[Archport] XI INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ROMAN PROVINCIAL ART/ Mérida

["Lucia Afonso" <lumapi@hotmail.com>]

XI INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ROMAN PROVINCIAL ART

Mérida (Spain), May 18-21, 2009

As a member of the Academic Steering Committee, I would like to encourage 
CAC/SCEC colleagues to consider participating in the 11th International 
Colloquium on Roman Provincial Art, to be held in Mérida (Spain), May 18-21, 
2009, at the invitation of the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano (MNAR; the 
National Museum of Roman Art) and the Institut Català de Arqueologia 
Clàssica (ICAC; the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology). 
(Post-congress excursions, not included in the standard registration fee, 
will take place on May 22-23.)

The theme of the 11th Colloquium will be: "Rome and the Provinces: Models 
and Diffusion".

Proposals for the presentation of research papers or regional syntheses (20 
minutes, plus 10 minutes discussion), news of recent finds (10 minutes, plus 
5 minutes discussion), or posters will be welcome on the following topics:

 a.. Metropolitan artistic models.
 b.. Variants on urban models found in regional artistic workshops.
 c.. Regional workshops and the dissemination of models: routes and 
circuits.
 d.. Regional art and its influence on Rome.
The official Colloquium languages are Spanish, French, English, German, and 
Italian.

The Academic Steering Committee reserves the right to accept or reject 
proposals.

The Colloquium proceedings will be published.

Full details, including instructions for the submission of proposals for 
papers (deadline: November 15, 2008) and for registration (deadline: 
December 31, 2008), are now available (in Spanish and in English) on the 
conference's website: http://oliba.uoc.edu/icac/merida/.