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<h1>Schedule</h1>

This schedule is for the "2018 Reimagining the Ancient World. A Methodological Perspective on the New Stage 6 Ancient History Syllabus" Macquarie Ancient History &amp; Studies of Religion Teachers Conference on 15 May 2018 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

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Attending "2018 Reimagining the Ancient World. A Methodological Perspective on the New Stage 6 Ancient History Syllabus" and completing the assessment requirements will contribute 6 hours and 30 minutes of NESA Registered PD addressing: 6.2.2, 6.3.2, 6.4.2, and 7.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW. Code: 2018MQAHCONF

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    <h2>Conference Opening</h2>

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<dt>8:00 am - 8:30 am</dt>
<dd>Tea, Coffee, Checking in</dd>
<dt>8:30 am - 9:00 am</dt>
<dd><strong>Welcome by conference convenors, Acknowledgement of Country, Introduction of the Minister for Education</strong></dd>
<dd>Dr Gil Davis, Dr Lea Beness, Ms Neenah Gray, Prof Sherman Young</dd>
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    time="9:00 am - 9:15 am" 
    talk="Official opening of conference." 
    section="Stokes" 
    name="The Hon. Rob Stokes" %}
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    time="9:15 am - 10:00 am" 
    talk="Keynote 1 - How should we reconstruct the past? (also SoR)" 
    section="Smith" 
    name="Prof Christopher Smith" 
    slides="Smith-Keynote-How+Should+We+Reconstruct+The+Past.pdf"
    abstract=true %}
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    time="10:00 am - 10:40 am" 
    talk="Keynote 2 - Lake Mungo: the deep time history of its people. (also SoR)" 
    section="Stern" 
    name="Dr Nicola Stern"
    handouts="Stern-Mungo+Suggested+Resources.pdf"
    abstract=true %}
<dt>10:40 am - 11:00 am</dt>
<dd><span class='emph'>Morning Tea</span></dd>
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    time="11:00 am - 11:40 am" 
    talk="Keynote 3 - Understanding Near Eastern religions - Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Rituals" 
    section="Abusch" 
    name="Prof Tzvi Abusch"
    abstract=true
    handouts="Abusch-Handout+Understanding+Near+Eastern+Religions.pdf" %}
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    <h2>Morning Session 1</h2>
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    {% include scrollLink.html 
    time="Ancient History Session Chair"    
    section="Hurley" 
    name="Ms Toni Hurley"
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    time="11:45 am - 12:15 pm" 
    talk="Alexander the Great -- value &amp; limitations of the literary sources." 
    section="Worthington" 
    name="Prof Ian Worthington"
    abstract=true %}
    <dd><a href="https://ancient-history-blog.mq.edu.au/mqatthemuseums2018/WorthingtonReadings">Readings</a></dd>

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    time="12:15 pm - 12:45 pm" 
    talk="The portrayal of Sparta in ancient texts - what can we believe?" 
    section="Plant" 
    name="Dr Ian Plant"
    abstract=true
    slides="Plant-Lycurgus.pdf" %}
    {% include scrollLink.html 
    time="12:45 pm - 1:15 pm" 
    talk="Agrippina: an historiographical approach" 
    section="Hillard" 
    slides="Hillard-Agrippina+Historiographical+Approach.pdf"
    handouts="Hillard-Agrippina+Handout.pdf"
    name="A/Prof Tom Hillard"
    abstract=true %}

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    <h2>Morning Session 2</h2>
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    time="Studies of Religion Session Chair"    
    section="Judge" 
    name="Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge"
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    time="11:45 am - 12:15 pm" 
    talk="Using evidence &ndash; archaeology &amp; the bible. (also SoR)" 
    section="Keimer" 
    name="Dr Kyle Keimer"
    slides="Keimer-Using+Evidence+Archaeology+and+Bible.pdf"
    abstract=true %}
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    time="12:15 pm- 12:45 pm" 
    talk="Minoan State Formation, Religion, and Gender Roles: Opportunities for Discussion and Debate within the Classroom" 
    section="Lupack" 
    slides="Lupack-Minoan+State+Formation+Gender+Roles.pdf"
    name="Dr Susan Lupack"
    abstract=true %}
    <dd><a href="https://ancient-history-blog.mq.edu.au/mqatthemuseums2018/MinoanStateFormation">Text of lecture</a>
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    time="12:45 pm- 1:15 pm" 
    talk="Death in Ancient Egypt" 
    section="Kanawati" 
    name="Prof Naguib Kanawati" 
    slides="Kanawati-Death+in+Ancient+Egypt.pdf"
    abstract=true%}
    </dl>
</section>
<section>
    <h2>Lunch</h2>
<dl>
<dt>1:15 pm - 2:15 pm</dt>
<dd><span class='emph'>Delicious Lunch</span></dd>
<dt>1:15 pm - 2:15 pm</dt>
<dd><span class='emph'>Technology demos: Archaeological excavation display</span></dd>
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    <h2>Afternoon Session 1</h2>
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    time="Ancient History Session Chair"    
    section="Cameron" 
    name="Ms Kate Cameron"
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    time="2:15 pm - 2:45 pm" 
    talk="Pompeii bodies - issues with the treatment and display of human remains" 
    section="Power" 
    name="Dr Ronika Power" 
    abstract=true%}
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    time="2:45 pm - 3:15 pm" 
    talk="Cultural heritage and the ancient world: authenticity, ethics, collecting, and 'ownership'" 
    section="Choat" 
    slides="Choat-Cultural+Heritage+Ancient+World.pdf"
    name="A/Prof Malcolm Choat" 
    abstract=true%}
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    time="3:15 pm - 3:45 pm" 
    talk="Pompeii &ndash; reconstructing &amp; conserving the past" 
    section="Laurence" 
    name="Prof Ray Laurence"
    abstract=true 
    slides="Laurence-Image+Roman+Emperor+Past+Present.pdf"%}
    {% include scrollLink.html 
    time="3:45 pm - 4:15 pm" 
    talk="A new approach to teaching archaeology in the classroom" 
    %}
    <dd><a href="#Santos" on="tap:speakers.collapse,speakers.expand(section='Santos'),Santos.scrollTo(position=center)">Ms. Tamminee Taylor</a>,
        <a href="#BallsunStanton" on="tap:speakers.collapse,speakers.expand(section='BallsunStanton'),BallsunStanton.scrollTo(position=center)">Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton</a>,
        <a href="#Guerry" on="tap:speakers.collapse,speakers.expand(section='Guerry'),Guerry.scrollTo(position=center)">Dr Eve Guerry</a>
    </dd>
    <dd><a href="#Taylor-abstract" on="tap:abstracts.collapse,abstracts.expand(section='Taylor-abstract'),Taylor-abstract.scrollTo(position=center)">Abstract</a></dd>
    <dd><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nWX4WdgMMXGMHRzRdexYMrY5KVd6WQCvXMZHSaoDm_Y/edit?usp=sharing" target=_blank>Slides</a></dd>
    </dl>
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<section>
    <h2>Afternoon Session 2</h2>
    <dl>
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    time="Studies of Religion Session Chair"    
    section="Nobbs" 
    name="Prof Alanna Nobbs"
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    time="2:15 - 2:45" 
    talk="Women's Voices in Antiquity: Hatshepsut and the Construction of her Royal Image" 
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<dd><a href="#Stanton" on="tap:speakers.collapse,speakers.expand(section='Stanton'),Stanton.scrollTo(position=center)">Ms. Pauline Stanton</a>, 
        <a href="#Woods" on="tap:speakers.collapse,speakers.expand(section='Woods'),Woods.scrollTo(position=center)">Dr Alexandra Woods</a>
        
