Lecture Series - Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures. Now with Podcasts!

[James M. Skidmore]

Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures

 

A series of ten public lectures by members of the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Waterloo

Winter Term 2010 - Mondays at 4:30pm - Arts Lecture Hall Room 113

 

Join your Faculty of Arts colleagues as they explore the interaction of
societies and cultures. 

 

Upcoming lecture:  Monday 25 January 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall Room
113
Altay Coşkun (Classical Studies):  
Were the Romans Generous in Conveying their Citizenship?

It is commonly accepted that the strength of the Romans not only consisted
in their military prowess, but also in their ability to include former
enemies and foreigners into their socio-political community. Beyond the
remarkable and historically singular stability of the Roman Empire, there is
also plenty of ancient evidence that the Romans were aware of, yes took
pride with this quality, and that even their neighbours acknowledged the
same. At closer inspection, however, many inconsistencies to this policy
appear: conquered peoples were often denied full integration into the
citizen body for centuries; most strikingly, the reluctance of the Romans to
give the Italians similar legal and political rights caused the Social War
in 90 BC; the toll of hundreds of thousands of lives was paid, only to
enfranchise the Italians a few years later under somewhat different
conditions. This lecture intends to convey insight into the principles that
guided Roman politics as well as some of the biases that have been
underlying modern scholarship since the 19th century.

 

Podcasts

Each of the presenters in this series has agreed to be interviewed on their
topic.  These conversations are available as online podcasts, and the first
two interviews are now ready for your listening enjoyment.

Interview with Mat Schulze (Cultural Encounter of the Language Kind):
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/schulze.html

Interview with Sheila Ager (West meets East: Greeks, Persians, and the Birth
of "Orientalism"): http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/ager.html

 

 

Complete details at www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301.

 

 

James M. Skidmore

Chair of the Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies

Faculty of Arts / University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1  CANADA

 

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