> session vi chair: Takashi Fujii (Oxford and Kyoto) 11:00 Announcing the First Empire of China: The public presentation of the unified state according to archaeological and textual sources Lukas Nickel (soas) 11.50 The cosmopolitan defence of Vernacular poetics in Korea and Japan Alexander Beecroft (Southern Carolina) > concluding remarks and general discussion 12.40 concluding remarks Peter Bang (Copenhagen) 13.00 general discussion 13.30 lunch at iwh 14:45 Visit to Schwetzingen Castle Meeting Point: Front Entrance of Internationales Wissenschaftsforum funding: iwh symposium Imperial Cosmopolitanisms Global Identities and Imperial Cultures in Ancient Eurasia 18 – 20 July 2013 organised by : Myles Lavan, Richard Payne and John Weisweiler European Research Council
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> s e s s i o n v ichair: Takashi Fujii (Oxford and Kyoto)
11:00 Announcing the First Empire of China:The public presentation of the unified state according to archaeological and textual sources Lukas Nickel (soas)
11.50 The cosmopolitan defence of Vernacular poetics in Korea and JapanAlexander Beecroft (Southern Carolina)
> c o n c lu d i n g r e m a r ks a n d g e n e r a l d i s c u s s i o n
12.40 c o n c lu d i n g r e m a r ksPeter Bang (Copenhagen)
13.00 g e n e r a l d i s c u s s i o n
13.30 lu n c h at i w h
14:45 Visit to Schwetzingen CastleMeeting Point:Front Entrance of Internationales Wissenschaftsforum
funding:
i w h s y m p o s i u m
Imperial CosmopolitanismsGlobal Identities and Imperial Cultures in Ancient Eurasia
18 – 20 July 2013
o r ga n i s e d by :
Myles Lavan, Richard Payne and John Weisweiler
EuropeanResearchCouncil
> s e s s i o n i i ichair: Andrew Monson (New York University)
14.20 Rival Visions: contesting Iranian kingship among the empires of the Arsacids, Artaxiads,and Mithradatids Matthew Canepa (Minnesota)
15.10 Making Romans:Democracy and social differentiation under RomeClifford Ando (Chicago)
16.00 c o f f e e b r e a k
> s e s s i o n i vchair: Christian Witschel (Heidelberg)
16.20 Aristocratic cosmopolitanism in the rhetoric of the early Roman principate Myles Lavan (St. Andrews)
17.10 Universal Monarchy and Global Aristocracy in the Later Roman EmpireJohn Weisweiler (Basel and Heidelberg)
19.00 d i n n e r at i w h
Saturday, 20 July
> s e s s i o n vchair: Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Basel)
9:00 Iranian cosmopolitanism:World religions at the Sasanian courtRichard Payne (Chicago)
9:50 Court Communication and imperial ideology in the Chinese empireEnno Giele (Heidelberg)
10:40 c o f f e e b r e a k
Thursday, 18 July
18:00 o p e n i n g r e c e p t i o n at i w h
Friday, 19 July
9:00 w e lc o m ePeter Comba (Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg)
9:10 o p e n i n g r e ma r ksMyles Lavan (St. Andrews), Richard Payne (Chicago) and John Weisweiler (Basel and Heidelberg)
> s e s s i o n ichair: Hilmar Klinkott (Heidelberg)
9:20 An unenviable dilemma:Cosmopolitanism and cultural authenticity in the Neo-Assyrian empireSeth Richardson (Chicago)
10:10 Cosmopolitanism:Rhetoric versus reality in the Achaemenid empire Amélie Kuhrt (University College London)
11:00 c o f f e e b r e a k
> s e s s i o n i ichair: Kai Trampedach (Heidelberg)
11.20 Maintaining the Kingdom:The role of Babylonian elites in the Seleucid empire Johannes Haubold (Durham)
12.10 Empire Begins at Home:Local elites and imperial ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia Kathryn Stevens (Trinity College, Cambridge)
