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There are two months for the Roman Theatre Museum hosting an international symposium on the urban crisis of the Roman Empire.

However, the deadline for submitting applications for participation ends on February 25.

The meeting, organized by the Roman Theatre in Cartagena, Murcia University, the University of Bordeaux and sponsored by the City of Cartagena, the Autonomous Community Foundation and the Casa Velazquez Cajamurcia is open to all participants.

Given the specificity of the subject, a written statement on proposals for civic spaces in the west of the Empire to the Congress Secretariat .

The document must contain the title, author and a brief summary of the theme of the conference.

The Urban Crisis conference at the end of Altoimperio will be held on 22 and 23 March in the Auditorium of the Museum of Roman Theatre.

The meeting will attempt to cover the behavior of the Roman cities of the West, mainly gallium, germanium and Spain, he will participate in more than twelve European institutions among which the European networks: University of Bordeaux, the Catalan Institute of Archaeology CIA SSIC, the University of Murcia, the University of Alcalá de Henares, the Archaeological Service of Alcala de Henares, Madrid Autónma University and the Universities of Poitiers, Lyons, Louvain, Clermont-Ferrand, Lille Bern.

The history of cities between the High Empire and Late Antiquity has long been described as a progressive decline, however several recent studies have shown that the model did not disappear with the local "crisis."

The difficulties they had to cope with urban areas, sometimes from the second century (particularly in the provinces of Hispania) entry point in a long process of recession.

Yet the city remained, still in the fourth century, as the system of provincial life and the fundamental administrative unit of the Empire.

Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University Lille, Javier Arce, coordinate the roundtable with the conclusions of the congress.

In addition, the conference called novas Condere cities, erudire longaeva et reparare intermortuas: the situation of the cities of Hispania in the fourth century AD is on 23 March.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena