Events and Outreach

As an academic research project, team members present and discuss their work regularly at national and international gatherings, academic and otherwise. Here we provide an overview of our activities, past, current, and planned.

You would like to discover and know more about the fascinating world of inscribed Latin verse and Roman poetry? Please do not hesitate to contact us: we will be delighted to come and present our work to you.

Talks and Workshops

Forthcoming

  • Kruschwitz, P., Latein-Lektüre: Frei und Unfrei, Arm und Reich. Ein poetischer Querschnitt durch die römischen Gesellschaften (KPH Krems (21 March, 2024)).
    further information is available here.

2024

  • Tasso, M., Eine neue Versinschrift aus Mauretania Tingitana (113th Papyrologisch-epigraphische Werkstatt, University of Vienna (15 January, 2024)).

2023

  • Cenati, C. Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Digitalen Epigraphik: von EpiDoc zu KI (University of Vienna (29 November, 2023)).
    Read a wrap-up of this event here.
  • Kruschwitz, P., The Children of Roman Tomis (International Workshop: Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria, University of Vienna (22 November, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Carmina e potere: l’iscrizione in versi di Marcus Antonius Orator a Corinto (Les entourages et le pouvoir dans le monde romain Ve av. J.-C. – Ve apr. J.-C., École Française de Rome (8–10 November, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Storie per tutti: Storytelling epigrafico dal Museo Nazionale Romano (Festa Internazionale della Storia 2023 – XX edizione – La storia ci appartiene, Bologna (21–29 October, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Verse inscriptions from the Limes of Moesia inferior (Accademia di Romania, Rome (18–19 October, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Poetic elements in three inscriptions of soldiers from Roman Tomis (Pontica LVI, Constanta (4–6 October, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Poetry from the limes: The verse inscriptions of the soldiers serving in Rome (The Danubian Region and the Balkans during the Roman Empire in Military Inscriptions, Debrecen (28–29 September, 2023)).
  • Kruschwitz, P., Verlorene und wiedererlangte Freiheit(en): Individual- und Kollektivgeschichte im Spiegel der römischen Versinschriften (Freiheit: 125. Generalversammlung der Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft, Sektion für Altertumswissenschaft, Tübingen (22–24 September, 2023)).
  • Kruschwitz, P., Do we get Roman poetry wrong? Some bold considerations (14th Celtic Conference in Classics, University of Coimbra (12-13 July, 2023)).
  • Kruschwitz, P., MAPPOLA project update (Towards a more Inclusive Classics III: Material Culture (28–30 June, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Aequora Danuvii cunctis transnare sub armis: a new interpretation of the poem CLE 427 (Conference Water divides – Water connects, Budapest (25–26 May, 2023)).
  • Cenati, C., Behind the scenes of the Mappola Database (VII Epigraphy.info workshop, KU Leuven (24–27 April, 2023).
  • González Berdús, V., Consilio mira, casta mente, nobili fama: la mujer en los carmina epigraphica del limes de Moesia inferior (Seminario Mujer y Familia en la Antigüedad, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Universidad Complutense Madrid – Manchester Metropolitan University (21–22 March, 2023)).
  • Gangoly, A.: Roundtable discussion: Foreigners in Ancient Rome – Epigraphic Perspectives (Rome (25 January 2023)).

