Please join the AMNE department for our next departmental seminar by Professor Greg Woolf of UCLA, on Wednesday, March 8. The talk, entitled “The Annual Disconnect”, will being at 3 pm at BUCH D218 (different room than usual) and will wrap up around 4:30 pm.
Abstract: For twenty years Romanists have been among those exploring the idea of a connected Mediterranean, one bound together and even constituted by intense connectivity between the parts of a fragmented ecology. Flows of people and things have been presented as both a precondition and a consequence of political growth. Yet the Mediterranean was not constantly and equally connected. This paper explores some of the limitations of this paradigm focusing in particular on the challenges posed to a connected empire by seasonality, on the land and on the sea.