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Beyond Vagnari: new themes in the study of south Italy in the Roman period International colloquium, 26-28 October 2012

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PROGRAMME

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Friday 26 October 2012

 

14.00 Welcome: Alastair Small and Ulrike Roth

 

Session 1: Vagnari - new work

 

14.10: Maureen Carroll (Sheffield), Vagnari 2012: new work in the vicus by the University of Sheffield

14.30: Alan Dalton (Edinburgh), The excavation of the cistern at Vagnari: an update

14.50: Tracy Prowse (McMaster), Growing up and growing old on an imperial estate: paleopathological analysis of the skeletal remains from Vagnari

 

15.10: Discussion and Break

 

 

Session 2: Vagnari, San Felice and the Basentello survey - new work

 

16.00: Liana Brent (McMaster), Grave goods, burial practices, and patterns of distribution at Vagnari

16.20: Hans VanderLeest (Mount Allison) & Myles McCallum (St. Mary's), Research at San Felice: the villa on the imperial estate

16.40: Myles McCallum (St. Mary's) & Adam Hyatt (Michigan), A view of Vagnari from across the Basentello ...

 

17.00 Discussion and Break

 

Evening Lecture:

 

18.00: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), 'No two characters seem more inconsistent than those of trader and sovereign' (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, V.2.I). The problem of Roman imperial estates

 

19.00: The British School at Rome 'Beyond Vagnari' - Reception and Poster Session

 

 

Saturday 27 October 2012

 

Session 3: Artefacts

 

9.00: Alessandra De Stefano (Foggia), Presenza e circolazione di lucerne a Vagnari e nella valle del Basentello

9.20: Giacomo Disantarosa (Bari), Contestualizzare il contesto: le anfore dal sito di Vagnari e dalla valle del Basentello

9.40: Philip Kenrick (Oxford), Domestic pottery at Vagnari: regional character and Adriatic connections

 

10.00 Discussion and Break

 

 

Session 4: The Hellenistic background, Romanisation, and regional connections

 

11.00 Edward Herring (Galway), The ties that bind: ethnicity and social cohesion in Hellenistic central Puglia

11.20: Douwe Yntema (Amsterdam), Romanisation and south-east Italy

11.40: Darian Totten (Davidson College, North Carolina), Building regional connections in Roman Apulia

 

12.00 Discussion and Break

 

13.00 Lunch hosted by St. Mary's University, Halifax

 

 

Session 5: Roman Apulia and eastern Lucania

 

14.00: Maria Luisa Marchi (Foggia), Paesaggi della Daunia: L'Ager Venusinus

14.20: Giuliano Volpe (Foggia) & Maria Turchiano (Foggia), Faragola (Ascoli Satriano, Fg), un abitato rurale della Valle del Carapelle: della villa romana alla curtis altomedievale?

14.40: Pasquale Favia (Foggia) & Roberta Giuliani (Foggia), Forme di popolamento nella fascia territoriale appulo-lucano nel VI e VII secolo

 

15.00: Discussion and Break

 

 

Session 6: Roman Lucania and Samnium

 

16.00: Helena Fracchia (Alberta), Geophysical prospection in the Upper Bradano Valley: results and interpretations

16.20: Maurizio Gualtieri (Perugia), The villa at Masseria Ciccotti (Oppido Lucano, PZ) in the 3rd c. A.D.

16.40: Edward Bispham (Oxford), The Sangro Valley: settlement, communications and economy in imperial central Italy

 

17.00 Discussion and Break

 

18.00 The Andante Travels 'Beyond Vagnari' - Reception and Poster Session

 

 

Sunday 28 October 2012

 

Session 7: Estates between Republic and Empire

 

9.00: Saskia Roselaar (Nottingham), Economic developments and the integration of southern Italy in the Roman Republic

9.20: Pasquale Rosafio (Lecce), Vagnari, an outline of the imperial estate

9.40: Helga di Giuseppe (Rome), Imperial properties in ancient Lucania

 

10.00 Discussion and Break

 

 

Session 8: Imperial estates

 

11.00: Lisa Fentress (Rome), The afterlife of an imperial villa: late antique Villa Magna

11.20: Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway), Before Vagnari - Laurentum, Rome's first imperial estate

11.40: Domenico Vera (Parma), Imperial estates in late Roman southern Italy: land concentration and rent distribution

 

12.00 Discussion and Break

 

13.00 Lunch hosted by McMaster University

 

14.00 Concluding remarks & farewell: Ulrike Roth and Alastair Small

 

 

Please take note of the post-conference activities: information in the right hand column of this page!

 

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