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ANCIENT EMPIRES II *
May 21-22, 2001

Hoover Institution
Lou Henry Hoover Building, Room 102

CONFERENCE PROGRAM (pdf)

Monday May 21

* 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


Tuesday May 22

* 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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