Programme

Day 1: May 15

 

5.00 pm – 5.30 pm     Registration/ Introduction

5.30 pm – 7.00 pm     Keynote Lecture:

                                     Greg Woolf  (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece 



Day 2: May 16

 

9.00 am – 9.30 am     Registration/ Welcome

 

     Mobility, Chair Vyron Antoniadis

 

9.30 am – 10.00 am    Sophia Zoumbaki (National Hellenic Research Foundation) From  Mobility  to Migration and from Interaction  to Integration: Foreigners from the West in Greek Towns

10.00 am – 10.30 am   Guillermo Pascual Berlanga (University of Cádiz) Amphorae at the Stoa of Gitana, Thesprotia. Italic Economic Interests in North-Western Greece (2nd – 1st cent. BC) 

10.30 am – 11.00 am    Nefeli Pirée Iliou (University of Oxford) Who invited the Synepirotae to Epirus? Fortified Farms and Networks of Commerce in the Late Republic and Early Empire

11.00 am – 11.30 am     Rebecca Sweetman (BSA) Roman Women on the Move: Mobility and Patronage in the Aegean

 

11.30 am – 12.00 pm    Coffee Break

 

                                     Demographics and Society, Chair Miguel John Versluys

 

12.00 pm – 12.30 pm   Chryssa Vergidou (University of Groningen, NL & The Cyprus Institute) and Paraskevi Tritsaroli (M.H. Wiener laboratory for Archaeological Science, ASCSA) The ‘commoners’ of Provincia Macedonia through the Lenses of Bioarchaeology

12.30 pm – 1.00 pm     Anna Moles (University of Groningen) Social Inequality in Roman Crete: A Contextualised Bioarchaeological Perspective

1.00 pm – 1.30 pm       Dimitris Grigoropoulos (DAI Athens) and Vassilis Evangelidis (ATHENA Research Centre) Pacified and Unarmed? Reconsidering Roman Military Presence in Greece during Imperial Times 

 

1.30 pm – 3.30 pm       Lunch Break

 

                                 Religious Networks, Chair Rebecca Sweetman

 

3.30 pm – 4.00 pm     Paolo Cimadomo (National Research Council (CNR) – University of Basilicata) Emperors as Gods. Statistical Methods to Analyse the Spread of Roman Imperial Cult in the Roman Province of Achaea

4.00 pm – 4.30 pm     Daphni Maikidou-Poutrino (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University) Ports, Roads and Rivers. Religious Connectivity in the Roman Strymon Valley


Day 3: May 17

 

                    Material Conditions, Chair Greg Woolf

 

9.30 am – 10.00 am    Yannis Nakas (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University) “For we are in a certain sense amphibious/ ἀμφίβιοι γὰρ τρόπον τινά ἐσμεν.” Ships, Harbours and Networks in the Seas of Greece during the Roman Period

10.00 am – 10.30 am   Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Pennsylvania) Shaping Roman Landscape in Attica 

10.30 am – 11.00 am    Johannes Fouquet (University of Heidelberg) Connecting Bricks. Towards a Study of the Brick Industry in Roman Greece and its Supply Networks

 

11.00 am – 11.30 am     Coffee Break

 

                                 Material Culture, Chair Sanja Vucetic

 

11.30 am – 12.00 pm    Horacio González Cesteros (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Dimitra Voutyrea (ÖAW – Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut Athen,  Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Trade relations between Asia Minor and Athens: Some preliminary thoughts based on the Athenian Agora and Ephesus material

12.00 pm – 12.30 pm   Philip Bes (Independent Scholar) On Zones and Borders. Regional Patterning of African Red Slip Ware and Late Roman C in Central and Southern Greece and the Aegean

 

12.30 pm – 2.00 pm     Lunch Break

 

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm     Keynote lecture:

Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) Only Connect. Roman Greece in its Afro-Eurasian Context

 

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm     Closing remarks and discussion