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    <dd><a href="#Stanton-abstract" on="tap:abstracts.collapse,abstracts.expand(section='Stanton-abstract'),Stanton-abstract.scrollTo(position=center)">Abstract</a></dd>

<dd><a href="https://ancient-history-blog.mq.edu.au/mqatthemuseums2018/assets/slides/Stanton-Woods-Women's+Voices+in+Antiquity+Hatshepsut.pdf" target=_blank>Slides</a></dd>

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    time="2:45 pm - 3:15 pm" 
    talk="Silver and Sandals: Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible (SoR)" 
    section="Pryke" 
    name="Dr Louise Pryke"
    abstract=true 
    slides="Pryke-Silver+Sandals.pdf"%}
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    time="3:15 pm - 3:45 pm" 
    talk="Sacred Texts and Writings on the Meaning of Dreams: the Qur'an and Hadith compared with Biblical Teachings (SoR)" 
    section="Neil" 
    name="Prof Bronwen Neil"
    slides="Bronwen-On+The+Meaning+Of+Dreams.pdf"
    abstract=true %}
    {% include scrollLink.html 
    time="3:45 pm - 4:15 pm" 
    talk="Re-Imagining Early Christian Core Ethical Beliefs" 
    section="Forbes" 
    name="Dr Chris Forbes" 
    abstract=true%}
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<h2> Closing Session</h2>
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    time="4:15 pm - 4:30 pm" 
    talk="The new syllabus/Wrap up" 
    section="Keegan" 
    name="A/Prof Peter Keegan"
    %}

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<h1 >Abstracts</h1>
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    firstname="Tzvi"
    lastname="Abusch"
    handouts="Abusch-Handout+Understanding+Near+Eastern+Religions.pdf"
    title="Understanding Near Eastern religions - Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Rituals"
    abstract="In order to provide an introduction to ancient Near Eastern Religion, we present some observations on Mesopotamian religion. This religion is the most fully documented and influential religion of Near Eastern antiquity.  Both the temple cult, that is the public dimension of the religion, and the cult of the individual are examined. <br/><br/>
    We begin with a general discussion of the Mesopotamian approach to the supernatural in the public or communal realm and discuss central religious concepts as well as the forms of the gods and their service in the classical theology.  We then turn to the private realm, the domain of ancient magic. We argue that disorder and related textual problems in the texts are not signs of an incoherence that some would allege to be characteristic of magic. Rather, they are the consequences of changes that were introduced into the texts in the course of their development; they are clues to the history of composition and ritual behavior."
    %}

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Malcolm"
    lastname="Choat"
    slides="Choat-Cultural+Heritage+Ancient+World.pdf"

    title="Cultural heritage and the ancient world: authenticity, ethics, collecting, and 'ownership'"
    abstract="Issues grouped under the rubric of 'cultural heritage' have become increasingly central to our investigations of the past in recent decades, taking in a related group of issues including how we treat the remains of the past, how and why we reconstruct it the way we do, how history and archaeology is used an understood in the wider community, and how we understand the rights and role of the peoples currently occupying the lands the remains we study come from. The Ancient History Stage 6 Syllabus thus rightly includes as part of Year 11 a suite of options on 'The Nature of Ancient History', including discussion of the investigation of the ancient textual and material record, authenticity and forgery, representation and reception, conservation and reconstruction, cultural property and museums, and the treatment of humans remains. While issues of repatriation and discourses of 'ownership' have been most prominent, by examining some case studies which illustrate modern debates over the status or significance of ancient human and artefactual remains, I will argue that the concerns embodied in this section of the syllabus are foundation to the study of the ancient world, and must be embedded in studies undertaken throughout the curriculum as well as studied in their own right."
    %}