2022

  • Cenati, C., Matei-Popescu, F.: Military History from Square Brackets: Some Revisited Inscriptions from the City of Rome (International Colloquium: Alfred von Domaszewski. Latin Epigraphy in the Roman Empire, Timișoara (14–17 December, 2022)).
  • Murzea, D.: Keinen Rang, keine Ordnung. Female voices in Roman Verse Inscriptions (International Colloquium: Alfred von Domaszewski. Latin Epigraphy in the Roman Empire, Timișoara (14–17 December, 2022)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Die Quadratur des Kreises: Was wir von Archimedes über Epigraphik lernen können (und sollten) (104th Papyrologisch-epigraphische Werkstatt, University of Vienna (12 December, 2022)).
  • Cenati, C., González Berdús, V., Octiens sic decies and other mysteries of a Latin verse inscription from Tomis (103rd Papyrologisch-epigraphische Werkstatt, University of Vienna (21 November, 2022)).
  • Murzea, D., López Sánchez, Y.: Between family and Roman law: The enigmatic life-story of Suavola (III Seminario Hispalense de Filologia Latina: De mortuis nihil nisi bonum (Universidad de Sevilla, 16–17 November, 2022)).
  • Cenati, C., González Berdús, V.: Encoding metrical texts for the Mappola Database: goals and challenges (University of London, CARMEN Workshop: Verse Encoding in EpiDoc (7th November 2022)).
  • Cenati, C.: Carmina on the road: Verse inscriptions of soldiers in Moesia superior (University of Belgrade, 6th International Conference on the Roman Danubian Provinces: Roman Roads and Crossroads (5th November 2022)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Special Order: Verse Inscriptions and the Stonecutter’s Workshop (Launch Event of the ERC funded project “Masters of the stone: The stonecutters’ workshops and the rise of the late antique epigraphical cultures”, University of Warsaw (24 October, 2022)).
  • Cenati, C.: Revisiting three verse inscriptions from Roman Tomis (Mensa rotunda epigraphica, Iași (21 September, 2022)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Coercens detinet ignoto tristis harena solo: The Latin verse inscriptions from Roman Egypt between literature and folk poetry (Final colloquium of our ERC partner project PLATINUM, led by Prof. M’Chiara Scappaticcio (4–6 July, 2022)).
  • Cenati, C., González Berdús, V., and Kosanovic, I.: If life gives you limes…: a case study on the verse inscriptions from Viminacium (XVI. Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Bordeaux (29 August–2 September, 2022)).
  • Murzea, D.: Strong and independent women in Roman verse inscriptions (XVI. Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Bordeaux (29 August–2 September, 2022)):
    Poster available for download here.
  • Gangoly, A.: Die kartographische Sichtbarmachung von Fundorten – Wie QGIS bei der Suche nach lokalen Verbindungen von Monumenten behilflich sein kann (99. Papyrologisch-Epigraphische Werkstatt, Wien (25 April, 2022)).
  • Cenati, C.: Miles et poeta: le iscrizioni in versi dei soldati in servizio a Roma (Associazione culturale Glaucopis (20 April, 2022)).
  • Gangoly, A.: Spatial Theory in Practice: Localisation and Interaction of the Greek Verse Inscriptions of Rome (Faces Behind the Façades: University of Durham, UK (25–26 March, 2022)).

2021

  • Murzea, D.: Femina et Carmina. Is There a ‘Femininity’ in the Inscribed Verse in the Roman Empire? (International Conference of the Graduate Students in History, 16th Edition: Old and New in Historical Research: Sources, Methods, Approaches, Cluj-Napoca (12-13 November, 2021)).
  • Cenati, C., González Berdús, V.: Presentation of MAPPOLA Database. Digital text edition “creating” specific perceptions of texts (International CARMEN Conference: Modern text theories, analytical annotation tools, state of the art instruments in analogue and digital editing (Universidad de Sevilla 4-6 November, 2021)).
  • Cenati, C., Murzea, D.: Sounds from Sarmizegetusa: Poetry and Performance in the Rome of Dacia (Conference Eastern Romanity and Italy from antiquity to the 20th century (3rd) edition)/ La Romanità Orientale e l’Italia dall’a antichità fino al XX secolo (3 edizione), Rome (18-19 October, 2021)).
  • Cenati, C., González Berdús, V.: A verse inscription from Tomis (Or is it?) (II MAPPOLA Workshop: But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman poetry (Universität Wien 30 September, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: MAPPOLA project update (Workshop Towards a More Inclusive Classics II, Institute of Classical Studies, London (1–2 July, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P., González Berdús, V.: Connecting the dots: some thoughts on the spread and diffusion of recurring Carmina Latina Epigraphica (Workshop Manuscripts at the Service of Epigraphy: Master Copies, Templates, and Other Exemplars in the Production of Pre-Modern Inscriptions, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg (29 June, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Ich starb schon tausend Tode: Römisches Theater und die lateinischen Versinschriften (Conference Beyond Entertainment – Theatre in Past and Present, organised by Profs. Heide Frielinghaus and Christine Walde (Mainz, 25–26 June, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Epic cock-ups, epic fails, and absolutely no sense of Homer: some thoughts concerning epic poetry, verse inscriptions, and Roman poetic culture (Fringes of Epic seminar series, University of Cambridge (19 May, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Re-thinking Inscribed Roman Poetry as a Form of Decorative Art (Panel Materiality of Languages: Epigraphy, Manuscripts, and Writing Systems in Byzantium and the Early Islamic Near East (324-1204) III at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (10–15 May, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Mapping out the poetic landscape(s) of the Roman empire: The Carmina Epigraphica and the democracy of literature (Dottorato in scienze del testo dal medioevo alla modernità. Seminario interdisciplinare in scienze del testo ‘Armando Petrucci’. Scrivere Altrove, Scrivere Altrimenti: I. – Scritture Esposte, La Sapienza: Università di Roma (16 April 2021)) (click here for further information and the access link).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Roman slave songs: experiences of slavery and human trafficking in the Latin verse inscriptions (Research seminar at the University of Bristol, Department of Classics and Ancient History (23 March, 2021)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Ceterum censeo Carthaginem Novam esse legendam: rethinking Roman poetry as cultural history (Seminario Piedra, papel, tijera. La literatura latina y sus soportes at the University of Sevilla (17–18 March, 2021)). [For a poster of the event, please click here. The event took place on-line.]
  • Kruschwitz, P., Gangoly, A.: The Poetics of Displacement: Migration and multiculturalism in the Roman verse inscriptions (Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (10 February, 2021)) [for the event webpage click here].
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Caesar als Dichter (Thementag Caesar und seine Rezeption at the University of Mainz (23 January, 2021)). [Further information on this event is available here.]

