Thursday 15th February
18:00 Keynote: Walter Pohl, Romanness and its Transformations
Moderator: Philipp von Rummel
Friday 16th February
9:00–11:00
The Development of Roman Identity (Moderator: Roland Steinacher)
Felix Maier (Zürich): Die Abgrenzung von den anderen – römische Identität als Folge der Expansion
Marika Rauhala (Oulu): Hellenism vs. Romanness: Roman Identity in the Expanding Empire
Florian Feil (Trier): Romulus, Remus und das Prinzip des Imperiums
11:30–13:00
Aspects of Romanness I: The Imperial Perspective (Moderator: Veronika Egetenmeyr)
Christian Rollinger (Trier): Res Romana Dei est: Kaiser und Hof als Fokus römischer Identität
Henning Börm (Rostock): Wie römisch muss ein Kaiser sein? ‚Kaiserfähigkeit‘ im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert
14:00–15:30
Aspects of Romanness II: Cities And Saints (Moderator: Babett Edelmann-Singer)
Nadine Viermann (Durham): Roman’ versus ‘Greek’ Custom: Negotiating the Cult of Relics in the Late Antique Mediterranean
Steffen Diefenbach (Konstanz): Beyond St Peter - Rome‘s sacred topography and the transformation of the city in Late Antiquity
16:00–18:00
Aspects Of Romanness III: The Regional Perspective: Africa/Spain/Gaul/Britain (Moderator: Christian Mileta)
Jonathan Conant (Brown Univ./Barcelona): Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in Late Antique North Africa
Mateusz Fafinski (Erfurt): Staying Roman beyond Rome: Britain and its Romannesses Revisited
Jeroen Wijnendaelen (Bonn): The origins of Queenship in Gaul and Spain: how Barbarian? How Roman?
Saturday 17th February
09:00–10:30
A View from The East: Roman Identities in The Byzantine World (Moderator: Jakob Riemenschneider)
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Wien): King of the Greeks, Kaisar of Rum? Perceptions of the Roman Empire in written evidence of its Eastern neighbours near and far, ca. 300-800 CE
Eric Steilmann (BergSAS Berlin): Augustus und seine Romanitas im Spiegel oströmischer Quellen
11:00–12:30
The Archaeological Perspective I (Moderator: Henning Börm)
James Harland (Bonn): Did the Subaltern speak? The re-use of Romanness in in the peripheries of the post-Roman West
Hubert Fehr (München/Augsburg): Binäre Modelle: Romanness als Alterität zu ‚germanischen‘ Kulturmerkmalen?
13:30–15:00
The Archaeological Perspective II (Moderator: Udo Hartmann)
Philipp von Rummel (Berlin): The Archaeology of Local Romanness
Giulia Zornetta (Padova): Urban elites and burials in the Italian peninsula (6th-8th centuries)
16:00–17:00
Conference Summary: Tonio Sebastian Richter and Claudia Tiersch
Conference report: Ronja Edelhäuser