Dr habil. Altay Coşkun Associate Professor of Ancient History ...

Altay Coşkun CV 15 July 2010
Dr habil. Altay Coşkun
Associate Professor of Ancient History
Department of Classical Studies
ML 228
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
Canada
Phone: ++1-519-888 4567 extention 38903
Email: acoskun at uwaterloo.ca
Education (including scholarships) until PhD (marks are indicated in brackets)
1980-1989 ‘Städtisches Gymnasiums Herzogenrath’, ‘Abitur’ (~A levels)
1989-1990 Service as conscientious objector to miliary service: ‘Salesianisches Zentrum Haus
Overbach’ in Jülich-Barmen (I looked after children and taught German to immigrants)
1990-1996 Universität Trier and Katholische Fakultät Trier,
o 1991 ‘Examen Graecum’,
o 1992-1996 Scholarship by the ‘Cusanuswerk’
o 1992 ‘Zwischenprüfung’ (intermediate examination) of History,
o 1992 ‘Zwischenprüfung’ of Latin Philology,
o 1993 ‘Zwischenprüfung’ of Catholic Theology,
o 1995 ‘Zwischenprüfung’ of Greek Philology,
o 1996 ‘Erstes Staatsexamen’ (~ MA) of History, Latin Philology, Education,
o Further language certificates, e.g. of Spanish, Italian, French, Hebrew
o Excursions to Spain (1992–1995), Portugal (1992, 1996), Greece (1994)
o Acting in the Latin Drama Group (1992, 1994, 1995)
1993 (Summer) Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)
1996-2000 Universität Trier
o 1999 Ph.D. thesis in Ancient History: Historisch-philologischer Kommentar zur Gratiarum
actio des Decimius Magnus Ausonius (‘Historical and Philological Commentary on the
Gratiarum actio of Decimius Magnus Ausonius’), supervised by Professor Heinz Heinen
o 1999 ‘Examina Rigorosa’ (final examinations, ~viva) in Ancient History, Latin and
Greek Philology
o 1996-1999 Doctoral Scholarship by the ‘Cusanuswerk’
o Excursions to Western Turkey (1997) and Rome (1999)
o 1998-1999 Spokesman of the student residence Tarforst
Employments, Memberships, Awards
1992-96 ‘Studentische Hilfskraft’ (Student Assistant), Dept. of Ancient History, Universität Trier
1996-2000 Teaching Latin, 5 hrs/week weekly, Classics Dept., Universität Trier
1997-2000 Examiner for the ‘Examen Latinum’, Classics Dept., Universität Trier
1999 (Oct.-Dec.) ‘Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft’ (Research Assistant), Dept. of Ancient History,
Universität Trier
2000 ‘Förderpreis der Universität Trier’ (prize for excellence of doctorate)
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2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Oxford
University, Member of common room at Wolfson College, Oxford (until 2006)
2001 (Trinity Term/ summer semester) Teaching at Oxford University and at the University of Trier
2002-2008 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ (Research Fellow), ‘Sonderforschungsbereich’
Fremdheit und Armut. Inklusions- und Exklusionsformen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (SFB
600) (i.e. Collaborate Research Centre 600 ‘Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of
Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day’, funded by the ‘Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft’), with responsibility for
o Research Project SFB 600-A2: Roms auswärtige Freunde (‘The Foreign Friends of Rome’),
directed by Prof. Heinz Heinen; dedicated to Roman foreign policy and transnational
personal relationships, 2 nd cent. BC–1 st cent. AD; training and supervision of student
assistants
o Director of the Study group Zugehörigkeitsrechte und die Inklusion von Fremden in
politische Räume (‘Rights of Participation and the Inclusion of Foreigners into Political
Communities’), with my focus being on the history of Roman citizenship, 5 th cent. BC – 3 rd
cent. AD
2002-2008 Teaching Ancient History, nearly all periods from Classical Athens to the Later Roman
Empire, 2 or 4 hrs/week weekly, Dept. of Ancient History, Universität Trier
