‘Ancient and Medieval Commemorative Practices’ workshop
University of Glasgow (Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens)
23 June 2026 (in-person)
All welcome: please register here for catering purposes.
Programme:
9.30
Coffee
10.00
Catherine Steel (University of Glasgow): Welcome and introduction to the workshop
10.30-12.30
Session 1: Religion, commemoration and inequality between Republican Rome and the Medieval Mediterranean
Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow), “The Art & Inequality Project”: Commemoration and Social Class, c. 1250 to 1525: Italy, Catalonia, and the Republic of Ragusa.
Alex Antoniou (University of Glasgow), Innovation or Constraint? Élite Religious Commemoration and the Power of the Populus in the Dying Republic
12.30-1.30
Lunch break
1.30-3.30
Session 2: People and Places
Kris Wong (University of Glasgow), Remembering Tullia
Neil McClelland (University of Glasgow), Commemoration by nobilities and non-nobility in late-medieval Naples
3.30
Tea
4-5.30
Keynote Lecture: Federico Santangelo (University of Genoa)
A King on the Run: the Roman Festival of the Regifugium, between Commemoration and Expiation
5.30
Drinks reception
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.