Gerard R. Ventós, MA (2017), a PhD student of Ancient History at the University of Girona, under Prof. Ñaco del Hoyo’s supervision, is currently working on his dissertation on faction fighting among Rome’s enemies in Sardinia and Spain c. 238-133 BC. In addition to attending the conference ‘Fiscality and Imperialism in the Middle Roman Republic’ (Cambridge 2017), a paper that he presented at the European Archaeologists Association workshop (Barcelona 2018) will be published as a book chapter entitled, ‘Ethnic Ties Move in Mysterious Ways: Rome and the Sardinian Mercenaries, 238-237 BC’. Ventós also presented a joint paper at the conference ‘Diplomacy and Political Communication in the West’ (Merton College, Oxford 2018). As to future activities, he will present a joint paper in 'Meaning, Memory, and Movement: Ancient and Medieval Spaces' (Birmingham, November 2019) and in the Third ‘Libera Res Publica’ Colloquium (Majorca, November 2019).