Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

A Research Programme at the University of Aarhus

Archive for March, 2008

Late Antiquity Lecture: Janet Huskinson

Posted: Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 @ 9:28 am in Events | Comments Off

We are pleased to invite everyone to a lecture by Dr. Janet Huskinson (Department of Classical Studies, Open University, UK) on “Strigillated Sarcophagi and their Social Lives”.
Wednesday 9 April 3 pm
Building 1414, Auditorium 407
Roman strigillated sarcophagi were very popular in Rome from the mid second to the early fifth century. They are characterised by [...]

Constructing Memory – Remembrance and Oblivion in Times of Transition

Posted: Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 @ 2:02 pm in Events | No Comments »

Troels Myrup Kristensen will participate in “Constructions of Memory in Periods of Transformation”, a seminar organized by the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals at the University of Copenhagen, 13 March 2008. The title of his paper is “Iconoclasm, Forgetting, and the Life Histories of Roman [...]