since 2002 Member of the ‘DAAD Freundeskreis’, i.e. Circle of Friends of the German Academic
Exchange Service, Bonn
2003-2008 Member of the ‘Network for Intercultural Onomastics’, Trier-Oxford
since 2005 Member of the ‘Mommsengesellschaft’, i.e. German Society of Classical Studies
since 2006 Member of the ‘Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands’, i.e. German
Society of Historical Studies
2006 (Sept.) Selected to represent the habilitandi in the field of Ancient History within the
Habilitandenforum of the 46. Deutscher Historikertag, Konstanz
2006-2009 Member of the Research Network Lokale Eliten unter den hellenistischen Königen
(‘Local Élites under the Hellenistic Kings’), directed by Professor Peter Franz Mittag (Cologne) and
Dr Boris Dreyer (Göttingen / Frankfurt) (http://cgi.server.uni-frankfurt.de/fb08/bodreyer/index.html)
2007 ‘Habilitation’ in Ancient History (~second Ph.D. thesis to be granted the venia legendi in
Greek and Roman History, i.e. to be qualified to take over a Full Professorship), Universität Trier:
Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zu ‘kaiserfrommen Reichsbewohnern’. Sudien zur Geschichte der Galater
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der amicitia populi Romani und der göttlichen Verehrung des
Augustus, 3. Jh. v.-2. Jh. n.Chr. (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to ‘Emperor-Venerating Provincials’.
Studies in the History of the Galatians with Special Foci on the ‘Friendship of the Roman People’
and the Divine Cult of Augustus, 3 rd Century BC to AD 2 nd Century’)
2007 (May) Shortlisted for a full professorship in Ancient History (University of Wales, Swansea)
2008 (Apr.) Selected to represent the rising generation of researchers in the in the humanities on the
Colloquia Academica of the Mainz Academy
2008 (June) Award of a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation
for the years 2009-2011 (up to 15 months)
Since 2008 Member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
2009 (Jan.-July) Feodor Lynen-Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics & Ancient History,
University of Exeter; August 2009-July 2012 Honorary Research Fellow of the same institution
since summer 2009: Associate Professor in the Deptartment of Classical Studies, University of
Waterloo/On. (appointed in April 2008, tenure in June 2008)
Since 2009 Member of the Association of Ancient Historians of America (AAH)
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2009-2012 Member of the International Research Network Lokale Eliten in antiken Großreichen
(‘Local Élites in Ancient Empires’), directed by and Professor Boris Dreyer (Erlangen) and
Professor Peter Franz Mittag (Cologne), funded by the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung, Bonn
Since 2010 Member of the Classical Association of Canada
2010 (June-Aug) Visiting Professor of the SFB 600, University of Trier
Areas of Interest (Research/Teaching)
A. Roman Republican and Early Imperial History
Roman Citizenship, legal status of Latins and other foreigners, Italian unification
Cicero and the criminal courts in the Late Republic
Pompey, Caesar, Augustus, and the fall of the Republic
Roman foreign policy, Roman Imperialism, amicitia populi Romani (2 nd cent. BC–1 nd cent. AD)
B. Asia Minor/ Ancient Galatia in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Biographies of Galatian kings and prosopography of other Galatians (278 BC–212 AD)
Roman Imperial cult, priest inscriptions from Ancyra and Pessinus
Onomastic thesaurus of Celtic, Phrygian, Greek, and Roman personal names
Celtic place names in central Asia Minor, road system of Galatia
Celtic rule, co-operation and conflict with the Hellenistic kings and Rome, tetrarchy
Galatian coinage (1 st cent. BC–AD 3 rd cent.)
