Events
The Impact of the Ancient City Book Presentation
Presentation and talks
29/04/2022
book artwork by Zofia Guertin
You are invited to the presentation of the three volumes of the Impact of the Ancient City Project; Cities as Palimpsests?: Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism, Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid. Speakers will include Amira Bennison (FAMES, Cambridge), Lisa Fentress (Rome), Simon Goldhill (Cambridge) and Hugh Kennedy (SOAS).
Faculty of Classics, room G21
5:30-6:30 pm
Followed by drinks in the Museum of Classical Archaeology
To reserve your place, please email bc469@cam.ac.uk by Tuesday 26 April
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Faculty of Classics
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
Illustrating Ancient History: Bringing the Past to the Present
An exhibition exploring archaeological practice today
Museum Exhibition
03/11/2020
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30/01/2021
Poster artwork by Zofia Guertin
About
In partnership with the Aeclanum Project at University of Edinburgh led by Dr Ben Russell (Faculty of History, Classics and Archaeology) and the Director of the Apolline Project, Dr Girolamo F. De Simone.
This exhibition, situated in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, presents original artwork by Zofia Guertin and Sofia Greaves. It combines artistic interpretations of archaeological remains and technical drawings, and aims to demonstrate how both can be combined to benefit the local community by bringing the past to life in an easily assessible way.
The first section of this display, 'Bringing the Past to the Present', explores the impact archaeology has on the local community by bringing monuments and historical landmarks to local (and international) attention. The second area, 'The Science of Archaeological Illustration', delves into the technical drawings produced by archaeologists, which form the basis for any further reconstruction and interpretation. The final section, 'Public Outreach in Roman Aeclanum', focusses on a particular excavation site in southern Italy and demonstrates how technical drawings have been reinterpreted to encourage local and general public interest and understanding.
The Museum is currently operating on a ticket-only basis to help manage the number of visitors and ensure social-distancing requirements. Masks must be worn inside and hand sanitizer is available upon entry to the Faculty of Classics (the Museum is located on the first floor).
Opening times: Tues-Fri: 11am-2pm, Sat: 1-4pm.
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Faculty of Classics
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
Rome and the Colonial City
Conference
28/01/2020
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30/01/2020
Conference artwork by Sofia Greaves
About
In partnership with the British School at Rome and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.
The aim of this conference is neither to celebrate the grid city, nor to celebrate the influence of an ancient model on modern urbanism, but to question and contextualise it. This three day conference pulls together specialists on antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period to question some of the “colonialist” assumptions in the literature, and to look at the changing ways in which antiquity has influenced modern urbanism.
The first day will focus on theoretical writings about the city in the colonial context; the second looks at colonial foundation as a process of experimentation with urban models; the third looks at the ideological underpinnings of the grid, its use whether for egalitarian ideals or social control.
Please click the image opposite to see our full programme.
Days 1 and 2 will be held at the British School at Rome Lecture Theatre
Day 3 will be held at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR)
Event will begin at 09:00 on Day 1, 09:30 for days 2 and 3. Refreshments are included.
The papers from 'Rome and the Colonial City' will become one of a three-part series of monographs produced by the Impact of the Ancient City project and published by Cambridge University Press.
Cities as palimpsests? Urban evolutions in the Eastern Mediterranean
Symposium
07/05/2019
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10/05/2019
Image: panoramic view of the hippodrome in Constantinople, 1574, The Freshfield Album (Trinity College, Cambridge Library MS O.17.2)
About
In partnership with Bahçeşehir University
The tangible traces of the Greco-Roman city were made meaningful through diverse ways of reflecting on the past, many of which diverge widely from modern modes of identification and signification. For this reason, the conference will open by considering the urban imagination in four broad cultural spheres that have animated the Eastern Mediterranean over time: Arabic, Byzantine, Frankish and Ottoman. It will then conclude with a session primarily concerned with the re-invention of the past and its various uses in the early modern and contemporary periods.
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Bahçeşehir University, Beşiktaş Campus,
Istanbul
Please arrive by 09:30, event will begin at 10:00 and finish by 18:30
The papers from 'Cities as Palimpsest? Urban evolutions in the Eastern Mediterranean' will become one of a three-part series of monographs produced by the Impact of the Ancient City project and published by Cambridge University Press.
Cities and Citizenship after Rome
Workshop
05/10/2018
Image: Reproduction of Jorge de Aguiar's chart of the Mediterranean, Western Europe and African Coast (1492)
About
This one-day workshop aims to address the idea of citizenship and its practical significance in the cities of the post-Roman period. Concepts that are up for discussion include; the resilience of Roman ideas of urban identity and political citizenship, universal and local citizenship, and the interaction between Christian ideas of belonging and earlier forms of community.
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Eastwood Room, Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Please arrive 09:00 for registration. Event finishes at 17:30.
Refreshments and light lunch included.
The papers from this workshop have successfully been published in a special edition 'Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean' volume.
Leeds International Medieval Congress 2018
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City
02/07/2018
Wix Stock Image
About
The relationship of the medieval city with the ancient city has received much debate in recent years. The theme of 'memory' offers new possibilities for considering how medieval people understood their cities in the context of those that had come before, whether by remembering them, or choosing to forget them. This panel was concerned with the importance of the physical remains of the ancient city as sources of urban memory, examining the way in which city status was contested in the light of the ancient past and concluded with a session on how ancient ideas of the city were adapted and reused.
The papers from 'Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City' will become one of a three-part series of monographs produced by the Impact of the Ancient City project and published by Cambridge University Press.
The Roman
and Islamic City in North Africa
Workshop
29/09/2017
Image: Roman provinces of the North Africa. (Map of the Historical Atlas of Gustav Droysen, 1886)
About
Our first workshop focused on North Africa and al-Andalus and examined the character and tempo of Islamic impact, and how what we find in the western Mediterranean diverged from what is more familiar from research in the eastern region. This workshop started from a convergence of interests in recent work at Volubilis, and expanded to consider the complex story of the afterlife of the Roman city in North Africa and Southern Spain.
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge