Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable sponsors its first workshop
September 9, 2010
The Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable (BAIR) will take place October 8 and 9, 2010 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. This will be the first edition of what it is hoped will become an annual event that brings together students of the archaeology, history, and art history of ancient Italy (broadly defined both geographically and chronologically) based in the Bay Area and further afield in the western United States. The aim of this initiative is to promote interaction among this group of scholars with a view to advancing the development of a more cohesive professional community.
The event will consist of a keynote address to be held on the evening of Friday, October 8, followed by a day-long conference on Saturday, October 9, at which several scholars will present short papers on their current research. In the Friday keynote address, James Packer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at Northwestern University, will discuss his new digital reconstructions of the buildings in the Roman Forum. This will represent the first public presentation of this important new work. The Saturday conference will consist of a morning session with six papers on the architecture and topography of the ancient city of Rome and an afternoon session with three papers on topics in ancient Italian art and two papers presenting new research at Pompeii. For full details, see the preliminary program, presented below.
Persons interested in attending the Friday keynote address and/or the Saturday conference should indicate this to the BAIR Steering Committee by sending an email to the following address: bair-rsvp@berkeley.edu.
BAIR Steering Committee Chair:J. Theodore Peña (Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley)
BAIR Steering Committee Members:
Michael Anderson (Classics Department, San Francisco State University)
Louise Chu (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Mia Fuller (Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Christopher Hallett (Departments of History of Art and Classics, University of California, Berkeley)
Carlos Noreña (Department of History, University of California, Berkeley)
Paolo Pellagatti (Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
Steven Sullivan (Acme Bread Company, Berkeley, California)
Jennifer Trimble (Department of Classics, Stanford University)
Ruth Tringham (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (download PDF)
BERKELEY ANCIENT ITALY ROUNDTABLE, OCTOBER 8-9, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
6:30 PM, Dwinelle Hall, Room 145
James Packer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics, Northwestern University
“Digitizing imperial Rome: a computerized approach to the architectural history of the Roman Forum”. [abstract PDF]
RECEPTION
8:00-9:30 PM, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Courtyard.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9
CONFERENCE
160 Kroeber Hall (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION)
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00-8:50 AM
AM SESSION: ARCHITECTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT ROME (Chair: J. Theodore Peña, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley)
9:00 AM – 12 noon
1. Amy Russell, (Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley) “Public and private revisited: surveillance and control in the Forum Romanum”.
2. Marie Jackson (Department of History, Northern Arizona University), “Rapid and innovative developments in concrete technologies by builders of the latest republican era in Rome”.
3. Honora Howell Chapman (Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, California State University, Fresno) “Seeing the Temple of Peace at Rome”.
COFFEE BREAK
4. Carlos Noreña (Department of History, University of California, Berkeley) “Locating the Ustrinum of Augustus”.
5. Jennifer Trimble (Department of Classics, Stanford University) “Commerce, continuity and change in the Horrea Agrippiana, Rome”.
6. Maurizio Forte (School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced) “The Roman Villa of Livia at Prima Porta: archaeological interpretations and cyber reconstructions”.
RECESS FOR LUNCH
12 noon – 2 PM
PM SESSION: STUDIES ON ANCIENT ITALIAN ART; NEW RESEARCH AT POMPEII (Chair: Christopher Hallett, Departments of History of Art and Classics, University of California, Berkeley)
2:00 – 5:00 PM
1. Lisa Pieraccini, (Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley) “The ever-elusive Etruscan egg”.
2. Louise Chu (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) “An Etruscan banqueter reclining in San Francisco”.
3. Peter Holliday (Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach) “Art and the Roman state: terminological and other problems in writing an assigned article”.
COFFEE BREAK
4. Michael Anderson (Classics Department, San Francisco State University) “The urban development of a forgotten insula: recent results of the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii”.
5. Claire Weiss (Independent Scholar) “Holes in the curb: A preliminary study of Pompeian sidewalk features”.
RESPONDENT
Ian Morris (Departments of History and Classics, Stanford University)
RECEPTION
Archeological Research Facility
5:00-7:00 PM
