Impact of Empire Workshop (IMEM)
| From: | We 18-05-2022 |
| Until: | Sa 21-05-2022 |
| Where: | Huize Heyendael, Geert Grooteplein-Noord 9, Nijmegen |
The next Impact of Empire workshop will take place in Nijmegen.
Programme
‘Traditional structures of power in the Roman Empire’
Wednesday 18 May
15.15 Welcome and introduction
15.30-16.15 (Keynote 1) Stéphane Benoist: Mos maiorum and res nouae. How Roman politics have conceived tradition, transformation, and innovation, from the 2nd c. BCE to the 4th c. CE
Coffee break
16.30-17.10 Luuk de Blois: The emperor Gallienus and the senators. Tradition, change, and perception
17.10-17.50 Rebecca Usherwood: Epigraphic erasures between traditional practice and local innovation
Drinks and conference dinner
Thursday 19 May
Tradition and power structures (1): human and divine
9.00-9.40 Amber Gartrell: The divine right to rule? Claiming the gods as legitimators of power
9.40-10.20 Fernando Lozano & Elena Muniz: Closing a highway to heaven: discontinuities in the divinization of human beings in Roman times
Coffee break
10.55-11.35 Livia Capponi: Augustus and traditional structures in Egypt: Egyptians, Greeks and Jews
Tradition and power structures (2): emperors and usurpers
11.35-12.15 Florian Groll: New victories, traditional celebrations? The role traditionalism played in the presentation of the military exploits of the domus Augusta
Lunch
13.45-14.25 Giorgos Mitropoulos: Between tradition and change: Politics of Imitation in the Imperial East
14.25-15.05 Nikolas Hächler: Uses and limitations of tradition for the justification and establishment of usurped dominion in the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires
Coffee break
15.25 -16.10 (Keynote 2) Johannes Hahn: The Christianisation of Peak Sanctuaries in the Late Roman Near East
16.15-17.15 IMEM Board Meeting
Friday 20 May
Local and Roman traditions in establishing power structures
9-9.40 Sven Betjes: Paving the road of Hercules: road-building and the appropriation of local tradition in the age of Augustus
9.40-10.20 Ketty Iannantuono: Monumentalizing power in the Alps: the Arch at Segusium and the representation of local authority in the early-Augustan Empire
10.20-11.00 Sergio España-Chamorro: Between tradition and innovation: Place names and the geography of power in the Late Republican and Early Roman Empire in Hispania
Coffee break
The role of tradition in perceiving power structures (1): women and power
11.40-12.20 Elena Torregaray Pagola & Toni Ñaco del Hoyo: Women’s mediation and peace diplomacy: Augustan women through the looking glass
12.20-13.00 Margherita Carucci: Plotina and the (re)invention of the tradition of womanhood
Lunch
The role of tradition in perceiving power structures (2): law
14.30-15.10 Juan Manuel Cortés-Copete: Imperator Nomothetes: Hadrian and the Renewal of Ancient Greek Constitutions
15.10-15.50 Christer Bruun: Municipal elections during the Principate (especially Ostia)
Coffee
16.20-17.00 Elsemieke Daalder: ‘Tradition and innovation in the Caracallan rescript practice’
17.00-17.40 Francesco Bono: A rethoric memory of Rome in Justinian’s Novellae
Drinks and dinner
Saturday 21 May
Excursion
8.28 Departure from Nijmegen Centraal Station
10.30 Arrival at Leiden Centraal Station
11.00 Visit to the exhibition God on Earth: Emperor Domitian (RMO - Leiden)