Corporate Groups and Communities: Convening in Private, Acting in Public

Round Table organized by the Copenhagen Associations Project and the Saxo Institute.

The Round Table seeks to explore the border area between 'public' (in the sense of 'pertaining to the State') and ‘private’ in late classical, Hellenistic and Roman times. Groups could act in an official capacity, they could undertake a collective action, and communities could perform associational activities and/or display 'association-like' organizational structure.

The aim of the workshop is to, asses, reflect upon and define more adequately groups, such as those of soldiers, age groups, mystery-cult groups, boards of religious functionaries, foreign residents etc., whose precise nature can seem elusive or not to conform to concepts such as 'private' and 'public'.

Programme

Conveners: Stella Skaltsa & Christian Ammitzbøll Thomsen

• 09:15 - 09:30  Introduction (C.A. Thomsen & S. Skaltsa)
• 09:30 - 10:30  Roland Oetjen (Kiel), Demesmen and Non-Demesmen in
                        third-century Rhamnous and Eleusis
• 10:30 - 11:00  Coffee & tea
• 11:00 - 12:00  Sophia Zoumbaki (Institute of Historical Research, Athens), Groups
                        of Romans abroad: reflections on their elusive nature, organization
                        and role in the host communities
• 12:00 - 13:30  Lunch break
• 13:30 - 14:30  Dr. Nikolaos Giannakopoulos (Thessalonike), Private Association or
                        Public Body? The Gerousiai of the Greek Cities in the Imperial
                        Period
• 14:30 - 15:00  Coffee & tea
• 15:00 - 16:00  Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt (Bremen), The Young, the Old and the
                        Blessed. Corporate Bodies of Elite Reproduction in Roman Asia
                        Minor
• 16:00 - 16.30  Concluding remarks by Professor Vincent Gabrielsen, Director of the
                        Copenhagen Associations Project