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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Roman-Persian Relations: The Emperor Jovian and the Syriac "Julian Romance"
DESCRIPTION:The Roman emperor Jovian (363-364) only ruled for eight months and has not received much attention in scholarship. However\, he is more than a footnote in history. After the reign of Julian\, he returned to the policies of Constantius II and Constantine the Great. His peace agreement with the Sassanid king Shapur II also had great impact for Roman-Persian relations. \nThe first part of this presentation evaluates the peace agreement\, the responses to it\, and its long-term influence on the relationship between the Roman and Persian empire. Jovian had an unexpected afterlife in the so-called “Julian Romance\,” a rarely studied text of Christian historical fiction. This Christian narrative presents Jovian as an ideal Christian emperor and a new Constantine. It offers also surprising perspectives on Roman-Persian relations\, which will be discussed in the second part of the presentation. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, California Consortium for Late Antiquity\, and Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/roman-persian-relations-the-emperor-jovian-and-the-syriac-julian-romance/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T140000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: "Backwater Puritans”? Racism\, Egyptological Stereotypes\, and the Intersection of Local and International at Kushite Tombos
DESCRIPTION:Egyptological and more popular perceptions of Nubia and the Kushite Dynasty (c. 747-654 BCE) have framed Kush as a periphery to civilized Egypt\, unsophisticated interlopers in Egypt and the broader Mediterranean world during the first millennium. But to what extent was Nubia a “backwater” to “effete and sophisticated” Egypt\, as John Wilson once asserted? It is clear from recent archaeological work at Tombos and elsewhere that Nubia was not an unsophisticated backwater. Objects with Egyptianizing motifs in the international style asserted a cosmopolitan social status that connected their owners to an international elite culture that spanned Nubia\, Egypt\, and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age. The Kushite civilization that flourished for a thousand years was not an imperfect imitation of ancient Egypt\, as some Egyptologists have asserted\, or even the fount of Egyptian civilization\, as some Afrocentric scholars have argued. Instead\, features taken from Egypt and the Mediterranean world were adapted and thoroughly integrated with local practices and belief systems to create a new and vibrant African tradition. \nStuart Tyson Smith is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara\, specializing in the archaeology of Egypt and Nubia [the Sudan]\, ethnicity\, culture contact and imperialism. \nRegister for Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/backwater-puritans-racism-egyptological-stereotypes-and-the-intersection-of-local-and-international-at-kushite-tombos/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB and Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Shifting Economic Power in Autun: The Donation of Constantine
DESCRIPTION:Autun’s textual and material record illustrates how and why ancient patterns of life in northeast Gaul began to give way during Late Antiquity. Adopting a methodology developed in feminist historiography\, this paper explores the effect on Autun’s political economy of resources funneled to Autun’s bishop by the emperor Constantine in the early 4th century. Because Constantine did not restrict his patronage just to Autun\, the city serves as a case study demonstrating how the introduction of imperial patronage to local bishops could push cities toward a more “medieval” political economy. \nElizabeth Digeser is a Professor in the Department of History\, where she studies the intersection of religion and philosophy with Roman political power\, as well as the processes of transformation (political\, religious\, economic) in Late Antiquity. Her publications include A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists and the Great Persecution; The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium\, Europe and the Early Islamic World\, edited with Justin Stephens and R. M. Frakes; and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group \nImage credit: Rheinisches Landesmuseum\, Trier \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-shifting-economic-power-in-autun-the-donation-of-constantine/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dismembering Classicism: Contesting Colonial and Classical Legacies in the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nClassicization in U.S. heritage narratives often involves the imposition of classical elements\, derived from Greek and Roman civilization\, onto narratives of colonial conquest in Southwestern borderlands and frontier spaces. Ongoing controversies surrounding statues of the conquistador\, Juan de Oñate\, reflect the ways in which the classical legacy remains prominent in public spheres of historical narrative. In providing a visual narrative of conquest linked to classical imagery\, the Spanish history of the settling of the Southwest becomes implicated in broader U.S. historical narratives that valorize conquest as a civilizing force in the settling of the American West. While much of this classical imagery first appeared in Spanish sources\, this paper traces specifically how these classicized narratives of Spanish conquest became appropriated and implicated in Anglo-American/U.S. historical narratives\, as well as counter-narratives of Indigenous resistance. \nKendall Lovely\, a member of the Navajo Nation\, is from Albuquerque\, NM. She holds a double-major B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Anthropology\, an M.A. in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University\, and a second M.A. in Museum Studies from UNM. Her recent thesis in Museum Studies explored Classical influence within early anthropology and museum discourses. Her examinations revealed how these models helped to construct colonial representations of gender\, especially in Southwest ethnology. As a Ph.D. student in Public History at the University of California Santa Barbara\, she continues these research inquiries toward decolonizing museum practices and the public interpretation of history in museum settings. \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dismembering-classicism-contesting-colonial-and-classical-legacies-in-the-southwest/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Voices of Ancient Palmyra: Reflections
