CASAMCenter for Advanced Study
of the Ancient Mediterranean

Events

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CASAM organizes a variety of scholarly events throughout the year. Our conferences, symposia, summer schools, and workshops bring together leading experts and emerging scholars to advance research, foster dialogue, and encourage international collaboration across disciplines.

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Upcoming

The programme of upcoming events is being finalised and will be announced here.

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Past events

Conference 26–27 June 2025

Law, Economy, and Society in Roman and Late Roman Times

American Academy in Rome · Villa Falconieri, Frascati

This two-day conference assembled international scholars around key themes of Roman history — free labor, entrepreneurship of enslaved individuals and women, legal fiction and social realities — from the late Republic to the end of the Empire. It brought together researchers from the traditions of Roman law, economics, and social history to discuss recent scholarly innovations and foster cross-disciplinary dialogue.

Speakers
Kim Bowes · Edward Cohen · Éva Jakab · Christel Freu · Richard Gamauf · Dennis Kehoe · Aldo Petrucci · Martin Schermaier · Jean-Jacques Aubert
Organizer
Marco Maiuro, Sapienza University of Rome
Co-hosted by
American Academy in Rome · Accademia Vivarium Novum · Sapienza Center for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages · CASAM

Thursday 26 June — American Academy in Rome, AAR Lecture Room, McKim, Mead & White Building, Via Angelo Masina 5, Rome

  • 14:00Welcome and introductions — Peter N. Miller, Caroline Goodson, Alberto Camplani
  • 14:30Introduction: law, society and economy in Roman scholarship — Marco Maiuro
  • 15:00Session I — Free Enterprise: labor and female entrepreneurship in the Roman world
  • 19:00Dinner and transfer to Frascati

Friday 27 June — Accademia Vivarium Novum, Villa Falconieri, Viale F. Borromini 5, Frascati

  • 09:00Introduction — Luigi Miraglia
  • 09:15Session II — Servile Enterprise: slavery and the organization of labor
  • 12:30Lunch break
  • 14:00Session III — Roman Law and Economy: trade and agrarian questions
  • 19:00Concluding remarks — Marco Maiuro
  • 20:00Closing dinner