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• 24 oct 2014

  25 oct 2014

  Besançon

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  The forms of political alienation: constraint without violence and State violence

  The Roman paradigm, 2nd-1st centuries BC

  On considère généralement les impérialismes et l’autorité ou les arbitrages internationaux qu’ils exercent du seul point de vue de la puissance conquérante. Le colloque inversera ce point de vue en s’attachant à la manière dont les peuples soumis ou alliés perçoivent cette autorité qui peut leur apparaître aliénante. En prenant pour exemple significatif l'établissement de la domination romaine sur le reste du monde et en se fondant plus particulièrement sur la réflexion que conduit l’historien grec Polybe sur les conditions d’exercice et de maintien de tout pouvoir politique, on examinera le rôle complexe et très actuel que jouent, dans son œuvre, la contrainte et la violence d’État (légitimes ou/et simplement légales) dans les relations entre Rome et les peuples conquis.

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• 25 jui 2014

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (IIIrd Century B.C. – IIIrd Century A.D.)

  Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique et romain (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.)

  It seems clear that, in the Greek-speaking regions of the Roman Empire, Hellenistic models (civic, military or institutional) exercised considerable influence over “Italic” colonial projects. Within this field, relations between military colonists and indigenous peoples demand special attention, considering the degree of social, cultural, economic, political and geopolitical transformation brought about by the installation of certain groups upon those lands as a result of the will of the great power(s) that ruled over them. As for the Roman colonization, modern scholars have often described Roman colonies as vectors of Romanization inserted in alien lands, writing that these communities must have functioned as images of a “small Rome.” While the existence of Latin-speaking colonists ruled by a favorable juridical system such as the Ius Italicum cannot be denied, such a reductionist model can no longer be accepted without qualification, especially in the context of the Greek-speaking provinces of the Roman East. The regions of the Eastern Mediterranean world saw the coming of a number of groups of Roman colonists and thus their cultural climate, their agrarian structures and their geopolitical environment changed. The aim of this panel is to explore new research paths based on broader studies in time and space.

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