The Rodopis Association and the Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Filologici e Linguistici of the University of Milan are jointly organising the Workshop “Greek Entities in Roman Times: Peoples, Communities, and Cities”, which will take place at the same University on March 6th-7th, 2025.
The meeting aims at fostering discussion among Early Career Researchers (postgraduate students, PhDs, postdoctoral research fellows, and young researchers) working on Greek communities and peoples in the Mediterranean world and the areas of the Hellenistic kingdoms over Roman times.
The workshop will investigate the interaction and mutual influence between the Greek and Roman worlds, and how they affect the public sphere of local communities.
We invite paper proposals on the following aspects:
• The relationships between local entities and/or between them and Rome
• Political praxis and participation
• Institutional bodies and administrative forms
• Citizenship, sense of belonging, civic virtues
• Social mobility, the relationships between different social strata, marginal figures
• Trade relations and productive activities
• Religious life and public rituals
• Military organisation and practice
Papers should focus on possible further developments of the presented topic.
We welcome papers on historical, archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic, and papyrological subjects. We are particularly keen to receive proposals that adopt interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches.
The keynote speaker of the event will be Prof. Takashi Fujii (Kyoto University).
Each paper will last 20 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. Presentations will be in Italian, English, German, and French.
To submit a paper proposal please send an abstract of up to 300 words by November 22nd, 2024 to grecia_roma@libero.it. Proposals will be evaluated by a specially established scholarly committee. The out-comes of the selection will be announced by the end of 2024.
We strongly encourage in-person presentations; however, in light of duly substantiated reasons, we may allow a limited number of papers to be delivered remotely.
For further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Sara Borrello
Federico De Ponti
Francesco Reali
Federico Russo
