PANELS, SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, 2008-09

Friday, October 31-
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

EMPIRE WITHOUT END
A Conference

Plenary Speakers:
WOLE SOYINKA and PAGE duBOIS

To download a PDF of the complete conference program schedule, click here (updated October 23, 2008).

The theme of this conference is empires and the political. We will examine how modern concepts of the political (and related concepts such as political rights, political theories, citizenship, laws, etc.) are formulated through an engagement with the historical study of empires (in particular, ancient empires). Scholars from a range of different research interests, including Political Science, History, English, Classics, and Archaeology, are scheduled to participate.

Presented by the FHI with the Department of Classica Studies, the Program in Women’s Studies, and the Network on Ancient & Modern Imperialisms.

Map and parking: The Franklin Humanities Institute and Franklin Center are located at 2204 Erwin Road, on the corner of Erwin and Trent.  For Friday, parking is available all day at the Medical Center decks on Erwin and Trent for $2/hour - #2 and #3 in this map.  For Friday after 4pm and all day Saturday, free parking is available at the Pickens Clinic lot - #6 in map above.

*Image credit: Detail of Alexander Mosaic, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Photographer: Nick in exsilio, flickr.com.