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DESCRIPTION:Each quarter\, the Stanford Archaeology Center invites prominen
 t archaeologists from around the globe to be in residence for a week as a D
 istinguished Lecturer. During their residency\, the Distinguished Lecturer 
 gives two lectures and interacts with faculty\, postdoctoral scholars and s
 tudents. Stanford Archaeology Center will host Emeritus Prof. Richard Hingl
 ey from  Durham University\, UK over two days (Jan 14 and Jan 15) for the W
 inter Quarter of this academic year. \n\nAbstract:\n\nThe aim in this paper
  is to outline a justification for a new writing project to address how int
 erpretations of the Roman past intersect with the interests and concerns of
  protagonists/practitioners in the present. I am writing primarily from an 
 archaeological perspective\, although my deep interest in classical recepti
 on means that the discussion is not confined to the field of archaeology. L
 ikewise\, although the focus of much of my research is upon the ancient pas
 t in Britain\, I seek to look more widely across the Roman and modern world
 s in developing my observations.\n\nThis study aims to build on recent acco
 unts of the development of theories and approaches in Roman archaeology. I 
 am interest in directing attention to disentangling the strands that bind m
 odern accounts of the classical past with the concerns and interests of the
  present. It seems to me inevitable that we entangle the past with our conc
 erns and interests about the present. Perhaps we look to the past to provid
 e examples\, lessons or warnings about the present and future\, or we may u
 se the present to reflect contemporary concerns about aspirations for how o
 ur world is developing onto the past. My focus in this account is to highli
 ght the intellectual interest of this topic\, not in particular to criticiz
 e or challenge contemporary or recent interpretations of the Roman past. To
  me\, the entangling of the past with the present and the present with the 
 past in contemporary approaches is a topic of interest that has an importan
 ce in its own right. There is not one right or wrong approach to the Roman 
 past\, and I find it interesting to seek to address how the concerns and in
 terests of people in today’s world impact upon how we interpret the ancient
  past and how this informs us about the nature of the scholarship of our di
 scipline.\n\nIt is probably simpler to address this issue by looking at pas
 t scholarship\, but I wish to emphasize here that addressing current resear
 ch is also significant. Directing attention to this issue is not to assume 
 that current scholarship (or past scholarship) is (was) wrong\, since we ca
 n regard this disentangling approach as something of academic interest and 
 value in itself in terms of a way of receiving the past. It helps to inform
  us of what the Roman past can be used to support or counter and how changi
 ng interests and concerns moderate and find reflection in changing research
  agendas and the trajectories of research.\n\nFor more information please v
 isit https://archaeology.stanford.edu/events/distinguished-lecture-series
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series | Entangled Classics: Interpreting the
  Roman past in the present 
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