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Dedicated to the urban crisis in the High Roman Empire, the conference will be held on 22 and 23 March in the Hall of the Museum, organized by the Roman Theatre Foundation with the assistance of the City and the Autonomous Region, among others

The Roman Theatre Foundation, Casa Velázquez and the University of Murcia, with the sponsorship of the City of Cartagena and the Autonomous Region, among other institutions and organizations, has organized an international symposium under the title A crisis in the late Urban High Empire? be held in Cartagena on 22 and 23 March.

The Hall of the Roman Theatre Museum will host this conference to analyze the behavior of Roman cities in Wests, especially Gaul, Germania and Spain, with the participation of more than twenty European institutions.

Thus, attended by representatives of the Universities of Bordeaux 4, Poitiers, Lyons, Louvain, Clermont-Ferrand, Bern, Lille, Alcala de Henares, Autonomous Region of Madrid, Autonoma de Barcelona, ​​Cordoba, Granada, Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Valencia and Zaragoza in addition to Istitut Català d ¿Clà ssica Archaeology, the Archaeological Service of Alcala de Henares, the Archaeological Research Service of Valencia, the Museum of the Roman Theatre in Cartagena, the Archaeological Museum of Alicante MARQ Museum and Foundation L ' Alcudia, and Museums in Badalona and Cerdanya.

The conference is dedicated to the urban crisis at the end of the High Empire and the changes in the municipal model of the time.

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

The difficulties they faced indicate cities, rather than a definitive ruin of its institutions, its entry into a long period of recession.

However the city remained, still in the s.

IV, as the system of provincial life and the fundamental administrative unit of the Empire.

Papers and communications that are part of this international symposium will be presented throughout both days, the 22 and 23 March, from 9.00 to 14.00 hours and 16.30 to 20.00 .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena