Roman Wine: Production and (Over)consumption
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Registration: 6:00pm
Presentation 6:30pm
Reception/Tasting of select Italian wines with Dean Richard Saller: 7:15pm
Close: 8:00pm
Wine in the Roman Empire was a status symbol, a staple of the diet and a major item of trade. In many respects Roman wine production and consumption may sound familiar in our contemporary culture, but the similarities disguise profound differences in the economies and societies ancient and modern. Consequently, wine offers a revealing diagnostic tool to explore social and economic changes from the Roman Empire to today.
Richard Saller is the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies at Stanford University. Whether in his research, in the classroom, or on a Bing Overseas Study trip in Florence, Italy, he constantly explores how the past illuminates the modern world. As a historian of Ancient Rome and a professor in Stanford’s classics department, he uses ancient texts and computer simulations to investigate issues of social hierarchy, gender distinctions and economic production in the ancient world. Richard Saller has been the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences since 2007, joining Stanford from the University of Chicago where he served as provost. He sets the direction of the university’s largest school where most undergraduates earn their degrees. His wife, Tanya Luhrmann, is the Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor in Stanford’s department of anthropology. When he is not teaching or overseeing the school, Dean Saller enjoys riding his bike through the Santa Cruz Mountains and a glass of California wine.
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