All welcome to the international workshop
To Embrace and to Reject: Cultural Memories in Roman Macedonia (ca. 1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD).
It is co-organized by Georgia Galani (Swedish Institute at Athens) and Panagiotis Tselekas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
The workshop intends to shed light on the different ways in which the local communities of Roman Macedonia employed their cultural memories in the encounter with Rome and the Roman population living in the region. Set against the political background of the Macedonian kingdom, with its kings and omnipotent military elite, the events and developments of the first period of Roman rule, before Augustus, might have had a long-standing impact on the relation of Macedonia with its pre-Roman past. The role of the old elites – a key-player in the mobilization of past as a political resource in response to change – might have affected local responses to the Roman rule, possibly resulting to quite different strategies of remembering compared to other provincial parallels. What was the role of memory in a region where the glorious past, primarily of a military character, was, on the one hand, numbed during the first phase of Roman rule, and on the other hand generally lacking the ‘classical tradition’ of the Greek city-states that could potentially be used as leverage in the relationship with Rome?
The workshop takes place as a hybrid event on November 21-22, 2024, with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and digitally on Zoom.
To participate (in person or via Zoom), please register at https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=1040
Please make sure to register if you intend to participate in person, since space is limited, and we wish to accommodate as many participants as possible.