Monday 1 June, 5pm at the Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66, St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
Moving Images, Moving Artisans: From Athens to Falerii. Demand, Production, and Uses of Figured Pottery in the Ager Faliscus.
Book presentation: A. Pola, La più antica produzione ceramica falisca a figure rosse, Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, G. Bretschneider, Rome
2024
A. Pola (University of Oxford)
Part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar, Trinity Term 2026
APRI: Archaeology of Preroman Italy
Supported by ICI London
In continuity with the Sybille Haynes Etruscan Lecture, traditionally held on the first Monday of Trinity Term (27 April), this seminar series explores recent research on pre-Roman Italy, broadly defined to encompass various populations and regions of the Italian peninsula, including Magna Graecia. It highlights new excavations, fresh insights into material culture, and studies on the interactions between Greeks and local communities.
4 May – 8 June, every Monday at 5pm at the Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66, St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU. Drinks afterwards
No need to book, just come along!
Organisers: Angela Pola, Christina Monroe, Isabella Jäger
with the support of the Faculty of Classics and the Italian Cultural Institute, London
Angela Pola is Departmental Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and a Research Associate at the Classical Art Research Centre (Beazley Archive). She holds degrees from the University of Pavia, a postgraduate diploma from the University of Milan, and a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome. She has previously held academic positions at the University of Pavia and Sapienza University of Rome and has conducted research fellowships at several international institutions, including the Getty Center, the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in London, the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens, and the École française d’Athènes. She is a member of the Falerii Project (Sapienza University of Rome) and the Tarquinia Project (University of Milan) and has been involved with the J. Paul Getty Museum in cataloging their Etruscan and Italic collections. From 2022 to 2024, she was the Principal Investigator for the interdisciplinary project “Imago-ORA,. Beyond Images in Context ” funded by the Italian Ministry of Research with European funds. An archaeologist specialising in Classical Archaeology, Etruscology, and Italic studies, her research focuses on ceramic production in Attic, Etrusco-Italic, and Faliscan contexts, processes of cultural interaction in pre-Roman Italy, and chemical analysis applied to figurative ceramics, topics on which she has published extensively. Her monograph on Faliscan red-figure pottery, published in the “Monumenti Etruschi” series of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, received the Prix Roger Lambrechts from the Académie Royale de Belgique.