10 februari 2023
Rome, caput mundi, is the city of cities. No other place in the world has played such an important role in the development of Western culture, from antiquity until today. Rome’s history of three millennia is still tangible on every street corner and every square in...
28 november 2022
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...
17 oktober 2022
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...
7 oktober 2022
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...
13 september 2022
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...
