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DTSTART:20161028T133000Z
DTEND:20161028T220000Z
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SUMMARY:Hic Sunt Dracones: Creating\, Defining\, and Abstracting Place in the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:Borders\, frontiers\, and the lands beyond them were creat
 ed\, defined\, and maintained through a variety of physical\, geograph
 ical\, and moreover\, social and cultural means in the ancient Near Ea
 st\, Biblical World\, and the ancient Mediterranean. While the first t
 wo definitions were most often enforced through open military conflict
 \, the maintenance of forts or frontier territories\, or the more flui
 d existence of trading networks\, these real encounters interacted wit
 h a tradition of fictionalizing foreign locations\, as well as inventi
 ng new and distant lands entirely. This workshop is principally concer
 ned with this process of creating and sensationalizing\, to a degree\,
  distant lands in the ancient world\, and the ways by which these spac
 es were represented in literary\, religious\, and economic texts\, as 
 well as being depicted artistically. This process of "othering" foreig
 n lands\, as well as those who lived there\, speaks to the ways in whi
 ch the separate civilizations of the ancient world each constructed th
 eir own mental maps of the world around them\, and created points of b
 oth contact and conflict when those mental maps intersected with each 
 other.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
PRIORITY:3
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