Jean-Pierre Vernant Days

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Talk ‘Telling/counting everyday life in a subsistence perspective. Ethnography of the household of radical ecologists’

Geneviève Pruvost (CNRS)

Book launch ‘Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit’

Translations of the work of Alain Viala, edited by Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College, Oxford) Emma Herdman (St Andrews University), Marine Roussillon (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Gemma Tidman (Queen Mary University of London)

Convened by Nino Luraghi (New College)

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Tuesday, April 29th

2:30 pm
Chair: Christopher Metcalf (Queen's College Oxford)

Keynote presentation:

Wouter Henkelman (EPHE Paris)
Hellenism before Hellenism: The opening of the world under the Achaemenids

4 pm
Coffee break

4:30 pm
Chair: Peter Thonemann (Wadham College Oxford)

Rémi Bois (EPHE Paris)
The Persian ruling class and its multicultural roots

Marco Ferrari (EPHE Paris / Sapienza Università di Roma)
The Formation of an Inter-Ethnic Ruling Class in Achaemenid Anatolia: Cultural Models and Administrative Practices

 

Wednesday, April 30th

9 am
Chair: Nino Luraghi (New College Oxford)

Margaux Spruyt (EPHE, Paris)
Horses in Persepolis

Mridula Gullapalli (Merton College Oxford)
Diasporic Footprints: Greek communities in Achaemenid Egypt

10 30 am Coffee break

11 am
Chair: Wouter Henkelman (EPHE Paris)

Fiona Pillips (Corpus Christi College Oxford)
Mausolus' Close Shave: Treating Satrap as Tyrant in Achaemenid Caria

Oliver Clarke (New College Oxford)
'In the fourth year of the reign of Philip, when Asander was satrap...': the decline of the satrapies in Western Asia Minor from Alexander to Antigonus the One-Eyed