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Chris"
    lastname="Forbes"
    title="Re-Imagining Early Christian Core Ethical Beliefs"
    abstract="There are four general issues which need to be considered if we are to be able to re-imagine the
nature of early Christian ethical beliefs. The first is the general question of the place of ethics within
'religion', both in the first century and in the twenty-first century. The second is the social location
of the early Christian movement as a minority within Graeco-Roman society. The third is early
Christianity's roots within Judaism. The fourth is the nature of the evidence we have about the
'core ethical beliefs' of the early Christians themselves. All these issues are to a large degree interconnected.
Most twenty-first century people take it for granted that 'religions' are institutions which have
developed ethical systems, and that these systems tend to align with a conservative ethical
consensus within their society. Religions, we think, are about articulating, teaching and maintaining
the ethical status quo. Hence the joke; if you want to know what the churches think, read last
generation's newspapers. Hence also the deep disenchantment with institutional religion current in
our society, when the institutions are found to have failed in this regard. But was this one of the
central roles of 'religion' in first-century society? And was early Christianity perceived as
'religious' in this way?<br/><br/>
Religions are also perceived as an institution of the older generations, passing on mainstream
ethical standards to the young. But early Christianity was a small minority group within GraecoRoman
society, and its ethical values were a mixture of the mainstream and the culturally extreme.
Though some parts of the movement tried hard to present themselves as culturally respectable, not
all did so, and by and large they were not successful in doing so. Early Christian groups were
perceived by many in the first century as culturally subversive, undermining the fundamental social
loyalties of their converts. The evidence for this phenomenon, and the reasons for this perception,
will be examined.<br/><br/>
One of the fundamental issues for the early Christian movement was that it was a movement
originating within Judaism, and largely led by Jewish Christians. It spread within Judaism, both in
Judaea and among the wider Jewish 'Diaspora', but there it also set out to 'convert' <span class='emph'>non</span>-Jews. The
movement was controversial among Jews, not primarily for its ethics (which were deeply rooted in
Judaism), but for its messianic beliefs and for its attitude to the mixing of Jewish and non-Jewish
peoples in its new assemblies (or 'churches'). From a Graeco-Roman viewpoint, on the other hand,
the movement was controversial for drawing people away from their own inherited cultural and
religious traditions, towards something foreign: Jewish culture and traditions. Conversionist cults
were always unpopular in the Graeco-Roman traditionalist culture. And worse, as the early
Christian movement tried to present itself (over time) as something different from its Jewish roots,
it was then seen as abandoning even that inherited respectability. It became neither culturally
mainstream nor Jewish, but the worst possible combination: a <span class='emph'>new</span> 'religion'. 'New' was not a
good word in the first century!<br/><br/>
Finally, we must consider the nature of early Christian literature. To what degree was it designed as
'missionary literature', directed towards outsiders? To what degree was it directed towards
'insiders'? What ethical ideas does it identify as central in each case? Only by clarifying these
issues can we hope to re-imagine early Christian ethical beliefs in their first-century context."
    %}




{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Tom"
    lastname="Hillard"
    title="Agrippina: an historiographical approach"
        slides="Hillard-Agrippina+Historiographical+Approach.pdf"
    handout="Hillard-Agrippina+Handout.pdf"
    abstract="This short presentation will focus upon Personalities in their Times. Option J &mdash; Agrippina the Younger. The HSC Stage 6 Syllabus Guidelines suggest that we focus, <span class='emph'>inter alia</span>, on 'ancient and modern images' of the woman, and upon one particular source, evaluating it in the context of other available sources. With regard to Agrippina it is hard to ignore Tacitus who offers an excellent case study in the ways the past can be reconstructed, the reasons why it is studied, and the prejudices that frequently mark the exercise. Tacitus' vivid narrative will be dissected (with regard to key episodes) and compared with the contemporary (primary) data (coins and inscriptions)."   %}



{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Naguib"
    lastname="Kanawati"
    slides="Kanawati-Death+in+Ancient+Egypt.pdf"
    title="Death in Ancient Egypt"
    abstract="This talk aims at discussing three main problems regarding death in ancient Egypt. A) The consistency of the Egyptian views of death. Literature will be examined to show the traditional views of death, but also the occasionally expressed doubt and scepticism about the value of building tombs and the preparation for the afterlife. B) The powers and weaknesses of the dead. In that regard it is important to look at the different entities of a person on earth and in the netherworld, the dependence of the dead on the living, the requests to the dead to intercede in solving earthly problems, and the threats by the dead to the living in the case of the desecration of a tomb. C) The difficulties of interpreting the significance of tomb wall decoration in general and that of the burial chambers in particular. One can ask whether wall scenes were included for the benefit of the deceased or merely as a reminder of his achievements. How could the depiction of the funerary procession in the tomb, during the tomb owner's life, be explained? What were the reasons for the total absence of decoration in numerous tombs, or the frequently unfinished elements in others? Were such unfinished conditions of tombs deliberate or due to the early death of the tomb owners?"
    %}

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Kyle"
    lastname="Keimer"
    slides="Keimer-Using+Evidence+Archaeology+and+Bible.pdf"

    title="Using evidence &ndash; archaeology &amp; the bible."
    abstract="Taking as one of the main goals of the historical endeavour to be the reconstruction of the past in as accurate a manner as possible, this presentation looks at the biblical texts and archaeology of ancient Israel in an effort to highlight methodological considerations in how we interpret both text and artefact. Our interpretive framework must recognize bias, be sensitive to multiple hermeneutics, and identify ancient historiographic principles if we are to articulate why and how ancient peoples wrote about specific events and to evaluate to what degree the written record mirrors what may have actually happened. Specific biblical texts will be viewed in light of their corresponding archaeological remains to see how evidence from the past helps us understand ancient peoples and events."
    %}


    


{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Ray"
    lastname="Laurence"
    title="Pompeii &ndash; reconstructing &amp; conserving the past"
    slides="Laurence-Image+Roman+Emperor+Past+Present.pdf"
    abstract="The syllabus for Pompeii within the HSC demands that students 'analyse issues relating to the ownership, custodianship and conservation of the ancient past' (AH12-10). This area is something of a challenge and it is with this in mind that this talk is offered. The documentation produced by UNESCO will be shown to provide students with clear evidence, from which they may develop analyses of ownership, custodianship and conservation of the site. These documents have a richness to them that identifies problems of conservation, and the solutions that UNESCO feel will be needed to resolve them. This approach allows teachers and students to engage with the wider issue -- what is Pompeii for? Answers to this question are contained in the designation by UNESCO of the 'universal value' of Pompeii to all inhabitants of the world. The concerns of UNESCO over the management and conservation at Pompeii are also documented and published. Further material from which students can use to make their cases with regard to ethics, conservation, and responsibilities of the Italian state."
    %}  

