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Conferenza della prof.ssa Rubina Raja sugli scavi danesi nel Foro di Cesare a Roma e di prof. Enrico Cappellini sull’analisi di proteine antiche per l’arte, l’archeologia e la paleoantropologia

Organizzato da ARSID – Associazione di Ricercatori e Scienziati Italiani in Danimarca

 

 

 

1st ARSID Seminar

April 21st, 2022

With the support of the Italian Embassy in Denmark and of the Italian Institute of Culture in Denmark, ARSID (Associazione dei Ricercatori e Scienziati Italiani in Danimarca – Association of the Italian Researchers and Scientists in Denmark) is happy to announce the 1st ARSID Seminar, an opportunity for the ARSID members and the academic and professional community in Denmark to meet and network.

 

PROGRAMME

18:00 – 18:02   Dr. Letizia Satriano, ARSID Vice-President and event chairperson – Opening Remarks
18:02 – 18:07   H. E. Luigi Ferrari, Italian Ambassador in Denmark – Welcome Message
 18:07 – 18:15   Dr. Letizia Satriano, ARSID Vice-President and event chairperson – ARSID Introduction
 18:15 – 19:00    1st Presentation
   

Speaker: Prof. Rubina Raja, Aarhus University

Title: Urban Archaeology in central Rome: the Danish-Italian Excavations on Caesar’s Forum

Abstract: Since 2019 a Danish-Italian team has been excavating the last hitherto unexplored 3000 square meters of the area best known as having housed the Roman politician and dictator Gaius Julius Caesar’s Forum. The area is today – as it was in Antiquity – centrally located in Rome, right next to the Forum Romanum and partly cut by the Via dei Fori Imperiali. However, despite being most famous for its phases as a public square created by Julius Caesar on some of the most expensive land ever bought in Rome, the area has a much longer history – and many narratives to tell about the development of Rome across almost three thousand millennia. This lecture will give an overview of the new findings covering the time from Archaic Rome until today and show why urban archaeology still holds a central role in understanding the history of cities.

19:00 – 19:45   2nd Presentation
   

Speaker: Associate Professor Enrico Cappellini, University of Copenhagen

Title: Ancient protein analysis for art, archaeology and palaeoanthropology

Abstract: Most of the ​cultural heritage objects​ produced using materials of biological origin are ​rich in proteins​. Due to their chemical and mechanical properties, proteins have always been exploited by humans to satisfy basic needs, including nutrition, clothing, sheltering and transportation. Ancient proteins can be recovered from cultural heritage objects, and their analysis can help understanding: (i) how they were made, and (ii) the nature and the extent of chemical damage affecting them. This information is useful to better plan their future preservation strategy. In some cases ancient proteins can be retrieved also from very ancient samples. Recently we retrieved proteins from fossils up to about 2 million years old. We used this approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of an extinct enigmatic giant primate Gigantopithecus blacki and of an extinct human species.

19:45   Final remarks followed by buffet kindly provided by the Italian Institute of Culture

 

ARSID aims at being a meeting place for Italians who live in Denmark and work as researchers and scientists as well as Italian and Danish academics and professionals who live in Denmark and are interested in scientific and technological interactions with Italy. ARSID also aims at promoting collaborations between scientists and scholars based at universities, research centres, private companies as well as governative and non-governative organisations in Italy and Denmark.