The Edinburgh Josephus Workshops will hold their Third Meeting on 30^th June, in IASH Conference Room, Edinburgh (https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/location ), this time on “Josephus and the City”. This promises to be another productive international meeting with plenty of lively discussion.

All are very welcome to attend – please just drop us a brief email (k.czajkowski@ed.ac.uk) so that we have an idea of numbers for catering purposes. This is an in-person only meeting.

12:00               Welcome (Kimberley Czajkowski, Edinburgh)

12:05               Benedikt Eckhardt (Edinburgh) – Did Josephus Know What a City Was?

12:25               Rotem Avneri Meir (Yale) – Josephus and the Cities of the Galilee

13:10               Emily Howe (Royal Holloway) – Josephus’ Speech at Jerusalem

13:55               Coffee

14:15               David A. Friedman (Cambridge) – Priests and Notables as Demistrocrats

15:00               Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania) – Jews and Interethnic Violence in Greek Cities: The View from and Beyond Josephus

15:45               Coffee

16:00               Meron M. Piotrkowski (Oxford) – The Other Place: Alexandria as a Second Rome in Josephus’ Writings

16:45               Sarah Pearce (Southampton) – The City in Philo and Josephus

17:30               Final discussion (followed by pub and dinner)