Cult of Cybele, Men, Zeus Tavianos
B. Later Roman Empire
Legislation, legal and juridical practice, law codification of the Later Roman Empire
Administration of the Later Roman Empire, prosopography of senior officials
Religious conflicts and polemics
Biography, poetry, oratory, historiography (Ausonius, Symmachus, Ammianus Marcellinus,
Prudentius, Paulinus of Pella)
D. Classical Greece
Constitutional History
Debating democracy: the treatise of the so-called ‘Old Oligarch’
Teaching Experience
A. Classes taught independently (at Trier University, unless stated otherwise)
(WS = winter semester: Oct.-Feb.; SS = summer semester: Apr.–July)
WS 1996 Latinum I (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1997 Latinum II (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1997 Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes (Latinum III, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1998 Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium (Latinum IV, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1998 Latinum I (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1999 Latinum II (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1999 Cicero, De re publica (Latinum III, 5 hrs/week)
SS 2001 Die Rechtskodifizierung unter den Kaisern Diocletian, Theodosius und
Justinian. Hintergründe, Methoden und Auswirkungen (‘The Codification of Law
under the Emperors Diocletian, Theodosius and Justinian’) (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
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SS 2001 Paulinus of Pella, Eucharisticos (Oxford, Trinity Term, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2002 Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro (practical unit, 1 hr/week)
WS 2002 Cicero, Pro lege Manilia de imperio Cn. Pompei (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2003 Caesar, De bello Gallico (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2003 Der Fremde in den Reden Ciceros (‘The Alien in the Orations of Cicero’) (practical
unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2004 Sueton, Divus Iulius (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2004 Paulinus von Pella, Eucharisticos (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2005 Caesar, De bello civili (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2005 Die Römische Republik im Zeitalter der Bürgerkriege (‘The Roman Republic in the
Times of the Civil Wars’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2005 Verfassungstypologien bei Herodot, Platon, Aristoteles und Polybios (‘Constitutional
Typologies in the Works of Herodotus, Platon, Aristotle, and Polybius’) (practical
unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2005 Das Römische Reich in der Spätantike (‘The Later Roman Empire’) (proseminar, 2
hrs/week)
SS 2006 Thukydides, Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges (‘Thucydides, History of the
Peloponnesian War’) (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2006 Alexander der Große und die Anfänge der hellenistischen Welt (‘Alexander the Great
and the Beginning of the Hellenistic World’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2007 Augustus und der frühe Prinzipat (‘Augustus and the Early Principate’) (proseminar, 2
hrs/week)
WS 2007 Römischer Imperialismus – Republik und frühe Kaiserzeit (‘Roman Imperialism –
Republic and Early Empire’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2008 Civitas Romana: Die Geschichte von Bürger- und Fremdenrechten im antiken Rom
(‘The History of Citizens’ and Foreigners’ Rights in Ancient Rome’) (lecture, 2
hrs/week)
B. Classes Co-Taught with Professor Heinz Heinen (2002-2005)
*(i.e. seminar for advanced students, ca. 4th year) **(i.e. seminar for advanced and Ph.D. students)
SS 2002 Kolloquium für Doktoranden, Magistranden, Examenskandidaten und Fortgeschrittene
(1 h/week) **
WS 2002 Römische Außenpolitik im Zeitalter der späten Republik (‘Roman Foreign Policy in
the Late Republic’) (2 hrs/week)*
WS 2002 Kolloquium (as SS 2002, 1 h/week) **
SS 2003 Caesars Gallischer Krieg (‘Caesar’s Gaulish War’) (2 hrs/week)*
SS 2003 Kolloquium (as SS 2002, 1 h/week) **
SS 2004 Projektkolloquium zu Quellen und Forschungen (‘seminar related to [Greek] sources
and current research’, 1 h/week) **
WS 2004 Althistorisches Projekt- und Doktorandenkolloquium (as SS 2004, but 2 hrs/week)**
SS 2005 Themen und Texte der Alten Geschichte (as SS 2002, but 2 hrs/week)**
C. Direction of an interdisciplinary study group of PhD students and postdocs (2003–2008)
D. Class Co-Taught with Professor Stephen Mitchell and Professor Daniel Ogden (University of
Exeter, 2008/9)
MA Core Module Hellenistic Culture
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E. Classes at the University of Waterloo, On., all 3 hrs./week
Fall 2009 CLAS 691 Kings and Emperors as Gods: Political, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of
the Ruler-Cult in the Classical World (MA)
CLAS 252/HIST 252 A Survey of Roman History (BA)
Winter 2010 CLAS 486 Senior Seminar: Intercultural Processes: the Galatians in the Ancient
World
LATIN 490 Senior Latin: Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta
Planned:
Fall 2010 LAT 101 Introductory Latin 1
CLAS 351: Advanced Studies in Greek History : After Alexander: The Struggle for
Power in the Hellenistic World (323-30 BC)
Winter 2011 LAT 102 Introductory Latin 2
CLAS 252 Roman History
LAT 331/491 Advanced Studies in Latin (Prose) / Senior Studies in Latin (Selected
Topics) : Livy, Ab Urbe Condita - Selected Readings
Organization of Workshops, Conference Panels, and Conferences
25-26/06/10 "Systematische Querschnitte zu den Rechten von Fremden von der Antike bis zur
Gegenwart" (‘Systematic Perspectives on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship from
Antiquity to the Present Day’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and
Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with
Professor Lutz Raphael)
19/12/09 "Neue Projekte und Zwischenberichte" (‘New Projects and Intermediate Reports’).
