Course: Challenging Eternity

Course: Challenging Eternity

This course aims to contribute to a paradigm shift in cultural heritage education and practice. It challenges a traditional conservationist approach, which protects heritage against societal changes (“Challenging Eternity”); rather, it teaches that heritage can be...
Practicum: Tombs from Excavation to Digital Publication

Practicum: Tombs from Excavation to Digital Publication

Content In this practicum students will learn how to publish the architecture, human remains and artefacts from excavated tombs. More specifically, students will document and study funerary contexts excavated by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and the...
Course: Myth and Imperialism in the Roman Republic

Course: Myth and Imperialism in the Roman Republic

It is well known that empires use myths to legitimize power claims and structures and as such provide historical and divine justification for the existing societal order. The Roman empire was no exemption to this rule, as is for example clearly attested in Virgil’s...
Practicum: Mining Library Treasures

Practicum: Mining Library Treasures

Hidden in the basement of the KNIR is a treasure waiting to be explored: a collection of over 500 rare books, mostly from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries and covering a wide array of topics related mainly to Italy and Rome. In this KNIR-practicum, an...
Summer School: Cultures of Science and Art in Rome, 1400-1900

Summer School: Cultures of Science and Art in Rome, 1400-1900

In this Summer School we will discuss and research the connections between science and art in Rome from 1400-1900. As city of the pope, Rome has been an important religious and artistic center since the Middle Ages. It is less well known that Rome has also been a...