Conference Programme
Thursday 1 July
(Morning session chair: David Langslow, University of Manchester)
Registration 9.00
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
(Afternoon session chair: James Thorne, University of Manchester)
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
Posters
Rianne Hermans: TBC
Skylar Neil (Cambridge): Ethnic identity in the northern Etruscan cities during the 4th-3rd centuries
Marleen Termeer (Groningen): The Latin colonies of central Italy in the Middle Republic: cultural communities between local and Roman
Dinner 19.00
Friday 2 July
Registration 9.15
(Morning session chair: Federico Santangelo, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
1st paper 9.30 Altay Coskun (Waterloo, Canada & University of Trier): 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
(Afternoon session chair: Tim Parkin, University of Manchester)
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 / Univ. of Konstanz): 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
(Morning session chair: Nathan Rosenstein, Ohio State University)
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 Jordi Principal & Toni Ñaco del Hoyo (Universitat Autònoma de 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): Contact, co-operation and conflict in pre-Social War Italy
4th paper 12.00 Ed Bispham (Oxford): Deviant colonists in the Middle Republic - Antium and its discontents
Lunch 12.40
(Afternoon session chair: Saskia Roselaar, University of Manchester)
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 Conclusions and discussion
End 17.00
Drinks 17.10
Dinner 19.00
Papers are 25-30 minutes, followed by 10-15 minutes discussion