Part of the “Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship” events of the academic year.
Professor Myles Lavan (St. Andrews) for:
- A public lecture: on “Manumission and Ancient Citizenship in the Roman World” TUESDAY, April 9th at 5:00 pm, in the Gibson Room of Cocke Hall.
- A lunch discussion of his chapter on “Manumission in Roman Egypt,” on Thursday (April 11) in Gibson Hall #341 (not Bond!). Lunch at noon, discussion to start around 12:20. Paper linked.
Myles Levan works on Quantifying Enfranchisement, a project to quantify the spread of Roman citizenship from Augustus to Caracalla. The project centres on a novel, probabilistic approach to uncertainty in historical estimation. The initial phase was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2014-15). He has published the methodology and the preliminary results in an article in P&P 2016, a more detailed study of the army in JRS 2019 and a case study of the province of Asia in Chiron 2020. He has also collaborated with Clifford Ando on a British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project (2016-18) to investigate the significance of Roman citizenship in the century before Caracalla’s universal of citizenship in 212 CE; the project has produced an edited volume just out from Oxford University Press.