On Thursday–Friday, March 7–8, 2019, the OI will host the 15th annual OI Postdoctural Sypmosium about "Pomp, Circumstance, and the Performance of Politics: Acting Politically Correct in the Ancient World" organized by Kathryn R. Morgan. The talks cover a wide geographical and chronological range of the ancient world, and presenters include anthropologists, archaeologists, philologists and historians, among them University of Chicago faculty Margaret Andrews (History), Catherine Kearns (Classics), and James Osborne (NELC). Responses & discussion will be moderated by the OI's own Jean Evans (Session 1, Thurs AM), Seth Richardson (Session 2, Thurs PM), and Gil Stein (Session 3, Fri AM). For more details, or to download a PDF of the abstract booklet, please visit the conference website.
Participants include:
- Emily S. K. Anderson (Classics, Johns Hopkins University)
- Margaret M. Andrews (History, University of Chicago)
- Jean Evans** (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
- Gary Feinman (MacArthur Curator of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago)
- Marcella Frangipane (Ancient Studies, University of Rome 'La Sapienza')
- Amir Gilan (Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University)
- Katja Goebs (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto)
- Catherine Kearns (Classics, University of Chicago)
- Augusta McMahon (Archaeology, University of Cambridge)
- Kathryn R. Morgan (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
- Linda Nicholas (Adjunct Curator of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago)
- James Osborne (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
- Anne Porter (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto)
- Seth Richardson** (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
- Lauren Ristvet (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)
- Monica Smith (Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles)
- Gil Stein** (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
