Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

A Research Programme at the University of Aarhus

Archive for April, 2009

City Walls and the Fortification of ‘Interior’ Provinces in the Later Roman West

Posted: Thursday, April 16th, 2009 @ 3:59 pm in Events | No Comments »

We cordially invite everyone to attend the following day seminar on late Roman city walls:
Grand strategy? Defense in Depth? Desperation?
City Walls and the Fortification of ‘Interior’ Provinces in the Later Roman West
Tuesday 19 May 2009
13.15-16.30
University of Aarhus, Bldg 1414, Room 407
Speakers:
Neil Christie, University of Leicester
‘Walled out or walled in? Changing urban roles and identities in [...]

RAC Session

Posted: Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 @ 3:31 pm in Events, Late Antiquity Conferences | No Comments »

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) [...]