The Roman Discussion Forum of Trinity Term 2014 will have several talks on themes related to the Oxford Roman Economy Project. All lectures start at 1pm in the Lecture Room in the School of Archaeology.
Full Programme
Week 1: Wednesday April 30th
Recycling statuary. Evaluating portrait monuments of the fourth century
Dr Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum
Week 2: Wednesday May 7th
Economy of Roman Pannonia – Achievements and Challenges
Dr Tibor Grüll, University of Pécs
Week 3: Wednesday May 14th
"Supplying our most noble soldiers": wine for the army in early Roman Egypt
Dr Dorota Dzierzbicka, University of Warsaw
Week 4: Wednesday May 21st
Excavations of the Roman forts at Dios on the Coptos-Berenike route 2006-2009 (Egypt)
Prof. Jean-Pierre Brun, Collège de France
Week 5: Wednesday May 28th
The cult statues of the Pantheon
Dr Edmund Thomas, Durham University
Week 6: Wednesday June 4th
The construction of aqueducts in Roman Hispania
Elena Sanchez Lopez, University of Granada
Week 7: Wednesday June 11th
The use and supply of precious metals in Dacia before the Trajanic Wars
Swii Yii Lim, University of Oxford
Week 8: Wednesday June 18th
Late Roman coins as economic and ritual objects in south India
Dr Rebecca Darley, University of Birmingham