Workshop of the Study Group on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship. Collaborate
Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Lutz Raphael)
7-8/11/08 "Zugehörigkeitsrechte und religiöse Differenzierung" (‘Rights of Belonging and
Religious Alterity’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and
Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with
Professor Wolfgang Spickermann)
19-21/10/07 "Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen zwischenstaatlicher
Beziehungen in der griechisch-römischen Welt" (‘Between Friendship and Divine
Adoration. Modes of International Relations in the Graeco-Roman World’).
Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Heinz
Heinen/Dr Stefan Pfeiffer).
5/5/06 "Auf des Rechtes Schneide: Ausschluß und Vertreibung zwischen Gesetz, Verfahren
und sozialer Praxis untersucht an neun historischen Beispielen" (‘Legally Precarious
Balance: Exclusion and Expulsion in the Context of Law, Procedure, and Social
Practice – Nine Historical Case Studies’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’
Rights and Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre 600 (SFB 600), University of
Trier.
12/02/05 "Second Round Table on Intercultural Onomastics: Recent Research on Celtic, Greek,
Iberian, Norman, and Roman Contact Names in Antiquity and the Middle Ages".
Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), University of Trier. (with Lidia
Kouznetsova M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
11/02/05 "Personennamen zwischen den Kulturen. Methoden, Probleme und Ergebnisse der
Interferenzonomastik" (‘Personal Names in Cultural Contact. Methods, Problems, and
Results of Intercultural Onomastics’). Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO),
University of Trier. (with Lidia Kouznetsova M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
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09/07/04 "Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik" (‘The Foreign Friends of Rome in
the Late Republic’). Workshop of the Research Project The Foreign Friends of Rome,
Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600-A2, University of Trier. (with Professor
Heinz Heinen, Trier/ Professor Gustav Adolf Lehmann, Göttingen)
27-28/02/04 "Zugehörigkeitsrechte und die Inklusion von Fremden in politische Räume" (‘Rights
of Participation and the Inclusion of Foreigners in Political Communities’. Panel I of
the conference: "Recht, Religion und Versorgungskrisen. Wandel von Inklusion und
Exklusion Fremder und Armer von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart". Study Group
Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600,
University of Trier.
06/12/03 "Round Table on Interference and Interculturalisation in Onomastics". Network for
Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), Classics Centre, Oxford University. (with Ina
Döttinger Hartmann M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
In preparation / planned:
9-11/12/10 Workshop ‘Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic Scholarship’, Waterloo
Institute for Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo. (with Sheila Ager/Riemer
Faber/Andrew Faulkner/Craig Hardiman/Christina Vester)
Dec. 2010, June 2011, Dec. 2011 Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and
Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with
Professor Lutz Raphael)
Further workshops / conferences together with the networks of WIHS, Amici Populi Romani, and
Kings & Dynasts of the Hellenistic World.
Invited Talks and Conference Papers
15/07/2010 "Überblick über das Syntheseprojekt "Fremd und Rechtlos?", mit
Zwischenergebnissen zur Untersuchung der Fremden- und Bürgerrechte in der
Römischen Republik" (‘Survey of the Collaborate Project Were Foreigners without
Rights?, with Some Intermediate Results of the Studies on the Rights of Foreigners
and Citizens in the Roman Republic’). SFB 600, University of Trier.
