Monday, oct 12th: The origins

11 am - 12.30 pm The Carl von Ossietzky University (walk across the campus)

12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch at the canteen (refectory)

2 h - 3.00 pmGermans. What Germans? A view to Ethnology and Ethnogenesis.

3 h - 4.00 pm'Germans' in my mind". Individual research and study interests.

4.30 - 6 pmIntellegere, quid invicti Germani virtute possint:

Early contacts between Romans and trans-Rhenanian nations.

(based on Caesar, de bello Gallico)

6 h - 6.30 Lecture: Arminius and Marbod (by Prof. Sommer PhD)

Tuesday, oct 13th: Augustan times

9 st Departure, trip to Kalkriese

11 st am - 1 pmGuided tour across the Varusschlacht-excavation and museum,

by Dr Susanne Wilbers-Rost and Dr Achim Rost, chief excavators, with discussion.

1 h- 2 h pm Lunchtime in the museum's refectory

2 h - 3.30 pmVare, redde legiones - A Roman praetor's shattered image: Augustan policy in the North (Based on Velleius, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio)

4 pm Return to Oldenburg by car

Wednesday, oct 14th: Pax Romana

9 st am -12 a) The Roman province of Germania under Augustus: literary and documentary sources.

b) The division and organisation of the province of Germania: military and political aspects.

2 st - 4 pm Coins from the Jever treasury, presented by Dr Müller (Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte).

Thursday, oct 15th: Barbaricum

9 h - 12 amInformis terris, aspera caelo, tristis cultu adspectuque:

Mediterranean knowledge about the North (based on Tacitus [Germania] and Poseidonius)

2.30 - 3.30 pmGermanic life in the exhibition of Oldenburg's Museum 'Natur und Mensch' (guided tour, by Dr Jana Fries, district archaeologist)

Friday, 0ct 16th: The Empire strikes back

9 ct - 11 amΟὐδενὸς ἀνθεστῶτος - Maximinus Thrax at the 'Harzhorn'

(based on Herodian and the Historia Augusta)

11 ct am -1 pm Final discussion