Roman Mobilities and their Afterlives

Kattel Berthelot (Aix-Marseille Université) is a historian of religions, specializing in ancient Judaism and comparing the three monotheisms. She is a director of research at the CNRS, and from 2014-2019 directed the ERC project “Judaism and Rome”. Working with biblical manuscripts and their commentaries, her research covers the notion of humanism in ancient Greek philosophy and ancient Jewish thought. Her books include In Search of the Promised Land: The Hasmonean Dynasty between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy (2013), Jews and their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel (2021). 

Valentin Bottez (University of Bucharest) has been a lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and Art History in Bucharest since 2015. He has directed excavations on the Histria archaeological site in the district of Constanța since 2013. His research interest include ancient urbanism and topography, early Christianity, and Roman religion. His monograph, Cultul imperial in provincia Moesia Inferior was published in 2009.

Pedro Duarte (Aix-Marseille Université) is a lecturer in Latin language and Literature, and a specialist in Latin semantics and lexicology. His work focusses on technicisms in Latin and the language of Roman collectors, and also on the linguistic issues relating to ancient encyclopaedic practice. He has also co-edited Architectures et décors fictifs antiques et médiévaux (2022), and Incognito: l’art de la ruse et de la dissimulation dans l’Antiquité (2018).

Zoa Alonso Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is Professora Contrada Doctora in the department of Classical Philology. Her research scrutinizes the role of dance and movement in ancient Rome, paying a special attention to the implications of the dancing body in the Roman constructions of gender, sex and ethnicity. In addition, she works on Latin syntax and semantics, as well as reception studies. Recent articles include The Dancing Spaces of Roman Foundation (2022), Dance and the Senses at the Convivium (2022), and Martha Graham, Richard Move y la cultura drag en la heroína trágica (2022). 

Giorgio Ferri (Sapienza Università di Roma) is Tenure Track Researcher and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art History, Media and Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome with the project RITMO - The place-making function of ritual movement in Roman religion (GA 101024439). His main research interest is Roman religion, from its early stages to the first Christian emperors. He is author of two books and several articles and essays published on international peer-reviewed journals and gave papers in many conferences and workshops worldwide.

Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is Senior Lecturer of Latin Philology at UAM. His research interests focus on Latin semantics, pragmatics, and linguistic politeness. He has coedited (with Łukasz Berge) Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His second research line focuses on classical reception in contemporary popular culture. Currently, with Rosario López Gregoris, he leads the research project Marginalia Classica. He has recently co-edited the volumes 'Classical Reception': New Challenges in a Changing World (with Anastasia Bakogianni, De Gruyter, 2024), and Playful Classics. Classical Reception as a Creative Process (with Juliette Harrison and Martin Lindner, Bloomsbury, 2024).

Matthew Fox (Glasgow University) has been professor of Classics at Glasgow since 2007. He has wide-ranging research interests, including Roman historiography, Roman poetry, Classical Reception, History of Scholarship, Gender. He has published widely, including two monographs: Roman Historical Myths (1996) and Cicero's Philosophy of History (2007), and is currently completing a study of Roman ideas of materialism. 

Sanaa Hassab (University Hassan II Casablanca) is professeure habileté, FLSH, Benmsik, Hassan II University Cassablance. She works on themes related to Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and heritage, focussing on periods of transition, mobility and acculturation in the Mediterranean area. Her work also explores the contribution of cultural heritage to economic development, and the use of new technologies (including VR and AR) for the dissemination and safeguarding of this heritage. Recent articles include ‘Quelques exampes du Luxe dans la ville mauréto-romain en Tingitane’. She has participated in numerous CIVIS projects. 

Sabine Luciani ((Aix-Marseille Université) is professor of Latin language and literature. She specializes in the history of Roman and Hellenistic philosophy and in Latin literature. In numerous publications, she has explored Lucretius, Roman Epicureanism, the Christian reception of Hellenistic philosophy, Roman philosophy of time, and Cicero’s anthropological thinking. She is currently working on Roman traditions of philosophical consolation. Monographs include L’éclair immobile dans la plaine. Philosophie et poétique chez Lucrèce (2000) and Temps et éternité dans l’oeuvre philosophique de Cicéron (2010).

Alexandra Lițu (University of Bucharest) is senior lecturer in Ancient History and a Vice-Dean of the Faculty of History. She is chercheur associée at Villa Noël, Centre Régional Francophone d'Études Avancées en Sciences Sociales. Her research interests cover Greek religion, epigraphy and colonisation, Homer, and Digital Humanities. Recent articles include ‘Guess who’s coming to dinner? Strange, stranger, strangeness in the encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus’ (2023) and (with Valentin Bottez) ‘An evaluation of the Ithaca Tool Performance for Restoring Lost Texts (Ancient Greek) - 2022. She co-ordinated the CIVIS BIP Roman Mobilities in 2024.

Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț (University of Bucharest) is senior lecture at the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Romania, PhD in History (since 2003), head of the Centre of Comparative History for Ancient Societies (CICSA). Her articles and books concern the social and political history of Ancient Rome, Roman Art, and recently, Romanian ethnography.

Javier Moralejo Ordax (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is a lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, specialising in the iron-age archaeology of the Iberian peninsula, Roman military history, and Latin epigraphy. He currently directs the archaeological project “Surface land survey in the municipality of Montemayor: Battlefields of the Roman conquest”, and is co-PI of ”Scientific and technological innovation in archaeology: the Iberian necropolis of El Toro (Alcubillas, Ciudad Real)”. Recent articles include ‘Ejército y soldados de Roma. Epigrafía y territorio en la Hispania Citerior altoimperial’ (2021) and, with Peter Rothenhoefer, ‘New evidence of Roman governors and officers on glandes inscriptae from republican Hispania’ (2023).

Adrastos Omissi (University of Glasgow), lecturer in Latin at Glasgow, is a historian of the later Roman Empire (3rd – 5th centuries AD), whose work has focussed on the themes of panegyric and civil war, as well as explorations of geography and the breakup of the West Roman Empire. He works mostly with textual material, but also considers physical sources, particularly coins and epigraphy. Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.