SPEAKERS
Closing lecture:
Greg Woolf
Ronald J. Mellor Distinguished Professor of Ancient History at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 2021. He previously taught at the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford and was then Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews from 1998 to 2014. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Institute of Classical Studies Director and Professor of Classics at the University of London. He has a long-standing interest in the culture of empire in the ancient world and has worked on the formation of provincial cultures, often using archaeological evidence, and also on the cosmopolitan cultures of the metropolis.
Opening lecture:​
Alison Emmerson
Professor A. Emmerson is a Roman archaeologist who specializes in the study of cities. She is particularly interested in the “marginal” aspects of ancient urbanism, not only literal city edges and the activities they attracted, such as waste management and the treatment of the dead, but also the people who have been marginalized both in ancient life and in modern reconstructions of it, including women, the enslaved, and the subelite. Her first book, Life and Death in the Roman Suburb, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America’s James R. Wiseman Book Award in 2022. Her forthcoming books include a publication of excavations at Pompeii’s Porta Stabia and of fieldwork in Isthima, Greece. Emmerson directs the “Pompeii I.14 Project,” an excavation that examines the development of the city prior to the catastrophic eruption of 79 CE, focusing especially on issues of social interaction and civic infrastructure.
