[Antiquitas] Roman Family VI

[Katariina Mustakallio]

Roman Family VI
Limits and Borders of Childhood and Family
17-19 May 2012
Villa Lante al Gianicolo, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome
Call For Posters
Deadline 31.1.2011

This conference sets out to continue the tradition of the previous  
Roman Family Conferences, held in Canberra, Hamilton and Fribourg in  
the period 1981-2007, all of which have resulted in books that have  
become key volumes to our understanding of the family in Roman times.  
Moreover, subject and theme of this sixth conference directly follow  
the path of Roman Family V, which elaborated upon 'limits' of  
families. In this conference, 'limits and borders' will be understood  
in three different ways: the borders of the Roman Empire which have so  
far not been in the centre of the discussion; the limits of human  
life, by which we mean dangerous or 'darker' sides of childhood and  
family; and the borderline between childhood/youth and the adult  
world. Moreover, we will also touch upon chronological borders, by  
focusing on Late Antiquity, a period which has been intensively  
studied in the last years and has become a new and flourishing branch  
of family studies.
This gives to Scholars and PhD students an occasion to be in contact  
with the best specialists of the topic in the world by participating  
and/or presenting their posters.

Conference fee 50-150 euros.
Please contact:
Mustakallio at irfrome.org