Dear colleagues and friends,
It is a pleasure to announce you the opening of our new joint research center: Roman Society Research Center of Ghent University and the Free University of Brussels. The RSRC will organize workshop twice a year on various themes concerning the history of the Roman World. We furthermore will start a six year research program on ?Land & Natural Resources ? Labour ? Capital in the Roman World?.
Our first meeting will be held on Friday, Dec. 11th in Ghent in the Royan Academy for Dutch Language and Literature. Participation is free, but for practical reasons, we ask you to register with Koen.Verboven@ugent.be.
If you wish to join us as a associate member, you may contact Koen Verboven Koen.Verboven@ugent.be of Paul Erdkamp (Paul.Erdkamp@vub.ac.be).
Please feel free to distribute this mail to others who might be interested.
You will find the program of our Dec. 11th meeting below. For further details see our website: http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/ (apologies for the unfinished state of this)
Kind regards
Koen Verboven
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RSRC Opening and Autum 2009 Workshop
Friday December 11, 2009
14u
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en
Letterkunde
Koningstraat 18
9000 Gent
http://www.kantl.be/
(click here for travel directions)
Program
Welcome
Paul Erdkamp & Koen Verboven, Presentation of the new center and its objectives
Arjan Zuiderhoek, Research Program Land & Natural Resources - Labour - Capital
Seminar papers:
Senior paper: Luuk de Ligt (Leiden), The population of Italy in the time of Augustus: historical and archaeological perspectives
coffee break
Junior paper 1: Sabien Colpaert (VUB), The name of the game: de toepasselijkheid en toepasbaarheid van de term evergetisme
Junior paper 2: Wim Broekaert (UGent), Parker and sons of Parker and slaves? De familia in het Romeinse handelsbedrijf
17h
Drinks on the house ...
(with support from the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde)
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