*Constantinople*Nigel Westbrook (Melbourne) Reinterpreting the Mamboury Survey of the Upper Great Palace.Kerim Altug (Istanbul Municipality) Recent Discoveries on the Great Palace: the Late Antique Water Supply.Nikos Karydis (Kent) Visualising Justinian’s Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople*Thessalonica*Javier Arce* (Lille) The Palace of Galerius Caesar: doubts and contradictions.*Royal Courts of the West*Maria Duggan (Newcastle) Changing understandings of Tintagel: royal power in an Atlantic context.Andy Seaman* (Canterbury Christ Church) Royal courts in Wales
Posted by: lukelavan | January 29, 2019
LAA 2018/12 Imperial Archaeologies: Online Lecture Recordings
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Posted by: lukelavan | October 29, 2018
Imperial Archaeologies 1: Regional Papers LAA 2018
LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2018: IMPERIAL ARCHAEOLOGIES 1: REGIONAL PAPERS
Birkbeck, University of London, Saturday 1st November,
This meeting will examine the latest developments in the archaeology of emperors, kings, and their courts in late antiquity, from palaces and iconography to churches and mausolea. We review fieldwork in Constantinople or imperial capitals within the Empire, but also compare royal courts of adjacent kingdoms in both East & West.
*Constantinople*
09.40-10.10 Nigel Westbrook (Melbourne) Reinterpreting the Mamboury Survey of the Upper Great Palace.
10.10-10.40 Kerim Altug (Istanbul Arch Museum) Recent Discoveries on the Great Palace: the Late Antique Water Supply.
10.40-11.10 Nikos Karydis (Kent) Visualising Justinian’s Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople
*Antioch*
11.20-12.00 Catherine Saliou (EPHE, Paris) and Hatice Pamir (Antakya) Antioch in Late Antiquity: dialogue between the new archaeological results and texts.
*Thessalonica*
12.00-12.30 Konstantinos Raptis (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) The transformation of Thessaloniki at the turn of the sixth century.
12.30-13.00 Javier Arce* (Lille)The Palace of Galerius Caesar: doubts and contradictions.
*Royal Courts of the East*
14.15-14.45 Jacke Phillips (SOAS) Aksum: the great power no one has heard about.
14.45-15.30 Dobrochna Zielińska (University of Warsaw) and Lucia Dominici (Naples l’Orientale) From Kushite qore and kandake to Christian basileos.
Nubian royal concepts in Late Antiquity.
15.30-16.00 Hossein Habbibi (Edinburgh) Sasanian royal spaces and political culture.
*Royal Courts of the West*
16.15-16.45 Lauro Olmo (Alcala de Henares) Recopolis & Toledo.
16.45-17.15 Maria Duggan (Newcastle) Changing understandings of Tintagel: royal power in an Atlantic context.
17.15-17.45 Andy Seaman* (Canterbury Christ Church) Royal courts in Wales
17.55-18:00 Final Remarks
Venue: Birkbeck, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX. All welcome. Admission Free
Register before 29th November on eventbrite.co.uk (search: Late Antique Archaeology). You must cancel if you cannot come, up to 1 week prior to event.
Conveners: L.Lavan, R.Darley (Birkbeck). Sponsors: Kent, Birkbeck, J.Beale, Brill.
* = paper read, speaker not attending
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Posted by: lukelavan | April 23, 2018
LAA Burial & memorial conference Videos Birkbeck 17/03/2018
(A) DEMOGRAPHY
(i) OSTEOLOGY: LATE ANTIQUE LIVES FROM BONES
Flavio de Angelis (Sop. Arch. Di Roma) and Andrea Battistini (Sop. Arch. Di Roma) Lives from Bones: Anthropological Evaluation in the City of Rome
(ii) BIOMOLECULES IN LATE ANTIQUITY (ISOTOPES, DIET, MIGRATION, EPIDEMIC, ENDEMIC DISEASE)
Alexandra Chavarria (Padova) Northern Italy
(B) RITUALS AND IDENTITIES: DEATH RITUALS AND TREATMENT OF THE BODY
Luke Lavan (Kent) Funeral processions in late antiquity
Chloe Clarke (KCL) Colour patterns & symoblism of dress ornaments in Romano-British burials
Rhea Brettell (Bradford) Organic residues from mortuary contexts (Britain).
