Re-orienting Ancient Persia
RE-ORIENTING ANCIENT PERSIA
ST ANDREWS, 17-18 SEPTEMBER 2018
Monday 17 September
10-10.15
Welcome
10.15-11.30
John Lee (University of California Santa Barbara)
Visions of Achaemenid Persia in U.S. Education, ca. 1870-1930
Respondent: Ali Ansari (St Andrews)
11.30-11.45
COFFEE
11.45-13.00
Caroline Waerzeggers (Leiden)
Reconsidering, restating and reassessing… what’s at stake in the debate about Xerxes’ rule in Babylonia?
Respondent: Christopher Tuplin (Liverpool)
13.00-15.00
LUNCH AND BREAK
15.00-16.15
Anne Fitzpatrick (Trinity College Dublin) The Persians as imperial benefactors Respondent: Madhavi Nevader (St Andrews)
16.15-16.30
TEA
16.30-17.45
Tom Harrison (St Andrews)
Herodotus on the engine of Persian imperialism
Respondent: Dominique Lenfant
17.45-19.00
Beth Dusinberre (Colorado)
Archaeology and the impact of imperialism
Respondent: Joseph Skinner (Newcastle)
1930: DINNER, Nardini’s, 157-9 South Street (close to West Port)
Tuesday 18 September
9.00-10.15
Christopher Tuplin (Liverpool)
The Rise and Fall of the Achaemenid Empire
Respondent: John Lee
10.15-11.30
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff)
Achaemenid Persia and the challenges and potential of gender history
Respondent: Sean Corner (McMaster)
11.30-11.45
COFFEE
11.45-13.00
Dominique Lenfant (Strasbourg)
Eunuchs as guardians of women in ancient Persia. A case of orientalism and occidentalism
Respondent: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
13.00-15.00
LUNCH AND BREAK
15.00-16.15
Stephen Harrison (Swansea)
Alexander and Asia: Beyond the Last Achaemenid
Respondent: Tom Harrison
16.15-17.30
Tom Harrison (St Andrews)
Persian Greece
Respondent: Anne Fitzpatrick
17.30
Myles Lavan (St Andrews)
Response
Followed by general discussion
19.30: DINNER, Hotel du Vin, The Scores (close to Golf Course)