Conference: Exercising Power in Early Empires: A Comparative Perspective

Nanovic Faculty Fellows are part of an international symposium on the comparative study of classical empires focusing on Eurasia, comparing China and Rome in particular. Organized by Liang Cai, assistant professor of Chinese intellectual history, and Randolph Ford, visiting assistant professor in the department of classics.

No registration is required. 

October 25, 2018

9:00-10:45 a.m. - Power of Ideas

11:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m. - Power of the Dead

12:30 p.m. - Public Talk
Work, Wealth and Want: A View from Ancient China
Roel Sterckx  (Cambridge)
1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

3:00-4:10 p.m. - Power of Narratives and Power of Urban Space

October 26, 2018

9:00-10:45 a.m. - Power of Wealth

11:00 a.m.- 12:45 p.m. - Power of Nomads