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ACTA is an international open access journal and is the Norwegian Institute in Rome’s journal. It publishes articles about the Mediterranean region's archaeology, art history and within the Institute’s broader interdisciplinary mission.
Images of old age and aging determine how we handle demographic change. This conference will explore how the stages of the life cycle have been construed throughout history in order to consciously recognise the stereotypes that emanate from these age categories.
An international conference at the Norwegian Institute in Rome 24 - 26 May 2023, organized by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck and Kaja Merete Hagen.
We are pleased to announce the publication of vol. 34 ns. 20 (2022) of our journal, ACTA ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia. Simon Malmberg, Eivind Heldaas Seland and Christopher Prescott curate this issue, a collection of articles titled City, Hinterland and Environment: Urban Resilience during the First Millennium Transition
Oslo School of Environmental Humanities welcomes Tirza Meyer as a Visiting Scholar! Meyer joined OSEH in May 2020 and will stay until the end of this year. Her project Humanoid Oceans or an Ocean of Humanoids? examines the rise of autonomous underwater vehicles and explores the ambiguities that they bring with them.
LiVE is a research project providing a historically informed comparative ethnography of contemporary vulture conservation in changing European landscapes. The project has been granted funding from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Individual Fellowships.
Giorgio Riello (European University Institute) and Michael O’Sullivan (CAPASIA project) presents Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?
A research forum for scholars of the history of the Middle Ages.
Advanced course in methods: Archives are collections of documents and institutions that preserve them. What have been kept, for what purposes, by whom, and how can they be accessed? And how does asking these questions help students of the present and the past shape new research questions and design more thoughtful and better research projects? This course seeks to enable students to engage with the epistemic problems presented by archives. What is it possible to know and represent through archival sources, and what are the limitations to what can be known?