GUEST SPEAKER
Keynote lecture:
"Turning back time: exploring past and present in Roman sacred spaces"
Emma-Jane Graham
Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK, where she joined in 2012. She previously was a Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome (2005-2006). Subsequently, she was teaching at Cardiff University (2007-2008), at the School of Classics of the University of St. Andrews (2008-09 and 2010-2011) and at the University of Leicester (2011-2012). Her research focuses on the archaeology of Roman Italy, examining ancient identities, lived experiences, and mortuary practices. She explores themes like personhood, funerary commemoration, and sensory interactions with environments. Her last book, entitled Reassembling religion in Roman Italy (2021) applies posthumanist approaches to religion and materiality. Additionally, she investigates ancient disability, infant health, and votive practices, including anatomical ex-votos and terracotta offerings of swaddled infants. On this topic, she has published several journal articles and edited a book titled Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future (2017).
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Manuel Fernández-Götz
He is Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been teaching since 2013, first as Chancellor's Fellow/Lecturer and then as Reader in European Archaeology. His main areas of interest are the Iron Age and Roman societies in Europe, the archaeology of identities, early urbanism, and conflict archaeology. He has authored over 230 publications, and directed fieldwork projects in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Croatia. In recognition of this research, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2016) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Thomas Reid Medal (2021). He also held visiting scholar positions at Cambridge, Oxford, London, Brown, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Berlin, and taught as visiting staff at Beijing and Munich. Now he is the PI of the project “Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain”.
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