9:00-9:30

Introduction

9:30-9:50

Designing For Structural Resilience: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Forum

Penelope J. E. Davies (The University of Texas at Austin, US)

10:00-10:20

Reflexive Etiologies of the Forum in Rome: Creative Activity Within and Beyond Human Control

John N. Hopkins (New York University, US)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-11:20

La Cloaca Maxima e la bonifica della valle del Foro Romano

Elisabetta Bianchi (Sovrintendenza di Roma Capitale, IT)

11:30-11:50

Open Spaces and the Evolution of Fora in Archaic Rome

Andrea Brock (University of St. Andrews, UK)

12:00-12:20

Gravel beds and the origin of open public spaces in Archaic Rome

Laura Motta (University of Michigan, US)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:20

Il foro di Pompei: formazione e transformazioni

Alessandra Avagliano (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli, IT)

2:30-3:00

Discussion

Carmine Ampolo (Scuola Normale, Pisa, IT), Fabio Colivicchi (Queen's University, Kingston, CA)

3:00-3:20

The Forum of Pompeii in the Light of Recent Research

Manuel Flecker (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, DE), Johannes Lipps (Universität Mainz, DE)

3:30-3:50

Cosa, the Forum, and the Basilica: 70 years later

Andrea De Giorgi (Florida State University, US)

4:00-4:30

Road Systems and the Development of Public Spaces in Early and Mid-Republican Urban Centers: New Evidence from Gabii

Marcello Mogetta (University of Missouri, US), and Andrew Johnston (Yale University, US), Rocco Bochicchio (Soprintendenza SSABAP Roma), Chiara Andreotti (Soprintendenza SSABAP Roma), with Marco Cavalazzi (University of Bologna, IT), Jason Farr (St. Mary's University, CA), Gabriel Martinez (University of Missouri, US), and Sam Ross (University of Michigan, US)

4:30-4:50

Nuovi dati dalle basiliche e dal foro di Tusculum

A. Pizzo (EEHAR-CSIC, IT), R. Bianco (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, IT) F. De Stefano, (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, IT)

9:00-9:20

Italy’s Spatial Revolution? How the Layout of Public Spaces Did (and Did not) Transform Urban Communities in the 2nd Century BCE

Dominik Maschek (University of Trier, DE)

9:30-9:50

The monumentalization of piazzas in Hellenistic central Italy

Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan, US)

10:00-10:20

A monte del foro di Cesare: possibili archetipi per un prototipo

         Alessandro Viscogliosi (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, IT)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11-11:20

The Mechanisms of Empire and the ‘Origin’ of the Basilica

Amelia W. Eichengreen (University of Michigan, US)

11:30-11:50

The Basilica’s Design and Connections: The Greek Stoa and Beyond

Alessandro Pierattini (University of Notre Dame, US)

12:00-12:20

The Stoa Basilike at the Agora of Ancient Thera: A Reassessment of its History and Socio-Cultural Significance

Monika Truemper (Freie University Berlin, DE)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:20

From Hypostyle Hall to Rectangular Hall: the Search for Monumentality at the Basilica at Paestum

Paolo Vitti (University of Notre Dame, US)

2:30-2:50

The Fora of Roman Corinth: A Case Study Corinth and Lechaion

Paul Scotton (California State University Long Beach, US)

3:00-3:20

The Basilica Sempronia in Rome – A reassessment of the evidence

Nicolò dell’Unto (Lund University, SE), Henrik Gerding (Lund University, SE)

3:30-3:50

New Investigations on Gabii’s Hamilton’s Forum

Steve Glisoni (Louvre Museum, FR), Paolo Masci (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT), Marco Fabbri (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT), Zoe Ortiz (University of Michigan, US), Rocco Bochicchio (Soprintendenza SSABAP Roma), Chiara Andreotti (Soprintendenza SSABAP Roma), Jordan Voillot (University of Strasbourg, FR)

4:00-4:20

From Republican basilicae to imperial cult buildings: a study of the remodeling of the urban fabric and fora in Lazio and southern Etruria.

Marjolaine Benaich (Sorbonne University, FR)

4:30-5:00

Discussion

Amy Russell (Brown University, US)

5:00-5:30

General Discussion and Conclusions

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