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Emanuel Mayer of the University of Chicago is an expert in how the Romans communicated unofficially in an urban environment. Public images served as civic communication for centuries, and in some places throughout the ruins of the Roman Empire graffiti has been identified on ancient structures. Sound familiar?

When: Thursday October 11 7:30 PM
Where: Indianapolis Museum of Art DeBoest Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public

EMANUEL MAYER (Assistant Professor) has written Rome is Where the Emperor is: State Monuments in the Decentralised Roman Empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II (Mainz, 2001; in German). His interests span political imagery of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, representational behavior of Roman elites under the Empire, as well as ancient urbanism.

If this sounds interesting, make sure you check out … The splendid exhibit “Roman Art from the Louvre,” before and after Prof. Mayer’s talk. And check out some of the other events connected to the exhivit. You can find them by visiting www.theromansarecoming.com. Provocate is particularly intrigued by talks by one of the exhibit’s curators explaining legal aspects in “Why’s there a statute in the freezer?” October 18; a discussion of “The “Art” of Building an Empire” October 25; and IMA head Maxwell Anderson’s talk about provenance in international art and antiquities November 12.

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