Understanding the Eternal City. BerGSAS Workshop on New Research in Rome and Ostia

Jul 18, 2024 - Jul 19, 2024

Workshop on current research projects in the Rome-Ostia region, focusing on modern methods and innovative perspectives.

The focus of the workshop are research projects by young academics on the urban complex of Rome and Ostia. Especially in the last years, these important sites are being explored with new approaches. Much treated contexts as well as those only marginally discussed ware being investigated with modern methods and evaluated critically from new perspectives. This shows itself for one in new assessments and studies of known sites. Furthermore, basic research resting upon documentation in the form of microstudies of single buildings and material categories is gaining a lot of attention. Still young, digitally aided methods have an important role in these projects.

The workshop wants to account for these impulses in the exploration of the metropolitan region of Rome and bring together young researchers in a discourse about their projects regarding contents and approaches. Given the focus on the spaces of Rome and Ostia, importance also lies with specifically chosen contributions that evidence a contrast with the mechanisms and traditions of the capital within the ancient world. Rome and Ostia are unthinkable without their contacts with the wider Imperium Romanum, just as the Roman world is unthinkable without these cities. This relation of exchange will also be discussed and evaluated in the course of the event.

All talks and discussions will be held in English. Seeing how spots in the event room are limited, we ask all who want to participate in person to register via e-mail at jonas.zweifel@berliner-antike-kolleg.org until the 04.07.2024. Participation via Webex will also be possible (a link will be published shortly).

Programme

Thursday, July 18, 2024

9:00
Welcome

9:15
Online Key Note Lecture on Rom by Prof. Gabriele Cifani (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

9:50
Study of the Spatial Organization of the Capitoline Hill in Rome
Rebecca Santinelli (FU Berlin)

10:30
De Tuscanicis dispositionibus. The Typology, Chronology, and Cultural History of Doric and Tuscan Capitals in the Architecture of Republican and Imperial Italy
Lukas Reimann (Universität Trier)

11:10
Coffee Break

11:30
The West Hall of the Domitian Complex: Research in the Heart of Rome
Fabrizio Sommaini (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg),

12:10
The Area of the Horti Sallustiani. A New Approach
Francesca Zandonai (FU Berlin)

12:50
Lunch Break

13:50
Digital Methodologies for Archaeological Documentation: Case Studies from Regio XII Piscina Publica and Ostia
Federico Fasson (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)

14:30
Understanding Urbanity in (Post-) Hellenistic Italy. The Case of Monte Iato in Western Sicily
Agata Guirard (Universität Zürich)

15:10
Coffee Break

15:30
Sensing the Past: New Archaeological Investigations in the Roman Cities of Falerio Picenus and Suasa (Italy, Marche)
Giuseppe Guarino (Università di Bologna)

16:10
The Dark Age Paradox: Living Standards and Rural Economy in Post-Roman Gaul
Roeland Emaus (Universität Leiden)

Friday, July 19, 2024

9:00
Welcome

9:15
New Methods applied to Ancient Sites: A brief History of Digital Documentation in Ostia Antica
Key Note Lecture by Prof. Axel Gering (HU Berlin)

9:50
New Hypotheses about the Building Chronology of Block V, V at Ostia
Jonas Zweifel (FU Berlin)

10:30
Stamped Bricks as Indicators of Changes on Urban Scale in Ostia
Silvia Alegiani (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)

11:10
Coffee Break

11:30
The First Forum of Ostia
Daniel Damgaard (HU Berlin)

12:10
Reconsider the Case: Inconsistent Reconstruction - Relecture - Rework - Neglected and Overlooked Information on the Ostian so-called Capitolium and Hadrianic Forum
Johannes Trockels (HU Berlin),

12:50
Lunch Break

13:50
Pottery Assemblages from the Recently Discovered Sanctuary in the Centre of Ostia: The Ostia Forum Project's Excavations in the Area TFR
Sophie Menge (HU Berlin)

14:30
Studying the Construction of an Ostian Building Using the ACoR Database: the Case of the Caseggiato delle Trifore (III, III, 1)
Sarah Vyverman (Université Catholique du Louvain)

15:10
The Constantinian Episcopal Church at Ostia – New Results from the First Excavation Campaign
Hannah Boes (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

15:50
Coffee Break

16:10
Final Discussion