Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

A number of events are currently being planned for 2012, including:

“Locating the Individual in Roman Funerary Culture:
Patronage, Consumption, and Agency”
10-11 May 2012
Organizers: Stine Birk & Niels Bargfeldt
Venues: Aarhus University & Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

“Mapping Movement and Sacred Topography:
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives on Ancient Pilgrimage”
9 June 2012
Organizers: Troels Myrup Kristensen & Wiebke Friese
Venue: Universität Hamburg

The Classical Studies seminar will also enter its inaugural season with the following dates:
Thursday 9 February 3 pm / Jacob Isager (Odense) on Vitruvius.
Thursday 8 March 3 pm / Jan Stubbe Østergaard (Copenhagen) on polychromy.
Thursday 22 March 3 pm / Antony Spawforth (Newcastle) on Augustan Greece.
Thursday 12 April 3 pm / David Bloch (Copenhagen) on Aristoles and the Aristotelian tradition.
Wednesday 2 May 3 pm / Ida Östenberg (Gothenburg) on Roman defeat.

This summer, participants of the late antique research programme at Aarhus University co-organised a summer school “Constantinople: Space and Representation in the Late Antique Metropolis” on location in Istanbul. The energetic cohort of students came from Finland, England and Denmark. Among many interesting sites visited were the Hagia Eirene (above), the harbour excavations at Yenikapi, the so-called Palace of Antiochos, the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia and the Golden Gate (all below the fold). Many thanks to our hosts at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul who made our stay so pleasant and rewarding as well as Simon Malmberg, Sarah Bassett, Arja Karivieri, and local Turkish colleagues who tirelessly led the group through the streets of Istanbul in search of late antique monuments! (more…)