International Conference on the Roman Amphitheatre 2007

[Viventius]

I came across this on the Chester Amphitheatre blog:

An international conference on the Roman Amphitheatre will be held at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester from the 16th to the 18th of February 2007, with a wide range of speakers from across the territory of the Roman Empire.

The conference will open with a public lecture by Professor Kathleen Coleman (Harvard College Professor and Professor of Latin, Harvard University.)
from: http://capweb.blogspot.com/2006/08/inte ... roman.html

Don't know if there's any more info anywhere else, but it sounds rather interesting

[Robert Vermaat]

Thanks Sandra!

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

Wow, that sounds interesting. :!: I had some correspondence with Kathleen Coleman because I wanted a copy of her article "Missio at Halicarnassos" of which she sent me a copy by snail mail. She seems to be a very nice person and I'd love to see this conference.

[Viventius]

The Amphitheatre Conference 2007, Chester, UK: speakers confirmed

Public Lecture: Friday 16th February 2007

Prof. Kathleen Coleman, Harvard College Professor and Professor of Latin, Harvard University: Arena of Conflict: Facts, Myths, and Speculation About Gladiatorial Combat in Ancient Rome

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Conference: Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th February 2007

A total of 18 papers will cover many aspects of amphitheatre studies and the whole Roman Empire.

Confirmed speakers include:

Prof. Michael Fulford University of Reading:
The Silchester Amphitheatre

R. Duran, A. Morillo Cerdan Universidad de León:
Recent Work on Spanish Amphitheatres

T. Hufschmid Bauhütte Römisches Theater von Augst:
Theatre and Amphitheatre in Augst

T. Jones McMaster University, Canada:
Seating, Spectacle, and the Social Hierarchy in the Roman Empire

R. Lafer Universität Klagenfurt, Austria:
What Can the Inscriptions Tell Us About Spectacles? ...
The Example of Africa Proconsularis

C.Sebastian Sommer Bayerisches Lansdesamt für Denkmalpflege:
Amphitheatres of Auxiliary Forts on the Frontiers

S Jilek Österreichisches Akademie der Wissenschaften:
The Amphitheatres of Carnuntum

D. Bomgardner (Elstree School):
A Day in the Life of Chester Amphitheatre

Prof M. Beard University of Campbridge:
Title to be confirmed

F. Kanz Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut and
K. Grosschmidt Medizinische Universität, Wien:
Epheseus Gladiator’s Cemetery ...

Source: http://capweb.blogspot.com/2006/10/amph ... akers.html

[Viventius]

The Amphitheatre Conference 2007, Chester, UK: speakers confirmed

Public Lecture: Friday 16th February 2007

Prof. Kathleen Coleman, Harvard College Professor and Professor of Latin, Harvard University: Arena of Conflict: Facts, Myths, and Speculation About Gladiatorial Combat in Ancient Rome

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Conference: Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th February 2007

A total of 18 papers will cover many aspects of amphitheatre studies and the whole Roman Empire.

Confirmed speakers include:

Prof. Michael Fulford University of Reading:
The Silchester Amphitheatre

R. Duran, A. Morillo Cerdan Universidad de León:
Recent Work on Spanish Amphitheatres

T. Hufschmid Bauhütte Römisches Theater von Augst:
Theatre and Amphitheatre in Augst

T. Jones McMaster University, Canada:
Seating, Spectacle, and the Social Hierarchy in the Roman Empire

R. Lafer Universität Klagenfurt, Austria:
What Can the Inscriptions Tell Us About Spectacles? ...
The Example of Africa Proconsularis

C.Sebastian Sommer Bayerisches Lansdesamt für Denkmalpflege:
Amphitheatres of Auxiliary Forts on the Frontiers

S Jilek Österreichisches Akademie der Wissenschaften:
The Amphitheatres of Carnuntum

D. Bomgardner (Elstree School):
A Day in the Life of Chester Amphitheatre

Prof M. Beard University of Cambridge:
Title to be confirmed

F. Kanz Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut and
K. Grossschmidt Medizinische Universität, Wien:
Epheseus Gladiator’s Cemetery ...

Source: http://capweb.blogspot.com/2006/10/amph ... akers.html

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

Salvete Omnes,

because I'm highly interested in attending this conference I had been with the help of Viventius (Sandra) in contact with a person in charge. I received now the following e-mail which I like to post here to keep everybody updated on this conference:

Many thanks for your enquiry about the Roman Amphitheatres & spectacula conference in Chester next February. I have attached some details of the conference below for you, the programme will include a guest lecture by Professor Kathleen Coleman of Harvard University on Friday 16th, a full day of presentations followed by a conference dinner on Saturday 17th, and a morning's presentations and an optional afternoon visit to the amphitheatre in Chester on Sunday 17th, finishing at around 4pm. The website is due to go live in the next couple of days, please have a look at www.emmm.co.uk/amphitheatre from early next week to see the full programme and online booking details. Please let me know if you have any more questions and hopefully we'll see you there!

