Schedule

Tuesday, January 9

8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
Richard Flores, College of Liberal Arts
L. Michael White, Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins

Topic: Forum Pt. I    Presider: Dale Martin (Yale University)
9:00-10:00         Chthonic cult in the Corinthian Agora
Guy Sanders (ASCSA, Corinth Excavations)
10:00-11:00 Simulacra Gentium: the Achaian League and the Lechaion Road basilica at Ancient Corinth
Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)

Break

Topic: Cult & Society Pt. I    Presider: Barbette Spaeth (College of William and Mary)
11:30-12:30         Image and Cult: the civic coinage of Roman Corinth
Mary Walbank (University of Calgary)

Lunch

2:00-3:00 Deploying Greek Heritage in Roman Corinth: Uncovering Hybrid Identities in the Archaeology of Traditional Cult
Christine Thomas (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Break

Topic: The Corinthia    Presider: Adam Rabinowitz (The University of Texas at Austin)
3:30-4:30         Religion and Society at Corinthian Kenchreai
Joseph Rife (Macalester College)
4:30-5:30 Isthmia and the Eastern Corinthia in Late Antiquity
Tim Gregory (Ohio State University)

 

 

Wednesday, January 10

Topic: Socio-economic Issues Pt. I    Presider: Paula Perlman (The University of Texas at Austin)
9:00-10:00         Seeking Shelter in Roman Corinth
Dan Schowalter (Carthage College)
10:00-11:00 The Social and Ethnic Origins of the Colonists in Early Roman Corinth
Ben Millis (ASCSA, Blegen Library)

Break

11:30-12:30         Not Many Well-Born: The Religious Culture of the Corinthian Poor
John Lanci (Stonehill College)

Lunch

2:00-3:00 General discussion of issues and prospects
Presider: John Lanci (Stonehill College)

 

 

Thursday, January 11

Topic: Socio-economic Issues Pt. II    Presider: Betsey Robinson (Harvard University)
9:00-10:00         Paul and the Politics of Meals at Roman Corinth
James Walters (Boston University)
10:00-11:00 Whatever Happened to the Names? Corinthian Funerary Inscriptions
Michael Walbank (University of Calgary)

Break

11:30-12:30         The Wrong Erastus: Status, Wealth, and Paul's Churches
Steve Friesen (The University of Texas at Austin)

Lunch

Topic: Forum Pt. II    Presider: Karl Galinsky (The University of Texas at Austin)
2:00-3:00 The Forum and Urban Form in Roman Coloniae: Recent Evidence from Ostia Antica
Michael White (The University of Texas at Austin)

Break

3:30-4:30         The Emperor in a Roman Town: the Base of the Augustales in the Forum at Corinth
Margaret Laird (University of Washington)
4:30-5:30 General Discussion

 

 

Friday, January 12

Topic: Cult & Society Pt. II    Presider: Cynthia Shelmerdine (The University of Texas at Austin)
9:00-10:00         The Metamorphosis of a Corinthian goddess: From Demeter to Ceres
Jorunn Økland (University of Sheffield)
10:00-11:00 Asklepios in Greek and Roman Corinth
Bronwen Wickkiser (Gustavus Adolphus College)

Break

11:30-12:30         Concluding discussion