Italy in the 5th CenturySocial, Political and Economic Transformations in a Society under Stress, 395-493 CE

Thursday, 21st MarchVenue: Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Altemps, Teatro

Chair: Tanja Itgenshorst (Fribourg)

09.30-10.00 Welcome: Daniela Porro, Museo Nazionale RomanoOrtwin Dally, Istituto Archeologico Germanico, RomaIntroduction: Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner & Sarah Bühler, Tübingen

10.00-10.45 Imperial Elites (Sarah Bühler, Tübingen)10.45-11-00 Coffee Break11.00-11.45 Municipal Elites (Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Tübingen)11.45-12.30 Fiscality and Elite Formation (John Weisweiler, Cambridge)12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

Chair: Rita Lizzi (Perugia)

14.00-14-45 Warfare and Violence (Jeroen Wijnendaele, Ghent)14.45-15.30 Portraits and Elite Representation (Carlos Machado, St. Andrews)15.30-16.00 Coffee Break16.00-16.45 Economic Trajectories and Commerce: A Survey (Paolo Tedesco,

Tübingen)16.45-17.30 Poetry under Stress. Paulinus of Nola between Violence and Peace

in the Early 5th C. (Robert Kirstein, Tübingen)17.30-18.15 Spiritual Developments (Kristina Sessa, Ohio State University)18.15-18:30 Coffee Break

18.30 Evening lectureSimony and the State in the Fifth Century Church (Michele-Renee Salzman, UC Riverside)

19.45 Reception

Friday, 22nd March Venue: Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Chair: Marco Maiuro (Rome, La Sapienza)

Welcome: Adrian Brändli, Istituto Svizzero, Roma

09.15-10.00 Aemilia (Claudio Negrelli, Venezia)10.00-10.45 Tuscia Annonaria and Suburbicaria (Federico Cantini, Pisa)10.45-11.00 Coffee Break11.00-11.45 Umbria, Flaminia and Picenum (Fabrizio Oppedisano, Pisa)11.45-12.30 Latium and the Roman Suburbium (Cristina Murer, Bern)12.30-14.15 Lunch Break

Chair: Arnaldo Marcone (Roma Tre)

14.15-15.00 Campania (Eliodoro Savino, Naples)15.00-15.45 Lucania and Bruttium (Battista Sangineto, University of Calabria)15.45-16.15 Coffee Break16.15-17.00 Corsica and Sardegna (Pier Giorgio Spanu, Sassari)17.00-17.45 Settlement Patterns in the Sicilian Countryside (Angelo Castrorao

Barba, CSIC, LAAC/EEA Granada)17.45-18.30 Apulia and Calabria (Giuliano Volpe/Roberto Goffredo, Foggia)

20.00 Dinner

Saturday, 23rd March Venue: Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Chair: Domenico Vera (Parma)

09.00-09.45 Peasants and Agriculture (Kim Bowes, UPenn)09.45-10.30 Venetia and Histria (Alexandra Chavarría Arnau, Padova)10.30-10.45 Coffee Break10.45-11.30 Monetary Circulation: A complex system (Flavia Marani, Tuscia)11.30-12.15 Italy and the East (Umberto Roberto, Rome)12.15-13.00 Cities (Neil Christie, Leicester)13.00-13.30 Conclusions (Stefan Rebenich, Bern)

Organizers:Sarah Bühler (Tübingen), Stefan Rebenich (Bern), Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen), John Weisweiler (University of Cambridge)

Contact & registration: Sa.buehler@uni-tuebingen.de