Join us for Roman Discussion Forum - Hilary 2016

The Roman Discussion Forum hosts talks on themes related to the Oxford Roman Economy Project. We meet Wednesdays 1.00 p.m. in the Lecture Room of the Institute of Archaeology, Beaumont Street, Oxford. All welcome!

Join us for coffee and biscuits afterwards!

Organised by Andrew Wilson, Jelena Jaric, and Maggie Burr with the support of the Faculty of Classics, the School of Archaeology, and All Souls College

Week 2
Wednesday 27th January
The Name Game: Roman Naming Conventions v. Electoral Evidence
Virginia Campbell, University of Oxford

Week 3
Wednesday 3rd February
Retracing Sir Aurel Stein’s Limes: combining GIS, satellite imagery and the archives
Rebecca Banks, EAMENA Project, Oxford

Week 4
Wednesday 10th February
Introducing MERCURY: an agent-based network model of ceramic distribution for studying Roman economic integration
Tom Brughmans, Universität Konstanz

Week 5
Wednesday 17th February
On the Edges of Gaul. The Roman occupation along the southern North Sea-Coast (Flanders/SW-Netherlands)
Prof. Wim De Clercq, Universiteit Gent

Week 6
Wednesday 24th Feb.
The imperial quarry of Domitianê, Egypt
Prof. Jean-Pierre Brun, Collège de France

Week 7
Wednesday 2nd March
Statues, graves and public space – the spatial context of monuments in the cities of Roman Greece
Christopher Dickenson, University of Oxford

Week 8
Wednesday 9th March
TBA
Prof. Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan