Our conference explores how the Roman idea of liberty influenced, and was influenced by, the built environment of the Roman world. When Roman civic liberty was proclaimed, where was it done? Who would have listened? Who was barred? How do we acknowledge the role of labor, extracted from the unfree, in making these discourses possible? 

Our four panel discussions feature professors and graduate students from a number of different universities. The discussions will cover many different aspects of Roman antiquity, including politics, philosophy, architecture, art, gender, enslavement, and imperial domination.

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Speakers

• Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
• Valentina Arena, University College London
• Chiara Battisti, Princeton University
• Penelope Davies, University of Texas at Austin
• Christopher Erdman, Washington University in St. Louis
• Ashton Fancy, Princeton University
• Gary Farney, Rutgers University
• Rob Goodman, Toronto Metropolitan University
• Michael Hawley, University of North Carolina
• Charles Ro, University of Pennsylvania
• Rebecca Sausville, Princeton University
• Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania