Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant - Topographies of Control, Environments of Power
Tuesday 5th March at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU
2.00pm-5.00pm: Papers by graduate students
2.15pm: Lloyd HOPKINS (Oxford)
‘Shaving the giants: deforestation and the Bay of Naples’.
2.45pm: Olivier DEFAUX (Freie Universität Berlin / Université Lyon 2) ‘The seas of the Mediterranean basin as geographical objects in Antiquity’
3.30pm: Aneurin ELLIS-EVANS (Oxford)
‘The forests of Mt. Ida as seen through the eyes of Theophrastos’.
4.00pm: Jonathan CHRISTENSEN (Université Lyon 2)
‘Ancient coastal towers reconsidered’
5.00pm: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Pascal ARNAUD, Professeur d'Histoire du Monde Romain, Université Lyon 2 (Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée / Institut Universitaire de France)
"Tradition or progress? Imperial geography and representations of imperialism in an expanding world"
Conveners: Nicholas PURCELL (Brasenose College)
With the kind support of the Craven Committee, and in memory of J-P. Vernant