Dear all,
I would like to remind you that the Ancient World Seminar will take place
*today*. The online environment can be accessed from 16.00 onwards via the
following link:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/3e407eb1fe024fa8883edffced62ea5c. During the
lecture, please turn off your microphone and camera. After the lecture,
Rian Lenting, a student from the Research Master Archeology, will give a
short response and open the discussion by asking some questions. After
this, there will be time for your remarks and questions. If you wish to
contribute to this discussion, use the 'raise hand' button. The moderator
will give you time to ask your question which can either be done via the
chat or 'live' by turning on your audio and video.
*Dr. Mark Jackson *(Newcastle University), 16.15-18.00, will give a lecture
on:
*'**Filling the gaps; new evidence for old questions?**'*
*Abstract*
The impact of invasions pervades the narratives about the transformation of
society during late antiquity. In the frontier region of Isauria in the
Taurus Mountains and on the island of Naxos in the Cyclades emerging
archaeological evidence of the kind traditionally neglected by
archaeologists reveals the experience not of elites but of people often
less studied in the archaeological record. These data help us to reshape
the traditional narratives for the period between the 6th and 9th centuries
AD and to ask different questions to tell new stories about people’s lives.
Such work seeks to refine existing narratives and to set new agendas for
the future that include a closer study of the more humble subjects of
empire who made up the majority of the population.
*About the speaker*
Dr Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Head of Archaeology
at Newcastle University, UK. His main research interests are the
archaeology of Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic periods in the Eastern
Mediterranean. He has extensive field experience from projects in Turkey,
Cyprus and Greece. He was Co-director for the Byzantine on the Kilise Tepe
Archaeological Project and has worked on excavated material from elsewhere
in Turkey including at Alahan and Çatalhöyük and on several surveys. In
recent years has been leading a team working on the artefacts from the
Apalirou Environs Project, Naxos. He also has a research interest in the
history of archaeology and early archaeologists – especially Gertrude Bell
– and is responsible for 8,000 photographs in the Gertrude Bell Archive
which was recently made a UNESCO International Memory of the World.
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Evelien de Graaf
ReMa-student Classical, Medieval and Early Modern studies.
on behalf of the CRASIS team
University of Groningen
CRASIS is the Groningen institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture,
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