Italy in the Fifth Century
Social, Political and Economic Transformations in a Society under Stress, 395-493 CE
Programme
Thursday, 21st March
Venue: Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Altemps, Teatromps, Teatro
Chair: Tanja Itgenshorst (Fribourg)
09.30-10.00 Welcome:
Daniela Porro, Museo Nazionale Romano
Ortwin Dally, Istituto Archeologico Germanico, Roma
Introduction: Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner & Sarah Bühler, Tübingen
10.00-10.45 Imperial Elites (Sarah Bühler, Tübingen)
10.45-11-00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.45 Municipal Elites (Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Tübingen)
11.45-12.30 Fiscality and Elite Formation (John Weisweiler, Cambridge)
12.30-14.00 – Lunch Break
Chair: Rita Lizzi (Perugia)
14.00-14-45 Warfare and Violence (Jeroen Wijnendaele, Ghent)
14.45-15.30 Portraits and Elite Representation (Carlos Machado, St. Andrews)
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-16.45 Economic Trajectories and Commerce: A Survey (Paolo Tedesco, Tübingen)
16.45-17.30 Poetry under Stress. Paulinus of Nola between Violence and Peace in the Early 5th C. (Robert Kirstein, Tübingen)
17.30-18.15 Spiritual Developments (Kristina Sessa, Ohio State University)
18.15-18:30 Coffee Break
18.30 – Evening lecture
Simony and the State in the Fifth Century Church (Michele-Renee Salzman, UC Riverside)
19.45 – Reception
Friday, 22nd March
Venue: Istituto Svizzero di Roma
Welcome: Adrian Brändli, Istituto Svizzero
Chair: Marco Maiuro (Rome, La Sapienza)
09.15-10.00 Aemilia (Claudio Negrelli, Venezia)
10.00-10.45 Tuscia Annonaria and Suburbicaria (Federico Cantini, Pisa)
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.45 Umbria, Flaminia and Picenum (Fabrizio Oppedisano, Pisa)
11.45-12.30 Latium and the Roman Suburbium (Cristina Murer, Bern)
12.30-14.15 – Lunch Break
Chair: Arnaldo Marcone (Roma Tre)
14.15-15.00 Campania (Eliodoro Savino, Naples)
15.00-15.45 Lucania and Bruttium (Battista Sangineto, University of Calabria)
15.45-16.15 Coffee Break
16.15-17.00 Corsica and Sardegna (Pier Giorgio Spanu, Sassari)
17.00-17.45 Settlement Patterns in the Sicilian Countryside (Angelo Castrorao Barba, CSIC, LAAC/EEA Granada)
17.45-18.30 Apulia and Calabria (Giuliano Volpe/Roberto Goffredo, Foggia)
20.00 Uhr Dinner
Saturday, 23rd March
Venue: Istituto Svizzero di Roma
Chair: Domenico Vera (Parma)
09.00-09.45 Peasants and Agriculture (Kim Bowes, UPenn)
09.45-10.30 Venetia and Histria (Alexandra Chavarría Arnau, Padova)
10.30-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-11.30 Monetary Circulation: A complex system (Flavia Marani, Pisa)
11.30-12.15 Italy and the East (Umberto Roberto, Rome)
12.15-13.00 Cities (Neil Christie, Leicester)
13.00-13.30 Conclusions (Stefan Rebenich, Bern)
Organizers:
Sarah Bühler (Tübingen), Stefan Rebenich (Bern), Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen), John Weisweiler (University of Cambridge)
Generous Support by:
Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 923 "Threatened Order - Societies under Stress", University of Tuebingen
DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
SNF - Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Istituto Svizzero di Roma
Istituto Archeologico Germanico di Roma
Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Altemps
