Seleukid Lecture series
The 8th edition of the Seleukid Lecture Series will run from September to December 2024, always on the 3rd Wednesday in a month, starting at 11:00 am EST / EDT / Toronto Time.
Participation is free and open to everyone interested, but registration is required unless you are already on our mailing list. Please, send a request to altay dot coskun at uwaterloo dot ca or to rabbi dot scolnic at gmail dot com, and you will receive the Zoom meeting link and passcode once available.
The lecture series is organized by Altay Coskun (University of Waterloo) and Rabbi Ben Scolnic (Southern Connecticut State University). Please, direct all enquiries or suggestions to us.
Seleukid Lecture Series VIII
Fall 2024
September 18: Angus Llewellyn Jacobson (Tasmania)
“Demetrios Soter: Early Beginnings of the Seleukid-Antigonid οἰκειότης in Libanios, Or. 11”
Expert feedback will be provided by Catherine Saliou (Paris)
Abstract
October 16 EXCEPTIONALLY BEGINNING AT 10:30 am:
Ian Stern (Haifa)
“The Rise and Fall of Hellenistic Period Maresha”
Expert feedback by Stuart Miller (University of Connecticut)
Abstract
This lecture has been postponed to 19 March 2025:
Raúl Navas Moreno (Barcelona)
“Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Iran:
Seleukid Relationship with Achaimenid, Arsakid and Sasanian Empires”
Expert feedback by David Engels (Brussels)
Abstract
Consider participating instead at the panel ‘New Trends in Seleukid Research’ on 15 November 2024. See Utrecht Workshop 2024 — Dr. Altay Coskun.
December 18: Julien Olivier (Paris)
“The Ptolemies, Still and Always in Syria-Phoenicia (142–101 BCE)
The Evidence of Coinage”
Expert feedback will be provided by Kyle Erickson (University of Wales, Lampeter)
Abstract
Seleukid Lecture Series VII
Winter-Spring 2024
January 17: Cathy Lorber (Los Angeles):
“Ptolemaic Influence on Seleukid Judah through Tobiad Agency and Money”
Expert feedback by Ben Scolnic (Hamden, CT)
Abstract
February 21: Marion Meyer (Vienna):
“A Statue in Early Hellenistic Antioch and Its Long Life in the City (and Modern Scholarship)”
Expert feedback by Tricia Kim (New York)
Abstract
March 20: Cesar Soutullo (Navarra):
“Images of Monarchical Power on the Coins from the Seleukid Kingdom”
Expert feedback Deirdre Klokow (Austin, TX)
Abstract
April 17: (cancelled)
May 15: “Let’s talk about the Daphne Parade”. Panel discussion with Nicholas Sekunda (Gdansk), Rolf Strootman (Utrecht), Stephen Harrison (Swansea), Altay Coskun (Waterloo), hosted by Ben Scolnic (Hamden).
Abstract
June 19: Paul Johstono (Maxwell)
“Problems in Generating Infantry for Seleukid Field Armies”
Expert feedback by Phil de Souza (Dublin)
Abstract
Seleukid Lecture Series VI
Fall 2023
September 20, 2023: Graham Wrightson (South Dakota State University)
“Panium: A New Perspective”
Expert feedback by Paul Johstono (USAF Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell, AL)
Abstract
(October 18, 2023) To be rescheduled in 2024:
Peter Edwell (Macquarie University, Sydney)
“Between Antioch and Seleucia-Ctesiphon: Defending the Seleucid Middle Euphrates in the second century BC”
Expert feedback by Simon James (University of Leicester)
Abstract
November 15, 2023: Alain Bresson (University of Chicago)
“Wealthy Seleukids?”
Expert feedback: Oliver Hoover (American Numismatic Society)
Abstract
December 20, 2023: Eliah Vieira-Faria (University of Swansea)
“Contempt Etched in Metal: Coinage, Defacement & Resistance in the Seleucid Empire”
Expert feedback: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Abstract
Seleukid Lecture Series V
Winter-Spring 2023
January 18, 2023: Patricia Eunji Kim (Gallatin School, New York)
“Beyond Portraiture: Toward an Art History of Queenly Faces in the Seleukid World”
Expert feedback by Craig Hardiman (University of Waterloo)
Abstract
February 15, 2023: Pierre-Luc Brisson (McGill, Montreal)
“Ruling under Roman Hegemony: The Cases of Eumenes II and Antiochos IV”
Expert feedback by Germain Payen (Université de Lille)
Abstract
March 15, 2023: Oliver Hoover (American Numismatic Society, New York)
“Ghost Stories: Uses and Survivals of the Seleukid Royal Identity on Non-Seleukid Coins”
Expert feedback by François de Callataÿ (Head of the Patrimonial Collection of the Royal Library of Belgium and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles)
Abstract
April 19, 2023: Nicolaas Verhelst (Vienna)
“Uncommon Greek Personal Names along the Passageways of Gods, Kings, and Peoples”
Expert feedback by Julien Monerie (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Abstract Slide Show
May 17, 2023: Ekaterina Berzon (Moscow)
“‘The Dear Son of a Bull’: Some Remarks on the Interpretation of the so-called Phaennis’ Oracle (Paus. X. 15. 3)”
Expert feedback by Marijn Visscher (Bergen)
Abstract
June 21, 2023: Book Launch ‘Seleukid Ideology’
Seleukid Ideology - Creation, Reception, and Response (Seleukid Perspectives 1), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, expected in spring 2023.
