Department of Classical Studies
Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium
Keynote Presentation: Matthew Liebmann (Harvard)
“A Little Rebellion Now and Then is a Good Thing”: An Archaeology of Alternative American Revolutions”
(The presentation will be followed by a reception in the Mosaic Hall.)
Saturday, January 26, 2019
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM — Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium
9:00–9:15 Welcome and Introduction — G. Frame, Director, Center for Ancient Studies
9:15–10:00 Joe Manning (Yale University)
“Nile Flood Failure as a Trigger to Social Unrest in Egypt. The Case
of the Ptolemies”
10:00–10:45 Leonora Neville (Universtiy of Wisconsin-Madison)
“The Revolting Ambition of Anna Komnene: Gender Malpractice,
Authorship, and Brotherly Love in 12th Century Constantinople”
10:45–11:15 Break
11:15–12:00 David Graff (Kansas State University)
“Revolt of the Spear Carriers: Military Rebellion in Late Tang China”
12:00–12:45 Najam Haider (Barnard College)
“Rebels and Imams: Negotiating Categories of Identity in Early Islam”
12:45–2:00 Lunch
2:00–2:45 Dennis Ogburn (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
“The Myth of Constant Rebellion in the Inca Empire”
2:45–3:30 Andrea Berlin (Boston University)
“Revolt! Why the Jews Took on Rome”
3:30–4:15 Jarrod Whitaker (Wake Forest University)
“The Danger of Picking Unripe Fruit: Rebellion, Revolution, and
Military Dissension in Ancient India”
4:15–4:30 Conclusion — G. Frame
Full conference program: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/symposia.html
Speaker abstracts and biographies: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/speaker_bio2019.html