JULY 12-13, 2021
Inaugural Meeting of the ANR-DFG ATLAS program
Location: CASA DE VELAZQUEZ, MADRID
ATLAS OF LATE ANTIQUE CITIES IN THE SOUTH OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND NORTHERN AFRICA (IIIrd-VIIIth CENTURY)
The research that has been conducted during the last 30 years has profoundly changed our perception of the cities in the Iberian peninsula and Northern Africa during late antiquity: the vigour and importance of the cities as places of power seem to have continued uninterrupted between 300 and 800 AD. Military and political developments, such as the “crisis of the third century” or the Vandal invasion, seem to have had no effect on this urban reality. It is no longer decline but transformation that characterises their urbanity – just as the functions of their social elites are defined by their continuity rather than any sudden changes.
This communis opinio is nevertheless based on a notable paucity of material evidence. Due to this reason, the ATLAS project has the objective of establishing an atlas (open access WebGIS) that contains selected cities in the provinces of Baetica (modern Andalucia) and Africa Proconsularis (modern Tunisia): two prosperous regions that – given their high degree of urbanisation – are intended to serve as paradigms. For the first time, the atlas brings together all of the information available to work on a history of the late antique cities through a micro-regional approach: other than archaeological data, this research also includes epigraphic and topographic information and the whole range of literary testimonies. The study covers the period from the third to the eighth century.
Programme:
Monday 12/07
– 9h30-11h45
Apertura
Michel BERTRAND
Director de la Casa de Velázquez
Introducción
Sabine PANZRAM
Universität Hamburg
y Laurent BRASSOUS
Université de la Rochelle
Un “Atlas de las ciudades tardoantiguas
en el sur de la península ibérica
y en el norte de África (siglos III-VIII)”:
tres ejes – tres objetivos
Café
–12h-13h30
Los objetivos
La base de datos (WebSig ATLAS),
el ATLAS Companion,
la exposición ATLAS
Comida
–15h30-18h30
Los ejes
Mesa Redonda I
Los paisajes urbanos en la Antigüedad tardía
Javier ARCE
Université de Lille
Mesa Redonda II
La ciudad y el territorio
Sonia GUTIÉRREZ LLORET
Universidad de Alicante
Tuesday 13/07
–9h-11h45
Mesa Redonda III
Un réseau de villes dans l’Antiquité tardive
Chokri TOUIHRI
Institut National du Patrimoine (Tunis)
Café
–12h-13h30
Talleres I
Formatos y objetivos
Comida
–15h30-17h
Talleres II
Formatos y objetivos
–17h
Conclusiones y perspectivas
Laurent BRASSOUS
Université de la Rochelle
y Sabine PANZRAM
Universität Hamburg