Cross-Post: International Ancient Warfare Conference 2022

The latest International Ancient Warfare Conference will happen online from Thursday 23 June to Saturday 25 June under the sponsorship of Prof. Graham Wrightson in South Dakota. I am speaking in session 14 from 10.45 to 12.15 Saturday. The topic I picked is “Get to the Point: What Questions Should We Ask About a Spear?”

Sessions are open to the public and will not be publicly recorded (I may share my talk afterwards). There is no website for the conference, but here are a list of panels with links. All times are US Central Time (UTC -5.00).

Day 1 – Thursday June 23 from 8.30-18.00 US Central Time (UTC -5.00)

• Session 1 – Arms and tactics https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/95923697943?pwd=eEZIVTlmcEd6Nms5Rk1UMnlNUnRuUT09 (sample topic: The Sparabara: Reassessing Achaemenid Persian Infantry Equipment and Tactics)
• Session 2 – Herodotus and Xenophon https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/96752979292?pwd=eitzVWF5VEFGNktnaTRFNjRkWmx6Zz09
• Session 3 – Changing views of war https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/91317767132?pwd=UXlibHpBM0JKbnNsVjQwZ2ZVMHROZz09
• Session 4 – Women in war https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/99676746226?pwd=RU9tdWhXWGo0Q0E2RE1ZbE1ENkNHUT09
• Session 5 – Aspects of war https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/92971332649?pwd=cFhxK3VxanBFK1Q3S3RpQ3hXd2M2dz09 (sample paper: Hans Delbrück and the Study of Ancient Warfare)
• Session 6 – Late Rome https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/96335501432?pwd=NkdFdWI2WkpxeGFwVGRpVTBlWXozZz09 (sample paper: The Mechanics of Battle in the Sixth-Century (CE) Roman Empire)

Day 2 – Friday June 24 from 8.00-17.00 US Central Time

• Session 7 – Classical reception https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/99846948016?pwd=RWVNbnFRSWJEUnRWN2pmSDVVbWVaQT09
• Session 8 – Christian War https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/91804477123?pwd=T3B2REtsSml2cVRDRWFTTU1nVitMdz09 (sample paper: Re-evaluating Tertullian’s Attitudes towards Warfare and Soldiering)
• Session 9 – Hannibal and the Punic Wars https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/93743759055?pwd=dXd2WVkzYUM4cC93b25VTCtWSkFHdz09
• Session 10 – Sicily and Carthage https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/99012828603?pwd=a1EzbTJnOGJqbWVpQldVS0U4ZCszUT09
• Session 11 – Small wars and tactics https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/95482795290?pwd=QlQ4cC83cWVWeG1yei9GcTAvNk1sQT09 (sample paper: Fighting Skirmishes, Small Wars, and Irregular engagements in Ptolemaic Egypt)
• Session 12 – Ships, logistics and organization https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/92677846130?pwd=S09vRWY1SUs3WktsS2dEbElYalBPdz09 (sample topic: The classification of Classical and Hellenistic ships of the Mediterranean)

Day 3 Saturday June 25 from 9.00-14.00 US Central Time

• Session 13 – War in literature https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/96185047971?pwd=MVpSeVJxT1Z1SGdOdGNBSjZkNEdxUT09 (sample topic: Wars, battles and violence in the first book of Historia Francorum)
• Session 14 – Weapons and ships https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/92952768657?pwd=aTFLQjMweDBhWGtSM2o2ZjU1eFFPdz09 (sample topic: Get to the Point: What Questions Should We Ask About a Spear?)
• Session 15 – Roman military policy https://sdstate.zoom.us/j/96114936153?pwd=TUljY0VNMWdpV3V1aEhpUFhrVkxTZz09 (sample topic: Punishing Deserters and Traitors in Roman Warfare 700 BC – AD 120)

See some of you there!

(scheduled 20 June 2022)