Research Seminars / Capita Selecta

The Capita Selecta research seminars are hosted by the GIA. We have an exciting programme lined up with some excellent visiting speakers, as well as the usual presentations of current research by our staff and students. Please make a note in your diaries and reserve the time to attend: it is after all only 2 hours each month, but 2 hours filled with the most recent research, followed by excellent discussions.

We would like to especially encourage students from the GIA and Ancient History to attend as this is a fantastic opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research and join in discussions about methods, theories and interpretations, in a very friendly environment.

2022-2023 Semester 2 Schedule

Unless otherwise advertised, talks will take place at 16.00 in the Collegezaal, Poststraat 6, and online

31-01-2023 Rocco Palermo (University of Pisa) Rural Communities of Hellenistic SW Asia. Landscape Studies and Excavations at Girdi Matrab (Iraqi Kurdistan)

14-02-2023 Sasja van der Vaart Verschoof (Drents Museum / RMO) Doggerland: a lost world beneath the Northsea in the present

07-03-2023 Mans Schepers (University of Groningen) Fields of opportunity: crop cultivation on Wadden Sea salt marshes from 600 BC to AD 1200

14-03-2023 Nathalie Brusgaard (University of Groningen) Title TBC

04-04-2023 Daan Raemakers (University of Groningen) Traditions set in stone? Burial rituals and rituals at burial sites in the TRB Westgroup

25-04-2023 Delia Carloni (University of Groningen) Prehistoric human engagement with the 'dark zones' of caves: A case study from the Grotte di Sant’Angelo of Cassano allo Ionio (Calabria, Italy)

09-05-2023 Michael Boyd (The Cyprus Institute) Title TBC

30-05-2023 Kathryn Weber (Cornell University) Title TBC

27-06-2023 Barbara Barbaro (Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria) The submerged protohistoric settlement of Gran Carro in the Bolsena lake (Viterbo, Italy)