Please see below the conference programme for “Memory, Violence and Landscape in the Ancient and Medieval World” at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference will take place in Room 2/3 in Stewart House, London on the 18th June 2025.
If you’re interested in attending, please register with the form below :
https://forms.office.com/
Programme:
Conference Registration 9:00-9:20
Place through Memory in Ancient Greece 9:30-10:25:
– Rhetoric, Memory, and the Shaping of Hellenistic Sacred Landscapes: The Case of the Aitolian League and Delphoi – Will Coles, Royal Holloway, University London
– “All choose to die nobly”: Athenian Eponymoi, Place Attachment and the Recollection of Heroic Violence – Ben Cassell, King’s College London
Remembering Violence in the Roman World 10:45-12:00:
– Using Landscapes of Violence as a Tool of Imperialism in Republican Rome – Connor Beattie, University of Oxford
– (Mis)remembering Violence at Pharsalus and Philippi – Oisín Parsons, University College Dublin (UCD)
– Popular Violence and the Julian Redevelopment of the Forum Romanum – Luke Wilkinson, University of Manchester
Violence, Place and Memory in the Medieval World 13:10-15:10:
– The Violence of the German Peasants’ War (1524-6) and the Monastic Landscape of the Holy Roman Empire – Charlotte Gauthier, Edward Wareham Wanitzek, Royal Holloway, University of London
– Charisma, Memory, and the Supernatural in Rus’ (1090s-early 1100s) – Andrii Kepsha, University of Hradec Kralove
– Processions with Relics and the Memory of Past Sieges in Constantinople (AD 626-1204) – Joaquin Serrano del Pozo, University of Tübingen
– Cleansed with Blood and Rosewater: Violence, Memory and Perceptions of Jerusalem’s Capture in 1099 and 1187 – Mike Fulton, University of Western Ontario
Memory and Materiality – Archaeological Approaches 15:25-16:20:
– “Once Great Men Lived Here. Giants. Gods”: Violence and Memory at Castelo de Cuncos – Alex Elliott, University of St Andrews
– Violence in the Landscape of Dara – Christopher Lillington-Martin, Coventry University
Plenary Lecture 16:35-17:45:
– A Lost Church in a Byzantine Landscape: The Perivleptos’ – Jonathan Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London
For any questions or concerns, please contact us at: [email protected]
