Introduction: Investigating public and private in the Roman house / Kaius Tuori -- Privacy and the power: the DeClementia and the Domus Aurea / Harriet Fertik -- Transformations of public space at the Lacus Iuturnae / Eva Margareta Steinby -- Domestic and civic basilicas: between public and private space / Amy Russell -- Bringing the law home: the Roman house as courtroom / Leanne Bablitz -- The paterfamilias and the family council in Roman public law / Matthew Perry -- Beyond 'public' and 'private': acessibility and visibility during salutationes / Simon Speksnijder -- Sleeping areas in the houses of Herculaneum / Laura Nissin -- Activities in Pompeii's private peristyles: the place of the peristyle in the public/private dichotomy / Samuli Simelius -- Cooking class / F. Mira Green -- Multifunctionality of spaces in a Late Roman house in Egypt / Raffaella Cribiore -- Inner space: the integration of domestic space at Volubilis in the 3rd c. A.D. / Jennifer Hilder -- What makes a Roman house a "Roman house"? / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill