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New Insights on Roman Economy and Society
LAW, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY IN ROMAN AND LATE ROMAN TIMES
International congress
June, 26: American Academy in Rome – 14.00
AAR Lecture Room, McKim, Mead & White Building, Via Angelo Masina, 5 - Roma
June, 27: Accademia Vivarium novum, Frascati – 9:00
Villa Falconieri, viale F. Borromini 5 - Frascati
This two-day event brings together scholars of various academic traditions – including Roman law, Roman economy, and Roman society – to explore key themes of Roman history. These include free labor, entrepreneurship for enslaved people and women, legal fiction, and the social realities of life as experienced from the late Roman Republic to the fall of the Roman Empire.
There is growing interest among scholars and widespread recognition of the centrality of these themes for a better understanding of Roman society and law. Much of the new research in these areas has been put forward by the participants of our event. This meeting aims to draw international attention to scholarly innovations of the past few years and provide an opportunity for scholarly debate and the cross-fertilization of ideas.
Cohosted by the American Academy in Rome and Academia Vivarium Novum, New Insights on Roman Economy and Society is also organized by the Sapienza Center for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and by CASAM, the Center for Advanced Studies on the Ancient Mediterranean – Social and Economic History.
Speakers
Kim Bowes (Univ. Pennsylvania, USA)
Edward Cohen (Univ. Pennsylvania, USA)
Éva Jakab (Univ. Szeged, Hungary)
Christel Freu (Univ. Paris Saclay, France)
Richard Gamauf (Univ. Wien, Austria)
Dennis Kehoe (Tulane, USA) TBC
Aldo Petrucci (Università di Pisa)
Martin Schermaier (Univ. Bonn, Germany)
Jean-Jacques Aubert (Univ. Neuchatel)
Organized by Marco Maiuro (Univ. Roma, La Sapienza)
PROGRAM
26 June 2025
14:00 INTRODUCTION
Peter N. Miller (President and CEO, American Academy in Rome)
Caroline Goodson (Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor, American Academy in Rome)
Alberto Camplani (Sapienza, Università di Roma)
14:30 INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE
Marco Maiuro (Sapienza, Università di Roma): ‘Between Norm and Realities: the Interplay of Law, Society, and Economy in the Last Decade of Studies’
15:00 FIRST SESSION: FREE ENTERPRISE
Chair: Aliza S. Wong (Director, American Academy in Rome)
Kimberly Bowes (University of Pennsylvania): ‘Category and Practice in Roman labor; Categorie e prassi nel lavoro romano’
Éva Jakab (Károli Gáspár Universität der ReformiertenKirche, Budapest/ Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften): ‘Female Labor and Enterprise (1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD)’
Christel Freu (Université Paris-Saclay): ‘People, Money, and the State: Understanding the Dynamics of Labour in the Age of Inflation (3rd–4th Centuries)’
19:00 CONCLUSION
Dinner at the American Academy in Rome
Transfer to Villa Falconieri, Frascati.
27 June 2025
9:00 INTRODUCTION
Luigi Miraglia (President, Accademia Vivarium novum)
9:15 SECOND SESSION: SERVILE ENTERPRISE
Chair: Sabine Huebner (Universität Basel)
Edward Cohen (University of Pennsylvania): ‘Affluent Slaves: Legal Reality or Legal Fiction?’
Richard Gamauf (Universität Wien): ‘Detentus a potentioribus: Forced labour in the Principate and the Measures Against It’
Martin Schermaier (Universität Bonn): ‘Organizing Labour in a Slave Society: at the Crossroads of Social Classes and Private Law’
12:30 AFTERNOON PAUSE
Lunch at Villa Falconieri, Frascati
14:00 THIRD SESSION: ROMAN LAW AND ROMAN ECONOMY
Chair: Caroline GoodsonJean-Jacques Aubert (Université de Neuchâtel): ‘Retail Trade and Roman Law’
Dennis Kehoe (Tulane University): ‘Law, Labor, and the Roman Agrarian Economy’
Aldo Petrucci (Università di Pisa): ‘Remarks on Legal Problems Related to Economic Issues in the Pauli Sententiae’
19:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS
Marco Maiuro: ‘Late Antique Scenarios’
20:00 CONCLUSION
Dinner at Villa Falconieri, Frascati
How to partecipate
Zoom (AAR): https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pSjmW1ucS52WXU7Sz-LpWw#/registration.
Zoom (AVN): https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OafD1QsQQ1GzlPZWvOnBww#/registration.
Attend in person (AVN): convegni@vivariumnovum.net.
