The upcoming online workshop ‘Sparta and the Peloponnese at War’ is organised by the SPECS early career global network. The purpose of the workshop is to give early career researchers an opportunity to showcase their work in a supportive environment and to receive feedback from attendees and an invited expert in the field. Professor Hans van Wees (UCL) has kindly agreed to act as the expert respondent at this event, and we welcome the attendance and feedback from other scholars at all career stages.
Join us online on Wednesday 27 May at 13.00 BST via MS Teams. The event is free and open to all; please register in advance via this link.
Programme
13.00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
13.05 Kyriakos Velos (Monash University)
Strangers in a Spartan land: the resettlement of foreigners in Spartan territory
13.35 Natasha Bershadsky (Harvard University)
A Strange Proposal: Reconstructing Mimetic Battles between Argos and Sparta in the Archaic Period
14.05 Cezary Kucewisz (University of Gdansk)
Discipline in Archaic Spartan armies
14.35 BREAK
14.45 Alessandro Carli (University of Siena)
That’s how a hegemon should behave: Spartan leadership in the early Peloponnesian War (431-425BCE)
15.15 Tyler M Miller (Florida State University)
The Last Fleet of Sparta: Nabis and the Navy
15.45 Matt Thompson (University of Nottingham) and Paul M Bardunias (Florida Atlantic University)
The unsung contribution of Helots in Archaic and Classical Spartan armies
16.15 Closing remarks
SPECS (Spartan and Peloponnesian Early Career Scholars) is a new global network seeking to bring together early career scholars studying any aspect of the history, archaeology, or reception of Sparta and the Peloponnese in any period. SPECS is a new initiative of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, based at the University of Nottingham. The network has already launched a new webinar series, Being Peloponnesian, and has plans for more events and activities in the near future.
If you would like to know more about our activities, to join or mailing list, or to learn about getting involved with the new SPECS network, please email matt.thompson1@nottingham.ac.uk.
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.