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This supplementary call for papers is motivated by the change of venue for the conference, moved from the University of the Antilles and Guyane in Martinique to Florida International University in Miami. This change has made it impossible for some of the originally confirmed speakers to attend. However it is the hope of the organisers that the same change of venue may allow some potentially interested collegues to attend for whom Martinique has not been possible.
Papers should deal with identity and identification of individuals, groups or communities within the confines of Mediterranean antiquity, from the archaic Greek period to late antiquity (late antiquity to be understood in its modern definition, including the early barbarian successor states). Papers dealing with the use of classical, ancient models of identity (real or imaginary) to identify modern individuals, groups or communities obviously do not fall within these restrictions on time-frame.
The organisers would suggest the following thematic fields, but are open to propositions which while not falling within these themes fit the general topic of the conference:
– Types of identity in antiquity: definition and use
– Representation of identity: literary, graphic, other
– Citizen identity versus ethnic, cultural and religious identities
– State identity versus group, class and community identities
– Class identity versus formal and group identities
– Construction of new identities in antiquity
– Individual identity versus group and community identities
– Gender and identity: individual and collective
– Religion and identity: individual and collective
– Race and identity: individual and collective
– Classical models for modern identity
– Use of "antiquity" to invent modern identities
– Application of modern models of identity to the ancient world
Where?
College of Law, Florida International University, Miami, USA
When?
Tuesday 7 April to Thursday 9 April 2009
Deadlines?
Supplementary call for papers, submission of abstracts by 7 March 2009
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