The RIGG has held two conferences together with chairs of the University of Mainz: in March 2013 the conference "Places of Refuge and Personal Networks: The Campo Santo Teutonico and the Vatican 1933-1955" with Prof. Dr Michael Matheus (Department of History) and in November 2015 the conference "Rome by Night: A Cultural History of Dream and Sleep in the Late Roman Empire" with Prof. Dr Christine Walde (Institute of Classical Studies).