It is a pleasure to announce the UCLA Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity's Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference, 5 April 2003, in Royce Hall 314 (on the UCLA campus).

The conference is open to the public and there is no registration fee. However, email pre-registration is encouraged (contact information below). Abstracts for many of the conference papers will be placed on our web site.

Preliminary Program - 5 April 2003

9.00 - 9.30 Registration

9.30 - 10.00 Preliminary Remarks

10.00 - 11.00 Panel One

The Roots of Nubian Christianity: A Transitional Culture in Late Antique Africa
Salim Faraji - Claremont Graduate University

The Hypogaeum of the Aurelii: Collegium Tomb
Alison Poe - Rutgers University

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30 Panel Two

Pope vs. Patriarch: The Battle for Ecclesiastical Supremacy
Frank Miranda - University of California, Los Angeles

The Exile of Bishops in Gregory of Tours: Curbing Political Perfidy in Merovingian Gaul
Eric Fournier - University of California, Santa Barbara

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch Break

2.00 - 3.00 Panel Three

Incense and Pepper: Ports and Trade of the Red Sea in Late Antiquity
Walter Ward - University of California, Los Angeles

Pagans, Christians, Emperors, and Saints: Architectural Innovation in the Basilica of San Clemente
Kristina Meinking - University of Southern California

3.00 - 3.30 Coffee Break

Building a House of Wisdom: The Foundations for Islamic Appropriation of Hellenistic Thought
Martyn Oliver - Boston University

Hidden Enemies: The Two Faces of the Barbarian in Fifth-Century Gaul
Roberto Chiappiniello - The University of Manchester

The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Directions and Parking Information

Royce Hall, Room 314 is a lecture hall on the third floor of Royce, on the south side of the building. The room is close to the west stairwell and elevator.

Directions to UCLA:
http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/parking/spdirect.HTM

The "North Entrance" to campus, accessible by Sunset Boulevard, is the most convenient to Royce Hall. Parking structure 4, the underground structure directly downhill from Royce, is the closest non-restricted access parking structure. Single day on-campus parking is $6.

The link below provides a map of event locations, parking and information booths, and parking structures (click on "Royce Hall"):
http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/eventmap/eventmap.html