A workshop open to all who are interested:
“Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” workshop
22-23 October 2026, Helsinki
Fabianinkatu 24, Room (Sali) 531
Thursday 22 Oct 2026
9.00–10.00 Welcome and introduction to the Helsinki Inequality Initiative
10.30–12.30 Session: Food, agriculture, health & quality of life (Chair: Nissin)
Simelius: Methodology for assessing health inequality in Roman urban sites
Diosono & Volpi: Cooking Practices and Everyday Inequality in Republican Roman Colonies: A
Comparative Study of Fregellae and Villa San Silvestro
Llamazares Martín: Did Roman taxation spur inequality? A case from Hellenistic Sicily
Sala: Food consumption as an indicator of social inequality
14.00–16.00 Session: The Greek world and its influence (Chair: Karligkioti)
Enache: Two class healthcare in Hippocrates’ On regimen
Sironen: Interpretations of defining ethnic denigration and segregation of Bruttians by Lucanians and
Romans
Eriksson: Archaeological materials as traces of social difference in ancient Greece
Campmany Jiménez: Class and inequality in ancient Emporiae
16.30–17.30 Keynote – Flohr: Imperialization, Heterogeneity and Inequality in the Greco-Roman
Mediterranean
Friday 23 Oct 2026
9.00–10.00 Keynote – Karligkioti: Written in bone: Bioarchaeological perspectives of inequality in the
Greco-Roman world
10.30–12.30 Session: Italy during the Roman Republic and Early Empire (Chair: Flohr)
Zambotto: The Flesh in Debt: Somatic Inequality from Nexi to Squid Game Players (online)
Paukkonen: Air and Light on the Streets: 3D-GIS Based Analysis of Pompeiian Street Network
Danon: Pompeii and the functional shape of economic inequality
Martone: Wealth distribution and non-elite purchasing power in imperial Pompeian society: a
quantitative assesment of coin hoards and dwelling units
13.50–15.50 session: The Roman Empire (Chair: Vierros)
Jung: Inequality on the Move – Mobility Practices of Asymmetrically Dependent Romans
Streicher: Negotiating the Gap: Municipal Liberalitas and Reciprocity at Thugga
Hassal: Philanthropy and the Inequality Régime of Late Antiquity: The Episcopal Foreclosure of
Egalitarian Ideas among the Labouring Classes of Late Antique Antioch
Alaranta: Interpreting Emerging Poverty: Demographic Growth and Growing Economic Inequality in
the Later Roman East
16.15–17.15 Session: Italy beyond Rome (Chair: Simelius)
Rajala: Invisible, unspoken? The lack of discussion on inequality in Italian pre-Roman archaeology
(online)
Daveloose: The Etruscan ‘Vornamengentilizia’: a sociospatial analysis of Chiusi (online)
Source: Samuli Simelius
