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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This Autumn’s third Helsinki Research on the Ancient World (HelRAW) seminar takes place on November 7th with David Rafferty (University of Adelaide) and the talk “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic decay in the 50s
BCE”. While this is a hybrid event, we extend a warm welcome to join us with our speaker at Metsätalo!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Abstract: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the rise of authoritarianism across the world, and especially since Trump’s election in 2016, political scientists have showed renewed interest in the decay and collapse of long-established democracies. This emerging
body of scholarship is useful in helping us understand the breakdown of Rome’s own centuries-old republic, but also gives us the possibility of framing Rome as a case study for political scientists to use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My talk focuses on the 50s BCE and the confrontation between the triumvirs and their opponents. But rather than telling the familiar tale of a countdown to civil war, it analyses the ‘how’ of Roman politics using the
tools provided by this interdisciplinary scholarship. It is a story of ambition, escalation, stubbornness, miscalculation and manure. But it is also a story of institutional change, of rapid precedent-setting, and of the failure of norms of forbearance, which
led indirectly to the emergence of an authoritarian ruler in Rome. Not Caesar (or at least, not initially), but his erstwhile partner and onetime son-in-law, Pompeius Magnus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When: November 7th, 2022, at 17:15 (UTC+2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Where: Room 11, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40, 3rd floor)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Online: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/64129444826?pwd=OTgzbGIxc0phakJKSjVSbjhOV3Qwdz09<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Meeting ID: 641 2944 4826<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Passcode: 953226<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Event page: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-governance-and-space/news-events/helraw-david-rafferty-7112022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">About the speaker: Dr David Rafferty is currently ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Adelaide in Australia, working on the project “How Republics Die: Rome's democratic breakdown in the first century BCE”.
His monograph Provincial Allocations in Rome, 123-52 BCE was published by Steiner in 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The event is a part of an interdisciplinary seminar series titled Helsinki Research on the Ancient World. This monthly seminar operates under the aegis of the PapyGreek (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri)
and SpaceLaw (www.spacelaw.fi) projects. </span>The seminar is open for all.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Welcome!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Pyry Koskinen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="mailto:pyry.i.koskinen@helsinki.fi"><span style="color:#0563C1">pyry.i.koskinen@helsinki.fi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">+358505262774<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Tutkimusavustaja / Research assistant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.spacelaw.fi/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">www.spacelaw.fi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI">Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 327<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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