Seminar of the MZAW Visiting Professor
Seminar of the MZAW Visiting Professor
The MZAW visiting professor holds a seminar every semester. The focus of each seminar varies according to the academic background of the current professor, who is, however, asked to present the material in an interdisciplinary way and to incorporate theories and questions from other fields. Doctoral fellows are required to attend one seminar of an MZAW visiting professor during their fellowship. In order for participation to be recognised and a certificate (Schein/Hauptseminar-äquivalenter Leistungsnachweis) awarded, the attendee must hold a presentation in the seminar.
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Das MZAW-Doktorandenseminar wird im Wintersemester 2019/20 von Prof. Dr. John Baines gehalten.
Das Seminar von Prof. Dr. Baines kann im Wintersemester 2019/2020 entweder als MZAW-Gastprofessorenseminar oder als Kolloquium angerechnet werden.
Eliten und Mittel der Herrschaft in alten Gesellschaften
Dienstag, 14-16 Uhr, Raum 332/Schellingstr. 3 (Vhs. 3. Stock)
Beginn: 15. Oktober 2019
The aim of this seminar is to explore structures and roles of ruling groups in ancient societies across the world and across types of social organization. Societies from nomadic bands to empires have leaders and people who support them, so that the concept of ‘ruling groups’ has near-universal application. Members of the seminar are encouraged to offer presentations relating to their own research interests. They are welcome to treat societies in regions acrosss the whole world and from early prehistory to medieval times. The opening sessions will include a discussion of the range of topics to be addressed and an initial group of case studies. These will be followed by presentations from participants, leading toward a synthesis in the final sessions. Since this is a comparative seminar, questions of approach and method are fundamental, and participants should supply sufficient background information to make their work accessible to researchers in different fields from their own.
Questions to be addressed include: definition of elites; scale of societies and of ruling groups; presence and complexity of elite hierarchies; archaeological evidence for the status and modes of delegation of power; symbols of rulership and delegation of rule; symbolic and/or administrative modes of rule.
The languages to be used in the seminar are German and English.
Um Anmeldung unter c.veit@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wird gebeten.
MZAW-Doktorandenseminar im SoSe 2020:
Rollen der Kunst in Kulturen des Altertums
Dienstag, 14-16 Uhr, Raum 332/Schellingstr. 3 (Vhs. 3. Stock)
Aesthetic concerns are fundamental to human life. Many or most ancient societies invested high proportions of their wealth in aesthetic activities. This seminar will address diverse aspects of ‘art’ in ancient societies. The term ‘art’ itself is much contested, and one of the aims of the seminar is to test implications of related controversies and to review them in relation to the connectedness of aesthetic domains within and across societies. The intention is to broaden ways in which relevant phenomena and forms are approached while asking why art was socially central and what functions different aesthetic domains had in different societies. For archaeologically recovered cultures it is vital to model aesthetic domains that are not directly attested in order to improve the understanding of the ancient context.
Members of the seminar are encouraged to offer presentations relating to their own research interests. They are welcome to treat societies in regions acrosss the whole world and from early prehistory to medieval times. The opening sessions will include a discussion of the range of topics to be addressed and some initial case studies. These will be followed by presentations from participants, leading toward a synthesis in the final sessions. Since this is a comparative seminar, questions of approach and method are fundamental, and participants should supply sufficient background information to make their work accessible to researchers in different fields from their own. Some sessions will include visits to local museums.
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