Jennifer Trimble, associate professor of classics at Stanford University, will present a lecture, “Seeing Roman Slaves,” at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The lecture is part of a series for the Lincoln-Omaha Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and is co-sponsored by the Convocations Committee and the Research Council at the university.
Trimble’s work centers on the visual and material culture of the Roman Empire, with interests in portraits and replication, the visual culture of Roman slavery, comparative urbanism and ancient mapping. Her book “Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture” (Cambridge University Press, 2011) explores the role of visual sameness in constructing public identity and articulating empire and place.
Trimble was co-director of the IRC-Oxford-Stanford excavations in the Roman Forum, now being prepared for publication, which focused on the interactions of commercial, religious and monumental space. She also co-directed Stanford’s Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, a collaboration between computer scientists and archaeologists to help reassemble a fragmentary ancient map of the city of Rome.
“Seeing Roman Slaves” is a presentation of her current research, which examines the intersections of Roman visual culture and Roman slavery.