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Susan"
    lastname="Lupack"
    slides="Lupack-Minoan+State+Formation+Gender+Roles.pdf"
    title="Minoan State Formation, Religion, and Gender Roles: Opportunities for Discussion and Debate within the Classroom"
    abstract="How did the amazingly diverse, and yet interwoven, Minoan landscape of towns, villas, peak sanctuaries, cave sanctuaries, and palatial sites come into being? This is a question that scholars have been trying to answer for over a hundred years. Theories have ranged from Evans's idea that great migrations of people came from the East; through Renfrew's proposal that the elite were able to capitalize on the domestic cultivation of the Mediterranean triad: vines, olives, and wheat; to Halstead's Social Storage theory. Most recently, the focus has been on religion as the force that Minoan elites used to legitimize their ascendency to power, as well as the key to maintaining it. The iconography of Minoan frescoes and the images on their detailed signet rings show that both the male and the female elements were important in Minoan cult practice, and the question of whether it was a male or female personage who sat on the throne at Knossos remains an open question. <br/><br/>Reviewing the different theories on Minoan state formation and following that up with the question of 'Who sat on the throne at Knossos?' serves many pedagogical aims. It can be used as a jumping off point for discussing a multitude of topics recommended in the Ancient History Stage 6 Syllabus, including Minoan religion, economy, social structure, political organization, and gender roles. In addition to this though, it also gives students a chance to see how scholarly thinking on a question as key as state formation can change as new information is discovered and as the viewpoints of our own society changes. Also, the question of 'Who sat on the throne?' opens up the possibility of real debate among the students, debate that can be grounded in iconographic and archaeological evidence.<br/><br/><a href='https://ancient-history-blog.mq.edu.au/mqatthemuseums2018/MinoanStateFormation'>Text of lecture.</a>"
    %}  

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Bronwen"
    lastname="Neil"
    slides="Bronwen-On+The+Meaning+Of+Dreams.pdf"
    title="Sacred Texts and Writings on the Meaning of Dreams: the Qur'an and Hadith compared with Biblical Teachings (SoR)"
    abstract="Divine relevation through dreams was a principal belief of early Judaism, early Christianity and early Islam. Thus it is not surprising that the sacred texts of all three included instructions on how to discern true dreams from false ones. At the same time, they generally condemned telling the future (divination) by dreams. This paper compares the teachings on divinely-inspired dreams and their interpretation in the Qur'an and its commentaries in the form of hadith (sayings of the Prophet) with those found in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. In closing I consider the broader relevance of dream interpretation in a cross-cultural context today."
    %}
{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Ian"
    lastname="Plant"
    slides="Plant-Lycurgus.pdf"
    title="The portrayal of Sparta in ancient texts - what can we believe?"
    abstract="Lycurgus is a key figure in the history of Sparta. He is said to have been the great political and social reformer who made Sparta and the Spartans what they were. This paper will take Lycurgus as a case study and explore methodological approaches to the treatment of the Lycurgus legend with a focus on the handling of the ancient evidence."
    %}

{% include abstract.html
        firstname="Ronika"
        lastname="Power"
        title="Pompeii bodies - issues with the treatment and display of human remains"
        abstract="Contemporary concerns regarding the ownership, communication and presentation of the past are applicable to the physical remains of individuals and groups from past populations. This talk will provide an introduction to the controversies surrounding the study of human remains with particular focus on case studies from Pompeii and Herculaneum. It will consider the ethical aspects of engaging archaeologically-derived human remains as a source in research across ancient cultures, and provide methodological suggestions for creating inclusive spaces for classroom dialogues where all voices and perspectives can be heard. Extending into historiography and philosophy, it will also explore how the interdisciplinary manner in which 'the body' is mobilised to investigate the past &ndash;concurrently enrolling History, Archaeology and Science&ndash; offers unique opportunities to consider not only the role of ethics in historical disciplines, but the contextualisation of ethics as cultural phenomena."
        %}

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Louise"
    lastname="Pryke"
    slides="Pryke-Silver+Sandals.pdf"
    title="Silver and Sandals: Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible (SoR)"
    abstract="In the opening chapters of the Book of Amos, the prophet gives an angry polemic against Israel for selling the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes. The focus on social justice in Amos reflects the centrality of ethics in the Hebrew Bible. From the Ten Commandments to the Prophetic Vision, ethical considerations are at the very heart of Judaism. God's identification as compassionate (Exodus 34), is reflected in concern for the socially disadvantaged in the Ten Commandments and the Prophetic Books, such as Amos. Along with forming a central part of the Decalogue, the emphasis on social justice is reflected in the concept of 'Tikkun Olam' (the repair of the world). In the core ethical teachings of Judaism, compassion and social justice are a vital part of the community of Israel's intimate relationship with God in the past, present, and future."
    %}  


{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Christopher"
    lastname="Smith"
    title="How should we reconstruct the past?"
    slides="Smith-Keynote-How+Should+We+Reconstruct+The+Past.pdf"

    abstract="This lecture will address three points:
    <ul>
        <li>How did the ancient historians of Greece and Rome construct their histories, and can we believe anything they said?</li>
        <li>What role did myth and divinity play in their works?</li>
        <li>What is the value of studying the classical past?</li>
    </ul>
The lecture will focus particularly on Livy and the Roman Republic."
    %}  




{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Pauline"
    lastname="Stanton"
    slides="Stanton-Woods-Women's+Voices+in+Antiquity+Hatshepsut.pdf" 

    title="Women's Voices in Antiquity: Hatshepsut and the Construction of her Royal Image"
    abstract="With Dr Alexandra Woods. The study of women in Ancient History relies on evidence, which has been written or constructed by men. This presentation will examine Hatshepsut, female pharaoh, as a case study of how royal women have been depicted by men and what the nature of evidence reveals about attitudes towards women who held a significant political and religious position in society. Earlier scholarship, which has judged Hatshepsut as the 'wicked step mother' who 'usurped' the throne from the legitimate ruler, Tuthmosis III, will be examined alongside more recent scholarship in order to demonstrate the changes and continuities towards the study of women in antiquity. Particular attention will be given to the divine birth scene at Deir el-Bahri, in which the text and scenes have generally been regarded by scholars as 'propaganda'. This interpretation will be re-considered in light of new archaeological evidence and the re-examination of existing evidence. This presentation will ultimately demonstrate that similar scrutiny has not been applied to male pharaohs, who conducted the same royal practices as Hatshepsut."
    %}  

