Guide

Durham University, U.K.

Water and Identity in the Ancient World: a workshop
Department of Classics & Ancient History, Ritson Room, 22-23 March 2010.

Programme:

22 March, 9.30am to 10am:
Welcome and coffee.
10 am to 1 pm:
-Paola Ceccarelli (Durham), Introduction. Water, identity and culture: some issues.
-Penny Wilson (Durham), Twin Towns: The Relationship Between Towns Separated
by Nile branches in the Egyptian Delta
-Johannes Haubold (Durham), The Achaemenid empire and the sea.
-Robin Skeates (Durham), The place of the sea in the construction of
identities in Maltese prehistory.

Buffet Lunch

2pm to 6.30 pm:
-Mario Lombardo (Lecce), Small and Big Islands in Greek Colonisation.
-Flavia Frisone (Lecce), Rivers and identity in ‘colonial’ scenarios. River names and land constructing in Greek Western apoikia.
-Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck), Identity and resistance: discourses of insularity in the Aegean world.

4.15 to 4.45pm: Tea.
-Zena Kamash (Oxford), From the Euphrates to the Thames: exploring attitudes towards water in Roman Britain and the Near East.
-John Donaldson (International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham), Water Boundaries and Geopolitics in the Modern World.
General discussion.

Conference dinner

23 March, 9 am:
-Steve Willis (Kent) Sea, Coast, Estuary, land and Culture in Iron Age Britain
-Jon Henderson (Nottingham) Expressing difference: Western Atlantic Identities in the first millennium BC
-Adam Rogers (Leicester), Water, identity and myth in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: some case studies.

11.15 to 11.45: Coffee.
-Richard Hingley (Durham), Hadrian¹s Wall as an inlet of the sea?

Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), discussant
Michael Shanks (Stanford), discussant

1pm: Lunch for those who do not have to leave.
And, potentially, further discussion!

NOTA BENE:

The workshop is open to all, but if you wish to attend please contact the
organizers: Dr Richard Hingley (richard.hingley AT durham.ac.uk) or Dr Paola
Ceccarelli (paola.ceccarelli AT durham.ac.uk).