Public Lecture: Museums as Archives. Cultural Emergence, Disappearance, and Reemergence through Museum Collections
Recent academic and societal debates on the role of museums have emphasized the work of collections and exhibitions in creating and enforcing enduring notions of local, national, or more recently ‘global’ identities. In fact, since at least the 1960s, the political...
Public Lecture: Africa’s Shifting Landscapes. Rome’s Imagined Geographies of Empire
The ‘invention’ of Africa as an ethno-geographic space of otherness whose systems of knowledge are pitted against European structures of thought is commonly recognised as an early modern construction serving Europe’s colonialist enterprise. Yet Latin ‘Africa’ was...
Public Lecture: Why Postcolonial Classics Matter
Scholars in Classics and in neighbouring disciplines are increasingly aware of the importance of colonial and postcolonial histories to their work. European colonisers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries went out to their colonies with ‘the Bible in...
Public Lecture: Myths of the Voiceless. Heroes, Ancestors, and the Management of Power in pre-Roman Italy
Our knowledge of Italian societies before the Roman conquest is not what we would like, as a consequence of a fundamental lack of first-hand literary sources. In fact, annalistic sources basically provide us with a narrative of wars, and not much more. We have...-
Datum
15 maart 2023
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Tijd
17:00 - 18:30
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