Ethnicity and Ethnic Constructs
in the Long History of the Ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea

Organized by
Maia Kotrosits & Altay Coşkun

German Reading Room = ML 245
University of Waterloo, ON
26-27/4/2023

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13:15–13:30 Welcome & Introduction

13:30–14:20 Richard Last, Trent University, Peterborough, ON

Kinship Diplomacy in Paul’s Letters

14:30–15:20 Benjamin Kelly, York University, Toronto

Egypt in the Roman Ethnographic Imagination: The Case of the Nilotic Scenes

15:30–16:20 Rabbi Benjamin E. Scolnic, Southern Connecticut State University, Hamden

The Name Jason in Hellenistic Judaea, or: Caution! An Ancient Name …

16:20–16:40 Tea/Coffee Break

16:40–17:30 Stone Chen, University of Waterloo / University of Guelph

Ethnic Construct and Belonging on the Periphery: Evidence from Phokaia and Phokaian Colonies

17:40–18:30 Altay Coşkun, University of Waterloo

Ethnic Reconfiguration in Greek and Roman Foundation Legends – An Exploration of the Ethnic Identity Constructs of the Massaliotes

19:00 Dinner at Lobster Burger Bar, University Plaza

9:00–9:50 Joanna Porucnik, Opole University, Poland and Eugenia Velychko, National Museum of the History of Ukraine, Kyiv (via zoom)

A Child Burial from Kerch: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Infant Mortality in the North Pontic Region

10:00–10:50 Philip Harland, York University, Toronto

Judeans as Participants in Ethnographic Culture: Sibylline Oracles 3

11:00–11:50 Carly Daniel-Hughes, Concordia University, Montreal

Adornments of Empire: Reconsidering Early Christian Discourses on Dress

12–12:50 Maia Kotrosits, University of Waterloo

Scythians as Heresy in Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis

13:00–14:00 Lunch Break

14:00–14:50 Germain Payen, University of Lille, France (via zoom)

Warfare and Ethnic Constructs: the Heniochoi, a Nation of Pirates?

15:00–15:50 Alicia Batten, University of Waterloo

Dress in the Portrayal of Ethnicity in Early Christian Texts

16:00–16:30 Concluding Discussion

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