Professor Ray Laurence from the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies will ask if the Roman Empire was an early form of globalisation as part of a public professorial inaugural lecture by University of Kent.
The lecture, titled ‘Pompeii, Roads and the Spatial Turn: Was the Roman Empire an Early Form of Globalisation?’ will take place in the Woolf Lecture Theatre on the University’s Canterbury campus.
Hosted by the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH), the lecture will set out a means to capture the nature of the Roman Empire seeking to relate the local, Pompeii, to the global, the Empire. In so doing, Professor Laurence will examine whether the Roman Empire was an early form of globalisation which will lead to the establishment of a new research agenda that draws on contemporary thinking about the city.
The inaugural lecture on Thursday 8 November 2012 at 6pm; the event is free and open to all.