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Nicola"
    lastname="Stern"
    handouts="Stern-Mungo+Suggested+Resources.pdf"

    title="Lake Mungo: the deep time history of its people"
    abstract="Lake Mungo is known the world over as the burial place of Mungo Lady and Mungo Man, the oldest-known representatives of the First Australians. However, buried in the lunette bounding Lake Mungo are thousands of traces of past human activity: the remains of fireplaces, burned food remains, and scatters of stone, bone and shell tools that were once the mainstay of everyday life. These are preserved in sediments that span most of the known history of human settlement in Australia and their study is yielding new insights into the changing pattern of life on the edge of the continent's arid core."
    %}  

{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Tamminee"
    lastname="Taylor"
    title="A new approach to teaching archaeology in the classroom"
    abstract="With Drs Eve Guerry and Brian Ballsun-Stanton, we will demonstrate new resources for teachers recorded and developed at the dig of Khirbet El-Rai during the February 2018 excavation. Using the new 2018 Syllabus as a guide, we recorded a series of short videos which are excellent for use in the classroom in whole or in part. We also used new high resolution 360&deg; recording to capture the progress of a dig over two weeks. All resources shown here will be available at <a href='https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-centres/department-of-ancient-history'>the Resources for Schools</a> site.<p>
    <a href='https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nWX4WdgMMXGMHRzRdexYMrY5KVd6WQCvXMZHSaoDm_Y/edit?usp=sharing' target=_blank>Slides</a></p>"
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{% include abstract.html
    firstname="Ian"
    lastname="Worthington"
    title="Alexander the Great -- value &amp; limitations of the literary sources"
    abstract="Alexander the Great is the most famous secular figure from antiquity. He was a legend in his own lifetime, thanks to a propaganda machine that Donald Trump would envy, run by the court historian Callisthenes before Alexander engineered his demise, and continues a larger-than-life figure in modern pop culture. There was a truckload of ancient writers who wrote about this superhuman figure &ndash; his life, events, personality, and so on &ndash; but the contemporary and near-contemporary accounts exist today only as 'fragments,' quoted in much later ('secondary') authors (such as Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch). Moreover, there is no agreement amongst them, even when talking about the same thing, so the image we get of Alexander is like a kaleidoscope: turn it one way you see X; turn it the other, Y. Thus is revealed the problem of getting to the real as opposed to legendary Alexander.<br/><br/>
 
    The HSC Syllabus calls for an evaluation of the value and limitations of the sources on Alexander. Accordingly, I will discuss the veracity of the later writers, the earlier writers whose works exist in fragments, and the relationship of the two.  I'll also focus on one of our main secondary writers, Arrian, whose account is generally regarded as sober and trustworthy, and suggest maybe not so!<br/><br/>

    <a href='https://ancient-history-blog.mq.edu.au/mqatthemuseums2018/WorthingtonReadings'>Readings</a>

    "
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<h1 class="mt2">Speaker bios</h1>
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{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Rob"
    lastname="Stokes"
    picname="stokes.jpg"
    bio="Rob is currently the Minister for Education with the NSW Government, where he is responsible
for the leadership of teaching and learning across the primary, secondary and tertiary
education sectors in NSW. He has previously taught students at secondary, undergraduate
and postgraduate levels.<br/><br/>
Rob has also served as Minister for Planning, where he was focused on promoting
development throughout the state that improves people's lives into the future, as well as
securing the conservation and sustainable use of our State's environmental and historic
heritage. Rob has also served as Minister for Environment and Heritage, Assistant Minister for
Planning, and Minister for the Central Coast.<br/><br/>
Previous parliamentary roles have included service as the inaugural Parliamentary Secretary
for Renewable Energy, membership of the parliamentary Privileges committee and the
committee on the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and as Opposition
Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Infrastructure.<br/><br/>
Outside parliament, Rob has been an Honorary Fellow with Macquarie Law School, a
director of the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning and an Assessor with the Northern
Beaches Branch of Surf Life Saving Australia. Rob has also worked as a solicitor in general
commercial practice.<br/><br/>
He was first elected as the parliamentary representative for the NSW electorate of Pittwater
in 2007, and was re-elected with an increased majority in 2011 and 2015. Rob has double
degrees in arts and law and has completed a PhD in law under a Commonwealth
Scholarship. He is currently reading for a MSc in sustainable urban development." %}


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Tzvi"
    lastname="Abusch"
    picname="tzvi.jpg"
    slides="Abusch-Handout+Understanding+Near+Eastern+Religions.pdf"
    bio="Tzvi Abusch is Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis University. He received a Ph.D. in Assyriology from Harvard University. Prof. Abusch has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has held a number of awards and fellowships. Most recently, he was the Beaufort Visiting Scholar, St John's College, University of Cambridge. His primary fields of research and publications are Mesopotamian religion, magic, literature, and thought as well as Biblical and Babylonian interconnections. A volume on the Epic of Gilgamesh appeared in 2015. Some of his studies on Babylonian witchcraft are to be found in his <span class='emph'>Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Towards a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature</span> (2002); the anti-witchcraft texts themselves are being published in his <span class='emph'>The Magical Ceremony Maqlû: A Critical Edition</span> (2016) and in Abusch &amp; Schwemer, <span class='emph'>Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals</span>, vols. 1-3 (2011; 2016; 2019). " %}



