Thursday 18th April

Glamorgan Building and Online

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08:00-08:30   Registration 

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08:30-08:40   Opening Remarks - Clare Parry (Cardiff University)

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08:40-09:25    Keynote Speaker:

        The power of blood: blood consumption in antiquity  - Professor Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University)

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09:25-09:30     Break  

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09:30-11:00      Panel 1 – People, Power, and Place: Pre-Rome to Hannibal 

Moderator: Professor Guy Bradley

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Identity and “space” in Bruttium between the 4th and 2nd century BC - Ludovico Rodolfo Runco (Cardiff University)

 

Soft Power in Republican Roman History: Why it Matters - Kieran Blewitt (Cardiff University) 

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Self-representation and communication strategies of Samnite elites in middle and late Republic and Livy’s onomastic tradition - Lorenzo Serino (Università del Molise) 

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Notes on Hannibal´s designation as new general: education and opposition - Christian San José Campos (University of Alcala) 

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11:00-11:10       Break 

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11:10-12:40       Panel 2 – Words as Power and the Power of Words 

Moderator: Ludovico Runco

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Vox Populi: Oratory, Sedition, and the Roman People as ‘Collective Agents’ - Connor Hickey (University of St Andrews) 

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The Power of the Words and their Impact on People - Agata Otranto (University of Bari Aldo Moro) 

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‘Latent’ documents in Thucydides: the case of Thuc. 7.22.1-2 - Anita Malagrinò Mustica (University of Foggia)

 

People, power, and place in the Daodejing - Cristian Popescu (University of Bucharest) 

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12:40-13:40       Lunch 

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13:40-15:10       Panel 3 – Approaching the Divine: People, Power, and Place

Moderator: Clare Parry

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Wisdom Dethroned: The Politicalization of Gender in the Sapiential Discourse in Ancient Jewish Literature - Ruthanne Brooks (St John’s College, University of Oxford) 

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‘Hereditary mētis’: Understanding the Roles of Zeus and Athena in the Sphere of Crafts - Emma Hawdale (University of Nottingham) 

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Votive Offerings and the Individual: Reflections on Religious Choice - Joel Curzon (Cardiff University) 

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‘I tell you truthfully, with an infallible voice’: Klaros, oracles, and networks of power in the Roman East - Thomas Gavin (Wolfson College, University of Oxford) 

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15:10-15:20      Break 

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15:20-16:50     Panel 4 – Thematic Studies on Women's Agency 

        Moderator: Professor Laurence Totelin

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Roman women’s agency in craft activities - Ludivine Capra (University of Strasbourg) 

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Constructing the Non-Roman: The Sophoniba Episode in Livy - Bethany Haywood (University of Nottingham)

 

Reception of the Flavian Imperial Women in the Eastern Provinces: A Numismatic Study - Victoria Vening-Richards (University of Warwick) 

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Walking towards the gods: Female pilgrimage in the Antiquity. The journey to Diana Nemorensis - Ana María González Casanova Ávila (Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona)  

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16:50-17:00      Break 

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17:00-18:15       Panel 5 – Projecting Power: Reinterpretations of Identity, Authority, and Image

Moderator: Kieran Blewitt

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Egypt and Rome: Conquest through ‘Soft Power’ – Jacopo Napoli (University of Kent) 

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Ancestral Connotations and Decoding Political, Legal and Constitutional Axiology in Late Fifth Century BCE Athens - Radosław Miśkiewicz (University of Warsaw) 

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An Iconographic Exegesis of Warfare and Violence in the Oracles Against the Nations, Isaiah 14:24-24 - Clare Parry (Cardiff University) 

 

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Friday 19th April

John Percival Building and Online

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08:30-09:00    Coffee Catch Up/Opening Remarks 

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09:00-10:30     Panel 6 – Power and Voice in Late Antiquity  

Moderator: Sean Strong

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RESTITVTOR ORBIS: Depictions of Emperor Gallienus (253-268) in the Numismatics of the Central Mints - David Serrano Ordozgoiti (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 

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Rethinking Ancient ‘Magic’ as ‘Ritual Power’: Ammianus Marcellinus on Valens’ Persecution of Private Ritual Practices - Lars Sheppard-Larsen (University of Auckland) 

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Helena and Eusebia: two sides of being an Imperial Woman in the Fourth Century - Aurora Sansaloni Magraner (University of Valencia) 

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The ruin of Britain and the sins of Rome: A Sallustian intertext within Gildas’ De excidio et conquestu Britanniae? - Donato Sitaro (University of Naples “Federico II”) 

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10:30-10:45      Break 

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10:45-12:15       Panel 7 – Power from Place: Approaching Royal and Religious Institutions and Policies in the                                       Ancient World

Moderator: Dr Maria Fragoulaki

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Questions of Power and Gender in 4th Century BCE Caria: The Hecatomnid’s Dynastic Project. - Cinzia Tuena (Universität Basel) 

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Callimachus and Miletus: a case of eulogistic propaganda? -  Antonio Papapicco (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) 

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Temples, literature and imperial power - Elijah Vieira-Faria (Swansea University) 

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The Seleucid settlement/colonization policy: Types of settlement and control of territory - Albert Sala Jarque (University of Barcelona) 

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12:15-12:30       Break 

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12:30-14:00      Panel 8 - Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean

Moderator: Sean Strong

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Eratosthenes’ Byzantion: A Sphere of Geographical Influence in the Third Century BC - Samantha Sink (Trinity College Dublin) 

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The ‘Geography of Recognition’ and Mediterranean Imperialisms - Connor Beattie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 

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Judea in the 1st century AD: Jewish elite and Roman rulers. Between theocracy, power and failed cooperation - Francesca Lorenzini (Roma Tre University) 

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Self-inflicted Crisis of the struggle between the Byzantine Empire and the early Bulgarian state and its longue durée consequences - Mike Smith (Cardiff University) 

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14:00-15:00      Lunch 

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15:00-16:15       Panel 9 – Understanding Identity and Image in the Social World

Moderator: Kieran Blewitt

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Narcotic Nectars and Where to Find Them: An Analysis of Drug Trade and Sexuality in Ancient Times - Carina Mkrtchiyan (University of Crete) 

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Re-examining the Gladiatorial Epigraphy of the Grecophone East - Alexandra Sills (University of Leicester)

 

The Roman Harvest Contractor: A Particular Roman Institution or a General Ancient Reality? - Lluís Jerez I Bertolín (University of Birmingham) 

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16:15-16:30      Break

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16:30-18:00     Panel 10 – Navigating the Sea: Tales of Trade, Exchange, and Conflict in the Ancient World

Moderator: Dr Eve MacDonald

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De imperio Cn. Pompei: Investigating how Cicero emphasises the success of Pompey’s pirate war in 67 BCE - Kai Alexander Francis (University of Leicester) 

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Sailing multiculturalism: Cross-cultural trade in the Late Antique Indian Ocean - Jon Mateo Gabilondo Gutierrez (University of Pompeu Fabra) 

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The Pepper Harvesting Monkeys of the Western Ghats. Marginal Agents of the Indian Ocean Trade in the Early 1st Millennium CE - Priyasakhi Chiara Barchi (ISAW, New York University) 

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Connectivity And Exchange Through Animals (1st Century BC – 5th Century AD): The Case of Whales and Their By-products - Antonio Ruiz Sánchez (University of Valencia) and Sebastián Uribe Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 

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18:00-18:30     Closing remarks - Clare Parry (Cardiff University)