02/07/2010 "Citizenship in the Context of Law, Culture, Politics, and Society: the Construction of
Romanness in Cicero’s Archiana." On the conference: Integration and Identity in the
Roman Republic, University of Manchester.
26/06/2010 "Römische Demographie im Kontext von Zugehörigkeitsrechten für Fremde"
(‘Roman Demography in the Context of Foreigners’ Rights of Belonging’). Workshop
of the Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
12/05/2010 "Deconstructing a Myth of Seleucid History: the So-Called ‘Elephant Victory’ over
the Galatians Revisited." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada,
Université Laval, Québec.
26/01/2010 Were the Romans Generous in Conveying Their Citizenship? Citizenship in the
Context of Empire and Cultural Encounters. Arts Lecture Series ‘Cultural Encounters
– Encountering Culture’, University of Waterloo. Cf. the accompanying interview
with Prof. James Skidmore: URL: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coskun.html.
18/05/2009 "Terror Gallicus, Keltensieg, and Amicitia Populi Romani. Ancient and Modern
Perceptions of the Galatians in Asia Minor." Chaire d’histoire du monde romain,
Université Libre de Bruxelles.
06/05/2009 "Galatian Identity and La Tène Objects in Asia Minor." Dept. of Archaeology and the
Migration Network, University of Exeter
12/03/2009 "New Work on Hellenistic and Roman Galatia. Terror Gallicus, Keltensieg, and
Conflicting Perceptions of the Galatians." Dept. of Classical Studies, University of
Wales, Lampeter.
10/06/2009 "New Work on Hellenistic and Roman Galatia. Terror Gallicus, Keltensieg, and
Conflicting Perceptions of the Galatians." Dept. of Classics & Ancient History,
University of Exeter.
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15/11/2008 "Annäherungen an die galatischen Eliten in hellenistischer Zeit" (‘Approaching the
Galatian Elite in the Hellenistic Period’). 3 rd Meeting of the Research Network ‘Eliten
unter den hellenistischen Königen’, Dept. of Ancient History, Universität zu Köln.
22/08/2008 "Belonging and Isolation in Central Anatolia: the Galatians in the Graeco-Roman
World." On the Hellenistic Workshop ‘Belonging and Isolation’, University of
Waterloo.
18/08/2008 "Galatian Place Names Revisited: Intercultural Toponomastics in Central Asia Minor
and Galatian History." 23 rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS
XXIII), York University, Toronto.
16/07/2008 "Galatians and Seleukids: a Century of Conflict and Cooperation." On the conference:
‘Seleukid Dissolution. The Sinking of the Anchor’, University of Exeter.
15/05/2008 "Pseudo-Xenophon: ein ‚Alter Oligarch’? Die Athenaion politeia auf dem Prüfstand"
(‘Pseudo-Xenophon: an Old Oligarch? The Athenaion politeia Revisited’). Dept. of
Ancient History, University of Göttingen.
18/04/2008 "Großzügige Praxis der Bürgerrechtsvergaben in Rom? Zwischen Mythos und
Wirklichkeit". (‘Were the Romans Generous in Conveying Their Citizenship?
Inbetween Myth and Reality’). Colloquia Academica, Mainzer Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.
08/02/2008 "Slaves and Freedmen in the Roman World." Department of Classical Studies,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo/Ontario.
19/12/2007 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zu ‘kaiserfrommen’ Reichsbewohnern. Schlaglichter auf die
Stammesbildung der Galater und ihren Einschluß in die griechisch-römische Welt (3.
Jh. v.–2. Jh. n.Chr.)" (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Devoted Subjects to the
Emperor. New Perspectives on the Ethnogenesis of the Galatians and Their Inclusion
in the Graeco-Roman World, 3 rd cent. BC–AD 2 nd cent.’). Public Paper ending the
procedure of ‘Habilitation’, University of Trier.
