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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

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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).

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Cicero Awayday VI

Monday 17 May 2010

Newcastle University,
Research Beehive, room 2.20

The Cicero Awaydays offer an informal forum for presenting papers (whether
full-fledged ones or work in progress) on any aspect of Cicero’s life and
works. The first five editions were held, at two-year intervals, in
Scottish universities; this year the day is hosted by Classics at
Newcastle University.

Everyone with an interest in matters Ciceronian is very welcome to attend.
There is no conference fee, but in view of making arrangements, it would
be helpful if anyone planning, or possibly planning, to attend could let
me know by 1 May (at jakob.wisse AT newcastle.ac.uk).

Maps of Newcastle and of our campus are available at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/research/conferences/ciceroawaydayVI.htm

PROGRAMME

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-1.15 Session 1

11.15-11.20 Welcome

11.20-12.00 Henriette van der Blom (Oxford): ‘Cicero on Caesar’s oratory’

12.00-12.35 Gesine Manuwald (University College London): ‘Cicero’s
Catilinarian orations: the function of the speeches before the People in
this corpus’

12.35-1.15 Maggie Robb (King’s College London): ‘“Popularis” ideology in
Republican senatorial oratory’

1.15-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.50 Session 2

2.00-2.35 Federico Santangelo (Newcastle): ‘Cicero and divination by lot’

2.35-3.10 Lucy Jones (King’s College London): ‘Nostra Memoria: Social
Memory in Cicero’s Rome’

3.10-3.50 Andrew Lintott (Oxford): ‘The comparison between the orators in
Plutarch’s Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero’

3.50-4.10 Tea

4.10-5.25 Session 3

4.10-4.45 Hannah Swithinbank (St Andrews): ‘Driving out the enemy:
Cicero’s Philippics and the danger of exclusionary rhetoric’

4.45-5.25 Dominic Berry (Edinburgh): ‘Cicero and Greek art’

5.25-… Closure, drinks, closing discussion

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Please find below an outline of the programme for the forthcoming
postgraduate workshop “Religion and Identity in the Ancient World” to take
place at Durham University on 22nd and 23rd April. Organised under the
auspices of Durham University’s Centre for the Study of the Ancient
Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), this is an interdisciplinary
workshop and will be of particular interest to students of Archaeology,
Classics and Theology. For more information, including links to the full
programme and a list of speakers’ abstracts, please visit:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/events/?eventno=7341

All are welcome and there is no registration fee. However, to help us with
planning if you would like to attend please register your interest in
advance with Ed Kaneen by sending an email to e.n.kaneen AT dur.ac.uk

Peter Alpass, Ed Kaneen, Donald Murray
(the organisers)

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Thursday 22nd April

Saskia Peels (Universiteit Utrecht): Being hosios participating in hosia

Kimberley Slack (University of Manchester): ‘Entering the Aeon’ or ‘Raised
with Christ’?: Language and Terminology as an Identity Marker in the
Gospel of Philip

Ben Johnson (Durham University): Mistaken Identity: Metaphorical Ambiguity
in the Story of the Vineyard (Isa. 5:1-7, 27:2-6 and the Parable of the
Wicked Tenants)

Jenn Strawbridge (University of Oxford): Nomina Sacra and Pedagogy

Gwen Jennes (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven):Creating Identities in Graeco-
Roman Egypt: Theophoric Names

Ed Kaneen (Durham University): Slavery, Story, and the Shaping of
Identity: The Exodus and the Expression of Identity in the Debt-Slavery
Legislation of Ancient Israel

Kevin Tyson (Durham University): Identifying the David-Jonathan
Relationship

Allen Jones (University of St Andrews): A Refugee By Any Other Name…Can
Still Go Home?: A Social Scientific Look at Ancient Judah’s Exile, Return,
and Ensuing Search for Identity

Hannah Pethen (Museum of London Archaeology / University of Liverpool):
Personal Religion, Identity and the Mythology of Mineral Extraction at
Gebel el-Asr, Lower Nubia

Youssri Abdelwahed (Durham University): Architecture, Space, Rituals, and
Egyptian Religious Identity in the Roman Period

Friday 23rd April

Lieve Donnellan (Universiteit Gent): Apollo Mediating Identity Between
Naxos, Leontini and Katane

Ben Edsall (University of Oxford): The Rhetoric Of Polity: Jewish And
Pauline Community Formation

Donald Murray (Durham University): Ahuramazda, God of the Aryans: Towards
an Understanding of a Persian Religious Identity

Francesca Mazzilli (Durham University): Beyond Religion: a Light on
Cultural Identities of Hauran

Cristina Acqua (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster/Università Ca’
Foscari di Venezia): Emperors and Gods in Provincia Arabia

Duncan MacRae (Harvard University): The Secret Name of Rome: Ritual,
Antiquarianism and Roman Religious Identity

Stephen Louy (University of Edinburgh): A Persecuted People: Persecution
as Part of Christian Identity in the First Century

Eline Scheerlinck (Universiteit Gent): Orientalising Rome? The Influence
of the ‘Eastern religions’ on Imperial Roman Identity

This workshop is generously supported by the Durham University Graduate
School, the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near
East, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.

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Second Viennese International Colloquium on Ancient Legal History, Vienna,
Austria
Zweites Wiener Internationales Kolloquium zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte

27.-28.10.2011

Sport and Law in Antiquity

Ever since the archaic period, athletic and musical contests were an
integral part of religious festivals. Research into ancient agonistics
therefore constitutes a crucial area of classical scholarship. The aim of
our conference in Vienna is to investigate the legal context of athletic and
non-athletic contests in classical antiquity from the archaic to the late
Roman period. Apart from considering the actual rules of such contests and
questions concerning umpires, we intend to focus in particular on the
different forms of organization of contests, their integration into the
framework of public administration and the status of founders, sponsors and
donors of such competitions. Moreover, we would like to discuss the social
status and legal privileges of participants. We are also open to suggestions
for papers on related topics outside the main lines of enquiry indicated
above. We are delighted to announce that one of the most distinguished
scholars in ancient athletics, Prof. Ingomar Weiler (University of Graz,
Austria), will present the keynote address.

We aim to assemble a varied and comprehensive programme, and we would
therefore like to invite potential contributors to submit a title and
300-word abstract by 25th May 2010. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes in
length, which will be followed by 20 minutes of discussion. The proceedings
of the conference will be published in the series edited by the Commission
for History of Ancient Law.

Dr. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu
kaja.harter AT oeaw.ac.at

UD Dr. Thomas Kruse
thomas.kruse AT oeaw.ac.at

www.oeaw.ac.at/antrecht