Month: April 2010

CONF: Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic

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Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic

Oxford, September 1st – 3rd, 2010

Organisers: Henriette van der Blom (Oxford) and Catherine Steel (Glasgow)

Speakers: Valentina Arena, Andrea Balbo, Henriette van der Blom, John Dugan,
Harriet Flower, Karl-Joachim Holkeskamp, Martin Jehne, Trevor Mahy, Ida
Gilda Mastrorosa, Robert Morstein-Marx, Henrik Mouritsen, Francisco Pina
Polo, Jonathan Prag, Cristina Rosillo Lopez, Amy Russell, Christopher Smith,
Catherine Steel, James Tan, Jeffrey Tatum, Elena Torregaray, Jaap Wisse.

Full details, including a registration form, are available at the conference
website, http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/oratory/ and registration is now open.

CONF: Integration and identity in the Roman Republic

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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

CONF: Symposium on Ancient Mosaics, 5-6 June 2010

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The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics will be
holding its 2010 summer symposium at Caerleon and Caerwent. All are welcome
to attend. Further details and a booking form can be found at
http://www.asprom.org/news/symposium62.html.

Programme:

Saturday 5 June:
11 am: Tour of the National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, by Mark Lewis

2-5 pm: Symposium, National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon:
Peter Guest – Isca: Recent Work on the Site of the Legionary Fortress at Caerleon
Mark Lewis – Saved by Vandals: A Recently Discovered Mosaic from Caerleon
Penny Hill – Moving Mosaics: Transfer and Storage at the National Museum of Wales
Pari White – A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Stone Mosaic Materials of Fishbourne Roman Palace

Sunday 6 June
11 am: Tour of Caerwent, by Richard Brewer

Booking fee: £10.00 full members/partners; £8.00 student members; £12 non-
members. To book, please contact Dr Will Wootton, King’s College London
(will.wootton AT kcl.ac.uk).

CONF: Queensland Greek History Conference

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INAUGURAL QUEENSLAND GREEK HISTORY CONFERENCE

Cultural History of the Greeks
22-23 October 2010
CONVENOR

Dr David Pritchard (The University of Queensland)

FINANCIAL SPONSORS

The University of Queensland Cultural History Project
The R D Milns Classics and Ancient History Perpetual Endowment Fund
The Greek Orthodox Community of St George, Brisbane

LIST OF SPEAKERS

Friday 22 October

1. Professor Margaret Miller (The University of Sydney) ‘‘I am Eurymedon’: Tensions and Ambiguities in Athenian War Imagery’
2. Professor Vincent Gabrielsen (The University of Copenhagen) ‘Brotherhoods of Faith: Private Clubs in the Ancient World’

Saturday 23 October

3. Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis (The University of Sydney) ‘Autobiography as Cultural Critique: Some Observations on Michael Psellos’ Chronographia’
4. Martyn Brown (The University of Sydney) ‘Greek Blood in Italy: The Reception and Politics of the Battle of Rimini in 1944’
5. Dr Matthew Trundle (Victoria University of Wellington) ‘Coinage and Greek Culture’
6. Dr Amelia Brown (The University of Queensland, HPRC) ‘Residents and Tourists in Roman Corinth, Capital City of Southern Greece’
7. Associate Professor Rick Strelan (The University of Queensland, HPRC) ‘Encircling the Corpse: Ritual Pollution and Purity in Acts 14:20’
8. Mark Chou (The University of Queensland, POLSIS) ‘Postmodern Dramaturgy, Premodern Drama: The Global Resurgence of Greek Tragedy Today’
9. Anna Efstathiadou (The University of Queensland, EMSAH) ‘Representations of History in Greek War Posters’
10. Dr Bronwen Neil (The Australian Catholic University) ‘The Earliest Greek Understandings of Islam: Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronographia’
11. Dr Rashna Taraporewalla (The University of Queensland, HPRC) ‘Fighting as Greece’s Champions: Athenian Commemoration of the Persian Wars’
12. Dr Peter Londey (The Australian National University) ‘Memories of Thermopylae, Ancient and Modern’
13. Dr Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Monash University) and Dr Alexandros Giannadakis (Monash University) ‘The Evolution of Greek in the Diaspora: Australia from the 1960s to the 1980s’.

Dr David Pritchard
Cultural History Project
Centre for the History of European Discourses
Discipline of Classics and Ancient History
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics
Faculty of Arts
University of Queensland
Brisbane
QLD 4072
Australia
Telephone: +61 7 3365 3338
Fax: +61 7 3365 1968
Email: d.pritchard AT uq.edu.au

Looking For Roman Lincoln

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Work has begun on a new archeological dig in Lincoln, which could reveal more about the city’s rich Roman heritage.

Excavation at the site, whose exact location is being kept a secret to deter looters, is currently underway, and is expected to take place for around eight weeks. It is being reported that evidence of Roman walls have already been discovered.

The Romans conquered the Lincoln area of Britain in AD 48, and shortly afterwards built a legionary fortress high on a hill overlooking what is now the Brayford Pool.

The popularity of the city during the Roman occupation of Britain means that reported discoveries of artefacts and burial sites are no longer uncommon.

Dr Mick Jones, the city archeologist at the City of Lincoln Council, said that he expected the dig to uncover evidence of a Roman farm of villa.

“The building of the A46 by-pass in the 1980s revealed part of a Roman wall foundation, as well as some burials, suggesting a Roman estate with its own burial ground,” he explained.”Based on Lincoln’s rich history, the City of Lincoln Council employs an archeologist to advise on matters such as this,” he said.

“I advised that archeological investigations take place on part of the site before development began. This is so that any remains on the site are recorded before they are destroyed, and we thereby add to the information we already have about Lincoln’s archeology.

“There have been countless excavations in Lincoln, especially since the increased scale of development from the 1960s.”

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