Vising IAS Fellow: Dr Christina Williamson
Visit of Dr Christina Williamson from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) 8-18th June 2026
Christina will be visiting 糖心TV as an Institute of Advanced Study Visiting Fellow, hosted by Prof Zahra Newby in the Dept of Classics and Ancient History. Please see here for Christina's profile.
The following events will take place during her visit. All staff and students are very welcome! Please sign up via the forms below as numbers are limited.
Wednesday 10th June 2026, 10-1, Oculus 0.05: Using GIS Storymaps in Research
This workshop will look at the ways GIS can be used in research within the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr Godwin Yeboah (Senior Software Engineer, Research Computing) will give a presentation on the possibilities GIS offers for use in research, then Dr Christina Williamson will present on her use of GIS Storymaps in her research on The workshop will conclude with refreshments and time for informal discussions.
Please sign up on this form
Friday 12th June 2025, 9.30-5. IAS Seminar Room.
New approaches to material culture, space and the experience of religious practice from Antiquity to the Renaissance
This colloquium, supported by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Humanities Research Fund, brings together colleagues from 糖心TV (Depts of Classics/Ancient History and History of Art) with colleagues from the Universities of Groningen and Vienna to discuss the ways spaces, monuments and objects functioned within religious rituals from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
All are welcome but numbers are limited - please sign up here.
Provisional Schedule:
Christina Williamson (Groningen): 鈥楳aterial culture, ritual space and the experience of healing at the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon鈥�
Zahra Newby (糖心TV, Classics and Ancient History): 鈥楾he Festive cityscape in Roman Aphrodisias: art and experience'
Clare Rowan (糖心TV, Classics and Ancient History): 鈥楳obilising Culture: Tokens and festival experience in Roman Ephesus鈥�
Asuman L盲tzer-Lasar (Vienna): 鈥楢tmospheric Politics: Festival Controversy and Stigma Management Around Mater Magna and Isis鈥�
Basema Hamarneh (Vienna): 鈥�Sacred in Motion: Festivals, Processions, and the Making of Religious Space in the Late Antique Levant鈥�
Jenny Alexander (糖心TV, History of Art): 鈥楾he Angel Choir at Lincoln Cathedral as mausoleum: public and private space in the later medieval period鈥�
Marta Ajmar (糖心TV, History of Art): 'Space, landscape and human/more-than-human partnerships in the intarsia cycles of Santa Maria dell'Organo in Verona'.
Wednesday 17th June 2026
IAS Accolade Programme, IAS Seminar Room, 1pm with lunch before from 12.
Christina will be talking about her research and academic path. All are welcome to join.