Seth Richardson (University of Chicago), An Unenviable Dilemma: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Authenticity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Amélie Kuhrt (UCL), Cosmopolitanism: rhetoric versus reality in the Achaemenid empire
Johannes Haubold (Durham University), Maintaining the kingdom: the role of Babylonian elites in the Seleucid Empire
Kathryn Stevens (Trinity College, Cambridge), Empire begins at home: local elites and imperial ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia
Matthew Canepa (University of Minnesota) Rival Visions: Contesting Iranian Kingship among the Empires of the Arsacids, Artaxiads, and Mithradatids
Myles Lavan (University of St. Andrews), Aristocratic cosmopolitanism in the rhetoric of the early Roman Principate
Clifford Ando (University of Chicago), Making Romans: democracy and social differentiation under Rome
John Weisweiler (Universitäten Basel und Heidelberg), Universal Monarchy and Global Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire
Richard Payne (University of Chicago), Iranian Cosmopolitanism: World Religions at the Sasanian Court
Enno Giele (Universität Heidelberg), Court Communication and Imperial Ideology in the Chinese Empire
Lukas Nickel (SOAS), Announcing the First Empire of China: The public presentation of the unified state according to archaeological and textual sources
Peter Fibiger Bang (Københavns Universitet), Concluding Remarks