Urban Dimensions: Materiality, Society, and Discourses of the Ancient City

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Urban Dimensions: Materiality, Society, and Discourses of the Ancient City

Veranstalter
Maximiliane Gindele (Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen); Samuel Oer de Almeida (Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Veranstaltungsort
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Ernst von Sieglin Hörsaal
Gefördert durch
Der Workshop wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und dem Wissenschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern gefördert. Wir danken dem Deutschen Archäologen-Verband für zusätzliche finanzielle Unterstützung.
PLZ
72074
Ort
Tübingen
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
24.06.2024 - 25.06.2024
Von
Maximiliane Gindele, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Samuel Oer de Almeida, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Programme of an international early career workshop at the University of Tübingen on 24 – 25 June 2024. The workshop aims to examine the ancient city from an interdisciplinary perspective taking all its facets (materiality, society, and discourses) into account.

Urban Dimensions: Materiality, Society, and Discourses of the Ancient City

A city – what is it basically? What makes a city a city? Is it its settlement size and number of inhabitants? Its building density and architecture? Its legal status? Its administration and infrastructure? Its political, economic, cultural, or religious significance for the surrounding area?
The ancient city in particular is a multifaceted and elusive phenomenon which can only be appropriately considered in an interdisciplinary dialogue. This workshop aims to grasp the phenomenon in its complexity and develop an interdisciplinary definition of the ancient city taking all its facets into account.
To this end, three dimensions of the ancient city will be examined in more detail, encircling its essential characteristics: first, materiality, the built environment of urban settlements, creates the urban space through its texture and reflects social structures as well as cultural patterns. Second, human actors associating in urban communities shape the urban space through their actions and institutionalised practices. Third, the city in antiquity becomes the subject of contemporary reflections, which are expressed in literary discourses on its characteristics and symbolic meaning.

Programm

MONDAY, 24 JUNE 2024

INTRODUCTION
09:00 Welcome (Richard Posamentir, Head of Institute
Marisa Köllner, Graduate Academy)
09:10 Introduction (Maximiliane Gindele, Tübingen
Samuel Oer de Almeida, Tübingen)

PANEL 1 MATERIALITY: BOUNDARIES AND BUILDINGS
Chair: Richard Posamentir
09:30 Defend the Territory. Legal and Historical Study of Judicial Boundary Stones in Western Roman Cities between the 1st and the 3rd Centuries (Gwenaëlle Deborde, Paris)
10:10 Roman Honorary Arches as City Gates. Change of the City, Change of Perspective? (Marius Gaidys, Tübingen)
10:50 Coffee Break
11:10 Rival Cities and Urban Splendour in Roman Pisidia: Designing Temples in the 2nd Century CE (Samuel Oer de Almeida, Tübingen)
11:50 Roman Cities, Indigenous Population, Latin Colonies? Urban Transformation in Northeastern Hispania Citerior during the 2nd – 1st Centuries BCE (Borja Martín Chacón, Barcelona)
12:30 Lunch

PANEL 2 SOCIETY: INTERACTIONS AND AGENTS
Chair: Mischa Meier
13:30 Inside Out. Trade, Urban Spaces and Institutional Control in the Ancient Greek City (Alessandro Perucca, Pisa)
14:10 Urban Topography and Economic Development in Hispania: A Study of Socioeconomic Interactions in the Roman City (Arnau Lario Devesa, Barcelona)
14:50 When in Rome. Marginalised Groups in the Context of the Early Imperial City’s Topography (Leda-Sophie Moors, Regensburg)
15:30 Coffee Break
15:50 Topos-Inscriptions Mirroring Ancient Societies within the Cityscape of Miletus (Ann Lauren Osthof, Hamburg)
16:30 M. Cornelius and the Roman Polis of Same, Kephallenia, in the Early Second Century BCE (Florian Feil, Trier)
17:10 What is a Hadrianic City? Elements of a City Model from a Letter to Naryka (SEG LI, 641) and Beyond (Tommaso Greco, Trento)
17:50 Coffee Break

KEYNOTE
18:15 The City and the City: The City of Things in the Roman World (Greg Woolf, Los Angeles)
20:00 Dinner

TUESDAY, 25 JUNE 2024

PANEL 3 DISCOURSES: LITERATURE AND IDENTITIES
Chair: Robert Kirstein
09:00 Blinded by Plato? The People and the Imperial Poleis (Antonia Lakner, Tübingen)
09:40 Time and Space in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Depiction of Rome (Stefano Carlo Sala, St Andrews)
10:20 Urbanising the Underworld: The Stygian City in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Maximiliane Gindele, Tübingen)
11:00 Coffee Break
11:20 ‘There’s No Place Like Rome’ – Urban Identities in Ovid’s Exile Poetry (Simon Grund, Tübingen)
12:00 Peer Pressure, Status, and Identity: Discourses of Civic Histories in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire (Rogier van der Heijden, Freiburg)

CONCLUSION
12:40 Final Discussion
13:10 Lunch
14:30 Guided Tour through the Collection of Antiquities (Alexander Heinemann, Curator)

Kontakt

Maximiliane Gindele, M. A. (maximiliane.gindele@uni-tuebingen.de); Samuel Oer de Almeida, M. A. (samuel.oer-de-almeida@uni-tuebingen.de)