Marian Helm, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Friday, 28th October 2022
(KTh I, Johannisstr. 8–10)
15:00–15:15 Opening/Welcome
Hans Beck, Director Classical Studies WWU Münster
15:15–15:45 Organization and state of the project (Jeremy Armstrong, Sheira Cohen, Marian Helm, Simon Lentzsch)
15:45–19:00 Session 1: Methodology & interdisciplinary approaches (Achim Lichtenberger)
Andrea Brock (St Andrews): The changing environment of the Tiber Valley
Roman Roth (Cape Town): Burial and Society: Etruria, Samnium and Rome, c. 450–250 BC
16:45–17:00 Coffee Break
Marian Helm (Münster): Structural Facts 2.0 – Correlating Archeological Evidence and Literary Sources
Christoph Lundgreen (Dresden): Debating Roman “Staatlichkeit”
18:30–18:45 Discussion of Session 1
19:00–19:30 Keynote: Ortwin Dally (DAI Rome)
19:30 Reception in the Archaeological Museum of the WWU
Saturday, 29th October 2022
(JO 101, Johannisstraße 4)
09:00–10:45 Session 2: The economy of Early Rome and Italy (Simon Lentzsch)
Dominik Maschek (Trier): The economy of city-building
Sheira Cohen (Michigan): Mapping Exchange Networks in Central Italy: Economies on the Move
Peter Attema (Groningen): Settlement excavations at Satricum and Crustumerium, new evidence of the earliest phases (9th to 7th c. BC)
10:30–10:45 Discussion of Session 2
10:45–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:45 Session 3: Sanctuaries and community (Sheira Cohen)
Guy Bradley (Cardiff): The ludi Romani and the emergence of a Roman identity
Marion Bolder-Boos (Mainz): Cults and the Colonies: Diversity and Conformity in the Sanctuaries of Republican Italy
John Hopkins (New York): The Religious Landscape of the urbs
12:30–12:45 Discussion of Session 3
12:45–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–16:15 Session 4: The institutions of the early Roman community (Marian Helm)
Kimberley Webb (Oxford): Collegiality: the auspices and magistrates in early Rome
Christopher Degelmann (Berlin): Rituals of integration: the transvectio equitum
Marie Föllen (Bochum): The Senate and Roman Expansion (3rd to 2nd century BCE)
16:00–16:15 Discussion of Session 4
16:15–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–18:45 Session 5: International Relations in Italy (Jeremy Armstrong)
Elena Isayev (Exeter): Mobility beyond Migration
Lisa Götz (Augsburg): Layers of Roman colonial and Auruncan interaction – changing perspectives on the microregion of the Garigliano estuary
Stéphane Bourdin (Lyon): The peoples of central Italy
Marleen Termeer (Nijmegen): Roman and Italian coinage
18:30–18:45 Discussion of Session 5
18:45–19:00 Coffee Break
19:30–20:15 Response: Tim Cornell & Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp
20:30 Conference Dinner