DESCRIPTION:“Voices of Ancient Palmyra” began as an online public humanities project that explored how different publics engaged with ancient history and the destruction of ancient objects. The original goal was to encourage people of all ages and education levels to artistically rewrite words from ancient Palmyrene inscriptions\, while learning about the history of the site. Artistic recreations were then uploaded to the website and social media. The project became a museum exhibition at the Fullerton Museum of Art at CSU San Bernardino\, for which local artists created pieces that engaged with and reacted to ancient inscriptions. The project had three different phases or iterations: the digital exhibition\, the physical art exhibition\, and the immersive experience. Each phase had unique complications that arose in the process of bringing various publics\, the museum\, and the academy into conversation. In “Reflections” Maris explores the project’s original goals\, how they changed\, what worked\, and the lessons for future efforts. \nCarly Maris earned her PhD in Ancient History from UC Riverside in 2019. Her primary research explores Roman-Persian relations\, and she is currently writing an article on a coin honoring Mark Antony that was minted in Syria. Dr. Maris also works as a Public Historian\, and was recognized as a Mellon Public Fellow in 2016. In the summer of 2019\, Dr. Maris co-curated an exhibition at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art on ancient writings in Palmyra\, for which she won the Society for Classical Studies ‘Classics Everywhere’ award. She currently teaches history courses at UC Riverside and CSU San Bernardino. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-voices-of-ancient-palmyra-reflections/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Ancient Archives and Public History: Dispatches from the Papyrological Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus\, Imhotep (Imuthes)\, ca. 332-200 B.C. \nFrom the poetry of Sappho to the New Testament\, texts written on papyrus have been preserved for millennia by arid conditions in Egypt\, excavated\, and collected in archives. This timely colloquium examines the legal and ethical problems surrounding these papyrological archives. Roberta Mazza will tell the story of how ancient papyri of unknown provenance were acquired by the Museum of the Bible and are now at the center of a scandal and police investigation. Anna Uhlig will discuss how Egyptian mummies have been destroyed in the quest to “recover” ancient texts and how we can use the Tebtunis archive at UC Berkeley to honor the “missing mummies” lost to us in the name of scholarship. \nRoberta Mazza is Lecturer in Greco-Roman Material Culture at the University of Manchester (UK); this Fall she holds the Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB. \nAnna Uhlig is Associate Professor of Classics at UC Davis. \nThe symposium will be moderated by Cavan Concannon\, who is Associate Professor of Religion at USC. \nThe Tipton Lecture is made possible by the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Endowment in Catholic Studies\, UCSB’s Department of Religious Studies\, and UCSB’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-symposium-ancient-archives-and-public-history-dispatches-from-the-papyrological-lost-and-found/
LOCATION:Old Mission Santa Barbara\, 2201 Laguna Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93015\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T134500
DTSTAMP:20260528T083401
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Mediterranean Pathways: GIS\, Network Analysis\, and the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world of maps and networks. GPS enabled phones allow us to instantly locate ourselves on the earth’s surface\, guide us to stores or restaurants\, or announce to the world our location through social media. Likewise\, programs like Google Earth and desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized our engagement with maps\, map-making\, and have challenged traditional notions of space and place. \nThe proliferation of GIS technologies and the “spatial turn” in digital humanities has also provided new avenues for challenging assumptions about the representations of past societies\, the nature of empire\, and the reach of imperial power. Despite their aesthetic beauty\, traditional print maps\, with clearly delineated static borders\, often artificial naming conventions\, and fixed viewpoints do not convey the complexity and uncertainty of the past. \nAncient societies and empires were far from static; they were networks of complex interactions and fierce contestation which unfolded in geographic space. This talk demonstrates how the use of new digital methodologies\, gazetteers\, and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources can be used to model and study these networks\, and how new mapping techniques are transforming our understanding of ancient empire. Using the Attalid Kingdom as a guide\, this talk examines the theory and practicalities of building an entity-relationship gazetteer and how to align it with LOD resources. It then addresses the construction of networks in desktop software\, the impact of networks on cartography\, and how new maps and digital models provided unique insights into the study of ancient Greek garrisons. The talk will then end with a brief overview of how Pleiades and other ancient world digital initiatives\, including the Pelagios project’s Recogito platform\, are developing new tools to enable the research and mapping of ancient networks. \nRyan Horne earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina\, where he had the opportunity to work extensively with the Ancient World Mapping Center. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of History and the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-mediterranean-pathways-gis-network-analysis-and-the-ancient-world/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Dirt on Rubbish: What Discard Tells us about Home Life in Roman Egypt
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores activities of cleaning and disposing because they represent key principles of social organization. Close attention to discard behavior helps us to understand how people related to the material goods and places that once made up their object worlds – their material habitus (c.f. Meskell\, 2005: 3). Human relationships to defilement\, in particular\, must be seen in in the context of how human identity as a rational being is established and maintained (Kristeva\, 1982; Lagerspetz 2018). Unlike other social practices in the life history of settlements\, rubbish disposal represents a critical component of the archaeological record (Rathje & Murphy\, 2001). In this paper\, I argue that a close examination of rubbish and waste depositions\, along with the discarded items themselves\, might be able to tell us about social values in the houses of Roman Egypt. Additionally\, activities such as disposal and recycling help to reveal the complex life cycles of houses\, which have typically been understood only as loci of consumption and (more recently) production. \nTo this end\, I compare case studies of cleanliness and rubbish disposal practices from a range of Romano-Egyptian settlements\, including refined evidence from recent domestic excavations (e.g. Trimithis (Roman Amheida)) as well as sites from which we have a large amount of legacy data (e.g. Karanis\, Soknopaiou Nesos\, Oxyrhynchus). These disposal practices are then situated within the global context of rubbish disposal. By exploring Romano-Egyptian waste disposal in a comparative manner\, this paper demonstrates that rubbish can tell us an enormous amount about identity construction\, the maintenance of communal traditions\, and dwelling as place-making. \nAnna Lucille Boozer is an Associate Professor at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on Roman Egypt\, Meroitic Sudan\, empires\, and everyday life. She directs the CUNY excavations at Amheida (Egypt) and the Meroe Archival Project (Sudan). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-dirt-on-rubbish-what-discard-tells-us-about-home-life-in-roman-egypt/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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