In January 2026, after having presented at the SCS in San Francisco, Hylke will travel to Ithaca, NY for a research stay at Cornell University for the spring semester (January – May). His research stay is made possible by the Cultuurfonds, in particular the Reiman-de Bas Fonds. At Cornell he aims to bring his research …
This year it is Hylke’s turn to deliver a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, to be held in San Francisco on 7-10 January 2026. On January 8, Hylke will give a paper on labour in the Roman world titled Acting on a hunch: Subversive labour values in Roman funerary …
For his research on iron and blacksmiths in Roman cultural discourse, Hylke de Boer did a course in blacksmithing at Kunstsmederij Bos in Veendam. There, he learned the tricks of the trade and got a sense of what it is like to work at a blacksmith’s shop. The blacksmith’s trade is a conservative trade. Tongs, …
