Thursday, 22 June 2017
9.30 Introduction – Wolfgang Havener (Heidelberg): Bellum civile – Studies in the Semantics of a Terminological monstrum

Section 1: Civil War and the Socio-political System of Late Republican Rome
Chair: Martin Jehne (Dresden)
10.00 Carsten Lange (Aalborg): Naval Operations during the Late Republican Civil War (41-36 BCE): Victories by Land and Sea
11.30 Hannah Mitchell (Oxford): Defining and Justifying Neutrality in Civil War
14.00 Henning Börm (Konstanz): Stasis at Rome? Hellenism and the bella civilia
15.00 Kathryn Welch (Sydney): Women and Civil War: A Longer View

Section 2: Historiography and Biography of the Civil War Era
16.30 Wolfgang Havener (Heidelberg): Exemplarity and exempla virtutis in an Era of Civil War

Friday, 23 June 2017
9.00 Harriett Flower (Princeton): Self-representation in a Time of Civil Strife: Latin Autobiographical Writing in the Early 1st Century BC
10.00 Ulrich Gotter (Konstanz): Authorising Slaughter, or how Roman Generals Justify Themselves in the Wake of Civic Bloodshed

Section 3: A Transformation of Norms and Values?
Chair: Christian Witschel (Heidelberg)
11.30 Federico Santangelo (Newcastle): Piety and Civil War
14.00 Andrew Stiles (Oxford): Civil Wars, Divination, Dynasties, and Family Trees
15.00 Kit Morrell (Sydney): Missing in Action? Law, Ethics, and Civil War
16.30 Amy Russell (Durham): The Spaces of Civil War

Section 4: A Language of Civil War
17.30 Catherine Steel (Glasgow): From seditio to bellum civile: Internal Enemies in Roman Oratory, 133-49 BC

Saturday, 24 June 2017
9.30 Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge): Adjusting to the New Normal: Cicero’s Correspondence, 49-44 BC
11.00 Matteo Cadario (Udine): The Image of the Roman Ruling Class in the Age of the Civil Wars
12.00 Closing remarks