On October 31st 2025, the study of Classics at the University of Groningen has organised a special day for Dutch high school students who have Greek or Latin in their curriculum. The theme was “De Oudheid: Natuurlijk!” (“Antiquity: Naturally!”). Around a hundred high school students, most of them from schools in the northern provinces of …
Members of the FACERE project have organised two panels at the FIEC conference (the 17th Congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques) in Wrocław, Poland, which will take place in July. One panel will focus on “Making and Invention Narratives”, the other will analyse “Sacred Making”. The full programme will be posted here …
Bettina and Friederike will both deliver papers at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, to be held in Philadelphia on 2-5 January 2025. Bettina is contributing a paper on Vitruvius to a panel on Hidden Labour and Precarity in the Roman World, while Friederike will speak on performances of food preparation …
The FACERE team travelled to Naples in October to attend the inspiring Symposium Vesuvianum 2024, which focused on the topic of labor invisus. Bettina contributed a paper on Non-human agency and hidden labour in Vitruvius’ De Architectura .
The Groningen Faculty of Arts recently covered the launch of FACERE in an accessible news article by Lieke van den Krommenacker. Read more on the faculty website.
The FACERE team participated in the Thinking Techne conference at the Technical University Berlin from 1 to 4 November 2023. Bettina contributed to a panel on definitions, systems and orders of techne, while Hylke and Friederike presented posters on the cultural value of iron in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and on cooking as art-making in the poster …
