Max-Weber-Kolleg (Steinplatz 2) / Raum 506d (4. OG)
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Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Am Steinplatz 2
99085 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
I am a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. My doctorate, fulfilled in 2012 at the same university, concerns the role of ‘extra-urban’ sanctuaries and urban identity in Asia Minor in the Hellenistic period. From 2014 to 2015 I conducted postdoctoral research at Brown University, under the title ‘Commanding views. ‘Commanding views. Monumental landscapes and the territorial formation of Pergamon, 3rd to 2nd centuries BC’, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Currently I am co-director, with Onno van Nijf, of the NWO project ‘Connecting the Greeks. Multi-scalar festival networks in the Hellenistic world’, consisting of two PhD projects and my own post-doctoral project on festivals and placemaking.
In the ancient Greek world, religious festivals served to establish the identity of a community while creating ties with others. Such festivals, their gods, shrines and rituals have long been examined within the framework of religious history, state formation processes, or architectural configuration, yet are rarely considered as a whole in all their complexities. Festivals were multi-vocal, they could operate at multiple scales, from the global, involving rulers and delegations, the regional, with delegations and reciprocal acts, and the local, including civic politics, the local elite, but also ‘the crowd’ of spectators and worshipers. All of these found ways of linking their own identity to that of the festival and its sacred spatial setting, whether this was through new civic architecture, honorific monuments, pious dedications, or graffiti and stories remembered.
This project aims to set out a framework for a new approach to such sanctuaries in the vital Hellenistic period (c. 300-30 BC), as it seeks to understand them through the lens of place-making. A GIS environment is envisioned in which a wide range of material and immaterial data can be ‘geo-tagged’ and located in chronological layers that should together reveal the larger and multi-vocal web of spatial narratives. This will result in a deep map that will lend itself for further network and social analyses.
During my time in Erfurt, I will be exploring methodologies for this integrative approach, including network theory, (spatial) conceptualizations of place-making processes, and digital tools.
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Universität Erfurt
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
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