IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1144: Imperial Memories in Late Antiquity, II: Communal Memory of Late Antique Cities

Organiser:	Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair:	Julia Hillner, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Paper 1144-a	Remembering the Past in Former Roman sedes imperii (Language: English) Markus Löx, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2337 'Metropolität in der Vormoderne', Universität Regensburg Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies
Paper 1144-b	Trauma, Memory, and Authority in Late Antique Antioch: the Case of the Sack of Antioch in 252-253 (Language: English) Laurent Cases, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 1144-c	Exiles and Enemies: Remembering Nicomedia in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Jennifer Barry, Classics, Philosophy & Religion, University of Mary Washington, Virginia
Abstract	Space and communal memory are inseparably united. This panel explores that relationship through the memorialisation of space in late antique cities, whether through the conservation of monumental space, through the use of ritual and ceremony, or through the window of history. Each paper explores how, within a given urban context, memory was shaped, preserved, and recrafted, and how the events of the past were given present meaning in late antique cities.