Friday 2 May 2014

Workshop: Defining "foreignness" in the Early Iron Age Mediterranean - Northwestern University, Chicago, 9 May 2014


NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Department of Art History
DEFINING “FOREIGNNESS”
IN THE EARLY IRON AGE MEDITERRANEAN
May 9, 2014, Norhtwestern University, Library Forum Room
Organized by Ann C. Gunter
Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities


SPEAKERS

  • Catherine Saint-Pierre Hoffmann (Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques[ANHIMA], University of Paris I): "Greek sancturies and the question of the "oriental" presence".
  • Panagiotis Kousoulis (Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean): "Defining "egyptianisation" and "orientalisation" in the religious motifs and popular beliefs of Archaic Greece: the case of Aegyptiaka reconsidered".
  • Carolina López-Ruiz (Department of Classics, The Ohio State University): "Indegenious and Pheonician identities in the western Mediterranean: the case of Tartessos".


RESPONDENTS
  • Johannes Haubold (Classics and Ancient History, Durham University)
  • Erik von Dongen (Department of Modern Languages and Classics,Saint Mary's University, and Administrator and Editor,Melammu Project Website and Database)
  • Persis Berlekamp (Department of Art History, University of Chicago)

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Myers Foundations and the Department of Art History.


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