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Conference Programme

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