The Ancient World between City and Countryside: Interactions, Contrasts, and Continuities

Haus der Kulturinstitute, Raum 242
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

 

Program

Thursday 3rd April

14:00 - Welcome & Registration to the Conference
14:15 - Opening Remarks

Session 1: Identity and Society between City and Countryside

14:30- 15:00 Nadire Aslan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Living and Dying Between City and Countryside: Embodied Social Identities in Roman Southern Anatolia

15:00-15:30 Leila Winkler (LMU Munich)
Latin love elegy: A gender perspective on city and countryside

15:30- 16:00 Areej Ibraheem (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Roman Funerary artifacts: Reflections of city-Countryside interactions in Emesa

16:00 – 16.30: Coffee Break

Session 2: The Sacred Space between City and Countryside

16.30-17.00 Ronja Fink (LMU Munich)
Reusing Sacred Spaces in Late Antique Lycia: Different Strategies for City and Rural Sanctuaries?

17:00-17:30 Daniela Coppola (LMU Munich)
Nola and its coemeterium. A particular interaction between the city and its necropolis in late antiquity.

17:30- 18:00 He Huang (LMU Munich)
Cities, Fields, and Mounds: Differentiation and Categorization of Egyptian Sacred Landscapes in
Religious Texts from the Temple of Dendera

18:00-18:30 Coffee Break

18:30- 19:30 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen (LMU Munich)
Urban-rural differences in health? A view from Roman Britain to Asia Minor

Friday 4th April

Session 3: The Space between City and Countryside: Mobility and Interconnections

9:00- 9:30 Yannic Grohmann (Technical University of Berlin)
Between Via Appia and Via Labicana – Romes suburban topography of the 2nd century AD

9:30-10:00 Maria Elisa Amadasi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Flowing Connections: Aqueducts and Urban-Rural Interactions in Imperial Rome

10:00-10:30 Bjarke Bach Christensen (University of Cambridge)
Urban Cash Crop Production and Rural Mobility in Late Antique Africa

10:30-11:00 Berglind Hatje (University of Leipzig)
Rural settlements – Between production and consumption

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Session 4: The Role of Administration in the Relationship between City and Countryside

11:30-12:00 Burak Soy (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Ancient greek city-state “polis”: Early west anatolian examples

12:00- 12:30 Ruoxuan Wen (LMU Munich)
Governing the Margins: Local Administration and Security in the Expanding City of Changsha (90-112
AD, China)

12:30-13:00 Lennart Lundgreen (LMU Munich)
The separation between city and countryside in Egypt after the beginning of Roman rule in the light of
the compulsory public services as a process of social differentiation

13:00-13:30 Conclusions