Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - 29-30/11/2018,

FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 29-30/11/2018

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma (Roma, Italy)

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INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis/free/gratuito

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Thursday 29 November

9:00 Meet and greet

09:30 – 10:00 “Introduction: concepts, historiography, method” Cédric Brélaz, Université de Fribourg & Els Rose, Utrecht University

10:00 – 10:45 “Local citizenship and civic participation in the Western provinces of the Roman Empire” Clifford Ando, University of Chicago

10:45 – 11:15 Tea/coffee

11:15 – 12:00 “Citizenship, local identities and democracy in the Greek cities under Roman rule” Cédric Brélaz, Université de Fribourg

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:15 “Citizenship and local identities in the Later Roman Empire” Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

14:15 – 15:00 “People and government in Early Byzantine cities” Avshalom Laniado, Tel Aviv University 15:00 – 15:30 Tea/coffee

15:30 – 16:15 “Becoming the people: popular participation in Late Antiquity” Peter Van Nuffelen, Ghent University

16:15 – 17:00 “Informal expressions of popular will in Late Roman Africa” Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo

17:00 – 18:00 Discussion

Friday 30 November

9:00 Meet and greet

09:15 – 10:00 “Cities as legal entities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain” Michael Kulikowski, Pennsylvania State University

10:00 – 10:45 “Urban identities in Late Roman Italy” Pierfrancesco Porena, Università Roma Tre

10:45 – 11:15 Tea/coffee

11:15 – 12:00 “Citizenship and ethnic identity in the late Antique and early medieval West” Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:15 “Civic Identity and Civic Participation in a Christianising World: the case of sixth-century Arles” Els Rose, Utrecht University

14:15 – 14:45 Tea/coffee

14:45 – 15:30 “Urban culture in the Early Medieval West” Marco Mostert, Utrecht University 1

5:30 – 16:15 “Civic identities and “pre-communal” communities in Early Medieval Italy” Cristina La Rocca & Gianmarco de Angelis, Università degli Studi di Padova 1

6:15 – 17:30 Discussion and closing remarks