Program
June 13th
Introduction
9.00 – Welcome/Setting the scene (Lisa Eberle and Myles Lavan)
9.10 – Towards a history of Roman discourses of unrest (Myles Lavan)
9.50 – Aporetic unrest: Appian's materialism reconsidered (Lisa Eberle)
Roman concepts
11.00 – The Roman Language of civil war: from Internal War and stasis to bellum civile (Carsten Hjort Lange, Aalborg)
11.40 – Securitas as ideology and narrative strategy (Michele Lowrie, University of Chicago)
12.20 – Uproar and Unrest in Roman Law: Seditio in its Legal Context (Nicole Giannella, Cornell)
Roman (and others’) concepts: piracy & banditry
14.00 – No Sea Could Be Navigated: Piracy in the Roman Mediterranean (Gil Gambash, Haifa)
14.40 – Bandits, barbarians and usurpers: the narrative of provincial unrest in the third and fourth century (Bruno Pottier, Aix-Marseille)
Slaves & soldiers in Roman historiography
15.50 – Tacitus, Florus, and slave revolts: servile insurrection as a historiographical tool (Peter Morton)
16.30 – Mutiny, then and now: diachronic perspectives on military unrest in Roman historiography (Hans Kopp, Bochum)
June 14th
Provincial perspectives (I): Greek cities
9.30 – Friends and enemies of Rome? Stasis in the second century BCE (Henning Börm, Konstanz)
10.10 – Struggles to define and counter-define dissent in the cities of the early Roman East (Benjamin Gray, Birkbeck)
Provincial Perspectives (II): Jews and Christians
11.20 – Tell me how I conquered you: some clues from the 2nd c. BCE Mediterranean (Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton)
12.00 – The Apologetic Memory of Persecution (James Corke-Webster, King's College London)
Troublesome people? Christians & women
13.40 – The charge of coniuratio: A court record from Roman Egypt (Sabine Hübner, Basel)
14.20 – Locating Gender-Based Violence in Late Antiquity (Ulriika Vihervalli, Cardiff)
New and changed centers
15.30 – Revolt, Sedition and Counterinsurgency in the Later Roman State (John Weisweiler, Cambridge)
16.10 – Tyranny, Invasion, and Rebellion in the Visigothic Kingdom (Damien Fernandez, Northern Illinois)
16.50 – Closing thoughts and discussion (Greg Woolf, Institute for Classical Studies, London)