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The visual and material culture of the Roman Empire provides an abundant record of encounters with or simply imaginings of foreign peoples. These images render visible complex formulations of ethnicity, social hierarchies, and power.

This lecture surveys the ways in which imperial artists represented the peoples whom the Romans referred to as Aethiopians or Nubians (i.e., “Black” Africans) in a variety of visual media. The lecture also considers how and why these works have been (mis)interpreted or sometimes altogether ignored by ancient art historians, and proposes new ways of integrating them into future, critical histories of Roman art.

Abstract:

Studies of the ancient Greek world have typically focused on the life histories of elite males as they have made the most distinct mark on ancient Greek literature, art, and material culture. As a result, the voices of non-Greeks, the physically impaired, the impoverished, and the generally disenfranchised have been silent, which has substantially complicated the creation of a historical narrative of these marginalized groups.

In order to reconstruct societal attitudes toward marginalized peoples, my broader project considers the skeletal remains and burial contexts of the individuals themselves and interprets them within the context of contemporary literary, visual, and material evidence. Using this approach, new light is shed on groups of individuals who were typically relegated to the periphery of Greek society in the Late Archaic and Classical periods. 

Bio:

Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver is a Mediterranean archaeologist and a Teaching Adjunct Professor in Classics (research affiliate) at the University of Pittsburgh. Her area of specialization is the art, architecture, and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on funerary art and architecture, burial practices, and the analysis of human bone. She has excavated in Pompeii and Sicily, and analyzed human remains from Rome, Sicily, Turkey, and the UK. Carrie is the author of The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily (University Press of Florida, 2015) and Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of The Ancient Art of Transformation: Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts (Oxbow Books, 2019).

"The ancient Roman emperor Nero often figures today as a stock embodiment of an abominable ruler. In the late Middle Ages, Nero also was deplored, but for crimes long forgotten in modern accounts. This lecture explores a story about unusual demands Nero made on a cluster of doctors, presented in word and image in a pair of illuminated World Chronicle manuscripts created in Bavaria, circa 1400. The original audiences for the tale lived at a time of increased professionalization and regulation of medicine, when public health was understood to be a means toward urban peace more broadly. The Nero episodes in the World Chronicles invited readerviewers to reflect on harmony in the public sphere by engaging with entertaining scenes of Nero’s corporeal eccentricity."

Craig Williams
Classics Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Jeremy Roberts [Lead for Athens Middle East Orchestra, UGA Alum, and Public Defender for Athens-Clarke County]

A Performance of Oud Music from Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine



Event hosted in conjunction with Prof Jordan Pickett's CLAS4300 Archaeology of the Near East: From Alexander to Islam

With the support of the Department of Classics and Franklin College

"Color into the Equation: Classical Greek sculpture in a New Light"

Jan Stubbe Østergaard: Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Distinguished Lecturer

Emeritus Research Curator

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

February 24, 2021 12:30 - 1:40 pm

Location

Virtual Zoom

https://art.uga.edu/events/jan-stubbe-ostergaard-willson-center-humanities-and-arts-distinguished-lecturer

Preregistration required. Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdO2urD0sE9dWAdJF8We7lrjgs6Ve9wSC

Sponsors: Universität Rostock, Germany, UGA Department of Geology, UGA Department of Anthropology, UGA Department of Classics

Inaugural Lecture Celebrating 50 Years of Education Abroad

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ETA SIGMA PHI’S FOURTH ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE CLASSICS CONFERENCE: ECHOES OF THE PAST 

WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. SANDRA BLAKELY, EMORY UNIVERSITY.

CALL FOR PAPERS. 

The fourth annual undergraduate classics conference will take place on Saturday, March 23, 2019 in Athens, GA. We encourage you to submit an abstract. This conference will accept research from all disciplines regarding the classical world. All presentations will take place on Saturday, with the keynote Dr. Sandra Blakely. A detailed schedule will be published after speakers have been chosen. 

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: 

Abstracts should be no more than 300 wordsdescribing your original research and will be anonymously read by a panel at the University of Georgia. Please include a title. Submissions will be via Google Form. (can we make the words Google Form a clickable link to the form? I have the link below) Abstracts are due by Wednesday, January 9, 2019.  Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 9, 2019. 

Any additional questions please contact Nikki Vellidis at nvellidi@uga.edu

Link to Google Form