The one-day workshop is evolving around the three PhD projects embedded in the new excavation project of Julius Caesarʹs Forum in Rome, which is a collaboration between the Danish Institute in Rome, the Roman Municipal Department of Antiquities (Soprintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali), and Centre of Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet). While the directors and senior researchers of the project will give introductory talks, presentations by the PhD students will constitute the basis for the workshop. These presentations will be followed by discussions with a number of experts, who have and are working on the urban development of Rome in different time periods. The scope of the workshop is limited mainly to the area of the Forum of Julius Caesar in Rome; however with a diachronic and holistic perspective on this area. The projects of the PhD students connected to the excavation cover three different periods, but they all evolve around material from the area of the Caesarʹs Forum in Rome.  

The three PhD projects and presentations will cover the following themes: 

• Nora Margherita Petersen: Burying Early Rome. Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age burials from the Forum of Caesar. This project examines the burials from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (c. 11th-9th century BC, phase I-IIA) in the Forum of Caesar and in Rome.
• Nikoline Sauer: The Archaic Period on the Forum of Caesar. The Urbanisation of Early Rome. This project aims to study the urban development in the Forum of Caesar and central Rome from 650 to 480 on the basis of archaeological evidence.
• Line Egelund Hejlskov: Urban Development in Rome. Space through time. The project focuses on the urban development of Rome through examining Forum Iulium, its use of space and the development hereof in a diachronic perspective, its construction in Late Roman Republic into the Medieval period.