RAT Conference November 17th-19th 2006

[Luca]

IDEA:

Jasper will you be able to provide some badges with:

- avatar, in place of individual photo
- nick name
- true name

so everyone will easily recognize each member of RAT?

[Praefectusclassis]

That could be done, I suppose.

[caiusbeerquitius]

Hm. The idea is good, but we are not so many people that it would really matter. And after the get-together on friday we can be sure to know each other... And while we sit in the Andechser, the badges will be hardly visible for everyone anyway...
So, only if it´s not much work and done within five minutes...

[Luca]

Right, but my idea was just to "colorize" our small meeting with some gadgets.... I love this stuff.

anyway I should change my avatar from an image 5 years old... now I have gray hair.......

[Luca]

Look:

[caiusbeerquitius]

[Jona Lendering]

Saturday, November 18th
09:30 Lectures in a seminar room in the Kresslessmühle
Introduction
09:45: Hans Van Lierde (Belgium):
Roman Militaria of the First Century AD in Sacred Contexts in the North-Western Provinces
10:30 Svenja G. (Germany):
Gladiators: Origins of the Gladiatorial Games, Types of Gladiators, and how they were seen by the Roman Society.
11:15 Jona Lendering (Netherlands):
Sacred Forests and Rocky Coasts: The Unreliability of Ancient Battle Narratives
12:00 Volker Bach (Germany):
Military Collegia; Thoughts on their Function and Context
12:45 Lunch break in the Helsinki Bar inside the Kresslesmühle
14:15 We will walk to the Roman Museum Augsburg and have a guided Tour
17:00 Leisure you can go shopping, to one of the many museums, churches or historical sites or just have a coffe and chill
19:30 Dinner with local specialties / open end

Sunday November 19th
09:30 Lectures in a seminar room in the Kresslessmühle
Jasper Oorthuys (Netherlands):
Marines and Mariners in the Roman Imperial Navy
10:15 Christian Koepfer (Germany):
The Notitia Dignitatum: Shield forms and shield Designs Seen from a Different Perspective
11:00 Bavarian Sunday Breakfast
12:00 Open
12:45 Open
13:30 Discussion: Guideline for Respectable Living History
14:15 Open
15:00 Coffee break
15:45 Christian Koepfer (Germany):
Living History or Reenactment? General Clarification of Terminology in the Scene
17:00 Leisure
19:00 Dinner / Open End (Optional)

Is this still the schedule?

[caiusbeerquitius]

Well, I´ll move my lecture up so that we have no unnecessary breaks, and can use the time afterwards to do sthg else.

[caiusbeerquitius]

Everyone of you coming to the conference: If you want my mobile number, pm me.

[Primvs Pavlvs]

cry:

Oh Well maybe next year!

[Carlton Bach]

Right, my plans have *finally* coalesced into something tangible.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to be with you on Friday evening. I'm arriving Saturday in the early morning. I'm booked into the Jakoberhof (see you there, Luca).

My presentation is more or less ready to go (will you need/want an actual written-up version? I only have a list of talking points and inscriptions right now). I'll be finishing up in the days before while I am in southern Germany already. It can be given without any visual aids, but a blackboard, whiteboard or overhead projector would be nice to present some of the epigraphy.

Very much looking forward to that, and strongly in favour of a Munich visit to see the museums there - never been yet.

[Luca]

I apologize, but yesterday I renounced to the meeting due to family troubles. I sent a PM to Jasper and caiustarquitius for this.
It was my big wish to be there, but, you know, the family requires my presence and it has higher "priority".
I'm interested a lot in the readings and I hope you will share them after the meeting.

[Praefectusclassis]

Hi Luca,
Such things are always more important. Good luck at home and see you another time!

[Martin Moser]

I apologize, but yesterday I renounced to the meeting due to family troubles.

Hi Luca, too bad you can't come. Hope everything sorts out well!

[hansvl]

Hi,

Working on my presentation I'm narrowing down my subject somewhat. So the new title is: First century AD gladii and other militaria from cult places in Northern Gaul. Otherwise the scope of the original subject would grow over my head.

My presentation will be a powerpoint-presentation, so I need to know if there's a beamer (data-projector) available.

See you there,

Hans