The Colonization of the West. A Roman Story
The West. A territory where life is hard. You have so much to gain, but the risk is high. Unknown barbarians live there. They make your life dangerous, but you are superior, entitled to do as you please. The oh-so-white and romanticized vision of the American West is almost true also for the Roman Republican world. In this paper, we'll explore the topics and the realities between Rome and the conquered populations of the Western Mediterranean.
Speaker: Cristina de la Escosura (Complutense University of Madrid)
The Colonial Archives and the Roman Inscriptions of North Africa
Colonial archives of North African countries (mainly Algeria and Tunis) explain a page in the modern history of epigraphic studies by exemplifying colonial strategies of cultural domination and the European appropriation of North African historical heritage. But also, historical documentary collections still provide relevant information for Roman society by reporting new data about North African Roman societies with new unpublished text that inform us about onomastics, magistrates, milestones, evergetisim, religion... In this paper, I will present the main collections with all this available information (unpublished drawings, photographs and reports) that helps to complete the 'life cycle' of the inscriptions and I will provide some interesting examples of new or revisited inscriptions that help us to enlarge the acknowledgment about Roman Africa.
Speaker: Sergio España-Chamorro (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Organized by: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University)
Sponsors: RCCHU; Complutense University of Madrid; Sapienza Università di Roma
LOCATION:RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. and over Zoom STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20230322T190000Z DTEND:20230322T213000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR