RAC/TRAC 2016 in Rome has now come to an end. Many thanks to the organisers at the Sapienza, BSR, Roman Society and especially the TRAC local organising committee of Roberta Cascino, Francesco De Stefano, Antonella Lepone, Chiara Maria Marchetti and Jeremia Pelgrom for organising a brilliant conference. Check out the storify of the conference to get an insight on the range of papers presented.

At the TRAC AGM in Rome, teams from Durham, Edinburgh and Southampton all put forward bids to host TRAC 2017. After a close vote, Durham were the winners and will be hosting the 27th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference next spring.

Three new members were elected to the standing committee which oversees the running of TRAC. The committee now consisists of:

• Matthew Mandich (chair)
• Lisa Lodwick (vice-chair)
• Thomas Derrick (secretary)
• Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez (treasurer)
• Roberta Cascino (local committee member)
• Emily Hanscam (local committee member)

Many thanks to Darrell Rohl, Ian Marshman and Alex Guglielmi whose committee terms came to an end in Rome.