Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant - Topographies of Control, Environments of Power Tuesday 5th March at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU 2.00pm-5.00pm: Papers by graduate students 2.15pm: Lloyd HOPKINS (Oxford) ‘Shaving the giants: deforestation and the Bay of Naples’. 2.45pm: Olivier DEFAUX (Freie Universität Berlin / Université Lyon 2) ‘The seas of the Mediterranean basin as geographical objects in Antiquity’ 3.30pm: Aneurin ELLIS-EVANS (Oxford) ‘The forests of Mt. Ida as seen through the eyes of Theophrastos’. 4.00pm: Jonathan CHRISTENSEN (Université Lyon 2) ‘Ancient coastal towers reconsidered’ 5.00pm: KEYNOTE LECTURE Pascal ARNAUD , Professeur d'Histoire du Monde Romain, Université Lyon 2 (Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée / Institut Universitaire de France) "Tradition or progress? Imperial geography and representations of imperialism in an expanding world" Conveners : Nicholas PURCELL (Brasenose College) With the kind support of the Craven Committee, and in memory of J-P. Vernant
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