Friday, December 6th
17:00 – 19:00
DIA
The Danish Institute at Athens
Chairefontos 14
Platia Aghias Aikaterinis, Plaka
GR-105 58 Athens
Information
Far from Roman cultural centers like Delos, ancient authors and modern scholars paint the small islands, bays, and rural hinterlands of the Cyclades as spaces filled with pirates, exiles, and bandits. Recent scholarship has complicated this narrative, raising new questions concerning the extent to which bodily control, criminality, and exile can be detected in the archaeological record.
In this lecture, Evan Levine will share results from the Small Cycladic Islands Project (2019-2024) and the Paros Palaiopyrgos Archaeological Project (2024-) to explore how current archaeological fieldwork in the Cyclades is fundamentally reshaping our understanding of the region’s most remote landscapes. By placing these results in dialogue with historical and literary scholarship on the region’s Roman period, he will interrogate how we might fruitfully engage with archaeologies of exile and bodily control on island landscapes.
Program
The lecture begins at 7 PM and will be followed by a discussion led by Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.
After the event there will be a wine reception at The Danish Institute.
To attend online, register here.
About the host
Evan Levine is a PhD Fellow on The Prison Project at the University of Copenhagen. Working primarily in the fields of Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology and Digital Humanities, his research explores the diachronic occupation and economies of marginal landscapes, with a focus on Aegean Islands. Evan has organized and participated on archaeological surveys and excavations throughout Mediterranean Europe, the Near East, and North Africa, and is currently the co-director of the Naxos Quarry Project and a senior staff member on the Small Cycladic Islands Project and the Paros Palaiopyrgos Archaeological Project.
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