Internationales Kolloquium. Aus dem Ankündigungstext der Veranstalter: «This workshop wants to analyze the dynamics of territorial management that enable Rome to maintain its power on a regional scale. We propose a study of the infrastructure that supported this management (roads, fortifications and settlements), understood not only as specific elements of transport or warfare, but as part of a logistical system. In this way, the workshop seeks to discuss the capacity of Roman power to exercise its authority through structures that, far from direct coercion, consolidated the political, economic and spatial cohesion of the Empire. This global approach transcends the usual thematic, spatial and temporal fragmentation between studies of territory, military archaeology and road networks. In contrast to approaches focused on technical aspects or the analysis of isolated sites, this workshop will address the territory from a holistic point of view: the aim is to re-evaluate the analysis of territorial management not as a minor phenomenon, limited to a sectoral study, but as an essential dimension for understanding imperial development.»
Mit Beiträgen u.a. von
– Elly N.A. Heirbaut (LAReS BV, Universiteit Leiden), The Roman military presence in Flanders. First results
– Joseph Lewis (Cambridge University), Territorial Control of Roman Wales: The role of natural terrestrial corridors on the positioning of fortifications
– Christian Beck (Universität Trier), Connecting the Mountains with the Mediterranean: The Reconstruction of the Roman Road Network between Aquileia and the Alps
– Massimo Gasparini (Universidad de Córdoba), Mining Sierra Morena. The management of a roman territory through the study of the road networks: the case of the Corduba-Emerita road
– Ignacio Arce García (German-Jordanian University), Severan Forts, Tetrarchic Quadriburgia, Ghassanid Monasteries (and Palaces), Umayyad Qusur: Transformation and change of use in the transition from Roman to Islamic rule in the Levant
29. bis 30. Januar 2026
Organisation: José Luis Domínguez Jiménez (RomanIslam Center, Universität Hamburg) – Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg)
Veranstaltungsort: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstr. 116, 20249 Hamburg
Programm: Managing Territory in Roman Times – Hamburg, 01.2026