See the book website for more information.
Seleukid Lecture Series IV
Fall 2022
September 21, 2022: Deirdre Klokow (New York and Los Angeles)
“Local Economies and the Evidence of Bronze Coinage in the Seleukid Empire”
Expert feedback by Kyle Erickson (Lampeter)
Abstract
October 19, 2022: Boris Chrubasik (Toronto, ON) & Laurianne Martinez-Sève (Lille)
B. Chrubasik, “Seleucid Power – An Empire of Reconceptualization” Abstract
L. Martinez-Sève, “Rupture ou continuité ? L’expression du pouvoir gréco-bactrien
sous les Diodote Abstract
The event will be co-hosted by the Nancy Study Group in the context of the conference:
“Crises, Collapses and Recoveries of the Seleukid Authority” (Athens, 19-21 October)
Conference Program (Free) Registration
November 16, 2022: Stefano Caneva (Padua, Italy)
“When and How Did Antiochos II Receive His Epithet Theos?”
Expert feedback by Altay Coskun, Waterloo, ON
Abstract
December 21, 2022: Michael Taylor (Albany, NY)
“Legion v. Cataphract: The Battle of Magnesia (190 BC)”
Expert feedback by Silvannen Gerrard (Manchester)
Abstract
Seleukid Lecture Series III
Winter-Spring 2022
February 16, 2022: Erich Gruen (Berkeley, CA)
“The Treaty between Rome and the Jews: Cui Bono?”
Expert feedback by Benedikt Eckhardt (Edinburgh)
Abstract
March 16, 2022: Altay Coskun (Waterloo)
“Ideological Layers in the Apameia Foundation Mosaics”
Abstract and further illustrations Slide show preview
April 20, 2022: John Serrati (Montreal / Ottawa)
“Soldiers, Settlers, and Citizens: Klêrouchoi in the Seleukid Empire”
Expert feedback provided by Michael Taylor (Albany University)
Abstract
June 15, 2022: Nicholas Sekunda (Gdansk University)
“Liability for Military Service in the Seleukid Empire”
Abstract Video Recording in preparation
Seleukid Lecture series II
Fall 2021
September 15, 2021: Rolf Strootman (Utrecht)
“How Iranian was the Seleukid Empire?”
Expert feedback will be provided by Stephen Harrison (Swansea)
Abstract Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
October 20, 2021: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Sydney)
“The King-ship of the Seleukids: a Different Explanation of the Anchor Symbol”
Expert feedback will be provided by Johannes Haubold (Princeton)
Abstract Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
November 17, 2021: Kyle Erickson (Lampeter)
“To the Strongest?
The Problem of Establishing and Bequeathing Authority in the Seleukid Empire”
Expert feedback will be provided by Stefano Caneva (Padua)
Abstract Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
December 15, 2021: Stephen Harrison (Swansea)
“Antiochos at Daphne and Xerxes at Sardeis:
A Comparative Perspective on the Seleukid Vision of Empire”
Expert feedback will be provided by David Engels (Warsaw & Poznan)
Abstract Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
Seleukid lecture series I
Summer 2021
May 19, 2021: Ben Scolnic (Hamden, CT) & Altay Coskun (Waterloo, ON)
“The Iron Beast, Its Eleven Horns, and the Three Horns Uprooted by the Eleventh
– An Exploration into the Seleukid Allegory of Daniel 7”
Abstract Handout & Readings Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
June 16, 2021: Richard Wenghofer (North Bay, ON)
“Fear and Loathing in the Seleukid Kingdom: Popular Resistance to Seleukid Royal Authority”
With expert feedback by Kyle Erickson (Lampeter)
Abstract Slide show Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
July 21, 2021: Maria Lord (Lampeter & Vienna) & Deirdre Klokow (Los Angeles)
First lecture: “The Futility of the Search for Line(s)”
Second lecture: “Connectivity and Rural Spaces in the Seleucid Empire”
With expert feedback by Paul Kosmin (Cambridge, MA)
Abstract 1 Abstract 2 Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube
August 18, 2021: Silvannen Gerrard (Manchester)
“Seleukid Infantry-Cavalry Ratios: The Importance of Numerical Evidence for
Understanding Seleukid Warfare”
With expert feedback by John Serrati (Montreal and Ottawa)
Abstract Slides Watch Recorded Lecture on Youtube