Published on: 19 November 2019
On 3 August 2019 UQ hosted an interdisciplinary workshop which considered power and legitimacy in the Roman and Byzantine worlds. Along with international keynote speakers, the workshop included participants from the University of New England, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University. In addition to the organizers, UQ was represented by Associate Professor Tom Stevenson, who addressed the use of monuments in Rome and Constantinople as expressions of power, MPhil Candidate Tyla Cascaes, who considered Augustus’s use of Julius Caesar’s legacy to bolster his legitimacy, and MPhil Candidate Jessica Zelli, who compared the use of Lucrecia with the Christian martyr Perpetua as figures of female authority.