Kind regards,

Lisa Rutter
On behalf of English Heritage and Chester City Council

Lisa Rutter
Event Management & Marketing Matters,
Southdene House,
16 Booths Hill Road,
Lymm,
Cheshire
WA13 0DL

01925 752078
[email protected]

[size=150:1gxtf7nk]Roman Amphitheatres & spectacula - a 21st Century Perspective
16th - 18th February 2007, The Grosvenor Museum, Chester[/size]

This unique conference will range across all aspects of study of the Roman Amphitheatre and the spectacula that took place there. The event offers specialists and non-specialists alike an unrivalled opportunity to access the very latest research and thinking from many different perspectives.

The conference will discuss the discovery of new amphitheatre sites, and recent excavation and survey work, aspects of the architecture and planning of the buildings, amphitheatres both at the frontier periphery and at the centre of the Empire; from Northern Europe through Spain, the east, and North Africa. It will examine functional, religious and social aspects of the buildings and the spectacles, aspects of the organisation of the spectacles, and gladiatorial death and burial. The problems encountered in the preservation and display of amphitheatres as monuments in the modern urban environment will be touched upon. The Conference will feature speakers from the USA, Canada, Brazil, Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK, and will start with a keynote public lecture given by Professor Kathleen Coleman of Harvard University – ‘The Arena of conflict: facts, myths and speculation about gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome.’

In addition to the stimulating and diverse programme of speakers, there will be an opportunity to visit the amphitheatre and other remains of Roman Chester, and a Conference Dinner featuring gladiatorial entertainment.

It is hoped that through formal and informal discussions new perspectives on the amphitheatre will indeed emerge to inform debate, research and perhaps similar gatherings in the future.

[Viventius]

Thanks for this Svenja

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

Thanks for your help, too Sandra.

The website is now running and I booked already the full package. Up to Jan. 5th there are "early bird" discounts on the admission fees.

[Gaius Longius]

Hi to all of you who will be attending the Amphitheatre Conference.
Members of my group the Deva Victrix are really looking forward to meeting any attendees who would like to exchange info, experiances and the general cameraderie of our shared interest.

Hope you all enjoy your visit to our outpost on the edge of the Empire.

Regards,
Gary

[Viventius]

Hi,

I didn't get to go So didn't meet Deva Vitrix or Medusa.

Was it a good conference :?:

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

Salve Sandra,

What a pitty you couldn't make it to Chester. I missed meeting a whole bunch of friendly people of Roman Tours. They had been so nice to show me around Chester on the day before the conference began and whenever we had time I hung out with them. I'm really glad I met these guys.

The conference itself was also very interesting, many lectures which made me look at things differently or opened my eyes at things I haven't realized before. Hard to give an example right now. I could use my new knowledge of that conference already on the discussion of the Magerius mosaic here on the RAT board.

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

After I had attended this very interesting conference in February 2007 I was waiting since then anxiously for the papers to be published. Now the book is available:

BAR S1946 2009: Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula: a 21st-Century perspective Papers from an international conference held at Chester, 16th-18th February, 2007 edited by Tony Wilmott. ISBN 9781407304267. £44.00. i+238 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs, including 16 colour plates.
Papers from the international conference held at Chester, England, in February 2007 on Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacular. Contents: 1) Introduction (Tony Wilmott); 2) The setting out of amphitheatres: ellipse or oval? – Questions answered and not answered (Mark Wilson Jones); 3) The amphitheatres in Hispania: recent investigations (Rosalía Durán Cabello, Carmen Fernández Ochoa and Ángel Morillo Cerdan); 4) Amphitheatres in the Roman East (Hazel Dodge); 5) Amphitheatres of Auxiliary Forts on the Frontiers (C. Sebastian Sommer); 6) Excavations on the legionary amphitheatres of Chester (Deva), Britain (Tony Wilmott and Dan Garne); 7) Excavations on the legionary amphitheatre of Burnum, Croatia (Zeljko Miletic and Miroslav Glavicic); 8) The Roman amphitheatre at Richborough (Rutupiae) Kent: non-invasive research (Tony Wilmott, Louise Martin and Neil Linford); 9) The Trier amphitheatre, an ancient monument in the light of new research (Hans-Peter Kuhnen); 10) Theatres and Amphitheatres in Augst (Augusta Raurica), Switzerland (Thomas Hufschmid); 11) The amphitheatre of Serdica, Sofia, Bulgaria (Zharin Velichkov); 12) Pre-Augustan Seating in Italy and the West (Tamara Jones); 13) Function and Community: some thoughts on the amphitheatres of Roman Britain (Tony Wilmott); 14) What’s the point of London’s amphitheatre? - a clue from Diana (Nick Bateman); 15) The Magerius mosaic revisited (David Bomgardner); 16) What can the Inscriptions tell us about Spectacles? The example of Africa Proconsularis (Renate Lafer); 17) Reading Pompeii’s Walls: A Social archaeological approach to Gladiatorial Graffiti (Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Renata S. Garrafoni); 18) Victory and Defeat in the Roman Arena: the Evidence of Gladiatorial Iconography (Jon Coulston); 19) Dying in the Arena: the Osseous Evidence from Ephesian Gladiators (Fabian Kanz and Karl Grossschmidt); 20) No More Fun? The Ends of Entertainment Structures in the Late Roman West (Neil Christie).

You could order it via: www.hadrianbooks.co.uk or e-mail [email protected]