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Dear all,<br>
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Please note the following call for papers. Feel free to
redistribute! Thank you!<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Heta Björklund<br>
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<div class="tex2jax"> <b>Call for papers: </b>"Space and
Governance: Towards a New Topography of Roman Administration"
conference, 3-4 April 2020, Royal Academy of Spain at Rome (Real
Academia de España en Roma)<br>
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The purpose of the conference is to explore the transformation of
public space and administrative activities in Republican and
Imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary exploration of the
topography of power. The emergence of the Roman Republic produced
a reorganization of the administrative structures, leading to the
emergence of various entities and institutions responsible for
organization and governance of Rome, its civic life and public
spaces. In different ways, this spatial model was exported to the
colonies with the expansion of the Republic. Throughout the Roman
world, building projects created spaces, the topography of the
city, for different civic purposes: for the meetings of
assemblies, senate meetings, the administration of justice, the
public treasury, and the management of the city through different
magistracies, offices and even archives. These administrative
spaces –open and closed– characterized the Roman life throughout
the Republic and High Empire, until the profound administrative
and judicial transformations of the Dominate. This conference aims
to study the public and private spaces related to administration
through the urban development, the existing interrelation between
the different administrative bodies, the analysis of the
architecture of the spaces already discovered and the study of the
written sources. We will try to find an answer to the dilemmas
such as where did the administration work? Were there offices and
where were they located? Were there social class differences
between the different levels of administration?<br>
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Themes:<br>
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• Urban development and dynamics related to the expansion of
the administration<br>
• New discoveries on the institutions and spaces of Roman
administration<br>
• Architecture of spaces for public meetings and trials:
Assemblies, Senate, courtrooms, basilicas<br>
• Private spaces in the administration: Residences of
magistrates and the elite<br>
• Magistracies, offices and archives<br>
• Epigraphy related to the Roman administration<br>
• Development of institutions between early Republic and Late
Antiquity<br>
• New methodologies in Roman topography<br>
• Gender, intersectionality and public space</p>
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Keynote speakers: Paolo Liverani (Università degli Studi di
Firenze), Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Pier Luigi Tucci
(Johns Hopkins University).<br>
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The conference is organized by the ERC-funded project <em>Law,
Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the
Republican Tradition</em> (SpaceLaw, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spacelaw.fi">www.spacelaw.fi</a>), based at
the University of Helsinki. There is no conference fee. The
organizers are unfortunately unable to aid in either travel or
accommodation arrangements or the cost of travel or accommodation.<br>
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Abstracts should be 300 words maximum, for 20-minute papers to be
delivered in English. Abstracts should be sent to <a href="mailto:lawgovernanceandspace@gmail.com">lawgovernanceandspace@gmail.com</a>.
<strong>The deadline for abstracts is 1st December 2019</strong>.
Questions may be sent to Antonio Lopez Garcia (<a href="mailto:antonio.lopezgarcia@helsinki.fi">antonio.lopezgarcia@helsinki.fi</a>).<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/space-and-governance-towards-a-new-topography-of-roman-administration-3.-4.4.2020">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/space-and-governance-towards-a-new-topography-of-roman-administration-3.-4.4.2020</a><br>
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Heta Björklund
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:heta.bjorklund@helsinki.fi">heta.bjorklund@helsinki.fi</a>
+358504482563
Projektikoordinaattori / Project coordinator
Eurooppalaisen oikeuden, identiteetin ja historian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö / The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.eurostorie.org">www.eurostorie.org</a>)
Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spacelaw.fi">www.spacelaw.fi</a>)
Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 323
PL / P.O. Box 9, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki</pre>
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