CARMONA, SEVILLE – 9/10 OCTOBER 2026
FRIDAY, 9TH OCTOBER
- 10:00 -10:30 Welcome and introduction
Elena Muñiz Grijalvo – Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 10:30 – 11:30 Coins and the construction of imperial ideology
Jas Elsner – Oxford University - 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
- 12:00 – 12:40 The emperor’s statue in the Roman world: a taxonomy of interactions
Panayiotis Christoforou – Oxford University - 12:40 – 13:20 Re-imaged power: the Roman emperor seen through provincial coinage
Dario Calomino – Università degli Studi di Verona - 13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
- 15:30 – 16:10 The power of the imperial face: phenomena of physiognomic attraction in portraiture within the Domus Augusta and beyond
Emanuelle Rosso – Sorbonne Université - 16:10 – 16:50 Imperial images as ornamenta? A few case studies
Sylvia Estienne – École Normale Supérieure - 16:50 – 17:30 Interactions with the image of the emperor
Angelos Chaniotis – Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton - 20:30 Dinner
SATURDAY, 10TH OCTOBER
- 9:00 – 9:40 Αὔγουστε, τοὺ βίνκας’. A diachronic analysis of the representation of the emperor in Crete
Pablo Rodríguez Valdés – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 9:40 – 10:20 A monument to contention? Diocletian’s column in Alexandria
Monica Hellström – Lund University - 10:20 – 11:00 Roman pharaohs: visualising the emperor as king of Egypt
Nicola Barbagli – Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden - 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
- 11:20 – 12:00 Shaping power through imperial statues in Egypt: actors, spaces and types of interactions
Esperanza Ródenas Perea – Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 12:00 – 12:40 Colossal emperors and ceremonial cities
Fernando Lozano e Iván Quijada – Universidad de Sevilla - 12:40 – 13:15 Debate: Towards new interpretations of imperial images
- 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
- 16:00 Guided tour of the Italica Archaeological Site
ORGANIZERS:
- Elena Muñiz Grijalvo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) emungri@upo.es
- Esperanza Ródenas Perea (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) emrodper@upo.es
- Proyecto de Investigación “Discursos del Imperio Romano en Acción: Un Imperio Ceremonial” (PID2024-156861NB-C22) – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Grupo de Investigación “Religión y pensamiento en el Mundo Antiguo” (HUM-545) – Junta de Andalucía
- Facultad de Humanidades – Universidad Pablo de Olavide
- Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Filosofía – Universidad Pablo de Olavide