Conferences

Priests and State in the Roman World

The Research Institute of Classics organised an international conference on ‘Priests and the State in the Roman World’, which will take place at Lampeter between 28 and 30 August 2008.  This conference explored the role of priests and priesthoods in the religious, social, and political life of Rome and her Empire. We expect that the proceedings of the conference will provide the basis for an edited book, which should provide a wide-ranging treatment of the role of priests and priesthoods in the Roman world.

Programme

Thursday 28 August

1.30-1.50           Arrival to Roderic Bowen Centre; coffee

1.50-2.00           Welcome

Priestly colleges and the state (Chair: J. Reynolds)

2.00-2.40           J. North (London), ‘Lex Domitia revisited’

2.40-3.20           J. Rüpke (Erfurt), ‘Different colleges – never mind?’

Coffee break

Priests, peace, and the state (Chair: J. North)

3.30-4.10           J. Rich (Nottingham), ‘Roman Priests and Roman War’

4.10-4.50           F. Santangelo (Lampeter), ‘Pontiffs and pax deorum’

Coffee break

Priests and the records of the state (Chair: J. Rich)

5.00-5.40           T. Cornell (Manchester), ‘Cato and the tablet of the pontifex maximus’

5.40-6.20           J. Richardson (Lampeter), ‘The Vestal Virgins and the Chronicle of the pontifex maximus’

Dinner

Friday 29 August

Priestesses and the State (Chair: T. Cornell)

9.30-10.10         F. Glinister (London), ‘The Salian Virgins’

10.10-10.50       E. Isayev (Exeter), ‘Just the right amount of priestly foreigners: Roman citizenship for the Greek priestess of Ceres’

Coffee break

Priests and the Empire (Chair: J. Rüpke)

11.10-11.50       A. Raggi (Pisa), ‘Religion in Municipal Laws?’

11.50-12.30       A. Dalla Rosa (Pisa-Cologne), ‘Auspicia of the emperor and the proconsuls’

1.00-2.00           Lunch

Priests, Church and State (Chair: S. Mitchell)

2.10-2.50           M. Humphries (Swansea), ‘Towards a new pontifex maximus? Roman Church and Roman State in Late Antiquity’

Coffee break

Priests in the Empire I (Chair: M. Humphries)

3.10-3.50           A. Clark (Oxford), ‘Magistri and ministri in Roman Italy’

3.50-4.30           R. Häussler (Osnabrück), ‘State and Religion in Gallia Narbonensis’

4.30-5.10           B. Goffaux (Lille), ‘Priests and Provincial Organization in Hispania Citerior’

Conference dinner

Saturday 30 August

Priests in the Empire II (Chair: E. Isayev)

9.00-9.40           B. Rossignol (Paris), ‘Municipal and provincial priests from the Danubian provinces (Pannonia, Dacia, Moesia superior)’

9.40-10.20         L. Capponi (Newcastle), ‘Priests and State in Roman Egypt’

Coffee break

Priests in the Empire III (Chair: I. Barton)

10.40-11.20       J. Reynolds (Cambridge), ‘Priests in Cyrenaica’

11.20-12.00    S. Mitchell (Exeter), ‘The origins of emperor worship under Augustus - a new look at Galatia’

Farewells

Buffet lunch

The conference was dedicated to the memory of our colleague Keith Hopwood.

For any query, you are welcome to get in touch with the conference organisers, Dr James Richardson and Dr Federico Santangelo.