(Source: University of Helsinki)
We learned of a call for papers
on the topography of power in Republican and Imperial Rome. Here the call:
Call for papers
The purpose of the conference is
to explore the transformation of public space and administrative activities in
Republican and Imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary exploration of the
topography of power. The emergence of the Roman Republic produced a
reorganization of the administrative structures, leading to the emergence of
various entities and institutions responsible for organization and governance
of Rome, its civic life and public spaces. In different ways, this spatial
model was exported to the colonies with the expansion of the Republic.
Throughout the Roman world, building projects created spaces, the topography of
the city, for different civic purposes: for the meetings of assemblies, senate
meetings, the administration of justice, the public treasury, and the
management of the city through different magistracies, offices and even
archives. These administrative spaces –open and closed– characterized the Roman
life throughout the Republic and High Empire, until the profound administrative
and judicial transformations of the Dominate. This conference aims to study the
public and private spaces related to administration through the urban
development, the existing interrelation between the different administrative
bodies, the analysis of the architecture of the spaces already discovered and
the study of the written sources. We will try to find an answer to the dilemmas
such as where did the administration work? Were there offices and where were
they located? Were there social class differences between the different levels
of administration?
Themes:
• Urban development and dynamics related to the expansion of the administration
• New discoveries on the institutions and spaces of Roman administration
• Architecture of spaces for public meetings and trials: Assemblies, Senate, courtrooms, basilicas
• Private spaces in the administration: Residences of magistrates and the elite
• Magistracies, offices and archives
• Epigraphy related to the Roman administration
• Development of institutions between early Republic and Late Antiquity
• New methodologies in Roman topography
• Gender, intersectionality and public space
Keynote speakers: Paolo Liverani
(Università degli Studi di Firenze), Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and
Pier Luigi Tucci (Johns Hopkins University).
The conference is organized by
the ERC-funded project Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the
Foundations of the Republican Tradition (SpaceLaw), based at the
University of Helsinki. There is no conference fee. The organizers are
unfortunately unable to aid in either travel or accommodation arrangements or
the cost of travel or accommodation.
Abstracts should be 300 words
maximum, for 20-minute papers to be delivered in English. Abstracts should be
sent to lawgovernanceandspace@gmail.com. The
deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2019.
Questions may be sent to Antonio
Lopez Garcia (antonio.lopezgarcia@helsinki.fi).
More info with the University
of Helsinki
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