Lynne Lancaster – My Rome: A Long-Term Relationship with the Eternal City

Lecture/Conversation

Lynne Lancaster – My Rome: A Long-Term Relationship with the Eternal City

Photograph of Rome taken by Lynne Lancaster in December 2009

Lynne Lancaster (2002 Fellow) will speak about the ways in which her time in Rome over a thirty-year period has affected the trajectory of her research on Roman architecture.

Lancaster is the Mellon Professor In Charge of the Humanities. She is the author of Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome, Innovations in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Innovative Vaulted Construction in the Architecture of the Roman Empire, 1st to 4th centuries CE (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as articles on the Colosseum, Trajan’s Column, and Trajan’s Markets. She studied architecture at Virginia Tech (BArch) and classical archaeology at Oxford University (MPhil, DPhil).

The shoptalk will be given in English.

Date & time
Monday, October 7, 2019
6:30 PM
Location
AAR Lecture Room
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Rome, Italy