[Antiquitas] Call for pa­pers: "Space and Governance: Towards a New Topography of Roman Administration" conference, 3-4 April 2020, Royal Academy of Spain at Rome

[Heta Björklund]

Dear all,

Please note the following call for papers. Feel free to redistribute! 
Thank you!

Best wishes,
Heta Björklund

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*Call for pa­pers: *"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)

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?

Themes:

•    Urban development and dynamics related to the expansion of the 
administration
•    New discoveries on the institutions and spaces of Roman administration
•    Architecture of spaces for public meetings and trials: Assemblies, 
Senate, courtrooms, basilicas
•    Private spaces in the administration: Residences of magistrates and 
the elite
•    Magistracies, offices and archives
•    Epigraphy related to the Roman administration
•    Development of institutions between early Republic and Late Antiquity
•    New methodologies in Roman topography
•    Gender, intersectionality and public space


Keynote speakers: Paolo Liverani (Università degli Studi di Firenze), 
Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Pier Luigi Tucci (Johns Hopkins 
University).

The conference is organized by the ERC-funded project /Law, Governance 
and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition/ 
(SpaceLaw, www.spacelaw.fi), 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.

Abstracts should be 300 words maximum, for 20-minute papers to be 
delivered in English. Abstracts should be sent to 
lawgovernanceandspace at gmail.com 
<mailto:lawgovernanceandspace at gmail.com>. *The deadline for abstracts is 
1st December 2019*. Questions may be sent to Antonio Lopez Garcia 
(antonio.lopezgarcia at helsinki.fi <mailto:antonio.lopezgarcia at helsinki.fi>).

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/space-and-governance-towards-a-new-topography-of-roman-administration-3.-4.4.2020

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Heta Björklund
heta.bjorklund at helsinki.fi
+358504482563
Projektikoordinaattori / Project coordinator
Eurooppalaisen oikeuden, identiteetin ja historian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö / The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (www.eurostorie.org)
Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (www.spacelaw.fi)
Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 323
PL / P.O. Box 9, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki

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