Day 1: 22nd June (Thursday)

9:45 University Greetings

9:55 Introduction to the two-day workshop (A. Carneiro, N. Christie and P. Diarte-Blasco)

* Hispania section

Chair: Pilar Diarte-Blasco

10:00 Miguel Alba/Isaac Sastre de Diego: Bajo la protección de la mártir: Mérida en la antigüedad tardía (siglos IV-VII)

10:30 Andre Carneiro: Non uno itinere. Urban and rural landscapes: connectivity during Late Antique Lusitania

11:00 Coffee -Posters

11:30 Sebastian Ramallo: Paisaje fosilizado y transformación urbana en Carthago Nova durante la Antigüedad Tardía

12:00 Josep Anton Remolla: Tarraco y la Tarraconense en el siglo V

12:30 Jeronimo Sanchez: Tres capitales cristianas de la Baetica. Evolución urbana comparada a través de la arqueología del poder eclesiástico.

13:00 Discussion & Questions

13:30 Lunch

*Late Antique West

Chair: Neil Christie

15:00 William Bowden: Archaeological approaches to urban transformation in late antique Epirus

15:30 Simon Loseby: Looking for città ad isole in Gaul: possibilities and problems

16:00 Paula Barata Dias: Tempus Barbaricum. Political, Social and Religious transformations in Vth d.C. Spain  from contemporary testimonies

16:30 Coffee

17:00 Giuliano Volpe: Paesaggi urbani tardoantichi dell’Italia meridionale

17.30 Sauro Gelichi: Dalla città tardo-antica alla città alto-medievale nell’Italia centro settentrionale. Modelli e singole narrazioni nel dibattito degli ultimi trenta anni.

18.00 Damian Fernandez: Urban Leadership and Political Competition in the Visigothic Kingdom

18:30 Discussion & Questions

19:00 Visit to Evora

Day 2: 23rd June (Friday)

* From materials to models

Chair: André Carneiro

9:30 Cláudia Teixeira/André Carneiro: Decoding fragments: urban and rural transformations in the context of the Vitas Sanctorum Patrum Emeritensium

10:00 Pilar Diarte-Blasco: Leading actors and supporting actors. Agents in the transformation of the urban model in late antique Hispania

10:30 Neil Christie: From royalty to refugees: urban change in late antique north Italy

11:00 Coffee -Posters

11:30 Roundtable discussion

12:30 Final Conclusions

13:00 Lunch

All sessions will be at Sala dos Docentes, Colégio do Espírito Santo, Universidade de Évora

Reception, poster session and coffee break at CES 208