A. Interpretive Issues
John R. Clarke (University of Texas, Austin): Representations of Worship at Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia in the Imperial Period: A Model of Production and consumption - Irene Bragantini (Università di Napoli - Orientale): The Cult of Isis and Ancient Aegyptomania in Campania - Fabrizio Pesando (Universita Orientale di Napoli): The Properties and the Social Role of Feminae Nobiles in Italy During the Early Imperial Age - Annette Weissenrieder (San Francisco Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley): Contested Spaces in 1 Corinthian 11:17?34 and 14:30: Sitting or Reclining in Ancient Houses, in Associations and in the Space of ekklesia - Laura Salah Nasrallah (Harvard Divinity School): Grief in Corinth. The Roman City and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence - Eleanor Winsor Leach (Indiana University Bloomington): Rhetorical 'Inventio' and the Expectations of Roman Continuous Narrative Painting
B. Contested Domestic spaces
1. Domus
Ivan Varriale (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli): Architecture and Decoration in the House of Menander in Pompeii - Mario Grimaldi (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli - Université Paris X Nanterre): Art and Architecture of the House of Fabius Rufus in Pompeii - David L. Balch (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley): The Church Sitting in a Garden (1 Cor 14:30; Rom 16:23; Mark 6:39?40; 8:6; John 6:3, 10; Acts 1:15; 2:1?2) - Hilke Thür (University of Vienna): Art and Architecture in Terrace House 2 in Ephesos: An example of domestic architecture in the Roman Imperial Period
2. Villae
Umberto Pappalardo (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli): How the Romans saw the frieze in the Villa of the Mysteries - Rosaria Ciardiello (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli): Beryllos, the Jews and the Villa of Poppaea in Oplontis (Torre Annunziata) - Monika Bernett (University of Munich): Space and Interaction: Narrative and Representation of Power under the Herodians
3. Insulae
Maria Paola Guidobaldi (Director of excavations, Herculaneum): Insula Orientalis 1 in Herculaneum - Janet DeLaine (Oxford): Housing in Roman Ostia
C. Contested Sacred Spaces: Temples, the Imperial Cult, and Mithraea
Tina Najbjerg (Princeton University): Exploring the economic, political, and social significance of the great Porticus in Herculaneum - Annette Weissenrieder (San Francisco Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley): "Do you not know that you are God's temple?" Towards a new perspective on Paul's temple image in 1 Corinthians 3:16 - David L. Balch (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley): Cult Statues of Augustus' Temple of Apollo on the Palatine in Rome, Artemis'/Diana's Birthday in Ephesus, and Revelation 12:1-5a - L. Michael White (University of Texas at Austin): The Changing Face of Mithraism at Ostia. Archaeology, Art, and the Urban Landscape - Ulrike Muss (University of Vienna): The Artemesion at Ephesos: Paul, John and Mary