2020

  • Cenati, C., Gangoly, A., González Berdús, V., Hobel, T., Kruschwitz, P., and Murzea, D.: MAPPOLA – An Interactive Platform Mapping Out the Verse Inscriptions of the Roman Empire (Poster presentation at the fifth epigraphy.info workshop, Leuven (3–6 November, 2020)). Our poster is available here.
  • Kruschwitz, P.: The Literary Graveyard: Ausonius’ Epigrams and Late Antique Transformations of the Roman Epigraphic Habit (Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture, Stockholm (25-26 September, 2020)).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Democratising Roman Poetry (Towards a More Inclusive Classics, Institute of Classical Studies, London – virtual workshop (25–26 June, 2020)). Our presentation is available here.
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Ausonius’ Literary Graveyard (Seminario Hispalense de Filología Latina: Reflejos del hábito epigráfico en la literatura latina , Universidad de Sevilla (11-12 March 2020) (click here for a poster of the event).
  • Gónzalez Berdús, V.: El escritor como lapicida y el lapicida como escritor (Seminario Hispalense de Filología Latina: Reflejos del hábito epigráfico en la literatura latina , Universidad de Sevilla (11-12 March 2020) (with Prof. Juan Martos) (click here for a poster of the event).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Die Poesie der Fremde(n): Carmina Latina Epigraphica zwischen Furcht und Zuversicht (Epigraphik in der Hollandstr. – Global Epigraphy. Wahrnehmung und Darstellung von Fremdem in Inschriften, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (22–23 January, 2020)) (click here for a poster of the event).

2019

  • Kruschwitz, P.: Poetische Grenzerfahrungen: Gedanken zu den römischen Versinschriften von Carnuntum (Eranos Vindobonensis: Universität Wien, Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal 21, 21 November, 2019, 5pm).
  • Kruschwitz, P.: Some thoughts on nominative determinism in the Latin verse  inscriptions (Conference in honour of Prof. Robert Maltby: Democritus University of Komotini, 6–7 November, 2019)
  • Interakademisch-internationale Konferenz: ‘Carmina Latina Epigraphica’: organised by Prof. Dr. Marietta Horster (Mainz), in collaboration with Peter Kruschwitz, at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (4–6 September, 2019) [link to programme]:
    • Kruschwitz, P.: Welcome
    • González Berdús, V.: Concerning Fuchs 13: a case study on the characteristics of very late carmina Latina epigraphica from Trier (Augusta Treverorum)
  • Philology and Epigraphy: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the Edition and Study of the Carmina Latina Epigraphica (CLE): a panel organised by Prof. Dr. Concha Fernández Martínez (Sevilla) for the joint FIEC/CA Conference, London (8 July, 2019):
    • Kruschwitz, P.: Poetic Britannia
    • González Berdús, V.: Carmina Latina Epigraphica from Gallia Belgica: An Up-to-date Overview and a Study of the Erotic Carmina on Instrumenta
  • González Berdús, V.: ¿La letra con sangre entra? Grammatici en la antigua Roma” (V Taller de Epigrafía Latina: “Con oficio y beneficio: trabajadores en la antigua Roma” (Facultad de Filología, Sevilla, 7 March, 2019))

Events organised by Team MAPPOLA

Panel: “Carmina Epigraphica” (1 September, 2022) at the XVI Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (Bordeaux) (29 August – 2 September, 2022), co-organised with Prof. Concepción Fernández Martínez (Sevilla)

Prof. Kruschwitz and Team MAPPOLA are proud to have been invited to co-organise, with Prof. Concepción Fernández Martínez (Sevilla), a panel on “Carmina Epigraphica” at the XVI Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae in Bordeaux.

Workshop II: But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman poetry (30 September – 1 October 2021)

  • Interactive flyer: “But is it art?” with workshop programme, links to abstracts, materials, and technical instructions [PDF format] (last update: 29 September 2021)
  • Link: Workshop programme (with links to abstracts coming soon; last updated: 29 September 2021)
  • Link: Call for Papers and Posters (now closed)

Workshop I: Latin Poetry in the Greek East & Greek Poetry in the Latin West (25-26 February, 2021)