Additional information / Pre-requisites

The language of instruction is English. The seminar should be combined with the colloquium of the same title. The module includes a visit from archaeology students of the University of Copenhagen (5.12.25) who will work in parallel on the same topic, and a return visit by the FU Berlin students to Copenhagen (February 2025).

Comments

For general information see the seminar of the same title. The colloquium will be taught in four all-day units, including a full-day workshop with students from the University of Copenhagen at FU Berlin, and a return visit/workshop at Copenhagen. In addition, two full-day rehearsal sessions will take place in preparation of the trip to Copenhagen.

Suggested reading

Hamilakis, Y. 2013. Archaeology and the senses: Human experience, memory, and affect. Cambridge; Hawthorn, A./A.-C. Rendu-Loisel, Hrsg. 2019. Distant impressions: The senses in the ancient Near East, Winona Lake; Neumann, K./A. Thomason, Hrsg. 2021. The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East; Shepperson, M. 2017. Sunlight and shade in the first cities. A sensory archaeology of early Iraq; Skeates, R. /J. Day. 2020. The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology.