ANCIENT EMPIRES II *
May 21-22, 2001
Hoover Institution
Lou Henry Hoover Building, Room 102
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (pdf)
* Coffee Starts at 9 a.m *
Session 1: Near East
9.30-12.30
Peter Bedford (Edith Cowain University, Australia)
Empire and Exploitation: The Neo-Assyrian Empire
Josef Wiesehoefer (University of Kiel, Germany)
The Achaemenid Empire
Session 2: Greece and Rome
2-5
Ian Morris (Stanford University)
The Athenian Empire (478-404 BC)
Keith Hopkins (Cambridge University, UK)
Dinner at 7.00, Il Fornaio
* Coffee Starts at 9 a.m *
Session 3: Byzantium and sex
9.30-12.30
John Haldon (University of Birmingham, UK)
Empires and Exploitation: The Case of
Byzantium
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)
Sex and Empire: A Darwinian Perspective
Session 4: Responses, 2-5
Jack Goldstone (University of California, Davis)
Steve Haber (Stanford University)
* Sponsored by the Social Science History Institute, Stanford
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