed to mailing list
November 6: Profs. Sarah Morris & John Papadopoulos, Department of Classics, UCLA
“Mound and Memory: Excavating the Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania”
Sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group, UCSB
- Readings: Ian Morris, “Archaeology as Cultural History,” chapter 1 of idem, Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Ancient Greece (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000) 3-33; and Siân Jones, “Discourses of Identity in the Interpretation of the Past,” in: Julian Thomas, ed., Intepretive Archaeology: A Reader (London: Leicester University, 2000) 445-57.
November 16, 12 pm: Prof. Harold Drake, History, UCSB
“Religious Violence and Political Legitimacy in Late Antiquity”
November 30, 12 pm: Prof. Giulia Sissa, Classics and Political Science, UCLA
