Rome and its Eurasian context: new projects, problems, questions and answers

Expert-meeting Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, November 14-15 2018.

Organisation

• Professor Miguel John Versluys (VICI project: Innovating objects)
• Professor Peter Fibiger Bang (Research Fund Denmark Project: Rome in the World History of Universal Empire)

Wednesday, November 14

13:30  Pick up from the hotel (Ibis, Stationsplein, lobby) and transfer to the Faculty of Archaeology (on foot).

14:00 – 14:30  Lunch

(Lectures below are in principle max. 30 minutes to allow time for discussion)

14:30 – 15:15  Miguel John Versluys, The impact of global connections and the
                         formation of the Roman Empire (ca. 200-30 BC)

15:15 – 16:00  Stefan Riedel, Glocalisation and a portrait head from Commagene

16:00 – 16:15  Coffee / tea

16:15 – 17:00  Lennart Kruijer, Itinerant semantics in Late Hellenistic Samosata
                         and the impact of global objects

17:00 – 17:45  Marike van Aerde, Early networks of the Afro-Eurasian ‘Silk Roads’

17:45 – 18:30  Discussion: problems, questions and answers

18:45 – Typical Dutch dinner in Restaurant Surakarta, Noordeinde

Thursday, November 15

09:45 – 10:00  Coffee / tea

10:00 – 10:45  Peter Fibiger Bang, Contextualising Rome in World History

10:45 – 11:30  Karsten Johanning, Reading the signs. Imperial cosmopolitanism
                         between Rome and India

11:30 – 12:15  Kristian Kanstrup Christensen, The Great and Little Tradition in
                         the Roman World: the limits of integration in a premodern Empire

12:15 – 13:00  Discussion: problems, questions and answers

13:15 – 14:30  Farewell lunch in Grand Café de Stal, Darwinweg