[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>.