15 March, Friday

15:00 – 16:00 Welcome and Introduction

16:00 – 16:45 Mary Frazer (LMU): An Example of Successful Interpellation? Scholars as (Loyal) Subjects of the Assyrian Empire

16:45 – 17:30 Denise Reitzenstein (LMU): Xerxes and Damaratus, Herodotus' Unequal Kings: (Not) Ruling and Reigning an Empire

18:00 Guided tour of the museum for Egyptian Art (SMAEK)

16 March, Saturday

9:00 – 9:45 Daniel Sutton (Cambridge): Cleon and Antiphon

9:45 – 10:30 Henry Heitmann-Gordon (LMU): The Unaccountable Ruler and the Subaltern Sock Puppet: Accommodating the King in early Hellenistic Thought

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 Cecily Bateman (Cambridge): Empire of Normalcy: Disability and the Roman Empire

11:45 – 12:30 Megan Murphy (Cambridge): The presentation of disability in the Letters of John and Barsanuphius: everyday conversations oscillating between metaphor and Christian philanthropy

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:45 Ben Kolbeck (Cambridge): Individual, Empire, and Opportunism: Christian apology and the state apparatus of the imperial petition

14:45 – 15:30 Giulia Grossi (LMU): Taxation and subaltern cooperation in the later Roman Empire

15:30 – 16:15 Mathijs Clement (Cambridge): The naked theologian and the power of Rome: Between self and community in Gregory of Nazianzus’ first orations (Or. 1-6) and letters (Ep. 1-7)

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 17:30 Harvey Pythian (Cambridge): Dangerous Individuals and Imperial Government in the Late Fourth Century: The Case of Eutropius

17:30 – 18:15 Younes Köhler (LMU): Between Byzantium and Islam: The dux and the provincial elite in early Arab Egypt

18:15 – 19:15 General discussion