Professor Irad Malkin of the University of Tel Aviv will give a talk entitled: "Greek Networks in the Archaic Mediterranean"
Friday October 5th at 11 am in the 5th Floor Conference Room of the Italian Academy
SPACES OF JUSTICE IN THE ROMAN WORLD
November 16 -17 2007
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Friday, November 16 th
Session 1 9:15am-12:45pm
9:15-9:30 : William V. Harris ( Columbia University )
Introduction
9:30-10:15 : Bruce W. Frier ( University of Michigan )
“Finding a Place for Law in the High Empire”
10:45-11:30 : Katherine E. Welch ( New York University )
“Judicial Process and Public Visibility in the Greek Agora,
Roman Forum, and in Pagan and Early Christian Basilicas”
11:45-12:30 : Ernest Metzger ( University of Glasgow )
“Having an Audience with the Magistrate”
Session 2 2:15-6:20pm
2:15-3:00 : Eric Kondratieff ( Temple University )
“ Rome ’s Evolving Civic Landscape in Context: Tribunes of the
Plebs and the Praetor’s Tribunal in 75/74 BCE ”
3:15-4:00: Richard Neudecker (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom)
“ Rome : Law and Order in Sacred Spaces”
4:20-5:05 : Leanne Bablitz ( University of British Columbia )
“A Relief, Some Letters, and the Centumviral Court ”
5:20-6:05 : Rebecca Benefiel ( Washington and Lee University )
“A Space for Public Communication: Graffiti and the Basilica
of Pompeii ”
Saturday, November 17 th
Session 3 9:15-12:55pm
9:15-10:00 : Livia Capponi ( University of Newcastle upon Tyne )
“Spaces of Justice in Roman Egypt”
10:35-11:20: Jean-Jacques Aubert (Université de Neuchâtel)
“The Setting and Staging of Christian Trials”
11:35-12:20 : John Bodel ( Brown University )
“Kangaroo Courts: Rough Justice in the Roman Novel”
12:35-12:55: Francesco de Angelis (Columbia University)
Conclusion: “On the Fringes of the Lawsuit”
___________________________________________________________________
NOVEMBER 29th, 2007
Professor Kutalmis Gorkay (Ankara University)
will deliver a lecture entitled:
"Zeugma in Commagene: The Results of the 2005-2007 Excavation Seasons ”
5 pm in the 5th floor conference room of the Italian Academy
December 5th, 2007
Columbia (Amsterdam at 117th St), in the fifth-floor seminar room
Professor Martin Goodman
will give a talk entitled:
"Romans, Jews and Christians on the Names of the Jews"
at 5 p.m. in the 5th floor conference room of the Italian Academy
