Alicia Jiménez: Original copy: imitation and colonialism in Roman Hispania

Thursday, February 16, 2012

NEW TIME: 3:15 – 5:15 PM

Main Quad, Building 110, Room 112

 

The concept of imitation lies at the heart of most of our interpretations of the similarities we can trace in the material record of colonies and their metropoleis in the ancient Mediterranean. In this talk, Jiménez will explore different questions related to the complex interplay between ‘copy’ and ‘model’ in material culture, drawing on insights from postcolonial studies and taking as a case study colonial contexts of Roman Hispania.

 

Alicia Jiménez is a postdoctoral research fellow working at University College London (UK). Her research interests include archaeological theory and the transition between the Iron Age and the Roman period on the Iberian Peninsula, with an especial interest in topics such as social change and colonization and the interaction between the past and the present in the creation of contemporary ‘origin myths’ in Spain.