Ancient History Seminar: "Material agency - on infrastructures and living patterns in Pompeii"

Guest lecture by Anne Marie Leander Touati (Lund University). 

Anne Marie Leander Touati

The Swedish Pompeii Project
Anne Marie Leander Touati will share some of the main historical results that have been gained from the fieldwork performed by the Swedish Pompeii Project, on site since 2000.

A Roman city block
Although the focus of the project is on only one Pompeian city-block (V 1), the research team would like to think that their results may be generalised and valid in far larger contexts. The presentation will demonstrate the main periods of change which the project have been able to detect in the ”biography” of this city block, from about 200 BC until the end of Pompeian city-life in 79 AD.

Indications of changing social relations
It will be shown how the introduction of new infrastructures or amelioration of old ones (meaning mainly water-supply facilities and street management) influenced traditional domestic architecture in ways which may be interpreted as expressions of change in the social relations that governed everyday life in the ancient city.

The lecture is part of the Ancient History Seminar series and it will take place in room 12.3.07, KUA2, Karen Blixens Vej 4, Copenhagen, September 23rd, 1-3 pm.