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This project seeks to better understand how the Roman Republic transformed into an Empire and how this transformation was visualised in the regions that fell under Roman control. From 168 BC Rome controlled provinces in both the East and the West of the Mediterranean, but it would not be until c. 27 BC that Rome received its first emperor. How was Rome viewed in this intervening period, and to what extent did this prepare the way for later events under Augustus and his successors? Was there a revolution with Augustus? How was Roman domination represented, ritualised or rejected, and what traces of this process can we find in the surviving material? The project will focus on coinage produced in areas under Roman control in this period in order to answer these questions. Through an examination of coinage and its iconography, the project will look at the self-representation of Roman officials who dealt with the provinces, as well as how Rome was perceived by the people who fell under her command.

Paolo Del Vesco (UCL Institute of Archaeology) will give a seminar organised by the Institute’s History of Archaeology Research Network at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on 1 May.

Dr Del Vesco’s seminar is entitled ‘A Year with Flinders Petrie: Petrie’s Pocket Diaries in the Petrie Museum archives‘ and all are welcome.

Start: May 1, 2013 5:15:00 PM
Location: UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The ERC-funded EUROEVOL Project will host a special seminar at the Institute on 30 April.

Presentations by project members Stephen Shennan, Adrian Timpson and Tim Kerig will outline the aims of this European Research Council-funded project on the cultural evolution of Neolithic Europe, the methods used for reconstructing the prehistoric demographies which are a main focus of the project, some of the results of the demographic analysis, and examples of how the demographic patterns relate to other evidence, including cultural distributions and stone axe production. The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception in the Staff Common Room. All welcome.

Start: Apr 30, 2013 4:00:00 PM

Location: Room 612, Institute of Archaeology

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UCL will be hosting a Festival of Arts between 7-17 May 2013. The Festival is dedicated to showcasing the breadth and depth of the work which takes place across the UCL Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences. A full programme of these public events can be found here.

Stasis in the Medieval World

A conference entitled ‘Stasis in the Medieval World‘ being held as part of the Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series (EMICS) will take place at the Institute of Archaeology on 13-14 April.

Start: May 10, 2012
End: Mar 22, 2013

Location: UCL Institute of Archaeology, A.G. Leventis Gallery

A new exhibition entitled ‘Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology‘, created by MA Museum Studies students, is on display at the Institute of Archaeology until March 2013.

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