Call for Papers: Semantic Ambiguities in Images of the Roman World
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04. April 2025
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Call for papers
Semantic Ambiguities in Images of the Roman World (2nd century BC/5th century AD)
International Conference 18th to 20th February 2026; Kiel, Germany
ERC Advanced Grant FRAGILE IMAGES. The Fragility, Instability, Ambiguity, and Self-Reflexivity of Images in Roman Art (ERC Grant No. 101141247)
Submission deadline: April 25th 2025
The ERC FRAGILE IMAGES invites for abstracts for its first conference on the semantic ambiguity of ancient images. The focus will be on images that are designed to be ambivalent, i.e. intentionally ambiguous (in the sense of Umberto Eco: “open” images). However, intentional ambiguities are deeply nested within general forms of unintentional ambiguity. The conference therefore addresses different forms of ambiguities, both intentional and generic.
The conference focuses on images of the Roman world (2nd century BCE – 4th/5th century CE). We are looking forward to an intensive and inspiring discussion of the pictorial functions of semantic ambiguities in different spatial, social and cultural contexts.
We look forward to receiving your abstract (of max. 300 words) for a 25–30 minute paper and a short CV by April 25th 2025 as one single PDF.
Contacts
Dr. Lidia Chiné Zapater: erc_fragile-images@klassarch.uni-kiel.de.
The complete Call for Papers as PDF can be found here.
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