Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

The 8th Roman Archaeology Conference begins tomorrow in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Aarhus postdoc Hendrik Dey is the organiser of a session on the current state of late antique studies.

The troubled adolescence of late-antique studies:
Archaeological approaches to ‘change’ in Late Antiquity

Programme
Hendrik Dey (University of Aarhus) Introduction: Procrusteans and Post-Processualism

Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern California) Negotiating Old Sacred Places: Biographies of Buildings and Narratives of the Past

Campbell Grey (University of Pennsylvania) Stuck in the Middle: Between Grand Theory and the Case Study in the Countrysides of Late Antiquity

D. L. Brooks Hedstrom (Wittenberg University) Rejecting and Embracing Monastic Archaeology: Finding a Place for Monastic Spaces in Late Antique Egypt

Will Bowden (University of Nottingham) Digging for urban transformation: archaeological approaches to the late antique town

Andrew Poulter (University of Nottingham) Discontinuity on the Danube: the violent destruction of urban and rural landscapes

Ramsay MacMullen (Yale) History from head-counts