05/12/2007 "Das Reden über die Demokratie im klassischen Athen und ein neuer Vorschlag für
die Interpretation des Traktates des ‘Alten Oligarchen’ (5. Jh. v.Chr.)" (‘Talking about
Democracy in Classical Athens – A New Suggestion for the Interpretation of the
Treatise of the ‘Old Oligarch’). ‘Habilitationskolloquium’, Fachbereich III at the
University of Trier.
20/10/2007 "Der Ankyraner Kaiserkult und die Transformation galatischer und phrygischgalatischer
Identitäten in Zentralanatolien im Spiegel der Münzquellen" (‘The
Emperor Cult of Ancyra and the Transformation of Galatian and Phrygio-Galatian
Identities in Central Anatolia According to the Numismatic Evidence’). Conference
Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen zwischenstaatlicher
Beziehungen in der griechisch-römischen Welt. Collaborate Research Centre = SFB
600, University of Trier.
19/10/2007 "Freundschaften, persönliche Nahverhältnisse und das Imperium Romanum"
(‘Friendships, Interpersonal Relations, and the Roman Empire’). Introduction to the
homonymous panel of the abovementioned conference.
29/09/2007 "Bericht aus dem Fortgang der Forschungen zu den Galatern" (‘Intermediate Report
on Galatian Studies’). 2 nd Meeting of the Research Network ‘Eliten unter den
hellenistischen Königen’, Dept. of Ancient History, University of Frankfurt/Main.
11/07/2007 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zu ‘kaiserfrommen’ Reichsbewohnern. Die Stammesbildung
der Galater und ihr Einschluß in die griechisch-römische Welt (3. Jh. v.–2. Jh. n.Chr.)"
(‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Devoted Subjects to the Emperor. The Ethnogenesis
of the Galatians and Their Inclusion in the Graeco-Roman World, 3 rd cent. BC–AD 2 nd
cent.’). Dept. of Ancient History, University of Rostock.
09/07/2007 Same as on 11/07/2007. Dept. of History, University of Bremen.
17/05/2007 "The So-Called ius migrandi and Other Rights of the Latins in Republican Rome
Revisited". Conference ‘Insiders and Outsiders in Greece and Rome,’
Gregynog/University of Wales.
27/04/2007 "Herrschaftsform, Herrschaftswechsel und Inklusionsverhalten. Eine Projektskizze des
Arbeitskreises ‘Zugehörigkeitsrechte’" (Typology of Political Constitution, Change of
Government, and Modes of Inclusion. A Design for a Project of the Study Group
‘Participation Rights’’). Workshop of the Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600,
University of Trier.
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20/09/2006 "Das antike Galatien und die prägende Kraft der Bilder" (‘Ancient Galatia and the
Impact of Images’). Habilitandenforum of the 46 th Deutscher Historikertag, Konstanz,
(http://www.uni-konstanz.de/historikertag/download/habilitandenforum-coskun.pdf).
22/07/2006 "Galatische Dynasten im Spannungsfeld zwischen Autonomiebestrebungen, Herrschaftsansprüchen
hellenistischer Könige und römischer Hegemonialmacht"
(‘Galatian Dynasts and the Conflicts Resulting from Their Desire for Autonomy, the
Ambitions of Hellenistic Kings, and the Roman Hegemony’). 1st Meeting of the
Research Network Eliten unter den hellenistischen Königen, Cologne.
23/06/2006 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zur ‘romfreundlichen’ Ordnungsmacht – Die Galater in
hellenistischer und frührömischer Zeit" (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Custodians of
Roman Peace. The Galatians in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods’. Dept. of
Ancient History, University of Göttingen.
05/05/2006 "Auf des Rechtes Schneide: Ausschluß und Vertreibung zwischen Gesetz, Verfahren
und sozialer Praxis" (‘Legally Precarious Balance: Exclusion and Expulsion with
Regard to Law, Procedure, and Social Practice’). Introduction to the homonymous
workshop. Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
05/05/2006 "Bürgerrechtsentzug oder Fremdenausweisung? Reaktionen auf die Immigration nach
Rom von 187 bis 173 v.Chr." (‘Withdrawal of Citizenship or Expulsion of Foreigners?
