The Roman world was by no means as uniform as some self-representations might imply. Rather, it was a broad mixture of diverse and regional identities, kept together by a central administration and the imperial court, as well as by urban and military structures. Existing regional, ethnic and urban identities were integrated and also transformed over time. With the political end of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, new concepts of identity developed that reshaped existing Roman, urban and provincial identities in a dynamic process. The aim is to develop concrete case studies for projects and concepts for further conferences in order to better understand these processes, their prerequisites and the conflicts they cause.

This conference - organised as part of a fellowship at the Berliner Antike-Kolleg (BAK) and together with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) - will explore far-reaching questions about the meaning and context of Roman identity. The aim is to facilitate an exchange on specialised issues between international guests and local researchers in Berlin.

Programm

Donnerstag, 15.02.24

18:00
Keynote "Romanness and Its Transformations"
Walter Pohl
Moderation: Philipp v. Rummel

20:00  
Gemeinsames Abendessen

 

Freitag, 16.02.24

9:00 – 11:00
The Development of Roman identity
Moderation: Roland Steinacher

1. Felix Maier (Zürich)
Die Abgrenzung von den anderen – römische Identität als Folge der Expansion

2. Marika Rauhala (Oulu)
Hellenism vs. Romanness: Roman Identity in the Expanding Empire

3. Florian Feil (Trier)
Romulus, Remus und das Prinzip des Imperiums

11:00 – 11:30
Pause

11:30 – 13:00
Aspects of Romanness I: The Imperial Perspective
Moderation: Veronika Egetenmeyr

4.Christian Rollinger (Trier)
Res Romana Dei est: Kaiser und Hof als Fokus römischer Identität

5.Henning Börm (Rostock)
Wie römisch muss ein Kaiser sein? 'Kaiserfähigkeit' im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert

13:00 – 14:00
Mittagspause

14:00 – 15:30
Aspects of Romanness II: Cities and Saints
Moderation: Babett Edelmann-Singer

6. Nadine Viermann (Durham)
‘Roman’ versus ‘Greek’ Custom: Negotiating the Cult of Relics in the Late Antique Mediterranean

7. Steffen Diefenbach (Konstanz)
Beyond St Peter – Rome's sacred topography and the transformation of the city in Late Antiquity

15:30 – 16:00
Pause

16:00 – 18:00
Aspects of Romanness III: The Regional Perspective: Africa/Spain/Gaul/Britain
Moderation: Christian Mileta

8. Jonathan Conant (Brown Univ./Barcelona)
Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in Late Antique North Africa

9. Mateusz Fafinski (Erfurt)
Staying Roman beyond Rome: Britain and its Romannesses Revisited

10. Jeroen Wijnendaelen (Bonn)
The origins of Queenship in Gaul and Spain: How Barbarian? How Roman?

20:00  
Gemeinsames Abendessen

Samstag, 17.02.24.

09:00 – 10:30
A View from the East: Roman Identities in the Byzantine World
Moderation: Jakob Riemenschneider

11. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Wien)
King of the Greeks, Kaisar of Rum? Perceptions of the Roman Empire in written evidence of its Eastern neighbours near and far, ca. 300-800 CE

12. Eric Steilmann (BerGSAS Berlin)
Augustus und seine Romanitas im Spiegel oströmischer Quellen

10:30 – 11:00
Pause

11:00 – 12:30
The Archaeological Perspective
Moderation: Henning Börm

13. James Harland (Bonn)
Did the Subaltern speak? The re-use of Romanness in in the peripheries of the post-Roman West

14.Hubert Fehr (München/Augsburg)
Binäre Modelle: Romanness als Alterität zu ‚germanischen‘ Kulturmerkmalen?

12:30 – 13:30
Mittagspause

13:30 – 15:00
The Archaeological Perspective II
Moderation: Udo Hartmann

15. Philipp v. Rummel (Berlin)
The Archaeology of Local Romanness

16. Giulia Zornetta (Padova)
Urban elites and burials in the Italian peninsula (6th-8th centuries)

15:00 – 15:30
Pause

16:00 – 17:00
Tonio Sebastian Richter und Claudia Tiersch: Zusammenfassende Überlegungen

Gefördert durch die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung