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(RE)UNITING CITY AND COUNTRY: NEW RESEARCH ON URBAN AND SUBURBAN
SOCIO-TOPOGRAPHICAL STRUCTURES
British School at Rome, via Gramsci, 61 - 00197 Roma (RM)
Thursday 14th – Friday 15th November 2024
Thursday 14th November
9:30-9:35 Saluto
Abigail Brundin, Director of the British School at Rome
9:35-9:50 Introduction
Barbara E. Borg, Scuola Normale Superiore – Principal Investigator IN-ROME project
Session 1: Approaches & Methods
Chair Rita Volpe
9:50-10:15 Dove finisce la città. Mura, pomerio e continentia aedificia
Pierangelo Buongiorno, Università di Macerata
10:15-10:30 discussion
10:30-10:55 Rural landscapes and their suburbs: a view of the urban periphery from the countryside
Robert Witcher, Durham University
10:55-11:10 discussion
11:10-11:40 Coffee break
11:40-12:05 Breaching the walls, blurring the boundaries: the localised dismantling of Roman city walls and its impacts
Penelope J. Goodman, University of Leeds
12:05-12:20 discussion
12:20-12:45 The countryside within the walls: urban wine and olive oil production from the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity
Emlyn Dodd, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
12:45-13:00 discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Chair Mirella Serlorenzi
14:30-14:55 Rural Roots, Urban Growth: Modelling Urban Expansion and Agricultural Productivity in Ancient Mediterranean Economies
Nicolas Solonakis, All Source analyst - Belgian Defence / Ausonius - Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
14:55-15:10 discussion
Session 2: Rome
15:10-15:35 Countryside, peasants and slaves around Rome. People, agriculture and demography in the suburbium
Paolo Carafa, Maria Teresa D’Alessio, Sapienza Università di Roma
15:35-15:50 discussion
15:50-16:10 coffee break
16:10-16:35 Borders, Density and the Urban Character of Imperial Rome
Simon Malmberg, Universitetet i Bergen
16:35-16:50 discussion
16:50-17:15 On the Margins: Greek Epigraphic Culture in the Landscape of Imperial Rome
Mary-Evelyn Farrior, Columbia University, New York / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
17:15-17:30 discussion
Friday 15th November
Session 3: Case-studies – Italy
Chair Silvia Orlandi
9:30-9:55 Straddling the divide: Interamna Lirenas between town and hinterland
Alessandro Launaro, Ninetta Leone, Lieven Verdonck, University of Cambridge
9:55-10:05 discussion
10:05-10:30 Reweaving Pompeii’s Economy from Territory to City: New Evidence from the Excavations of Region I, Insula 14
Allison L.C. Emmerson, Tulane University
10:30-10:40 discussion
10:40-11:05 A religious socio-topography – overlapping zones of activity in the Clitumnus valley
Anna-Katharina Rieger, Universität Graz
11:05-11:15 discussion
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
Chair Gianfranco Adornato
11:45-12:10 Beyond the City-Wall of Falerii Novi
Elena Pomar, British School at Rome
12:10-12:20 discussion
12:20-12:45 Images in the mirror: Roman Pisa and its suburb
Fabio Fabiani, Alberto Caroti, Stefano Genovesi, Università di Pisa
Antonio Campus, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
12:45-12:55 discussion
12:55-14:30 Lunch
14:30-14:55 A new mediaeval town surrounded by water: the symbiotic relationship between Cervia, its salt ponds, and salt production
Andrea Augenti, Mila Bondi, Marco Cavalazzi, Università di Bologna
Michele Abballe, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
14:55-15:05 discussion
Session 4: Case-studies – Roman Provinces
Chair Ortwin Dally
15:05-15:30 Setting Boundaries – Assessing Limitations at Pergamon’s (Intra)Urban Periphery
Nicole Neuenfeld, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul / Universität Leipzig
15:30-15:40 discussion
15:40-16:05 Coffee break
16:05-16:30 Even a small city deserves a suburbium: the case of Regina Turdulorum (Baetica)
Günther Schörner, Universität Wien
16:30-16:40 discussion
16:40-17:05 ‘Urban’ economy: Physical distribution of productive and transformative activities in the cities of Hispania Tarraconensis (1st c. BC – 6th c. AD)
Arnau Lario Devesa, Universitat de Barcelona
17:05-17:15 discussion
17:15-17:45 Final discussion and concluding remarks
Barbara E. Borg