Thibaut Devièse (Oxford) Colourants and dyes
Béatrice Caseau (Paris IV) Treatment of the body: Ointments and perfumes
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(C) COMMEMORATION, MONUMENTS, FUNERARY TOPOGRAPHY
(i) MEMORIALS – LATE ANTIQUE COMMEMORATION,
Zsolt Magyar (?Budapest) Mausolea in Pannonia
Chris Sparey-Green (Kent) Mausolea in NW Europe
(ii) SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF DEAD TO LIVING
Judit Ciurana Prast (Barcelona) Funerary Landscapes of Catalonia
Efthymios Rizos (Oxford) Christian elite burials in Anatolia / Constantinople & the cult of relics
(iii) MEMORIAL AND OBLIVION: SPOLIA AND ATTITUDES TO TOMBS
Luke Lavan (Kent) Spolia and the archaeology of memory
Douglas Underwood (Kent) City walls and tomb destruction (Skype)
Nick Mishkovsky (Kent) City walls and tomb preservation
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Posted by: lukelavan | February 10, 2018
Late Antique Archaeology 2018: Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity
Birkbeck, University of London. Saturday 17th March 2018
This conference reviews the state of late antique funerary practices, on a thematic basis, from scientific examinations of skeletons and their DNA, to treatments of the deceased body, to the nature of memorial structures and how they were treated over time.
(A) DEMOGRAPHY
(i) OSTEOLOGY: LATE ANTIQUE LIVES FROM BONES
09.45-10.45 Flavio de Angelis (Sop. Arch. Di Roma) and Andrea Battistini (Sop. Arch. Di Roma) Lives from Bones: Anthropological Evaluation in the City of Rome
(ii) BIOMOLECULES IN LATE ANTIQUITY (ISOTOPES, DIET, MIGRATION, EPIDEMIC, ENDEMIC DISEASE)
11.00-11.30 Alexandra Chavarria (Padova) Northern Italy
11.30-12.00 Mathew Emery (McMaster) Southern Italy (via Skype)
(B) RITUALS AND IDENTITIES: DEATH RITUALS AND TREATMENT OF THE BODY
12.15-12.45 Rhea Brettell (Bradford) Organic residues from mortuary contexts (Britain).
12.45-13.15 Thibaut Devièse (Oxford) Colourants and dyes
Respondant: Béatrice Caseau (Paris IV) Treatment of the body: Ointments and perfumes
(C) COMMEMORATION, MONUMENTS, FUNERARY TOPOGRAPHY
(i) MEMORIALS – LATE ANTIQUE COMMEMORATION,
14.00-14.30 Zsolt Magyar (?Budapest) Mausolea in Pannonia
14.30-15.00 Chris Sparey-Green (Kent) Mausolea in NW Europe
(ii) SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF DEAD TO LIVING
15.15-15.45 Judit Ciurana Prast (Barcelona) Funerary Landscapes of Catalonia
15.45-16.15 Efthymios Rizos (Oxford) Christian elite burials in Anatolia / Constantinople & the cult of relics
(iii) MEMORIAL AND OBLIVION: SPOLIA AND ATTITUDES TO TOMBS
16.30-16.45 Luke Lavan (Kent) Spolia and the archaeology of memory
16.45-17.15 Douglas Underwood (Kent) City walls and tomb destruction (Skype)
17.15-17.45 Nick Mishkovsky (Kent) City walls and tomb preservation
17.45-18.00 Conclusion.
All are Welcome. Admission 25 GBP, 10 GBP Students.
To register go to
Venue: Room 421 inside Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Metro: Russell Square.
Conveners: L.Lavan/M.Mulryan (Kent) T.Penn (Edin.) R,Darley (Birkbeck).
Sponsors: University of Kent, Birkbeck (University of London), J.Beale, Brill.
