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The following conference may be of interest to some of you:

Fifth Seleukid Study Day / Latomus Doctoral Workshop in Roman History
Title: Rome and the Seleukid East
Place: Brussels, Université libre de Bruxelles
Date: 21-23 August 2015
Organisers: Altay Coşkun and David Engels
Website: http://www.altaycoskun.com/conferences/ssdconference

Description:

This collaborative project seeks to revisit a watershed period of
World History that saw Rome, one of the longest lasting empires of all
time, rise to become the sole superpower in the Mediterranean, while,
at the same time, the Seleukid kingdom - one of the largest in the
ancient world - was slowly but steadily disintegrating. The Seleukids
had established themselves as the strongest of all of the 'Successor
Kings' after the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE), and their
territory extended as far as Thrace in the West and Bactria in the
East for about a century (312/281 - 190). The kingdom's demise started
after it suffered military defeat at the hands of the Romans
(191/190), but this did not trigger its collapse; the dynasty dragged
on for more than another century, without further Roman military
intervention. Thus, Roman military prowess cannot sufficiently explain
the shift of power in the 2nd century BCE; why, then, was the Seleukid
Dynasty able to persist for so long? Both the importance and
complexity of this development requires a truly interdisciplinary
approach by an international team of experts for its elucidation.
The Seleukid Study Group offers an ideal context for this kind of
research, since it not only brings together leading Seleukid
historians with differing geographical, thematic or linguistic
experience, but also includes renowned scholars of Roman foreign
policy. Initiated at Waterloo, Ontario in 2010, this caucus has
quickly established research on the Seleukid Empire as a vibrant new
trend in Canadian Classical Studies. With host institutions
alternating between Canada and Europe, the extent of both national and
international participation has been growing ever since: 12 countries
will be involved in 2015.
This conference is co-organized by the 'Société d'études latines de
Bruxelles (Latomus)' endeavouring to fulfill its mission of furthering
studies on the Roman world in its largest sense.

Provisional pogram:
(all papers will be given at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus
Solbosch, Room AY.2.107, see
https://www.ulb.ac.be/campus/solbosch/plan-A.html)

Friday, 21 August

Panel I: Doctoral Dissertation Projects on the Later Seleukids

14:00–14:45    Marijn S. Visscher MA (m.s.visscher@durham.ac.uk)
PhD Candidate, Durham University, UK
Antiochos the Great as Hellenistic Poet? Acts of Kingship and the
Literary Tradition

14:45–15:30    DJ Houle MA (djhoule@uwaterloo.ca)
PhD Candidate McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
Livy's Ethnics and the Soldiers of Antiochos III and IV

15:45–16:30    Marie-Astrid Buelens MA (mabuelen@ulb.ac.be)
PhD Candidate, Histoire Ancienne, UlB, Brussels, Belgium
Antiochos fuit, Rome aussi ? La bataille des Thermopyles et son issue
alternative dans un fragment oraculaire de Phlégon de Tralles (FGrH
257 F 36 III)

16:30–17:15    Fuad Alidoust MA (alidoust@students.uni-mainz.de)
PhD Candidate, Ancient History, University of Mainz, Germany
Justin's Representation of Demetrios II. Nikator and His View on the
Parthians

17:30–18:15    Robin Hämmerling MA (rhaemmerling@web.de)
PhD Candidate, Department of Ancient History, University of Trier, Germany
On Hasmonean-Roman Diplomacy from Judas Maccabee to Simon and Its
Impact on the Seleukid Empire

18:15–19:00    Gunnar R. Dumke MA (gunnar.dumke@altertum.uni-halle.de)
PhD Candidate, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Becoming Roman – Staying Seleukid? The Posthumous Philip Coinage
Reconsidered

19:05–19:50    Chiara Grigolin MA (chiara.grigolin@durham.ac.uk)
PhD Candidate, Durham University, UK
Antioch's Foundation Myth and the Antonine Cultural Milieu

