Homage to Professor José Remesal
The Faculty of Geography and History paid this last Friday, September 28, the homage to Professor José Remesal on the occasion of his retirement. Participants in the event were the dean Ricardo Piqueras, Jorge Martínez-Pinna, professor of Ancient History at the University of Malaga; Francisco Pina, professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, and Marc Mayer, professor of Latin Philology at the UB, and Professor Remesal gave a master lecture. The activity also covered the presentation of the book to be edited as tribute to Professor Remesal, titled EX BAETICA ROMAM and which will gather several contributions on ancient economy, society and institutions.
The Faculty of Geography and History paid this last Friday, September 28, the homage to Professor José Remesal on the occasion of his retirement. Participants in the event were the dean Ricardo Piqueras, Jorge Martínez-Pinna, professor of Ancient History at the University of Malaga; Francisco Pina, professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, and Marc Mayer, professor of Latin Philology at the UB, and Professor Remesal gave a master lecture. The activity also covered the presentation of the book to be edited as tribute to Professor Remesal, titled EX BAETICA ROMAM and which will gather several contributions on ancient economy, society and institutions.
José Remesal (Lora del Río, Sevilla, 1948) is an expert on the economic and political life of the Roman Empire and the research of trade networks based on production, distribution and consumption of food, mainly olive oil coming from Hispania, as well as the study of amphorae epigraphy. He leads the CEIPAC group and the collection Instrumenta (Editions and Publications of the UB). He is, together with José M. Blázquez, director of the excavations in Monte Testaccio, an artificial mound in Rome built by the fragments of broken pottery (about twenty-six million amphorae). He is member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the National Institute of Roman Studies, Casa de Velázquez, the Spanish Royal Academy of History, the Office of International Union of Academies, the German Archaeological Institute and the Sevillian Royal Academy of Good Letters, and Human Sciences Prize by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). Author of more than a hundred scientific works published in fourteen countries and in seven languages, among his works are La annona militaris y la exportación de aceite bético a Germania (Madrid, 1986); Die Heeresverorgung und die wirstchaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen der Baetica und Germanien (Stuttgart, 1997); Estudios sobre el monte Testaccio (Rome, together with J.M. Blázquez, six volumes); Celti (Peñaflor) (University of Southampton, 2000; together with S. Keay and J. Creighton); Carlos Benito González de Posada (1745-1931): Vida y obra de un ilustrado entre Asturias y Cataluña (Madrid, 2013, together with J.M. Pérez Suñé).