• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Alice Poletto , Katherine Halcrow , Corso Dominici , Kelly McClinton (Merton College) , Luca Ricci
• Timing: Fridays at 16:00, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: School of Archaeology

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Triconch Palace at Butrint (Albania): the Late Antique Domus as Lived Environment
  William Bowden (Nottingham)

Friday 5 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Marble Wall Decoration of the Palatine Palace: 18th-Century Discoveries Rediscovered
  Dirk Booms (British Museum)

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Construction Costs and their Implications for the Socio-Political History of Late Republican Italy: First Thoughts
  Dominik Maschek (Birmingham)

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Fortresses of Clay - Reading Power and Practice in the Secular Architecture of the Eastern Iranian World (800-1200CE)
  Paul Wordsworth (Oxford)

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Architecture and Decoration in the House of the Large Oecus, Utica: Results from the Tunisian-British Utica Project, 2010-2016
  Nichole Sheldrick (Oxford)

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Experiences of Home in Archaic Sicily: Proprioception, Pollution and Pulmonary Disease
  Matthew Fitzjohn (Liverpool)

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Religious Elements of Roman Fora
  Charlotte Potts (Oxford)

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Architecture and Time at Dura-Europos
  Jennifer Baird (Birkbek)

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 'A monumental conflict. An architectural perspective on the rivalry between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great'
  Eleonora Zampieri (Leicester)

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Jacob Burckhardt’s Cicerone and 19th-century Perceptions of the Ancient
  Anne Hultzsch (UCL)

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Carlo Bonucci and the excavation of the Casa d'Argo at Herculaneum: re-assessing the role of the upper floor in the Roman house
  James Andrews (Independent researcher)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Significance of the Ordinary – considering building materials and new architectures in Roman Oxfordshire.
  Edward Peveler (Oxford)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Digital tools for documenting architecture in three dimensions
  Jari Pakkanen (Royal Holloway)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Emilie Hayter (UCL)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Epigraphy in Context: How did ancient Greek associations display their inscriptions?
  Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Oxford)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Need of new mineral resources, risk of exhausting them and legal solutions in the Roman Empire
  Marguerite Ronin (University of Oxford)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Peter and Paul ad catacumbas: a pozzolana mine reconsidered
  Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Wandering Altar. The Altar of the so-called Temple of Domitian in Ephesus
  Alice Landskron (Karl-Franzens-University of Graz)

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Calculating water consumption in lime mortar construction
  Javier Martínez Jiménez (University of Cambridge)

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - How to win the censors' lottery: game theory and Roman public construction in the 2nd century BCE
  Dominik Maschek (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Building and heating the Roman public baths of Central Italy
  Konogan Beaufay (University of Oxford)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Urban Vision for the Ancient City: a Fresh Look at Domitian's Architecture
  Daira Nocera (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - A question of scale? What makes a fountain monumental? The case of nymphaea in the Roman East
  Julian Richard (University of Namur)

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Development of Bathing Culture in Pompeii: New Research in the Stabian Baths
  Monika Trümper (Freie Universität Berlin)

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The bathing culture in Roman Sicily: current data and future prospects
  Paola Santospagnuolo (Freie Universität Berlin)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - To roof a pleasing shrine: the Archaic temple of Poseidon at Isthmia
  Hugo Shakeshaft (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Laser scanning of the city of Ostia and some consideration on upper structures
  Yoshiki Hori (Kyushu University)

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Greening of Roman Architecture
  Maureen Carroll (University of Sheffield)

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Southwark, Londinium's Spiritual Southern Suburb
  Dougie Killock (Pre-Construct Archaeology)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Sebasteion and Theater of Aphrodisias in a Web of Urban Aesthetics
  Philip Stinson (University of Kansas)

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Sam Holzman (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Forum Baths of Pompeii. Water management and phases of their construction
  Thomas Heide (Freie Universität Berlin)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Natascha Sojc (University of Augsburg)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The discovery of two lost Greek theatres: Pella and Chalcis
  Paolo Storchi (Italian School of Archaeology at Athens – Onassis Foundation)

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Thracian Brick-Built Tombs of the Kazanluk Valley
  Blagovesta Atanassova (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Settlement Characteristics of Larisa (Buruncuk) in Aeolis
  Ilgın Külekçi (Istanbul Technical University)

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Environmental Considerations in Luxury Villa Design
  Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Constructing Roman Agricultural Estates in North-western Greece
  Nefeli Piree Iliou (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Extraordinary Seminar Session - Etruscan Sacred Architecture: Orientation and Natural Illumination of the Temples
  Antonio Pernigotti (University of Milan)

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Theology of Scale: Monumental and Miniature Cult Buildings in Archaic Central Italy
  Charlotte Potts (Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Urban Rescue Excavations in Istanbul
  Kübra Gür (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul)

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Tradition and innovation: The domestic architecture of the Early Iron Age and Orientalising period Etruria
  Paul Miller (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Movement and Visuality in Roman Domestic Spaces at Pompeii and Ostia
  John Clarke (University of Texas)

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Control, Delete: Bodily Control of the Roman Gladiator and Ludus Architecture
  Marlee Miller (New York University)

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - SPECIAL LECTURE - Book Launch “Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania” The urban water cycle of Late Antique Iberia
  Javier Mar!nez Jiménez (University of Cambridge)

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The fortifications at Thessalian Vlochos
  Robin Rönnlund (Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας)

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - SPECIAL LECTURE - Book Launch “Les ruines résonnent encore de leurs pas. La circulation dans les monuments grecs (VIIe s. – 31 a.C.)” (Circulation of Greek Monuments between the 8th century BC and 31 BC)
  Marietta Dromain (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Public religion, monumental architecture, and social change in Roman Pompeii New research at the sanctuary of Venus
  Marcello Moggetta (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Public buildings on private properties: investigating spatial and legal relationships between entertainment buildings and privately owned space in Roman Italy
  Ilaria Trivelloni (Université de Lausanne/Sapienza Università di Roma)