Accordia Early Career Talks 2023-24: Session 4

Talk 1: A peculiar Iron Age mountainous society and culture: the territory of Nursia before the Roman conquest (290 BC) - Dario Monti, UCLouvain

Talk 2: ‘Manly’ Women: portraits of women as heroines, warrioresses and huntresses in Roman Antiquity - Sarah Hollaender, University of Graz

All talks will commence at 5.30pm. Abstracts and Zoom links will be circulated nearer the time. If you would like to receive these (and are not on the Institute's events list), please contact Ruth Whitehouse (accresearch20@gmail.com). 

Programme | Accordia Early Career Lectures 2023-24

• 31 October 2023: Dress of the Living/Dead: understanding Iron Age Italic communities through how they dressed their corpses - George Prew, National Museums Scotland / 40 years later: a reassessment of Carandini’s Archaic ‘Atrium Houses’ on the North Slope of the Palatine - Amelia W. Eichengreen, University of Michigan
• 28 November 2023: The Hut of Romulus and the Heroon of Veii: was the siege of Veii a collision of two worlds or a collapse of one? - Ádám Rung, ELTE, Budapest / Control and defence: the role of visibility in the settlement pattern of of pre-Roman Abruzzi - Elena Scarsella, Cambridge University
• 16 January 2024: Landscapes and visibility in Nuragic landscapes: GIS approaches - Davide Schirru, University of Rome “La Sapienza" / Mediterranean ports of interaction: the Aegean and southern Italy in the Late Bronze Age - Angela Falezza, Oxford University 
• 30 January 2024: A peculiar Iron Age mountainous society and culture: the territory of Nursia before the Roman conquest (290 BC) - Dario Monti, UCLouvain / ‘Manly’ Women: portraits of women as heroines, warrioresses and huntresses in Roman Antiquity - Sarah Hollaender, University of Graz
• 20 February 2024: (Soap)stone Age: mills, millstones and milling in early medieval Italy - Marco Panato, Nottingham University / Etruscans for All: the reception and perception of the Etruscans in 18th and 19th century Northwestern Europe - Eline Verburg, Amsterdam University
• 12 March 2024: Wine consumption in the Etruscan necropolis of Valle Trebba at Spina (end 6th – 3rd century BCE): pottery and funerary rituals - Carlotta Trevisanello,  University of Bologna / Approaching identity in La Tène Italy - Giulia Giannella, University College Cork
• 14 May 2024: Empty hillforts: challenging narratives on Samnite society beyond urban-centric views - Giacomo Fontana,  UCL Institute of Archaeology / Households and settlement population in the Terramare world: a demographic approach based on the ratio between people and floor area - David Vicenzutto, University of Padua