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RAC Session

Troels — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:31:49 +0000

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

A Late Antiquity Session at the EAA Annual Meeting

Troels — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:15:43 +0000

A member of our research project is participating in the “Aspects of Christianisation in the Mediterranean, IV-VI Century” session at the upcoming 13th EAA Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia, 19-23 September 2007.

The session is organized by Josipa Baraka and Igor Borzić of the University of Zadar. This is the preliminary programme:

Introduction: NENAD CAMBI

1. Ž. TOMIČIĆ (Institute of Archaeology, Croatia): A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN – THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF JUSTINIAN’S EPOCH ON THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COAST

2. D. NUZZO – P. DE SANTIS (Università di Bari, Italia): THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE NECROPOLIS AT PONTE DELLA LAMA (CANOSA, APULIA, ITALY)

3. M. SGARLATA (Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italia): HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATACOMBS IN SYRACUSE

4. I. BORZIĆ (University of Zadar): CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE KORČULA ISLAND

5. T. M. KRISTENSEN (University of Aarhus, Denmark): AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF RESPONSE: EARLY CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION AND MUTILATION OF ’PAGAN’ IMAGES

6. CH. FAYAD (Beirut, Lebanon): THE EARLY CHRISTIAN BASILICA IN THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER – BAAL

7. L. ACAMPORA (Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma, Italy): PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS PLACES IN ROME DURING LATE ANTIQUITY

8. S. VASILEVA (Narodni muzej Veles, FYR Macedonia): MEMENTO MORI: INSCRIPTIONS ON THE MOSAIC PAVEMENTS AND THEIR MESSAGES IN LATE ANTIQUITY

9. E. MAIANI (Roma, Italy): CHRISTIAN GRAFFITI: OBSERVATIONS ABOUT MARTYRS’S VENERATION AND THE PHENOMENON OF PILGRIMAGE DURING THE LATE ANTIQUITY THROUGH WRITTEN TESTIMONIES NEAR REVERED SANCTUARIES

10. J. BARAKA (University of Zadar, Croatia): EARLY CHRISTIAN SARCOPHAGUS FROM VRANJIC

11. D. NICOLAU (Nicosia, Cyprus): EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE OF CYPRUS FROM 4TH – 7TH CENTURY:
STRUCTURE AND LITURGICAL FURNISHINGS OF THE CYPRIOT BASILICAS

12. D. DAMIJANOVIĆ (Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Osijek J. J. Strossmayer, Croatia): REPRESENTATION OF THE CROSS ON CLAY LAMPS FROM 4TH UNTIL 6TH CENTURY

13. Y. FUJII (Tokyo, Japan): FIGURES OF FEMALE SAINTS INCISED ON GOLD SANDWICHED GLASS OF FOURTH CENTURY A.D.

Late Antique Archaeology 2007

Troels — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:38:46 +0000

Late Antique Archaeology 2007 will be held in Oxford on 10-11 March. The theme of this year’s meeting is “The Archaeology of War in Late Antiquity”.

Late Roman Villas in Spain

Troels — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:21:34 +0000

A conference on “Las villae tardorromanas en el occidente del Imperio. Arquitectura y función” (”The Late Roman Villas in the Western Empire. Architecture and Function”) will be held 26-28 October 2006 in Gijon, Spain.