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Posted by: lukelavan | November 1, 2017
FIELDWORK IN LAA: BURIAL & FUNERARY PRACTICE London25Nov2017
*FIELDWORK IN LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2017*
*BURIAL AND FUNERARY PRACTICE*
Birkbeck, University of London, London, Saturday 25th November 2017
This seminar reviews the state of funerary archaeology across the late antique world, providing an up-to-date overview of the latest discoveries in the field and in the lab, organised in terms of a series of regional portraits, from the cemeteries of Britain to the caves of Egypt.
*Britain*
10.00-10.30 Paul Booth (Oxford Archaeology) Southern Britain
10.30-11.00 Sadie Watson* / Alison Telfer* (Museum of London Arch.) London
11.00-11.30 Jake Weekes (Canterbury Arch. Trust) Canterbury
*Western Mediterranean*
11.50-12.20 Mauro Puddu (Cambridge) Sardinia
12.20-12.40 Alexandra Chavarria* (Padua) Northern Italy
12.40-13.10 Kaja Stembeger (KCL) Slovenia
*Africa and Egypt*
14:00-14:30 Anna Leone* (Durham) Africa
14:30-15:00 Elisabeth O’Connell (British Museum) Egypt
*East Mediterranean*
15:20-15:40 Joseph Rife# (Vanderbildt) Greece
15:40-16:10 Sophie Moore (Brown) Asia Minor
16.10-16.40 Ádám Bollók (HAS, Budapest) The Near East
16:45-17.00 John Pearce (KCL) Conclusion
The conference will be held at Birkbeck, University of London. All are welcome. Admission 15 GBP; Students / OAPs 7.5 GBP.
To register write to michaelmulryan@gmail.com before 20th November. Papers marked * = read in absentia. # = via skype.
Venue: B35 Lecture Theatre inside Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Metro: Russell Square.
Conveners: L.Lavan/M.Mulryan (Kent) T.Penn (Edin.) R,Darley (Birkbeck).Sponsors: Birkbeck, VirtualCentreforLateAntiquity, J.Beale, Brill.
http://www.lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com https://vcla.org.uk
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Posted by: lukelavan | April 4, 2017
Material Culture and Writing Practice
Material Culture and Writing Practice from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: an interdisciplinary workshop
Organised by the Centre for Late Antique Archaeology, and Centre for Early Medieval and Modern Studies, University of Kent, and the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading,
Dates: Thursday 25 May to Friday 26 May 2017
Literacy is a central aspect of society from antiquity to the present day, but there is often a disconnect between the study of written texts and the attention paid to the materiality of their production and consumption. This workshop aims to address the particular qualities of the materiality of writing in the pre-modern period, an era in which the technologies of writing by hand were paramount.
Scholars researching material aspects of writing exist within diverse disciplines (Archaeology, Art-history, Calligraphy, Classics, English, History, Papyrology and Palaeography). Methods and approaches are diverse, ranging from studies of writing form and style, to technologies of writing and the wider social context of literacy and cultural transmission. Within individual disciplines, there are established traditions of scholarship that tend to constrain how the material is approached, and there is little cross-fertilization between scholars working either in different periods, or from different disciplinary perspectives. The workshop brings together scholars and experts across a wide range of periods and disciplines to foster new perspectives and to explore future directions that encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. This will include a consideration of writing as a material practice, the subsequent treatment and curation of writing documents, and the relationship between writing equipment and written documents. We will provide a fresh exploration of writing practices from Antiquity to the Early Modern period and consider the interplay between practices of literacy and diverse aspects of social and cultural identities and experience. A practical calligraphy session and a trip to Canterbury Cathedral Archive are included in order to foster an awareness of the material processes and equipment of writing, enabling scholars to gain new perspectives on the historical material culture that they study.
A discounted rate of £20 for the 2-day workshop is available to Roman Society members.
For more information, and to book a place on the workshop, please see the following link:
https://www.kent.ac.uk/mems/materialcultureweb.html
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Posted by: lukelavan | October 3, 2016
LAA Conf 8th Oct 2016 Environment & Society
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Posted by: lukelavan | May 20, 2016
Late Antique Archaeology Conference – Oct 2016
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D.
