Program
Monday
Monday
Monday, June 1, 2026, Frankfurt a.M., Archaeological Museum
Karmelitergasse 1, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
| 12:00–14:00 | Registration |
| 14:00–14:30 | Welcome |
| Section New Finds I | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Vassiliki Gaggadis-Robin, Note sur une tête de statue antique en plâtre |
| 15:00–15:30 | Jonathan Ritter, Repräsentationsmodi auf den Grabdenkmälern Apollonias |
| 15:30–16:00 | Thomas Heide, Was der Neufund einer Genius-Statue in Mainz über die römische Sandstein-Produktion im Nahe-Tal verrät |
| 16:00–16:30 | Thomas Flügen – Carsten Wenzel, Gestürzte Götter? Die Jupitersäulen aus Nida (Frankfurt am Main-Heddernheim) |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:30 | Guided Tour of the museum |
| 19:00 | Keynote Lecture Henner von Hesberg, Soziale Mobilität – die Aussage archäologischer Zeugnisse aus dem Westen des Römischen Reiches |
| 20:00–22:00 | Reception |
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Tuesday
Tuesday
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, Mayence, Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA)
Ludwig-Lindenschmit-Forum 1, 55116 Mainz
| 09:30 | Welcome |
| Section Social Mobility 1 | |
| 09:45–10:15 | Georgia Aristodemou, Women in Mobility. A Glance into Female Public Roles in Roman Macedonia |
| 10:15–10:45 | Jochen Griesbach, Mobilität und Identität: Die Grabbüsten aus Apollonia |
| 10:45–11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15–11:45 | Amra Šačić Beća, Funerary and Votive Monuments of the Dalmatian Hinterland as Media of Social Mobility between Local and Roman Traditions |
| 11:45–12:15 | Domagoj Tončinić – Mirjana Sanader, Grabstelen der Legio VII zwischen persönlicher Kommemoration und öffentlicher Kommunikation |
| 12:15–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00–15:30 | Postersession |
| Daniel Burger-Völlmecke – Florine Jäger, Von Nero zu Augustus – Ein kaiserliches Marmorporträt aus Wiesbaden | |
| Piotr Dyczek, Novae – Marble plaque with a Horseman | |
| Charleen Hack, Bunte Provinz. Zur Polychromie römischer Steindenkmäler zwischen Rhein und Nahe | |
| Johannes Lipps – Kerstin P. Hofmann – Aline Deicke, Disiecta Membra: Steinarchitektur und Städtewesen im römischen Deutschland |
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| Julio C. Ruiz, Research on Roman Table Legs and Other Stone Supports: state of the art and future perspectives | |
| Mojca Vomer Gojkovič – Nataša Kolar, Mithraism and Mithraea of Poetovio | |
| Jürgen Lockau, Beispiele sozialer Mobilität in den Nordwestprovinzen | |
| Karen Murad, Irish Ogham Stones | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| Section New Finds II | |
| 16:00–16:15 | Mareike Chudaska, Eine Sitzstatuette aus Nida. Ein alter Fund in neuem Gewand |
| 16:15–16:30 | Philip Kiernan – Klaus-Peter Henz, Recent Sculptural Finds from Wareswald |
| 16:30–16:45 | Jonas Parétias, Nouvel éclairage sur le décor sculpté d’une domus à péristyle de Iuliobona (Lillebonne, France) |
| 16:45–17:00 | Robin Peters – Markus Scholz, Architekturteile römischer Grabbauten aus Alt-Inden (Kreis Düren) |
| 17:00–19:00 | Research Centre and Museum – Guided Tour 'Behind the Scenes' through LEIZA |
| 19:30 | Reception in the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) |
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Wednesday
Wednesday
Wednesday, June 3, 2026, Bad Homburg v.d.H., Saalburg Roman Fort
Am Römerkastell 1, 61350 Bad Homburg
(Bus transfer from Goethe University's Westend Campus)
| 9:30 | Welcome |
| Section Social Mobility 2 | |
| 09:45–10:15 | Frédéric Alpi – Zeina Fani Alpi – Jeanine Abdul Massih, Mourir à Cyrrhus : témoignage des stèles funéraires sur la société romaine en Syrie du Nord |
| 10:15–10:45 | Gül Işın – Ecem Usumi, Negotiating social mobility through relief-decorated sarcophagi in the rural Boğaçay River Basin (2nd–3rd centuries CE) |
| 10:45–11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15–11:45 | Nicholas Aherne, Reshaping Mithraism in the Roman Empire: Myth, Materiality, and Mobility |
| 11:45–12:15 | Amel Bouder, La statuaire comme indicateur des mutations sociales et religieuses dans l’évolution urbaine de Thamugadi |
| 12:15–12:45 | Amelia Robertson Brown, Living God to God-Blessed Ruler: Public Portrait Images of Emperors in the Late Roman Provinces |
| 12:45–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–16:00 | Guided Tour of the museum (with coffee break) |
| Section New Finds III | |
| 16:00–16:15 | Anne-Laure Edme – Antoine Roland, Une sculpture en remploi dans l’église de Fanlac (Dordogne, France): discussion autour de l’identification de ce relief |
| 16:15–16:45 | Catharina Blänsdorf – Christof Flügel – Barbara Jändl – Marie Arnold – Sebastian Gairhos – Georg Greven, Augsburgs bunte Reiter |
| 16:45–17:00 | Mihajlo N. Džamtovski – Ljubica Perinić, Is Silvanus represented on a monument from Sjeversko in Bosnia and Herzegovina (eastern Roman Dalmatia)? |
| 17:00–17:30 | Petya Andreeva, Is There a Provincial Apollo? Style, Workshop Production, and Identity in Roman Thrace |
| 17:30–17:45 | Vasiliki Anevlavi – Dimitra Andrianou – Petya Andreeva – Walter Prochaska, Sivec vs Thasos: Marble and Territoriality in the Roman Strymon Valley |
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Thursday
Thursday
Thursday, June 4, 2026, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. / Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK)
Campus Westend, Casino, 60323 Frankfurt a.M. / Palmengartenstr. 10–12, 60325 Frankfurt a.M.
