“Communal Responses to Local Disaster: Economic, Environmental, Political, Religious”

Speakers include:
Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Fight or Flight?: Local Roman Responses to the ‘Barbarian Invasions’”
Audrey Becker (Université de Lorraine), “Bishops in 5th-century Gaul: Negotiations with Barbarian Kings in a Time of Emergency”
Madeleine St. Marie (University of California, Riverside), “Civic Dissention and Barbarian Incursion: Communal Responses to Disaster in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epistles”