Graduate Student Conference: Innovation in Borderlands Regions

BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other ways of life. The Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on the ways that interactions in borderlands inspire innovation and adaptation from a range of geographic and chronological contexts.
Friday, April 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Opening Remarks
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Samuel Truett, Professor of History at the University of New Mexico

Saturday, April 5, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Panel 1: State-Society Conflicts over Identification and Migration
Panel 2: Interchange and Imagination in Late Antiquity
Panel 3: Reifying Life through the Celebration of Death
Panel 4: Crafting Identity through Object and Image

Sunday, April 6, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 5: Communal Adjustment to Shifting Boundaries
Closing Comments

All events held in McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th Floor)

Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Ancient Borderlands MRG, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Classics, the Department of History, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Late Antique MRG.

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