Saturday, 22 August

Panel II: Short- and Long-Term Effects of the Treaty of Apameia

9:00–9:45        Dr. Adrian Dumitru (seleukosnikator@yahoo.com)
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Metropolitan Library, Bucharest, Romania
The Territorial Clause in the Treaty of Apameia

9:45–10:30      Prof. Dr. Nicholas Sekunda (sekunda@ug.edu.pl)
Department of History, University of Danzig, Poland
The Seleukid Elephant Corps after Apameia

11:00–11:45    Dr. Richard Wenghofer (richardw@nipissingu.ca)
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, Nipissing University, North
Bay ON, Canada
The Failure of Kinship Diplomacy among the Later Seleukid Kings

11:45–12:30    Dr. Christoph Michels (christoph.michels@rwth-aachen.de)
Research Associate, Ancient History, RWTH Aachen, Germany
From One Hegemon to the Next? The Kingdoms of Anatolia after Apameia

Panel III: Continuity, Revival and Change under Antiochos IV and His
Successors

13:30–14:15    Prof. Dr. Rolf Strootman (r.strootman@uu.nl)
Ancient Middle-East History, Dept. of Ancient History, Utrecht
University, Netherlands
Antiochos IV's Procession at Daphne as a Manifestation of the Revival
of Seleukid Expansionism

14:15–15:00    Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Scolnic (rabbi.scolnic@gmail.com)
Lecturer in Judaic Studies, Southern Connecticut State University, New
Haven CT, USA
The Roman Persecution of the Bacchants and Antiochos IV's Persecution
of the Jews

15:30–16:15    Dr. Kyle Erickson (k.erickson@tsd.uwtsd.ac.uk‎)
Head of Department, Classical Studies, Trinity St. David, Lampeter, Wales,
UK
Antiochos IV and Apollo

16:15–17:00    Dr. Svyatoslav Smirnov (smirnovsv3@ya.ru)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow
Timarchos – Satrap, Rebel and King in the Hellenistic East

17:15–18:00    Dr. Gillian Ramsey (g.ramsey@utoronto.ca)
Adjunct Professor, Classical Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
'The Four Generals in the Land': Late Seleukid Administration in Babylonia

Panel IV: Diplomacy between Rome and the East after Apameia

18:00–18:45    Dr. Omar Coloru (omar.coloru@virgilio.it)
Independent Researcher, Pisa, Italy
Seleukid Diplomacy, the Roman Republic and the Circulation of Information

Sunday, 23 August

9:00–9:45        Dr. Altay Coşkun (acoskun@uwaterloo.ca)
Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo ON, Canada
Simon Maccabee, Friendship with Rome and Seleukid Disintegration: a
Case-Study of Triangular Diplomacy (142/41 BC)

9:45–10:30      Prof. Dr. Edward Dąbrowa (uwdabrow@cyf-kr.edu.pl)
Jagellionian University, Cracow, Poland
The Seleukids, Rome and the Jews (134-76 BC)

Panel V: Symbolic Battles and the Representation of the Seleukids as
Persians

11:00–11:45    Dr. Eran Almagor (eranalmagor@gmail.com)
Jerusalem, Israel
Echoes of the Graeco-Persian Wars in the Roman-Syrian War in Greece
(with an Emphasis on Plut. Cat. Mai. 12-14)

11:45–12:30    Prof. Dr. David Engels (dengels@ulb.ac.be)
Chaire d'Histoire Romaine, UlB, Brussels, Belgium
Du metus Syricus à la natio servituti nata. La Syrie et les Syriens
dans l'imaginaire politique et historiographique de la République
romaine tardive

12:30–13:00    Final Discussion

Participation is free, but registration is required.

For further information, visit our website
(http://www.altaycoskun.com/conferences/ssdconference) or contact:
acoskun@uwaterloo.ca
OR
dengels@ulb.ac.be

--
Prof. Dr. David Engels

Titulaire de la chaire d'histoire du monde romain
Directeur et rédacteur en chef de la revue LATOMUS

Université libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.)
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1050 Bruxelles
BELGIUM
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