5-16 July, 2021 | Online via Zoom
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This conference is organised by BioRom - Rome our Home: (Auto)biographical Tradition and the Shaping of Identity(ies) based at the University of Coimbra and it will take place at the University of Évora (CHAIA).
Following our previous panels (Coimbra, June 2019; June 2021), this event will focus on Roman narratives about the other. More specifically, it will explore the ways in which narratives of selfhood and the perceptions of others in different intellectual spheres (literary, historical, legal, epigraphic), material cultures (e.g. archaeology, numismatics) and contexts (e.g. urban, non-urban, provincial) were constructed in the Roman Empire. Possible questions addressed in contributions will include (but are not limited to):
- How did the Romans define and describe the ‘other’?
- How did Roman othering impact narratives of the self and self-perception?
- What were the literary, legal, and material manifestations of regional identity in the Roman Empire?
The conference is composed of three main panels
Panel 1: Constructing the Other in the Roman Empire (5-8th July)
Panel 2: Local Identities in the Roman Empire (12-13th July)
Panel 3: Local Identities in the Roman Empire: Archeological Evidence (14-16th July)
The Conference Programme and the Booklet of Abstracts are available here: Conference Programme and Booklet of Abstracts
Please note that all sessions are scheduled to take place only in the afternoon.
Registration is free of charge and you can register HERE at any time during the conference.
However, we advise that you register at least two hours before starting the session you would like to attend in order to guarantee that you receive your ZOOM link on time.
After the registration, you will receive confirmation and the Zoom link within two hours.
If you have any questions or an ‘online emergency’, please contact: bioromconference2020@gmail.com and/or chaia@uevora.pt.
Keynote Speakers
14.00h (Lisbon-London Time)
July 5 – Monday
Carlo Pelloso (University of Verona, Italy)
Classical Roman Law: Being Other and Accepting Otherness
July 8 – Thursday
F.L. Roig Lanzillotta (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
The Specular Self: Mirrors and the Self as Other in the Greco-Roman World
July 12 – Monday
Louise Revell (University of Southampton, UK)
Performing Identities in the Rome’s Western Provinces
July 14 – Wednesday
Trinidad Nogales Basarrate (Director of the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano Merida, Spain)
Augusta Emerita: símbolo de la política de Augusto en Lusitania
July 15 – Thursday
Jesús Bermejo Tirado (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Straight Outta the Farm: The Social Analysis of Peasant Communities in the Roman Provincial World
July 16 – Friday
Pilar Diarte Blasco (University of Alcalá, Spain)
Defining Post-Roman identities in Hispania: controversy between texts and the archaeological record
TBA – This lecture will take place in the next academic year, 2021-2022
Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies, University of London)
The Classical Barbarian. A discontinuous history
BioRom and CHAIA Organising Committee
Cláudia Teixeira (University of Évora)
José Luís Brandão (University of Coimbra)
Ália Rodrigues (University of Coimbra)
Paulo Simões Rodrigues (University of Évora)
André Carneiro (University of Évora)
Nuno Simões Rodrigues (University of Lisbon)
Scientific Committee
Carlo Pelloso (University of Verona)
Christopher Pelling (Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University)
Cristina Pimentel (University of Lisbon)
Delfim Leão (University de Coimbra)
Francisco Oliveira (University de Coimbra)
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta (University of Groningen)
Maria do Céu Fialho (University de Coimbra)
Santiago López Moreda (University of Extremadura)
Timothy Duff (University of Reading)