{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Brian"
    lastname="Ballsun-Stanton"
    picname="brianSquare.jpg"
    bio="Brian Ballsun-Stanton is Solutions Architect (Digital Humanities) for the Macquarie University Faculty of Arts with a PhD from UNSW in Philosophy. He is working with researchers from across Australia to deploy digital technologies and workflows for their research projects. He has developed a new methodology (The Social Data Flow Network) to explore how individuals in the field understand the nature of data. Brian's current research interests are in exploring the Philosophy of Science's interactions with the Open Data movement, and building tools for rapid analysis and bulk manipulation of large ancient history corpora." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Kate"
    lastname="Cameron"
    picname="kate.jpg"
    bio="Kate Cameron has had extensive experience as a history teacher and as a teacher educator at Macquarie University. She served as Senior Assessment Officer HSIE at the Board of Studies, managing the development of HSC examinations. Kate plays a key role in professional development for teachers of history, through programs conducted by HTA and the Centre for Professional Learning.  Kate's published works include textbooks and kits as well as chapters and articles on history teaching in a range of publications and websites." %}


  
{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Malcolm"
    lastname="Choat"
    picname="ancient-staff_malcolmchoat.jpg"
    bio="Malcolm Choat is Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History, where he teaches the Coptic language, the history of Roman and Late antique Egypt, and religion and magic in the ancient world. His research interests cover Christianity, magic, and monasticism in late antique Egypt, scribal practice in the Roman world, and more recently forgery, authenticity, and the construction of the ancient world in the present day, which he currently addresses in the ARC Discovery Project 'Forging antiquity: Authenticity, Forgery and Fake Papyri'.
" %}    
{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Chris"
    lastname="Forbes"
    picname="ancient-staff_chrisforbes.jpg"
    bio="Chris Forbes is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, and President of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity. His fields of research and teaching focus on New Testament history, Alexander the Great and Hellenistic history, Graeco-Roman History of Ideas and the intersection of early Christianity and Graeco-Roman culture. His current research is in the field of the relationship between religion and philosophy in Graeco-Roman thought. He has taught at Macquarie in various positions since 1985, full time since 1987, and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2001. In 2017 he was winner of the inaugural Faculty of Arts Teaching Champion award. 
" %}    


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Eve"
    lastname="Guerry"
    picname="eve.JPG"
    bio="Dr Eve Guerry is the Acting Manager of the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University, with special responsibility to the schools education programs. She is also the Roth Fellow for Ancient Israel School Outreach. Eve has research and teaching expertise in the cultures of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel, having completed her PhD in Egyptology at Macquarie University in 2010 on the topic of boundary transgression in Ancient Egyptian society. Eve loves to teach and to enhance the teaching and learning interactions between the secondary and tertiary communities.
" %}




{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Tom"
    lastname="Hillard"
    picname="ancient-staff_tomhillard.jpg"
    bio="Tom Hillard is Honorary Associate Professor in Roman History at Macquarie University, where he has taught for close to four decades. He was formerly Deputy Dean of Humanities at Macquarie, and is currently engaged in full-time research. He has also taught at the University of New England, and his principal research interests lie in Roman Republican politics, Roman social history (and particularly Gender issues) and ancient harbour archaeology." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Toni"
    lastname="Hurley"
    picname="toni.jpg"
    bio="Toni's History teaching career includes 30 plus years in High schools followed by several years in History teacher education programs at UTS and Sydney University. She is co-author of the Antiquity series of senior Ancient History texts and is currently President of the NSW History Teachers' Association." %}
    
{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Edwin"
    lastname="Judge"
    picname="edwin.jpg"
    bio="Edwin Judge once taught briefly in a public school in New Zealand and a private one in England.  He taught the old overview of Ancient History at Sydney from 1956 until becoming Professor of History in the ancient field at Macquarie from 1969 to 1993, where he fostered the development of the NSW syllabus.  He still researches there as Emeritus.  His interests once focussed on Rome, and now extend to the reception of classical and biblical themes in modern culture.  He graduated D.Litt from Canterbury (NZ), was elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and appointed a member of the Order of Australia for services to education." %}

    


