Please feel free to forward the following 
announcement to interested colleagues and 
students.

The John W. Altman Humanities 
Scholar-in-Residence Program and the Department 
of Classics at Miami university are proud to 
present the second part of its two-part lecture 
series on the topic, Confronting, Subjugating, 
Exploiting the Other: Ethnicity, Identity, and 
Slavery in the Ancient World. The topic grows out 
of our very successful series last year on 
"Imperialism and Ancient Culture."

Greek and Roman expansion throughout the 
Mediterranean world and deep into the Middle East 
had dramatic consequences not only on the 
economic and political planes but required an 
on-going sequence of ideological adjustments in 
the construction of the identities both of the 
conquered-often enslaved-Other and of the 
conquerors. Those whose territory was invaded ran 
the gamut from "allies" to "enemies of 
civilization"  to "natural slaves," while the 
invaders understood themselves at different 
moments as "liberators," "bearers of 
civilization," or "defenders of their homeland" 
by crushing the barbarian threat through 
preemptive war.

Last fall we brought Edith Hall, Leverhulme 
Professor of Greek Cultural History at the 
University of Durham in the United Kingdom to 
speak on the Greek side of these issues. This 
spring we are proud to announce the coming of 
Keith Bradley, Eli J. Shaheen Professor of 
Classics and History at the University of Notre 
Dame and like Professor Hall a native of Britain, 
will give two lectures on different aspects of 
Roman slavery. On Monday April 4 at 8 p.m. in 112 
Pearson he will lecture on "The Bitter Chain of 
Slavery." On Tuesday April 5 at 8 p.m. in 112 
Pearson, he will lecture on "Resisting Slavery at 
Rome."
Receptions will follow both lectures, which are free and open to the public.
Professor Bradley is widely recognized as the 
greatest authority on Roman slavery today. He has 
written three important books on the topic: 
Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire; A Study 
in Social Control (1984), Slavery and Rebellion 
in the Roman World, 140-70 BC.(1989), and Slavery 
and Society at Rome (1994) and a host of 
articles. In view of the paucity of evidence 
available about Roman slavery he has made 
extensive use of comparative material on slavery 
from the modern world, which should make his 
lectures of great interest to non-classicists as 
well those with a strong interest in the 
classical world.

--
Sharen López
Sr. Administrative Secretary
Department of Classics
(513) 529-1481

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know how soon it will be too late."
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