The Ninth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference
314 Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
Saturday, 1 May, 2004
It is a pleasure to announce the UCLA Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity's Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference, 1 May 2004, 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 in left sidebar).
Abstracts of conference papers, directions and parking information are available below.Preliminary Program 1 May, 2004
9.30 Registration/Coffee
10.00 Opening Remarks
10.30 PANEL ONE
The Transformation of Person and Place in Late Antiquity
Ancient Bling:
'Pagan' and Early Christian Attitudes toward Female Adornment
Kristi Upson-Saia - Duke University
Apologetic Desecration:
Christians and the Pagan Holy Places
Daniel Washburn - Stanford University
12.00 Lunch
1.00 PANEL TWO
Center and Periphery: Late Roman Imperial 'Policy'
Abandoned Fortifications in Jordan:
A New Perspective on Rome's Desert Frontier
Greg Fisher - McGill University
'Necessary Evils':
Taxation and Social Welfare in the Late Roman Empire
Alicia McKenzie - University of Toronto
2.30 Break/Coffee
3.00 PANEL THREE
Body and Text in Late Antique Society
Towards a Rhetoric of Manichaeism:
Numeric and Rhetorical Structures in the Manichaean Kephalaia
Tim Pettipiece - Université Laval
From Battling the Darkness to Changing the World:
Early Christian Fasting and the Restructuring of Society
Garry J. Crites - Duke University
4.30 Closing Remarks
Sponsored By:
The University of California Multicampus Research Grant on the History and Culture of Late Antiquity
The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Page last modified:
12 April 2004
Directions and Parking Information
The conference will be held in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus, in Room 314. 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, and underground structure directly downhill from Royce, is the closest non-restricted access parking structure. Single day on-campus parking is $7.
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
Sponsored By:
The University of California Multicampus Research Grant on the History and Culture of Late Antiquity
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