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Naguib"
    lastname="Kanawati"
    picname="ancient-staff_naguibkanawati.jpg"
    bio="Naguib Kanawati obtained his MA from the University of Alexandria and his PhD from Macquarie University. He has excavated at many sites in Upper Egypt as well as at Giza and Saqqara and is currently working at Meir and Beni Hassan, and has published numerous books and articles on his work. Professor Kanawati is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Royal Society of NSW and was awarded the Centenary Medal and the Order of Australia for services to education. He currently holds a chair in Egyptology at Macquarie University." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Peter"
    lastname="Keegan"
    picname="dr_peter_keegan_profile_picture.jpg"
    bio="Peter Keegan is Associate Professor in Roman History at Macquarie University. His research ranges from sexuality and body history to the spatial dynamics of social relations in urban and periurban contexts and the epigraphy of ephemeral graffiti and death. His recent publications include <span class='emph'>Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World, Graffiti in Antiquity, Roles for Women and Men in Roman Epigraphic Culture</span>, and <span class='emph'>Written Space in the Latin West 200 BC-AD 300</span>. His next publication will be <span class='emph'>Livy's Women: crisis, resolution and the female in Rome's foundation history</span> (Routledge 2019), a study of legendary and historical women appearing in Livy's <span class='emph'>Ab Urbe Condita</span>. Peter is Chair of the Higher School Certificate Ancient History Examination Committee." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Kyle"
    lastname="Keimer"
    picname="kyle.jpg"
    bio="Kyle Keimer is Lecturer in the archaeology and history of Israel and the Near East at Macquarie University. His research focuses on the early Iron Age (ca. 1200-800 BC) in Israel, including methodological considerations pertaining to the interpretation of the archaeological and textual records of ancient Israel. He is currently co-director of the excavations at the site of Khirbet el-Rai, Israel." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Ray"
    lastname="Laurence"
    picname="anchist-professor_ray_laurence_image.jpg"
    bio="Ray Laurence is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University (Australia). Previous to his move to Macquarie University -- he was Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent (UK). He has published prize-winning books on Pompeii: <span class='emph'>Roman Pompeii: Space and Society</span> and <span class='emph'>Pompeii: The Living City</span>. His work based in Archaeology, History and Classics is characterised by a cross-disciplinary aspect that causes it to be accessible and of wider interest to architects, landscape historians, geographers and urbanists. Of particular interest is his work on the relationship between the physical form of the Roman city and its residents. He has also published extensively on Roman roads and communications, childhood and ageing, quantitative approaches to Latin inscriptions and approaches to cultural change in the Roman Empire. In addition, he has written scripts for cartoons that can be found on TED.Ed that have attracted more than 11 million views on YouTube." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Susan"
    lastname="Lupack"
    picname="susanlupack.jpg"
    bio="Susan Lupack took her B.A. with honours in Classics from New York University, and then was awarded her M.A. in Latin and her Ph.D. in Classics, with a specialty in Greek and Roman Archaeology, from the University of Texas at Austin. During her graduate career, she spent two years at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens working on her doctoral thesis, 'The Role of the Religious Sector in the Economy of Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Greece,' the first year with a Fulbright Fellowship, and the second as a Capps Fellow. After obtaining her doctorate, she was awarded a year-long postgraduate fellowship by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory, which she used to turn her thesis into a book. Since that time, Susan has published many articles and book chapters on Minoan and Mycenaean economy and society, including two chapters in the <span class='emph'>Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean</span>: 'Minoan Religion' and 'Mycenaean Religion.' Susan is also an active field archaeologist, and has worked on projects in Italy, Israel, Cyprus, and Greece, including the Pylos Regional Archaeological Survey and the Athenian Agora Excavations. Since 2006 she has been working on the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project, from 2006 to 2012 as co-director and since then as a Senior Ceramics Analyst, for which she and her co-directors were awarded a five-year grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Susan has taught at Brooklyn College, University College London, and the University of Pennsylvania, and from June 2013 to February 2017 she held the position of Editor of <span class='emph'>Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens</span>. She was very happy to join the Ancient History Department of Macquarie University in February 2017, where she endeavours to bring her enthusiasm for the ancient world to her students in Greek archaeological and language classes. Her current projects include editing the 'Homeric World' section of the new <span class='emph'>Homer Encyclopedia</span> (Cambridge University Press), which is going to press in April of 2018, and she has begun work on her next book, <span class='emph'>Mycenaean Religion</span>." %}


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Bronwen"
    lastname="Neil"
    picname="anchist-prof_bronwen_neil_image.png"
    bio="Bronwen Neil is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie, and director of the <a href='http://www.acrc.mq.edu.au/'>Macquarie University Ancient Cultures Research Centre</a>. She is a Fellow and council member of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and treasurer of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies. Her research interests include dreams and their interpretation in the ancient world, and ancient letter collections in Greek and Latin." %}


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Alanna"
    lastname="Nobbs"
    picname="anchist-prof_alanna_nobbs.JPG"
    bio="Professor Alanna Nobbs concluded her BA Hons1( Latin) (1966) and PhD (Latin) (1973) at the University of Sydney, having also studied at Birkbeck, University of London, under Professor Robert Browning She taught part-time at Sydney University (1967-8) and at Macquarie University full-time from 1970-2011, part time 2012-2015. Her fields of research and teaching include Classical languages (Greek and Latin); Greek papyri especially those documenting the Christianisation of Egypt; late antique and early Byzantine history and historiography; and the historical background of the New Testament and Early Christianity." %}  

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Ian"
    lastname="Plant"
    picname="ancient-staff_ianplant.jpg"
    bio="Ian Plant is the Head of the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University where he teaches Ancient Greek language, historiography and history. He has published two books, <span class='emph'>Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome</span> (Equinox, 2004) and <span class='emph'>Myth in the Ancient World</span> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He has contributed two articles on the ancient biographies of Thucydides to the most recent edition of <span class='emph'>Ancient History: Resources for Teachers</span> (46: 2016 (2017)): 'The Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus' and 'The Anonymous Life of Thucydides'. He served as Greek Editor on the <span class='emph'>Female Biography Project</span>, and contributed 29 short articles on the Greek women in the Chawton House Library Edition of <span class='emph'>Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrous and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries</span> (1803) ed. Gina Luria Walker. His other recent publications include 'Mary Hays's classical women and the promotion of female agency' (Routledge, 2017) and the forthcoming 'Oaths and Vows: Binding the Gods to One's Military Success' in <span class='emph'>Religion &amp; Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece</span> ed. Christopher Matthew and Michael Schmitz (Pen and Sword, 2018)." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Ronika K."
    lastname="Power"
    picname="ancient-staff_ronika_k_power.jpg"
    bio="Ronika K. Power is a Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, an Honorary Research Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries London, and one of the 30 inaugural Superstars of STEM for Science and Technology Australia. Ronika's research platform aligns with biocultural archaeological approaches, whereby data derived from scientific analyses of the human body is interpreted in conjunction with all other forms of archaeological and historical evidence to provide meaningful insights into the demography, health, life-ways and world-views of individuals and groups from past populations. Ronika has applied this methodology to various geographically and temporally diverse populations from across the world: from early Holocene hunter-gatherers of Kenya; to megalithic temple builders of Neolithic Malta; multi-period cemeteries across Egypt; the Garamantes of the pre-Islamic Libyan Sahara; Amarna Period Egyptian colonies in Nubia; Late Anglo-Saxon England child, infant and foetal burials; settlement interments in Mediaeval Benin; and post-14th Century palace burials from the Maldives, to name a few." %}


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Louise"
    lastname="Pryke"
    picname="anchist-dr_louise_pryke_image.jpg"
    bio="Louise Pryke is the Lecturer for the Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel in the Ancient History Department of Macquarie University. In 2016, she was one of five recipients of the IAA Fund - an international award for promising scholars in the field of Assyriology. In 2017, Louise won a place in Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts Emerging Scholars Scheme. Recent publications include <span class='emph'>Scorpion</span> (2016) and <span class='emph'>Ishtar</span> (2017). She is currently writing her next book <span class='emph'>Gilgamesh</span>, due for publication later this year." %}




