Event Date
Slavery and Technology in Greek and Roman Worlds
January 26-27, UC Davis
Multi-Purpose Room, Student Community Center
Please join us, in person or virtually, for "Slavery and Technology in Greek and Roman Worlds," a conference that will be held at UC Davis, January 26-27.
This conference explores the relationships between slave systems and technological developments in antiquity. Participants will examine how we should understand the complex dynamics—not only in Greco-Roman antiquity but also in other cultures and time periods—between enslaver, enslaved, and technological development. Questions include how ontological categories like "technology" or "instrument" interact with categories like "free," "slave," "property," "ownership." "work," how people can use technologies to help establish, enforce, resist, or even dismantle systems of power and oppression, and how enslaved peoples could leverage their technical knowledge to gain social standing or preserve and express their ethnic identities through culturally marked tools. This conference will help us to reevaluate modern assumptions about forced labor and technological development, and whether compulsive, exploitative systems prevent technological development or result from it.
Speakers: Hallie Meredith, Andres Matlock, Tatiana Bur, Jordan Cohen, Evan Jewell, Elizabeth Fajardo, Joseph A Howley, Linda Gosner, Sarah H Blake, Serafina Cuomo, Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Jesse Obert, Rose Maclean, Martin Devecka, Candida Moss, Kassandra Miller, and Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Details and a schedule can be found here (please note that all times are Pacific): https://sites.google.com/view/slaveryandtechnology
For participation via Zoom please register here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudO2tqjkiHtJZ-eEb1y3rL7kQlN_ 8hocz
For questions or accommodation requests, please contact the co-organizers: Colin Webster (UC Davis) at cwebster@ucdavis.edu or Kassandra Miller (Colby) at kjmiller@colby.edu.
