Join us for the conference “Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia, 900 – 200 BCE” from Thursday, October 17 to Saturday, October 19 at the Neubauer Collegium (5701 S. Woodlawn Ave).

Organized by Michael Dietler (Anthropology) and Carolina López-Ruiz (Divinity School and Classics), the event is part of the Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

This conference is co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Classics, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Beginning in the ninth century BCE the coasts and fertile valleys of Iberia were tapped by Phoenician and Greek merchants and settlers coming from the eastern Mediterranean. An extended international network was created, which attracted the participation of Etruscans, Sardinians, Cypriots, and others. This conference interrogates how these diverse groups first knitted an interconnected space, which led to the making of new economic, cultural, and environmental horizons before the Mediterranean was politically connected under Rome. The conference presents novel data and perspectives with a focus on the negotiation and construction of identities and territories, as well as new explorations of past environmental challenges.

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