BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20240310T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1228.events_uoft_date.0@www.classics.utoronto.ca CREATED:20230818T151436Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, September 29, 2023 3:30 pm to 5:3 0 pm \n Room 205 \n Lillian Massey Building \n 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 \n\nSpeakers \nJessica Romney, MacEwan University \n\nDescr iption: \n2023-24 UofT Classics Departmental Lecture SeriesLocating the Gr eeks through Diet and SpaceJessica Romney, Associate Professor, MacEwan UniversityAbstract The dynamic world of the Late Bronze Age connected the Mediterranean to West Asia and Egypt, to a world that was open and crossa ble; that world collapsed c. 1200 BCE, as did the Greek world on the edg es of the West Asian kingdoms, closing paths and shrinking inland to the heights. Fast forward to the Iron Age and early Archaic period, and the r oads out from the Greek mainland—whether terrestrial or marine—were openin g again, east into Ionia and the Black Sea, west into the lands associat ed with Odysseus’ travels. Jump forward in time again and the Mediterranea n systems continued to expand as Greek geographical horizons reached into West Asia, all the way to the heart of the Persian empire as Xerxes set h is eyes on Athens, as Agesilaus later set his on Susa. If the Greek world collapsed between c. 1200 and 1050 BCE; from the 9th century on, it reo pened, first gradually and then with spectacular rapidity.The changing co nceptual size of the Mediterranean and the oikoumenē in general were accom panied by corresponding shifts in Greek collective identities, in what it meant to be “Greek,” “Athenian”—or “Spartan,” “Milesian,” or any other major and likely minor political community— and even what it meant to be an elite man in a polis. In this talk, I present a review of how changes in spatial perception, that is, how big the world is and where a particu lar group or community fits within the world, affect Greek collective ide ntities from the early Archaic period up through to Agesilaus’ aborted cam paign into the heart of the Persian Empire. In this review, I focus on ho w diet and the association of food with geographical space function as a f orm of identity rhetoric that helps to explain Greek and non-Greek places within the oikoumenē. As a means of locating Greek communities relative to one another and others, food and space function both to define Greek col lective identities opposite a variety of “others”—women, non-Greeks from settled to pastoral peoples, political factions, tyrants—and as a reflec tion of changing perceptions of the world and self.Speaker Bio Dr. Romney completed her PhD in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bri stol in 2015, where she examined the strategies for fashioning group iden tities in the Greek symposium. Before joining MacEwan, she held a postdoc toral fellowship at the University of Calgary and taught at the University of Victoria and Dickinson College.Her primary interests lie in how langua ge and literature interact with the societies that produce and use them, and vice versa. In her current research, she examines how food in Archaic and Classical Greece contributes to the construction of geographical spac e as ‘near’ and ‘far’ as well as how food and drink consumption create soc ial categories that contribute to constructions of civilised/uncivilised a nd Us/Them. This latter area derives from her dissertation research, whic h examined how archaic sympotic poets constructed social and political ide ntities in sympotic lyric. She has secondary interests in the reception of archaic poets by classical and post-classical authors. \n\nContact Inform ation: \n Department of Classics \n125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C 7 \n\nCategories \n Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsFacultyGra duate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T173000 LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T183001Z LOCATION:125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 SUMMARY:Departmental Lecture Series: Jessica Romney, MacEwan University URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.classics.utoronto.ca/events/departmental-lecture-s eries-jessica-romney-macewan-university END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR