The Division of ArchaeoSciences – the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) is pleased to announce the 10th ArchaeoSciences Seminar.
These seminars are an original initiative of our division that has the goal of providing a setting for professionals in the Archaeological Sciences field from different parts of the world, to share knowledge, and transmit meaningful information about the latest issues regarding the current methods and approaches used to study the past. It is also a chance for Romanian students to learn more about the various interdisciplinary aspects of archaeology.
The 10 seminar will take place on 5th October 2020, online, and our guest speaker is Professor dr. Stefano Campana from University of Siena, Italy.
He will give an online presentation entitled “Emptyscapes project: A new paradigm for the archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes”.
Stefano Campana has been working for the past fifteen years at the University of Siena (Italy) and the University of Cambridge (UK). He is specializing in landscape archaeology, remote sensing and archaeological methodology for purposes of research, recording and conservation. His work is focused on the understanding of past landscapes from prehistory (1st millennium BCE) to the early middle age (1st millennium CE). The principal cultural context for his work has been Tuscany but he has also participated in and led research work in the UK, Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq and Asia. Since 2006 he has been a faculty member of the University of Siena (Italy), in the Department of History and Cultural Heritage, where he has engaged in teaching and research as associate professor in Landscape Archaeology. From 2016 he has also been invited from the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena to teach “Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology” within the international master course in Cultural Diplomacy. From September 2014 to June 2016 he became Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK), Faculty of Classics. There, he initiated a to a truly landscape-scale perspective.
He has established a sound reputation as an international authority in the field of landscape and digital archaeology. I have promoted concepts such as ‘emptyscapes’ and the ‘archaeological continuum’ within rural studies and have demonstrated their relevance to theoretical and practical approaches within Mediterranean archaeology, notably through the systematic application of large-scale geophysical survey, aerial exploration and air photography, including the use of drones and drone-based lidar.
Due to the special measures imposed by COVID-19 pandemic, the lecture will be online, starting with 11:00 am (CET), via Google Meet Planform:
http://meet.google.com/uqe-ajpg-qoi
We look forward to exciting discussions!