The Roman Military Equipment Conference
About ROMEC
The first Roman Military Equipment Research Seminar was held in
the Department of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology (now,
sadly, defunct) at the University of Sheffield (GB) in 1983. It has
since grown and the Roman Military Equipment Conference
(ROMEC), as it has become known, now visits various international
venues, but still retains the same goals as that first seminar: to
further the study of Roman military equipment with contributions
from professional or amateur, academic or re-enactor, archaeologist
or historian. It is open to all, the only limitation being one of
numbers.
The newsletter of ROMEC is Arma,
whilst papers presented at the various conferences are available
(together with other related papers) in the Journal of Roman Military Equipment
Studies.
Previous ROMECs
- ROMEC I
- Sheffield (GB), 21st March, 1983. Organized by M.C. Bishop.
Published in M.C. Bishop (ed.), Roman Military Equipment.
Proceedings of a Seminar held in the Department of Ancient History
and Classical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, 21st
March 1983, Sheffield 1983
- ROMEC II
- Sheffield (GB), 1984. Organized by M.C. Bishop. Published in
M.C. Bishop (ed.), The Production and Distribution of Roman
Military Equipment. Proceedings of the Second Roman Military
Equipment Research Seminar, BAR International Series
275, Oxford 1985
- ROMEC III
- Nottingham (GB), 1985. Organized by M. Dawson. Published in M.
Dawson (ed.), Roman Military Equipment: the Accoutrements of
War. Proceedings of the Third Roman Military Equipment Research
Seminar, BAR International Series 336, Oxford
1987
- ROMEC IV
- Newcastle upon Tyne (GB), 12th-13th April, 1986. Organized by
J.C. Coulston. Published in J.C. Coulston (ed.), Military
Equipment and the Identity of Roman Soldiers. Proceedings of the
Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference, BAR International
Series 394, Oxford 1988
- ROMEC V
- Nijmegen (NL), 1987. Organized by C. van Driel-Murray.
Published in C. van Driel-Murray (ed.), Roman Military
Equipment: the Sources of Evidence. Proceedings of the Fifth Roman
Military Equipment Conference , BAR International Series
476, Oxford 1989
- ROMEC VI
- Bonn (D), 1988. Organized by M. Gechter. Papers published in
JRMES 1 (1989)
- ROMEC VII
- Magdalensburg (A), 24th-26th May, 1990. Organized by H.-J.
Ubl.
- ROMEC VIII
- Newcastle upon Tyne (GB), 11th-12th
April, 1992. Organized by L. Allason-Jones. Published in
JRMES 3 (1992)
- ROMEC IX
- Leiden (NL), 15th-17th September, 1994. Organized by C. van
Driel-Murray. Published in JRMES 5 (1994)
& 6 (1995), with some papers in
4 (1993)
- ROMEC X
- Montpellier (F), 26th-28th September, 1996. Organized by M.
Feugère. Papers on the Republican theme published in
JRMES 8 (1997), others in JRMES
7 (1996)
- ROMEC XI
- Mainz (D), 10th-12th September,
1998. Organized by J. Oldenstein. Papers on the Late Roman
theme published in JRMES 10 (1999),
others in JRMES 9 (1998)
- ROMEC XII
- South Shields (GB). Organized by W.B. Griffiths. Papers on the
theme of reconstruction published in JRMES
11 (2000)
- ROMEC XIII
- Brugg (CH). Organized by E. & S. Deschler-Erb. Papers on
the theme of military equipment in civil contexts to be published
in the Jahresbericht of the Gesellschaft Pro
Vindonissa for 2002. Other papers (and posters) will appear in
JRMES 12 (2001) and 13 (2002).
The next ROMEC
ROMEC XIV will be in Austria from August 27th/29th
2003 and will be held at Vienna (Vindobona). Further
details are available on the
website of the Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften (ÖAW) as PDF files.
The organizing committee
- Dr M.C.
Bishop , Braemar, Kirkgate, Chirnside, Duns,
Berwickshire, TD11 3XL, GB
- Dr J.C.N.
Coulston , School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History,
University of St Andrews, St Salvator's College, St Andrews, Fife,
KY16 9AL, GB
- Dr C. van
Driel-Murray , IPP, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ
Amsterdam, NL
- Dr M.
Feugère , UMR 154 du CNRS, CDAR, 390 Av. de
Pérols, 34970 Lattes, F
- Priv.-Doz.
Dr J. Oldenstein, Institut für Vor- und
Frühgeschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099
Mainz, D
- Dr M.
Pavkovic , Hawaii Pacific University, 1188 Fort
Street, Suite 442, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA
- Drs E. & S.
Deschler-Erb, Seminar für Ur- und
Frühgeschichte, Universität Basel, Petersgraben 9-11,
4051 Basel, CH
- Dr S.
Jilek, Academy of Science, Institut für
Kulturgeschichte der Antike, Baeckerstrasse 13, 1010 Wien, A
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