CMLL Distinguished Lecturer Series - Dr. Rose Maclean

Please join us on Friday, April 21 at 4:00pm in Lee Hall 0003 for a presentation that is part of the CMLL Distinguished Lecturer Series! We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rose MacLean (UC Santa Barbara), who will present a talk entitled "Slavery, Freedom, and Geographic Mobility in the Roman Empire." In her talk, Dr. MacLean examines the impact of geographic mobility on the social status and lived experiences of the enslaved and freed people who worked in the Roman imperial bureaucracy, otherwise known as the familia Caesaris. Drawing on a range of literary and epigraphic sources, she argues that mobility — together with wealth and political influence — elevated the prestige of these individuals while simultaneously challenging their ability to form stable families.

Dr. Rose MacLean is Associate Professor of Classics at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture: Social Integration and the Transformation of Values (Cambridge, 2018).

More information is available at https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2023/04/roman-empire-expert-speak-cmll-distinguished-lecturer-series-week. We hope to see you then!