Upcoming Conference on the Severus Dynasty

Dept. Art History and Studio Arts and Dept. of Humanities,

John Cabot University

Presents

The Roman Empire during the Severan Dynasty

Conference Organizer: Eric C. De Sena

Scientific Committee:

Benedetta Bessi

Thomas Govero

Jens Koehler

Luca Larpi

John Cabot University, April 15-16, 2011

Friday,  April 15, 2011, (Tiber Campus, JCU) 9:00-19:30

9:00-9:15        Introduction by Eric C. De Sena

Session I – Roman Provinces during the Severan Period

9:15-9:35        Simone Rambaldi (Università degli Studi di Bologna/ Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Trapani).  L’attività edilizia romana a destinazione pubblica fra i Severi e i Soldatenkaiser: trasformazioni e continuità.

9:35-9:55        Jean-Paul Petit (Parc Archeologique europeen de Bliesbruck-Reinheim) and Sara Santoro (Università degli Studi di Chieti). Lo sviluppo del vicus Bliesbruck (Moselle, France) agli inizi del III sec. d.C. e la vitalità della Gallia Belgica mosellana nell’epoca dei Severi.

9:55-10:15      Alice Dazzi (Università degli Studi di Parma). Water works and monuments in the Severan Age: some considerations.

10:15-10:30    Giovanni Distefano, "Cartagine durante l'età Severiana".

10:30-10:50    Discussion

Coffee Break 10:50-11:10

           

11:10-11:30    Tino Lelekovic (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts). Southern Pannonia in the time of the Severans.

11:30-11:50    Mujde Turkmen (Istanbul University). Architectural decoration of the Severan period in Pamphylia and Cilicia.

11:50-12:10    Giancarlo Germanà (Accademia di Belle Arti di Siracusa). Some observations on Sicily during the Severan Dynasty.

12:10-12:30    Daniele Malfitana (CNR – Università di Catania). Economy of Sicily during the Severan Period.

12:30-12:50    Discussion

Lunch Break 12:50-13:40

Session II – Aspects of the Economy during the Severan Period

13:40-14:00    Edoardo Radaelli (Sapienza- Università di Roma). Analisi di un riempimento fognario di età severiana dalle cosiddette “Terme di Elagabalo” a Roma.

14:00-14:20    Eszter Harsanyi (affiliation). La ceramica a vernice nera di Treviri: un prodotto di lusso nella Pannonia durante l’epoca severiana.

14:20-14:40    Viorica Rusu-Bolindet (affiliation). Supply and consumption of Samian ware in Romania Dacia during the Severan period.

14:40-15:00    Lucia Afonso (University of Buffalo, SUNY). Is there a Relationship between the Decreasing of Senators from the Iberia Peninsula and the Liberation of the Production and sale of Baetican oil for the annona during the Severan Dynasty?

15:00-15:20    José Carlos Quaresma (University of Lisbon). Economic growth in the early and middle Imperial periods, pre-200 AD: an economic approach from a peripheral province, Lusitania.

15:20-15:40    Discussion

Coffee Break 15:40-16:00

Session III – Severan History and Literature

16:00-16:20    Ivo Topalilov (University of Shumen, Bulgaria). The origo of the Thracian Praetorians in the time of Severi.

16:20-16:40    Mark Gradoni (Hood College). Parthian Campaigns of the Severan Emperors: Imperial Policy and Parthian Military Potency, 193-224 CE.

16:40-17:00    Thomas Govero (John Cabot University). Legal reforms of Ulpian.

17:00-17:20    Erik Thadeus Walters (John Cabot University). Unitas ex Africa: were Tertullian and Cyprian of Carthage unwitting architects of both Imperial and Church unification?

17:20-17:40    Adam Kemezis (University of Alberta). The Severan Sophistic? Dynastic change and continuity in Philostratus.

17:40-18:00    Discussion

Reception 18:00-19:30 – Refreshments and entertainment by the “Ninfe Dacie”

Saturday, April 16, 2011 (Location: Aula Magna, JCU)

Session IV – Severan Art, Architecture and Ideology – need to re-do this schedule

10:00-10:20    Florian Leitmir (Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich). Between tradition and innovation: the visual representation of Severan Emperors.

10:20-10:40    Stephan Faust (University of Hamburg). Ideological messages and local preferences: the imagery of the Severan Arch at Lepcis Magna.

10:40-11:00    Andrea Gariboldi (affiliation). Elagabalo invictus sacerdos: l’imperatore fanciullo e la centralizzazione del sacro attraverso lo specchio delle monete.

11:00-11:20    Luigi Pedroni (affiliation). Athena/Brigantia on an aureus of Septimius Severus.

11:20-11:40    Paola Puppo (affiliation). Vestigia architettoniche del periodo di Settimio Severo in Tunisia.

11:40-12:00    Discussion

Lunch 12:00-12:50

12:50-13:10    Guido Petruccioli (Oxford University). Dynastic commemoration in metropolitan and provincial honorific statuary of the Severans.

13:10-13:30    Maria Lloyd (University of Reading). The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman forum: a re-consideration.

13:30-13:50    Jens Koehler (John Cabot University). More water for Rome: nothing new in the Eternal City? Aqueducts, fountains and baths of the Severan Emperors.

13:50-14:10    Ottavio Bucarelli (Ponteficia Università Gregoriana). Il c.d. tempio di Serapide sul Quirinale. Topografia e archeologia dall’antichità al medioevo.

14:10-14:30    Flavia Guardascione (Università di Napoli Federico II). L’eredità dei Severi: architetture monumentali da Baiae

14:30-14:50    Discussion

14:50-15:00    CONCLUSIONS