Anchoring Ancient Colonization
From: | Th 01-12-2022 |
Until: | Fr 02-12-2022 |
Where: | Oude Boteringestraat 38 - Oude Zittingzaal, Groningen |
This workshop proposes to analyse the impact and organization of ancient settler colonization from the theoretical lens of the anchoring innovation concept.
Please register for this workshop by sending an email to j.pelgrom rug.nl
Program day 1 (Thursday December 1)
9.30-10.00: |
Coffee and registration |
10.00-10.30: |
Opening and introduction - Jeremia Pelgrom & Marleen Termeer |
Session 1: |
Territorial anchoring strategies in the Archaic World (Chair: Jan Paul Crielaard) |
10.30-11.00: |
Hard row to Hoe: The implication of agricultural practices and subsistence strategies for study of the Greek colonization in Southern Italy (ca. 800-550 BC.) Lou Godefroy, VU University (Amsterdam) |
11.00-11.30: |
Accounting for climate: Assessing the political and economic dimensions of environmental change and land-use during the so-called Greek colonization in Southern Italy Taariq Ali Sheik, VU University (Amsterdam) |
11.30-12.00: |
Bridging the Gulf between City and Outpost, Phoenician and Greek, Friend and Foe Brien Garnand, NINO (Leiden) |
12.00-13.30: |
Lunch |
Session 2: |
Territorial anchoring strategies in the Hellenistic and Roman world (Chair: Jeremia Pelgrom) |
13.30-14.00: |
Settlement systems in the Sibaritide area (Italy): continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic and the Roman periods Martina Cecilia Parini, University of Groningen |
14.00-14.30: |
Anchoring early Roman colonisation strategies to existing settlement systems in central-southern Italy Anita Casarotto & Tesse Stek, University of Groningen |
14.30-15.00: |
The impact of land division systems on Roman colonial landscapes Tymon de Haas, University of Groningen |
15.00-15.30: |
Aquileia, an obviously innovative colony… but which innovation? Michel Tarpin, University of Grenoble |
15.30-16.00: |
Coffee |
16.00-16.30: |
‘Not without reason’. Anchoring the role of institutional language in colonial settings Michele Valandro, Radboud University (Nijmegen) |
16.30-17.00: |
Anchoring a 2nd-century-CE Colony: the case of colonia Aelia Augusta Italicensium Manuel Alejandro González, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville) |
17.00-17.30: |
Bulwarks of empire or bulwarks of the emperor? Advancing imperial control in and through the colonies Anouk Vermeulen, Utrecht University |
17.30-18.00: |
Imagine No Diaspora: Jewish Foundation Stories in the Early Roman Empire Eelco Glas, University of Groningen |
19.00: |
Conference dinner (for participants only) |
Program day 2 (Friday December 2)
Session 3: |
Socio-economic anchoring strategies in the Archaic period (Chair: Saskia Roselaar ) |
10.30-11.00: |
Socio-economic anchoring strategies and new realities: Pottery production and consumption as indicators for the contributions of Greek migrants and local inhabitants to the so-called Greek ‘colonization’ in Italy Xenia Charalambidou, VU University (Amsterdam) |
11.00-11.30: |
Anchoring colonial values: precious metal and money in the northern Aegean Elon Heymans, University of Amsterdam |
11.30-12.00: |
More than Traders: Phoenician economies in Iberia and Sardinia in the earliest phases of expansion Marion Bolder-Boos, Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz) |
12.00-13.00: |
Lunch |
Session 4: |
Socio-economic anchoring strategies in the Hellenistic and Roman world (Chair: Marleen Termeer) |
13.00-13.30: |
Slaves to Rome, Freedmen to the Colonies: Freedmen and Colonization in the Middle Republic Evan Jewell, Rutgers University (New Jersey) |
13.30-14.00: |
Religious Syncretism as Anchoring Strategy in the Socio-Economic Context of the Roman Colony of Hasta Regia Daniel J. Martín-Arroyo Sánchez, University of Granada |
14.00-14.30: |
Colonies and prosperity: institutional development and economic prosperity in the colonies of the Roman Republic Saskia T. Roselaar, Independent Scholar |
14.30-15.00: |
Coffee |
15.00-15.30: |
Interactions on the Isthmus: Evidence from the Coins. Emily Hurt, Yale University (New Haven) |
15.30-16.00: |
Exploring mechanisms of colonial infiltration in Roman Asia Dies van der Linde, Independent Scholar |
Keynote lecture 16.00-17.00: |
‘De-anchoring’ ancient Greek colonization Jan Paul Crielaard, VU University (Amsterdam) |