Anchoring Ancient Colonization

9.30-10.00:

Coffee and registration

10.00-10.30:

Opening and introduction - Jeremia Pelgrom & Marleen Termeer

Session 1:

Territorial anchoring strategies in the Archaic World (Chair: Jan Paul Crielaard)

10.30-11.00:

Hard row to Hoe: The implication of agricultural practices and subsistence strategies for study of the Greek colonization in Southern Italy (ca. 800-550 BC.)

Lou Godefroy, VU University (Amsterdam)

11.00-11.30:

Accounting for climate: Assessing the political and economic dimensions of environmental change and land-use during the so-called Greek colonization in Southern Italy

Taariq Ali Sheik, VU University (Amsterdam)

11.30-12.00:

Bridging the Gulf between City and Outpost, Phoenician and Greek, Friend and Foe

Brien Garnand, NINO (Leiden)

12.00-13.30:

Session 2:

Territorial anchoring strategies in the Hellenistic and Roman world (Chair: Jeremia Pelgrom)

13.30-14.00:

Settlement systems in the Sibaritide area (Italy): continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic and the Roman periods

Martina Cecilia Parini, University of Groningen

14.00-14.30:

Anchoring early Roman colonisation strategies to existing settlement systems in central-southern Italy

Anita Casarotto & Tesse Stek, University of Groningen

14.30-15.00:

The impact of land division systems on Roman colonial landscapes

Tymon de Haas, University of Groningen

15.00-15.30:

Aquileia, an obviously innovative colony… but which innovation?

Michel Tarpin, University of Grenoble

15.30-16.00:

Coffee

16.00-16.30:

‘Not without reason’. Anchoring the role of institutional language in colonial settings

Michele Valandro, Radboud University (Nijmegen)

16.30-17.00:

Anchoring a 2nd-century-CE Colony: the case of colonia Aelia Augusta Italicensium

Manuel Alejandro González, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville)

17.00-17.30:

Bulwarks of empire or bulwarks of the emperor? Advancing imperial control in and through the colonies

Anouk Vermeulen, Utrecht University

17.30-18.00:

Imagine No Diaspora: Jewish Foundation Stories in the Early Roman Empire

Eelco Glas, University of Groningen

19.00:

Conference dinner (for participants only)

Session 3:

Socio-economic anchoring strategies in the Archaic period (Chair: Saskia Roselaar )

10.30-11.00:

Socio-economic anchoring strategies and new realities: Pottery production and consumption as indicators for the contributions of Greek migrants and local inhabitants to the so-called Greek ‘colonization’ in Italy

Xenia Charalambidou, VU University (Amsterdam)

11.00-11.30:

Anchoring colonial values: precious metal and money in the northern Aegean

Elon Heymans, University of Amsterdam

11.30-12.00:

More than Traders: Phoenician economies in Iberia and Sardinia in the earliest phases of expansion

Marion Bolder-Boos, Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz)

12.00-13.00:

Lunch

Session 4:

Socio-economic anchoring strategies in the Hellenistic and Roman world (Chair: Marleen Termeer)

13.00-13.30:

Slaves to Rome, Freedmen to the Colonies: Freedmen and Colonization in the Middle Republic

Evan Jewell, Rutgers University (New Jersey)

13.30-14.00:

Religious Syncretism as Anchoring Strategy in the Socio-Economic Context of the Roman Colony of Hasta Regia

Daniel J. Martín-Arroyo Sánchez, University of Granada

14.00-14.30:

Colonies and prosperity: institutional development and economic prosperity in the colonies of the Roman Republic

Saskia T. Roselaar, Independent Scholar

14.30-15.00:

15.00-15.30:

Interactions on the Isthmus: Evidence from the Coins.

Emily Hurt, Yale University (New Haven)

15.30-16.00:

Exploring mechanisms of colonial infiltration in Roman Asia

Dies van der Linde, Independent Scholar

Keynote lecture

16.00-17.00:

‘De-anchoring’ ancient Greek colonization

Jan Paul Crielaard, VU University (Amsterdam)