Wolfson College Record 2021
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Ancient World<br />
Research clusters<br />
The Cluster supports members of <strong>College</strong> and Common Room working on<br />
Ancient World topics, and promotes interdisciplinary working and exchange<br />
between scholars of different age groups and experience through meetings and<br />
lectures, through grants and sponsorship of research events, and through the<br />
organisation of a variety of other activities intended both for our members and for<br />
the wider University and public. The breadth of our members’ research interests is<br />
reflected in the wide variety of events we have been able to organise and fund.<br />
Research Clusters<br />
The pandemic inevitably affected the Cluster’s ability to bring its members<br />
together at academic events and in social settings but, despite the restrictions, it<br />
hosted online a series of events featuring distinguished Cluster members or invited<br />
speakers. Towards the end of the year, it also proved possible to organise a few<br />
events in person.<br />
Some of the online lectures this year were organised entirely by the Cluster<br />
(AWRC), while others were organised jointly with the Oxford Centre for Life<br />
Writing (OCLW) as the Ancient Lives seminar.<br />
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The AWRC lectures were: ‘Building, Living, and Experiencing Urban Spaces: Lepcis<br />
Magna (Libya). A Case Study’, by Dr Niccolò Mugnai (Oxford); ‘Arabian Flights:<br />
Aerial Archaeology in the Middle East’, by Dr Bob Bewley (Oxford); ‘Revisiting<br />
Latin-Romance Developments: ad versus the dative’, by Professor Wolfgang de<br />
Melo (Oxford); and ‘Anthropomorphic Sculpture? Thoughts for Going “Beyond<br />
the Human” on Indigenous Stonework from Central America (AD 400–1500)’ by<br />
Professor Alexander Geurds (Oxford / Leiden).<br />
The Ancient Lives seminar talks this year were: ‘Arabic Dialogues: Writing Lives of<br />
19th Century Arabic Teachers and Interpreters’, by Prof Rachel Mairs (Reading);<br />
‘Artefacts as Actors at Abydos’, by Prof Rosalind Janssen (UCL); ‘Monumental<br />
Lives: Group Presentation and Performance in Ancient Egypt’, by Dr Leire<br />
Olabarria (Birmingham); ‘The Faces of Nefertiti’, by Lucia Nixon (Oxford); and<br />
‘The Poetics of Displacement, based on Roman Lyric Poetry’, by Professor Peter<br />
Kruschwitz (Reading).<br />
college record <strong>2021</strong>
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