Postgraduate students from the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies will be participating at the 12th Roman Archaeology Conference at Sapienza University of Rome, an international conference organised by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, to be held on 16-20 March 2016.
PhD students Catherine Hoggarth and Jeff Veitch will be giving papers in a session organised by the Open University, our AHRC-funded Consortium for the Humanities and Arts, South East England (CHASE) partner, called ‘Sensing Rome: Sensory Approaches to Movement and Space’. Catherine will be reporting on her findings in relation to the sensory experience of crossing the Tiber via its various bridges, and Jeff will be presenting his new methodology for the recreation of sound in the ancient city of Ostia.
For our MA students, it will give them an experience of an academic conference and is integrated into their programme based at the Kent centre in Rome. Over four days, they will attend papers by leading academics in the field. Then, on the final day of the conference, they will join a study trip to the site of Portus, near Fiumucino Airport. The conference is an integral part of this year’s research training programme for Masters’ students in Ancient History, and in Roman History and Archaeology.
Professor Ray Laurence, one of the founders of Kent’s centre in Rome, will also be attending and will present two papers: one on the role of children in Pompeii and another on community building in ancient Rome.
For the full details , please see the online programme (PDF).