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Coloquio internacional. De la introducción por parte de los organizadores: «The study of recycling and reuse in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages has been a subject of long-standing enquiry. Throughout the decades, traditional approaches have been reconsidered and recycling and reuse of Roman material are no longer seen as passive responses to lack of resources and a declining economy, but rather characterized by a high degree of organization, with power, skills, knowledge and legal concerns also playing a role. Scholars have also stressed that reuse implies sometimes a process of appropriation, conversion or reidentification that turns ancient and foreign objects into attractive, valuable and meaningful vestiges in the present.
In this workshop we would like to discuss theoretical as well as practical aspects of reuse and perception of ancient ruins in Post-Roman societies, attending to cases of reuse and spoliation across the Mediterranean Sea, both in Christian and Islamic context, bringing together comparative and transcultural studies into a broader historical and more contemporary perspective. (…)»

Con ponencias (entre otras) de

– Javier Arce (Université de Lille): Los Vándalos y el mar
– David Alvarez Jiménez (UNIR, Madrid): El viaje a alguna parte de los Vándalos
– Antonio Ibba (Università di Sassari): I Vandali in Sardegna: continuità e rotture nella gestione di un territorio
– Konrad Vössing (Universität Bonn), Die Machtstellung der Vandalen im westlichen Mittelmeer vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Beziehungen zu den Westgoten
– Giampiero Scafoglio (Université de Nice): Il poeta e il potere: progetto politico, dialogo e conflitto nella letteratura dell’Africa vandalica

del 20 al 21 de abril de 2023

Organisación: Umberto Roberto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Rocco Selvaggi (Universität Hamburg – RomanIslam), Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg – RomanIslam)
Lugar: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Dipartimento di Studi umanistici, Aula ex Cataloghi lignei, via Porta di Massa 1, 80133 Napoli
Programa: I Vandali e il Mediterraneo. Napoli, 04.2023

Coloquio internacional. De la introducción por parte de los organizadores:  «During the Christianization of the Western Roman Empire, bishops established themselves in prominent positions in the cities from the 4th century onwards. They looked after the poor, acted as judges, were responsible for “construction booms”, and negotiated with duces, kings, or the emperor, not least when it came to ransoming prisoners. According to the communis opinio, we find this urban episcopal leadership particularly in Gaul, but research with a view to the late antique urban world of Hispania also states this phenomenon.
This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to explicitly compare episcopal rule in both regions through archaeological and thematic approaches. The case studies of paradigmatic cities will allow an analysis of the material manifestations of episcopal leadership. At the same time, the thematic approaches enable us to discuss the same process from diverse perspectives: administrative, political, economic, civic, literary and liturgical. Concerning these, how the urban episcopal leadership differs in both regions? Is it the same type of phenomena, and happened it simultaneously? Last but not least, to what extent did Rome continue to function as a paradigm for Gaul and Hispania?»

Con ponencias (entre otras) de

– Carlos Machado (University of St Andrews), Episcopal leadership and its limits in late antique Rome
– Alejandra Chavarria Arnau (Università degli Studi di Padova), The role of bishops in the christianization of urban landscapes in late roman Spain
– Albert V. Ribera i Lacomba (ICAC Tarragona) – Miquel Rosselló Mesquida (Independent researcher), The Valentia (Hispania) episcopal center. From the martyr (Vicentius) to the bishop (Iustinianus)
– Ian Wood (University of Leeds), Variations in ecclesiastical land acquisition in the VIth and VIIth centuries
– Gernot M. Müller (Universität Bonn), Constructing episcopal authority in post-roman letter collections
– Paulo Duarte Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Liturgy and authority in the early middle ages: the bishopric of Caesarius of Arles (502-542)

del 6 al 8 de marzo de 2023

Organisación: Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg – RomanIslam), Paulo Pachá (RomanIslam – Universität Hamburg – UFRJ), Marc Heijmans (Aix Marseille Université – CNRS – CCJ Aix-en-Provence)
Lugar: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstr. 116, 20249 Hamburg. Además, actividad en línea a través de videoconferencia por zoom. Para registrarse deberá escribir un correo electrónico a Dr. Rocco Selvaggi (rocco.selvaggi@uni-hamburg.de).
Programa: Episcopal Leadership Hamburg 03.2023