{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Christopher"
    lastname="Smith"
    picname="smith.jpeg"
    bio="The internationally-renowned Professor Christopher Smith is currently Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and former Director of the British School at Rome. He has edited or authored 16 books and written numerous chapters and articles in the areas of Roman History and Archaeology, and Greek and Roman Historiography. His most recent book is <span class='emph'>Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome</span> (Brill, 2017)." %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Pauline"
    lastname="Stanton"
    picname="pauline.jpg"
    bio="Pauline Stanton, BA DipEd, Macquarie University (1989), MA (Egyptology), Macquarie University (2000), MRes, Macquarie University (2017), PhD Candidate (2018), has experience in teaching HSC Ancient and Modern History. From 2001 until 2012 she was an Education Officer at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University and is currently a tutor in Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Macquarie Ancient Languages School, Macquarie University. From 2006-- 2011, she worked as a volunteer on the Giza Archives Project (Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston) under the Directorship of Dr Peter Der Manuelian. Her MRes thesis was a philological study of the text inscribed on the bases of Hatshepsut's obelisks at Karnak. This research was presented at the Graduate Conference in November 2017 at Brown University in Providence. The transliteration and translation, which resulted from this research has recently been accepted by the Berlin Institute for their online hieroglyphics database known as <span class='emph'>The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae</span>. The title of her PhD is 'Hatshepsut: The Ruler Who Defied Her Gender.' One of the aims of the research is to examine the changes in iconography and text that document Hatshepsut's transition from queen regent to female pharaoh in the context of the unique nature of the co-regency with Tuthmosis III." %}



{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Nicola"
    lastname="Stern"
    picname="nicola.jpg"
    bio="Nicola Stern is a Palaeolithic Archaeologist who teaches in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University. She leads an inter-disciplinary research project in the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area, in close collaboration with Elders from the Mutthi Mutthi, Ngyiampaa and Pakaantji/Barkindji tribes. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney and a PhD at Harvard University and worked on the earliest archaeological traces in Africa and rock shelters in south-west Tasmania before taking up an invitation to help develop a new generation of research at Lake Mungo." %}


{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Tamminee Taylor Dos"
    lastname="Santos"
    picname="tamminee.jpg"
    bio="Tamminee Taylor Dos Santos has an Honours degree in History and Politics, and a Master of Teaching. She is currently a History teacher at Cedars Christian College in Wollongong and particularly enjoys teaching Stage 4 History, where a true love of the subject begins. Having taught History, Anthropology, TOK and Pedagogy in Taiwan, Brazil, Spain and Hong Kong, she now divides her time between teaching, reading Historical Fiction and taxiing her 11 year old son to his various social engagements. Committed to developing excellence in teaching, Tamminee was thrilled to be given the opportunity to team up with Macquarie University's Ancient History Department to develop a new high school resource for teaching archaeology in the classroom. Her key areas of interest include The Roman Republic, Spanish Conquest of Central America and how mythology and legends have been crafted since the beginning of humanity. 
" %}

{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Alexandra"
    lastname="Woods"
    
    picname="ancient-staff_alexandrewoods.jpg"
    bio="Alexandra Woods is a senior lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, she teaches Egyptology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology, art history and Old and Middle Kingdom studies. Her research centres on the study of visual culture in ancient Egyptian temple and tomb environments, particularly during the Old to Middle Kingdom (Dynasties 3-13, c. 2686 &ndash; 1650 BCE). Alexandra is academic lead of the student led Beni Hassan Research Group (<a href='https://www.benihassan.com'>www.benihassan.com</a>) and is a CI on the ARC Discovery Project 'Measuring Meaning in Egyptian Art: A new approach to an intractable problem' in collaboration with N. Kanawati, L. Evans (both Macquarie) and J. Kamrin (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)." %}



{% include speaker.html
    firstname="Ian"
    lastname="Worthington"
    picname="anchist-professor_ian_worthington_image.jpg"
    bio="Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and specializes in ancient Greek history and oratory. Before that he was Curators' Distinguished Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Missouri, USA, until 2017. He did his B.A. at Hull, M.A. at Durham and Ph.D. at Monash University. He has published 7 sole-authored books, 1 co-authored book, 9 edited books and 2 volumes of translations (in the University of Texas Oratory of Classical Greece series), and over 100 articles, book chapters, and essays on Greek history, oratory, and epigraphy. His most recent books are <span class='emph'>Ptolemy I: King and Pharaoh of Egypt</span> (Oxford University Press 2016), <span class='emph'>By the Spear. The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire</span> (Oxford University Press 2014), and <span class='emph'>Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece</span> (Oxford University Press 2013). He co-authored <span class='emph'>Lives of the Attic Orators: Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius and the Suda</span> with J. Roisman and R. Waterfield in the Clarendon Ancient History Series (2015), and his two most recent edited volumes are the Blackwell Companions to <span class='emph'>Ancient Macedonia</span> (2010; co-edited with J. Roisman) and <span class='emph'>Greek Rhetoric</span> (2007). He is still Editor-in-Chief of Brill's <span class='emph'>New Jacoby</span>, and is currently writing a book on 'Hellenistic' Athens from Alexander the Great to Hadrian. He founded the biennial <span class='emph'>Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece</span> international conference series in 1996, and has also given radio and TV interviews in several countries to do with antiquity, appeared in the 2011 BBC TV series <span class='emph'>Ancient Worlds</span>, and has a 'Great Courses' (Teaching Company) course titled <span class='emph'>The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World</span> on DVD and CD. At Missouri, he won the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity in the Humanities in 2005, and in 2007 the Student-Athlete Most Inspiring Professor Award. In 2011 he was the recipient of the William H. Byler Distinguished Professor Award and in the same year won a national teaching award, the CAMWS Excellence in College Teaching. In 2013 he was named a University Curators' Distinguished Professor, and in 2016 he won the university Lewis &amp; Clark Corps of Discovery annual award." %}




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