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Conference: Integration and identity in the Roman Republic

Manchester, July 1- 3, 2010

Full details, including a registration form, are available at the conference website, http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/classicsancienthistory/eventsnews/romanrepublic/ and registration is now open.

Organisation: Saskia Roselaar (Manchester)

Conference Programme

Thursday 1 July

Registration 9.15

1st paper 9.30 Tim Cornell (Manchester): Introduction
2nd paper 10.15 Saskia Roselaar (Manchester): Mediterranean trade as a mechanism of integration between Romans and Italians

Coffee 11.00
3rd paper 11.20 Nathan Rosenstein (Ohio State): Armies and integration in the Middle Republic
4th paper 12.00 Patrick Kent (North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Socii in Roman armies before the Punic Wars

Lunch 12.40
5th paper 13.40 Seth Kendall (Georgia Gwynnet College): Rome’s refusal to extend civitas to the Italian allies, 91 BCE
6th paper 14.10 Fiona Tweedie (Sydney): The Lex Licinia Mucia of 95 BC: good consuls pass a bad law

Tea 15.00
7th paper 15.30 Kathryn Lomas (UCL): TBC
8th paper 16.10 Elizabeth Robinson (North Carolina, Chapel Hill): A localized approach to the study of integration and identity in Southern Italy

Poster presentation and drinks 17.10
Dinner 19.00

Friday 2 July

Registration 9.15
1st paper 9.30 Altay Co_kun (Waterloo, Canada): Citizenship in the context of law, culture, politics, and society: the construction of Romanness in Cicero’s Archiana
2nd paper 10.10 Rogier van der Wal (Free University, Amsterdam): Cicero, Verres and the Sicilians: on the art of plundering and the plundering of art

Coffee 11.00
3rd paper 11.20 David Langslow (Manchester): Integration, identity and language-shift: strengths and weaknesses of the linguistic evidence.
4th paper 12.00 Jennifer Ferriss-Hill (Univ. of Miami): An ancient understanding of cognate relationships? Varro’s treatment of Latin-Sabellic pairs in the De Lingua Latina

Lunch 12.40
5th paper 13.40 Elena Isayev (Exeter): What and where was Rome after the Social War?
6th paper 14.20 Osvaldo Sacchi (Naples): Institutional structures and the problem of continuity in Capua until the deductio coloniaria in 59 BC

Tea 15.00

7th paper 15.30 Eleanor Jefferson (Rutgers University): Cato’s Origines
8th paper 16.10 Federico Russo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy): The concept of kinship in the relationships between Romans and Italians

End 17.00
Drinks 17.10
Dinner 19.00

Saturday 3 July

Registration 9.15

1st paper 9.30 Guy Bradley (Cardiff): The social and ethnic mobility of the elite in central Italy from the archaic to the mid-Republican period
2nd paper 10.10 Toni Ñaco del Hoyo & Jordi Principal (Barcelona): Outposts of integration? Garrisoning, logistics and archaeology in N.E. Hispania, 133-82 BCE

Coffee 11.00
3rd paper 11.20 John Patterson (Cambridge): TBC
4th paper 12.00 Ed Bispham (Oxford): TBC

Lunch 12.40
5th paper 13.40 Elisabeth Buchet (Sorbonne, Paris): Albunea, Tiburnus, Hercules Victor: the cults of Tibur between integration and assertion of local identity
6th paper 14.20 Massimiliano Di Fazio (Pavia): Feronia. An Italic goddess between pre-Roman and Roman times
Tea 15.00

7th paper 15.30 Dan Hoyer (NYU): Trade and exchange east of the Apennines
8th paper 16.10 Roman Roth (Cape Town, South Africa): Regionalism in the Republic

End 17.00
Drinks 17.10
Dinner 19.00

Papers are supposed to last 30 mins, followed by 10 mins discussion

Poster session
Marleen Termeer (Groningen): The Latin colonies of central Italy in the Middle Republic: cultural communities between local and Roman