The Laboratory of Digital Archaeology and Ancient Topography at the Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, presents a new cycle of Seminars in Ancient Topography and Landscape Archaeology for the academic year 2025–2026, curated by Rodolfo Brancato.
The November and December 2025 sessions will feature Valeria Vitale (University of Sheffield) and Anca Dan (CNRS–ENS Paris), who will explore topics related to historical geography, geoarchaeology, and the cartographic representation of the ancient world through texts, images, and digital data.
All seminars will take place at the Department of Humanities, Via Nuova Marina 33, Naples.
Programme
📅 7 November 2025 – 10:30 a.m.
Valeria Vitale (University of Sheffield)
🗒️ Past places from document to data: introduction to historical gazetteers
📍 Room 709
📅 7 November 2025 – 3:00 p.m.
Anca Dan (CNRS–ENS Paris)
🗒️ Ancient maps: a short interdisciplinary history of texts and images | Maps on mosaics: from Palestrina through Haidra to Madaba
📍 Room A5
📅 12 November 2025 – 9:30 a.m.
Valeria Vitale (University of Sheffield)
🗒️ Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage for Archaeological Research
📍 Room 709
📅 14 November 2025 – 1:30 p.m.
Anca Dan (CNRS–ENS Paris)
🗒️ Geoarchaeology of Aeolis: Troy and Pergamon’s coast
📍 Room 912
📅 25 November 2025 – 9:30 a.m.
Valeria Vitale (University of Sheffield)
🗒️ Digital annotations between marginalia and machines
📍 Room 709
📅 28 November 2025 – 9:30 a.m.
Valeria Vitale (University of Sheffield)
🗒️ Modelling places as relationships: case study discussion and practice
📍 Room 709
📅 12 December 2025 – 1:30 p.m.
Anca Dan (CNRS–ENS Paris)
🗒️ Geoarchaeology of the Caucasus: climate and paleoenvironments
📍 Room 912
📅 17 December 2025 – 2:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Anca Dan (CNRS–ENS Paris)
🗒️ Geoarchaeology of the Hebros: Ainos & Doriskos | Geoarchaeology of the Black Sea: Danube and the Kuban deltas
📍 Room 709 (2:30 p.m.) and Room 811 (5:00 p.m.)
For more information about the seminars, visit also FeDHlab
