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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CAS Workshop | Negotiating “Ambiguous Race”: Hierarchies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Empires of the Ancient Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:If you wish to attend via Zoom\, please register at http://umich.zoom.us/j/93701950330\n\nIn the second book of the Annals\, the Roman historian Tacitus describes the Armenians as an ambigua gens - an “ambiguous race.” According to Tacitus\, not only did Armenia defy definition\, but its volatile political history between Rome and Persia reflected the inherent ambiguity of the Armenian gens. Neither Roman nor Persian\, Greek nor barbarian\, Armenia simply did not fit into one of the established hierarchies the Romans used to order their world and to situate their subjects within the existing hierarchies of their empire.\n   \n   By drawing the experiences of Armenians into dialogue with other minoritized populations in the Roman empire\, Sasanian Persia\, and other empires of the Mediterranean\, this workshop explores how hierarchies of citizenship\, race\, and belonging functioned as technologies of imperial rule across a variety of case studies. In particular\, it seeks to contribute to critical conversations on the study of race in the ancient and late ancient Mediterranean\, thereby shedding light on the ways in which imperial subjects fashioned their individual and communal subjectivities both diachronically and synchronically.\n   \n   How\, then\, might the “ambiguity” of the Armenian ambigua gens illuminate not only the experiences of empire\, but also the ontology of empires themselves in the premodern Mediterranean? How did imperial hierarchies of citizenship and belonging shape daily life at the center and on the periphery? And how did imperial subjects engage with\, manipulate\, or even reject these imperial hierarchies in order to navigate their place in their local and supra-local imperial contexts? This workshop brings together scholars from multiple academic disciplines to reconsider the dynamics of imperialism and to propose new historical paradigms to decenter\, decolonize\, and deconstruct the historiography of empires in the premodern Mediterranean.\n\nIf you wish to attend via Zoom\, please register at http://umich.zoom.us/j/93701950330\n\nFebruary 23nd | Weiser Hall 555\n\n4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Keynote Address\nDr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta\, Princeton University\nRacialization in the Roman Empire: Dispositions and Affects\n\nFebruary 24rd | Weiser Hall 555\n\n9:00 am - 10:45 am\n\nPanel I: Whence Ambiguity?: Imperial Hierarchies and the Experiences of Empire\nRespondent: Aileen Das\, University of Michigan\n\nCliff Ando\, University of Chicago\n\"Rome and the Peoples Without Name\"\n\nJimmy Wolfe\, University of Michigan\n\"An Ambiguous Race: Armenian and Assyrian Identities in Roman and\nAmerican Imperialism\"\n\n10:45 am - 11:00 am Break\n\n11:00 am - 12:30 pm\n\nPanel II: Racialized Paradigms and Minoritized Populations in the Ancient and Medieval Middle East\nRespondent: Katherine Davis\, University of Michigan\n\nJessie DeGrado\, University of Michigan\n\"Ancient Alterity\, Modern Racialization: Language\, Culture\, and the Construction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire\"\n\nKayla Dang\, St. Louis University\n\"The Entangled Eran: Ethnicity\, Religion\, and Race in Iranian Studies\"\n\n12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch\n\n1:30 pm - 3:00 pm\n\nPanel III: Visual Subjects: Art and Identity in Byzantium\nRespondent: Bryan Miller\, University of Michigan\n\nParoma Chatterjee\, University of Michigan\n\"Image-Breaking as Otherness in Byzantium: Business as Usual?\"\n\nChristina Maranci\, Harvard University\n\"Breaking Down Byzantium with Nerses III Catholicos (c.641 - c.661)\"\n\n   This workshop is organized by James Wolfe\, 2022-23 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of History\, U-M) and Michael Pifer (Department of Middle East Studies\, U-M)\n\nThis event is cosponsored by the U-M Departments of Classical Studies and Middle East Studies and the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at armenianstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:104751-21810075@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/104751
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:armenia,history,Near Eastern Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555
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