The Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable (BAIR) will take place October 21 and 22, 2011 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. This will be the second edition of this annual event designed to bring together students of the archaeology, history, and art history of ancient Italy (broadly defined both geographically and chronologically) based in the Bay Area and further afield in the western United States. The aim of this initiative is to promote interaction among this group of scholars with a view to advancing the development of a more cohesive professional community.
The event will consist of a keynote address to be held on the evening of Friday, October 21, followed by a day-long conference on Saturday, October 22, at which several scholars will present short papers on their current research. Erich Gruen, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the Friday keynote address, entitled "Did Romans have an ethnic identity?" The Saturday conference will consist of two morning sessions, one with three papers on ethnicity in ancient Italy and the other with two papers on upheaval and response in Rome, and an afternoon session with four papers on ancient Sicily. For full details, see the preliminary program, presented below.
More information is available onlline, here.