Late Antique Archaeology 2016
held in conjunction with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Climate Change and History Research Initiative and the Jagelonian University (Krakow)
To be held at The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE (inside the Royal Academy), Saturday 8th October 2016
*Regional vegetation histories: The Mediterranean*
9.30-10.00 José Antonio López-Sáez* (Madrid)
The Western Mediterranean
10.00-10.30 K. Kouli (Athens), *L. Sadori (Rome), *A. Masi (Rome), *A. M. Mercuri (Modena)
The Central Mediterranean
10.30-11.00 Neil Roberts (Plymouth)
The Eastern Mediterranean
*Regional vegetation histories: Northern Europe*
11.15-11.45 Jessie Woodbridge (Plymouth), Ralph Fyfe (Plymouth), Neil Roberts (Plymouth)
Northern Europe
11.45-12.15 S. Rippon (Exeter), R. Fyfe (Plymouth)
Britain
*Local and regional case studies: The West*
13:15-13:45 M. Morellon, G. Sinopoli* et al.
Butrint and the Western Balkans
13:45-14:15 Duncan Keenan-Jones (Glasgow)
Portus and Latium
*Local and regional case studies: The East*
14:15-14:45 John Haldon (Princeton)
Avkat and Northern Anatolia
14:45-15:15 Gert Verstraeten*, Nils Broothaerts, *Maarten Van Loo (Leuven)
Sagalassos and South-Western Anatolia
*Mediterranean thematic surveys*
15:30-16:00 Neil Roberts (Plymouth), Inga Labuhn (Lund), Adam Izdebski (Krakow)
Climatic changes and their impact
16:00-16:30 A. Chavarria (Padua), T. Lewit (Melb.)* A. Izdebski (Krakow), T. Waliszewski (Warsaw)
Settlement trends across the Mediterranean and their impact on the environment
16:00-17:00 Mark Whittow (Oxford)
Land use, social structure and the environment in Late Antiquity
17:10-17:40 Benjamin Graham (Memphis)
Postmortem: Mediterranean woodland composition at the end of empire
17.40-17.55 Adam Izdebski (Krakow)
Environment and the end of Antiquity, or is there a link between the fall of Rome
and a major environmental catastrophe?
18:00 Close
*Registration*
Places are limited. To register for the conference write to M.Mulryan@kent.ac.uk before 5th October. Registration opens at 9:15. The conference begins at 9:30.
Underground: Green Park and Piccadilly
Cost (to be paid in advance): 12GBP for students and OAPs; 25GBP for others.
Details
The time is ripe to place environmental issues at the heart of debates about Late Antiquity. Recently, a paper on the climate change during the age of Justinian, published in Nature, received coverage in all major American and European newspapers. This article is not an isolated case, yet mainstream late antique scholarship has not so far absorbed this work.
This conference will be a decisive step in making the late antique community aware of a whole range of environmental phenomena that affected Mediterranean and northern European societies at the end of Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. We will adopt a Mediterranean-wide approach and look at the period of Late Antiquity from a broader chronological perspective, that of the 1st millennium A.D. This time frame is critical to interpreting climate and vegetation data, which are most meaningful in a long-term context.
The conference itself has two aims. Firstly, it will present the rich pollen and scientific data available for the study of the first millennium AD in different regions. Secondly, it will develop and reinforce the environmental perspective on Late Antiquity. The focus on the whole Mediterranean (with its hinterland in Northern Europe) will correct a bias towards the East seen in recent studies on the environmental history of Late Antiquity. The conference will interest not only scholars of the 4th to 7th c., but also early medievalists and students of earlier Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
This conference is generously supported by
Generously supported by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, John Beale & Brill Academic Publishers .
Convener: Adam Izdebski, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
http://www.lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com
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Posted by: lukelavan | April 17, 2014
LAA2014 Conference: London 07-06-2014
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Posted by: lukelavan | November 13, 2013
Visualising Late Antiquity Website Launched
I am pleased to announce the opening of the following website, on the visual reconstruction of late antiquity.
http://visualisinglateantiquity.wordpress.com/
This is a research project of the University of Kent, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, undertaken by 2 academics, 5 doctoral students and 2 artists.
Our gallery is now live, with a suite of images reconstructing the visit of Augustine to Ostia in A.D. 387 as described in Confessions book IX.
It will be updated with scenes of everyday life over the next six months.
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Late Antique Archaeology at the University of Kent 