‘Dynasty and Dynasticism in the Roman Empire’

A colloquium presented by the Centre for Classical Studies
Supported by the Research School of Humanities and the Arts' external visitor scheme

Details

Friday, April 5, 10.15am-5pm
Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) Building
Lectorial Room 2 (Room 1.23)

Programme

10.15am Introduction by Associate Professor Caillan Davenport and Dr Meaghan McEvoy

10.30am-11am: Associate Professor Tom Stevenson (UQ): ‘Dynasty and Discourse in the Late Republic and Augustan Principate’

11am-11.30am: Dr Eleanor Cowan (Sydney): ‘Dynasty and Domestic Violence. Concordia and Conflict’

11.30am-12pm: Professor Paul Roche (Sydney): ‘Pliny’s Dynastic Paradoxes: Critiquing Heredity in the Panegyricus’

12pm-1pm: Lunch

1pm-1.30pm: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (ANU): ‘Everyday Dynasticism’

1.30pm-2pm: Dr Nicola Holm (Exeter): ‘The Regime of Gallus Caesar: An Examination of Constantinian Dynastic Politics’.

2pm-2.30pm: Dr Meaghan McEvoy (ANU): ‘Constantinian Women and the Politics of Dynastic Representation in the Late Fourth Century’

2.30pm-3pm: Afternoon Tea

3-4pm: Associate Professor Alan Ross (Ohio State): Keynote Lecture: ‘The Rhetoric of Dynasticism in the Fourth Century’

4-5pm: Reception and Book Launch:

Caillan Davenport and Meaghan McEvoy (eds) 2023. The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik (eds) 2024. Representing Rome’s Emperors: Historical and Cultural Perspectives through Time. Oxford University Press: Oxford.