Crossing Cultures: Encounters, Clashes and their Reception in Antiquity: AMPAH Conference Proceedings (Campobasso, 15^th-16^th May 2026)

Francesca Cozza obtained her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Salento in 2025, defending a doctoral dissertation titled "The Archaeology of Textiles in the Roman Fayum: Production, Use, and Circulation of Fabrics in Soknopaiou Nesos". She furthered her specialization in textile archaeology at the Centre for Textile Research (CTR) in Copenhagen. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Soknopaiou Nesos Project, the archaeological mission operating at Dime es-Seba. In 2024 and 2026, she participated in the New York University archaeological mission at Amheida (Dakhla Oasis, Egypt).

Anita Malagrinò Mustica is a PhD candidate in Humanities at the University of Foggia. She is conducting a research project entitled The School of Isocrates: A Philological and Historical Study under the supervision of Professor Pasquale Massimo Pinto (University of Bari Aldo Moro), within the framework of an international cotutelle with Sorbonne Université, where she is also supervised by Professors Didier Marcotte and Pierre Pontier. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences and has published articles and book chapters. Her research interests include Attic oratory, Classical Athens, the history of education in the Greek world, the history of classical scholarship, and the classical tradition.

Lorenzo Serino (15 dicembre 1995) is a Phd Candidate in Cultural Heritage at the Università del Molise and at the Universidad de Valladolid. He is currently tackling the subject of the competitive dynamics between Pentrian élites in the context of II-cen BCE. Italy. His interests focus on Italy during the middle-republican period and on the relations between local and roman élites, through the study of both latin and oscan epigraphic data. He was a Visiting Phd at the Università di Torino and at the Classics Department of the Columbia University in New York.

Donato Sitaro (December 6, 1994) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medieval History at the University of Naples "Federico II", where he received his PhD in Historical Sciences (2023). He was resident research fellow at the research center "Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" at the University of Tübingen (2024). He also serves as a contributor to the Aurora University Network for UNINA on the topic of Open and Citizen Science. His research interests focus on the formation of ethnic, social, and political identities between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, with a particular emphasis on the liminal areas of Western Europe. His research topics include discourses on romanitas, the reinvention of Latin historiography, cultural contacts along the Atlantic facade in the Early Middle Ages, and the nineteenth-century historiographical reception of the post-Roman period and its political implications.