Events
2012-02-23: Classical Association of Vancouver Island
Description:The Fourth Meeting of the 2011/12 Session will be held on Thursday, February 23rd at 7:30 p.m.,
David Strong Building, Room C116.
Dr. Eric Orlin
Department of Classics
University of Puget Sound
will present a lecture entitled
Religious Toleration in an Age of Empire: What can we learn from the Romans?
Over the course of several hundred years, the Romans built an empire that encompassed the Mediterranean Sea, or Our Sea as the Romans called it. Unusually, upon conquest they did not attempt to root out local religious traditions as so many other ancient conquerors did. Rather, they often accepted the gods of defeated peoples into their own pantheon and worshipped them together with their own deities. During this talk, I will consider how this course of action allowed the Romans both to give the defeated peoples a sense of belonging to their empire and to give themselves a sense of their own identity. In an era when religious issues are becoming increasingly prominent in American public life, I will conclude with a few thoughts on what we might be able to learn from our polytheistic predecessors.
Location:DAVID STRONG BUILDING - C116
Times:19:30 - 21:30
Pricing:
Refreshments will be served.
Annual membership to CAVI is $10.00 for non-students, payable to Classical Association of Vancouver Island, c/o CAVI Treasurer, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4. Please provide contact information. If you would like to receive notices of future events by e-mail, please note that with your subscription.
URL:Details2012-02-24: Departmental Seminar
Description:Dr. Eric Orlin
Department of Classics
University of Puget Sound
Friday, February 24th at 2:30 pm,
Clearihue B415
Monuments and Memory in Augustan Rome
The emperor Augustus is said to have boasted that he “found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.” While many scholars have focused on how Augustus reshaped the city, less attention has been paid to how his building projects reshaped Roman memory. The built environment played an especially important role in the construction of Roman memory, because temples and other ‘functional’ buildings served not only as sites for religious or other activity, but also as lieux de memoire, where memories of the men and events of the Roman past could be stored. By focusing on the area of the Porticus Octaviae, I hope to show how the reordering of Roman space functioned to direct attention away from the divisions of the Republic and toward a new vision of a unified Rome.
Location:CLEARIHUE BUILDING - B415
Times:14:30 - 15:30
Pricing:All Students and Members of the Greek and Roman Studies Department are welcome to attend.
URL:Details2012-03-19: Classical Association of Vancouver Island
Description:The Fifth Meeting of the 2011/12 Session will be held on Monday, March 19th at 7:30 p.m., University Centre A180 (Senate Room).
Professor Elio Lo Cascio
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
will present a lecture entitled
Civium capita: the debate on the demography of Roman Italy from the third century BC to the second century AD
Roman census figures appear to show a massive leap in the citizen population from 900,000 in 70-69 BC to 4-5 million recorded for Augustan Rome in the Res gestae. Some scholars (“low counters”) have argued that the Augustan figures include all citizens (men, women and children). Others (“high counters”) have argued that, as in the Republican figures, only adult males are recorded. The lecture will examine the arguments regarding the interpretation of the census figures. At stake here is the way in which to reconstruct not only the major economic, social and even political issues of the Late Republic and Early Empire, but also the demographic development of the Italy in the very long run from Roman times to the nineteenth century and the determinants of this development.
Location:UNIVERSITY CENTRE - A180 (Senate Room)
Times:19:30 - 21:30
Pricing:
Refreshments will be served.
Annual membership to CAVI is $10.00 for non-students, payable to Classical Association of Vancouver Island, c/o CAVI Treasurer, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4. Please provide contact information. If you would like to receive notices of future events by e-mail, please note that with your subscription.
URL:Details2012-03-20: University of Victoria Lansdowne Lecture Series
Description:Tuesday, March 20th at 3:30 p.m.
University Centre A180 (Senate Room)
Professor Elio Lo Cascio
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
will present a lecture entitled
Free-born, freedmen and slaves in rural and urban setting
An evaluation of the changing composition of the population of Roman Italy in terms of status, both in the growing urban centers and in the countryside. To what extent, if any, it is legitimate to speak of a replacement of the free peasants in the countryside with slave gangs? The lecture will discuss the various estimates of the number of slaves advanced so far, the quantitative dimension of manumission and the issue of the biological and social reproduction of the slave population.
Location:UNIVERSITY CENTRE - A180 (Senate Room)
Times:15:30 - 17:30
Pricing:
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
URL:Details2012-03-21: University of Victoria Lansdowne Lecture Series
Description:Wednesday, March 21st at 3:30 p.m.
University Centre A180 (Senate Room)
Professor Elio Lo Cascio
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
will present a lecture entitled
Roman citizens outside Italy
What proportion of the citizen population in the Augustan age was domiciled in the provinces? The lecture will discuss the topic of emigration of the Roman citizens from Italy towards the provinces during the last two centuries of the Republic.
Location:UNIVERSITY CENTRE - A180 (Senate Room)
Times:15:30 - 17:30
Pricing:
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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