[Antiquitas] HelRAW seminar 7.11. David Rafferty: How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic decay in the 50s BCE

[Koskinen, Pyry I]

Dear all,

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!

Abstract:
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.
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.

When: November 7th, 2022, at 17:15 (UTC+2)
Where: Room 11, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40, 3rd floor)
Online: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/64129444826?pwd=OTgzbGIxc0phakJKSjVSbjhOV3Qwdz09
Meeting ID: 641 2944 4826
Passcode: 953226
Event page: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-governance-and-space/news-events/helraw-david-rafferty-7112022

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.

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. The seminar is open for all.

Welcome!

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Pyry Koskinen

pyry.i.koskinen at helsinki.fi<mailto:pyry.i.koskinen at helsinki.fi>
+358505262774
Tutkimusavustaja / Research assistant
Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (www.spacelaw.fi<http://www.spacelaw.fi/>)
Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 327


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