| Goethe University's Westend Campus | |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| Section Social Mobility 3 | |
| 9:15–9:30 | Gabrielle Kremer, Soziale Mobilität im Hinterland von Carnuntum und Vindobona – die Evidenz der Steindenkmäler |
| 9:30–10:00 | Katarina Šmid, Paired Horsemen on a Funerary Monument of T. Iulius Bellicus from Celeia |
| 10:00–10:15 | József Beszédes, The Barrow (tumulus) of an Auxiliary Cavalryman from Nagytétény (Budapest). Issues of Dating, Social Status, and Reconstruction |
| 10:15–10:45 | Sorin Nemeti – Irina Nemeti, A Suitable Monument for Everyone. Funerary Sculpture from Napoca (Dacia) |
| 10:45–11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15–11:45 | Trinidad Nogales – Nova Barrero Martín, Augusta Emerita: Marble Workshops. An Example of Social Mobility in Roman Hispania |
| 11:45–12:00 | Lídia Fernandes – Carolina Grilo, The Roman theatre of Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal) in the western edge of the empire: a symbol of power and social mirror |
| Romano-Germanic Commission | |
| 12:30–15:30 | Get-together in the Romano-Germanic Commission, with guided tours |
| Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend | |
| Section New Finds III | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Zdravko Dimitrov, Garland Decoration on Stone Monuments from Thrace and Moesia – Interactions and Influences in the Exchange of Decorative Patterns during the Principate |
| 16:30–16:45 | Viktoria Videvska, Hadrian in Oescus? A Contribution to the Eastern Hadrianic Breastplate type |
| 16:45–17:00 | Mihajlo N. Džamtovski – Milan Prodanović – Ivana Šavija, Recently discovered fragmented sepulchral stele depicting a convivium from Donja Borina in western Serbia |
| 17:00–17:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:30–18:00 | Emmanouela Gounari, Sculpture in Philippi. Recent finds from the excavations |
| 18:00–18:15 | Aleksandra Nikoloska, Athena Medici from the National Archaeological Museum in Skopje |
| 18:30 | Reception, Skulpturensaal der Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus, room 7.511 |
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Friday
Friday
Friday, June 5, 2026, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
Campus Westend, Casino, 60323 Frankfurt a.M.
| Section Social Mobility 4 | |
| 9:00–9:30 | Anique M. Hamelink, Veterans in Gallic dress: complicating the picture of north-western funerary iconography |
| 9:30–10:00 | Thomas Schmidts, Der Wohlstand der nautae – Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg von Transportunternehmern im Norden des Römischen Reiches im Spiegel der Steindenkmäler |
| 10:00–10:15 | Ute Kelp – Anja Klöckner, Soziale Distinktion auf treverischen Grabdenkmälern |
| 10:15–10:30 | Niklas Schanz, Sepulkrale Repräsentation einer germanischen Elite unter römischer Herrschaft: Das Gräberfeld Nauheim „Ebertslache“ |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| Section Chronology 1 | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Manfred Hainzmann – Erwin Pochmarski, Die Grabstele des Titus Flavius Ateboduus und ihre Datierungskomponenten |
| 11:30–12:00 | Manuel Flecker, Chronology, craft tradition and the ‘style of the Second Triumvirate’. The dated altar for Gaius and Lucius Caesar in Reims |
| 12:00–12:30 | Maria-Pia Darblade-Audoin, La datation des frises et amas d’armes des Gaules. Questions autour des jalons chronologiques et des indices iconographiques |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15:30 | Section Chronology 2 |
| 14:00–14:30 | Annika Skolik, Römische Gesimse und ihre Bauornamentik in den Nordwestprovinzen |
| 14:30–15:00 | Veselka Katsarova, The acroterion from Kasnakovo – a new iconographic interpretation and dating |
| 15:00–15:30 | Daniel Richter, Pfeifen, pfeilförmige Zwischenblätter und Co. Zum flavischen Stil in der Bauornamentik |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–17:00 | Final discussion |
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Saturday
Saturday
Saturday, June 6 2026, excursion „Mogontiacum – the roman city of Mayence“
Guided by Prof. Dr. Johannes Lipps (JGU Mainz), Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (GU Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Anja Klöckner (GU Frankfurt) et al.
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Sunday
Sunday
Sunday, June 7, 2026, excursion by bus to Friedberg, Wetterau-Museum and to Glauberg, Celtic World, Museum, Research Centre and Archaeological Park
| Wetterau Museum Friedberg: https://www.wetterau-museum.de Haagstraße 16 61169 Friedberg |
| Guided tour of the Wetterau Museum led by a museum representative |
| Glauberg Celtic Word: https://www.keltenwelt-glauberg.de/en/ Am Glauberg 1, 63695 Glauburg |
| Guided tour of the Celtic World led by the museum director, Dr. Axel Posluschny, et al. |
| Bus transfer from and to Goethe University's Westend Campus |
| Lunch in the museum restaurant (self-pay basis) |
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