Imperial Presence in Rome in late antiquity (third-sixth centuries AD)
Frankfurt am Main, March 20 – 22, 2015
IG Farben 311
Friday, 20/03/15
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Registration
4:30 - 6:00 pm: Welcome and introduction: McEvoy & Moser
Session One: Tetrarchy
Chairperson: Wolfram Brandes (Frankfurt)
Simon Corcoran (London), Maxentius, the Roman tetrarch
7:00 pm:Dinner
Saturday, 21/03/15
9:45-10:45 am: Session Two: Emperors and Senators
Chairperson: Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen)
Julia Hillner (Sheffield) Maximian, Constantine, and imperial women in Rome (reading of a short paper)
Meaghan McEvoy (Frankfurt), Shadow emperors: Rome in the last decades of the western empire
10:45-11:15 pm: tea/coffee break
11:15-12:00 pm:
Michele Renee Salzman (California), Emperors and senators from Valentinian III through the Early Sixth Century
12:00–1:00 pm: Buffet lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Session Four: Written imperial presence
Chairperson: Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen)
Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Imperial visits of the long fourth century and their narrators
2:15 – 3:45 pm: Session Five: Administrative imperial presence
Chairperson: Benet Salway (London)
Caillan Davenport (Brisbane), Rome and the rhythms of imperial life from the Antonines to Constantine
Muriel Moser (Frankfurt), Constans and his prefects in Rome
3:45 – 4:15 pm: tea/coffee break
4:15 – 5:30 pm: Session Six: Evening lecture
Chairperson: Benet Salway (London)
Silvia Orlandi (Rome), Urban prefects and the epigraphic evidence of late-antique Rome
7:00 pm: Dinner
Sunday, 22/03/15
10:00–11:00 am: Session Seven: Material imperial presence
Chairperson: Julia Hillner (Sheffield)
Markus Löx (Munich), The emperor's material presence in lateantique Rome
11:00–11:30 am: tea/coffee
11:30–12:30 pm: Session Eight: Imperial presence and the Christian realm
Chairperson: Hartmut Leppin (Frankfurt)
Michel-Yves Perrin (Paris), Imperial interventions in the life of the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity. A comparative perspective
12:30– 1:00 pm: Concluding remarks and discussion
1:00 pm:Farewell buffet lunch