Dear all,
This is to remind you of the sixth Ancient World Seminar of this academic
year. Today, Thursday 28 March 2019, dr. Jeremia Pelgrom will give a
lecture on:
*“*
*The Renaissance of Roman Colonial *
*Utopia**” *
*Abstract *
This paper explores the revival of Roman colonial ideals and practices in
Early Modern Europe. The paper aims to show how contending interpretations
of the Roman colonial model have shaped dominant views and practices of
colonization between the late sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and
vice versa. The paper illustrates how the Roman colony transformed from a
strategic bulwark of empire into a utopian emancipatory and well-ordered
settlement where the impoverished plebs could be converted into valuable
soldier-citizens. I shall argue that the meticulous legal studies of the
Italian humanist scholar Carlo Sigonio (1520-1584) strongly contributed to
this metamorphosis of the Roman colonial model.
*About the speaker *
Jeremia Pelgrom is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the
University of Groningen. His research focuses on Roman Republican
colonialism and imperialism, Roman rural history and Hellenistic Italy. He
has written a PhD thesis titled Colonial Landscapes. Demography, Settlement
Organization and Impact of Colonies founded by Rome (Leiden 2012)
and continued his research on early Roman colonization in the context of
the Early Roman Colonizationproject of which he was co-director (together
with Tesse Stek) and which was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
From 2012 to 2018 he was the Director of Ancient Studies of the Royal
Netherland Academy in Rome from where he also co-directed the Mapping the
via Appia project (with Stephan Mols and Eric Moormann), also funded by the
Dutch Research Council (NWO).
The session takes place in *room 130* (first flour) of the Faculty of
Theology and Religious Studies, Groningen, 16.15 – 17.30. Join us for
drinks afterwards.
--
Eelco Glas
PhD candidate in Theology and Religious Studies
on behalf of the CRASIS team
University of Groningen
CRASIS is the Groningen institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture,
Religion and Society of the Ancient World. Follow CRASIS on Facebook
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