Reactions to the Immigration to Rome, 187–173 BC’). Same workshop.
21/01/2006 "Kelten und Phryger im hellenistischen und römischen Kleinasien. Ein (langwieriger)
Ethnogeneseprozeß im Spiegel der Personennamen aus Galatien" (‘Celts and
Phrygians in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. A Prolonged Process of
Ethnogenesis According to the Personal Names from Galatia’). Meeting in
commemoration of Herrmann Bengtson, Wuppertal/Germany.
30/09/2005 "Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik – Network for Intercultural Onomastics." 22 nd
International Congress for Onomastic Sciences (ICOS XXII), Pisa.
30/09/2005 "Intercultural Onomastics and Some Patterns of Socio-Political Inclusion in the
Graeco-Roman World. The Example of Galatia in Asia Minor." Same conference.
12/02/2005 "Intercultural Onomastics and Some Patterns of Socio-Political Inclusion in the
Roman World. The Example of Some Galatian Friends of the Romans." Second
Round Table on Intercultural Onomastics: Recent Research on Celtic, Greek, Iberian,
Norman, and Roman Contact Names in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Network for
Intercultural Onomastics, University of Trier.
11/02/2005 with Jürgen Zeidler: "Personennamen zwischen den Kulturen. Was ist Interferenzonomastik
und was kann sie leisten?" (‘Personal Names in the Midst of Cultural
Contact: What is Intercultural Onomastics, and Which Results Does It Promise’).
Same Workshop.
25/10/2004 "Some Foreign Friends of Late Republican Rome. With an Introduction to the
Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion
and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day’." Anc. Hist. Dept,
Macquarie University, Sydney.
09/07/2004 "Deiotarus amicus populi Romani." Workshop Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten
Republik. Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
27/02/2004 "Civitas Romana und die Inklusion von Fremden in die römische Republik am
Beispiel des Bundesgenossenkrieges" (‘Roman Citizenship and the Inclusion of
Strangers in the Roman Republic: the Case of the Civil War’). Conference Recht,
Religion und Versorgungskrisen. Wandel von Inklusion und Exklusion Fremder und
Armer von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600,
University of Trier.
06/12/2003 "Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik (NIO) and Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Strangers and
Poor People’ (SFB 600): Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Cooperation." Round Table
on Interference and Interculturalisation in Onomastics, Network for Intercultural
Onomastics (NIO), Classics Centre, Oxford.
06/12/2003 "Research in Interferenzonomastik." Round Table on Interference and
Interculturalisation in Onomastics, Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO),
Classics Centre, Oxford.
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Nov. 2001 "‘Cover Names’ and Nomenclature in Late Roman Gaul. The Evidence of the
Bordelaise Poet Ausonius." Annual Meeting of the Society for Onomastics and
Kinship Studies, Deutsches Historisches Institut (DHI), Paris.
28/06/2001 "Imperial Constitutions, Chronology and Prosopography. Towards a New
Methodology for the Use of the Late Roman Law Codes." Workshop Resourcing
Sources IV, Unit for Prosopographical Research, Oxford.
June 2001 "Imperial Constitutions and Chronology of Late Antiquity. On the Allocation of
Responsibility in Late Roman Legislation." Roman Law Group, University College
London (UCL), London, UK.
08/05/2001 "The Rise of the Gens Ausoniana. Origins, Pinnacle, and Persistence of a Gallic
Family." Late Roman Seminar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Further papers in preparation, among others:
Nov. 2010 "Neue Forschungen zum Kaiserkult in Galatien" (‘New Research on the Imperial Cult
in Galatia’). On the conference of the Kleinasiatische Kommission of the
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna.
Feb. 2011 "Die Tetrarchie als hellenistisch-römisches Herrschaftsinstrument" (‘The Tetrarchy as
a Hellenistic and Roman Instrument of Imperial Rule’). On a conference on Roman
client kings. Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, FU Berlin.
Feb. 2011 "The Lesser Courts in Asia Minor." On the conference ‘The Hellenistic Court’,
University of Edinburgh, UK.
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