{"id":385,"date":"2012-11-05T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=385"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:36:43","slug":"was-the-roman-empire-an-early-form-of-globalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2012\/11\/05\/was-the-roman-empire-an-early-form-of-globalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Roman Empire an early form of globalisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/laurence.html\">Professor Ray Laurence<\/a> from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a> will ask\u00a0if the Roman Empire was an early form of globalisation as part of a public professorial inaugural lecture by University of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, titled \u2018Pompeii, Roads and the Spatial Turn:\u00a0Was the Roman Empire an Early Form of Globalisation?\u2019 will take place in the Woolf Lecture Theatre on the University\u2019s Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0inaugural lecture on Thursday 8 November 2012 at 6pm; the event\u00a0is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ray Laurence from the\u00a0Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies will ask\u00a0if the Roman Empire was an early form of globalisation as part of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2012\/11\/05\/was-the-roman-empire-an-early-form-of-globalisation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}