TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
- Saturday, July 8, 2006
- Sunday, July 9
- Monday, July 10 - Wednesday July 12
- Thursday, July 13
- Friday, July 14
- Saturday, July 15
- Sunday, July 16
- Monday, July 17 & Tuesday, July 18
- Wednesday, July 19 and Thursday, July 20
- Friday, July 21
- Saturday, July 22
Saturday, July 8, 2006
All day
Arrival of participants to UCLA. Hotel Check-in..
Sunday, July 9
All day
Arrival of participants to UCLA. Check in with campus housing authority or other accommodations.
7 – 9 pm
Welcome Reception at the Home of Co-director Sander Goldberg
Reception for participants with project directors and available visiting faculty. Brief welcome to the Institute.
Monday, July 10 - Wednesday July 12
9 am
Visualization Portal
Introductory remarks by project directors Sander Goldberg and Diane Favro. Includes review of the structure of the program and the four topic areas to be covered. Course readers distributed.
Topic #1: Laying the Foundations
Project Co-Directors: Sander Goldberg and Diane Favro
These sessions will survey traditional media and the new, complementary digital technologies used to represent buildings ranging from textual description, still photographs and diagrams to QuickTime VR clips, to interactive Virtual Reality models. There will also be hands-on experience in developing the digital materials used in UCLA’s VR Portal. The particular buildings to be considered will be the Pantheon at Rome, available as a QTVR clip and a VR model, and the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, available on QTVR and—to provide a different dimension to the problem—the reconstruction at the Getty Villa in Malibu.
Wednesday's sessions will meet at the Malibu facility. Assistant Curator of Antiquities Kenneth Lapatin will host the group. Session begins with an introductory meeting wherein Ken describes Getty’s educational programs, resources, facility, and collection. The museum itself will be used as an in-the-field laboratory, wherein participants can create a rudimentary 3D mock-up of the site, to further develop an understanding of the digital modeling process as well. Participants will be given free time to tour museum.
Introductory Readings: “Pantheon” Richardson 1992, “Pantheon” Steinby 1999
Primary Readings: Dudley 1967 187-190
Secondary Readings: Unsworth 2002 and Ayers 2004 provide digital humanities context, Edwards 1996 1-26 and Jones 2000 1-18 examine the paradoxical situation of the evidence. Jones 2000 “The Enigma of the Pantheon” 177-213 and Virgili and Battistelli 1999 focus on the case study of the Pantheon, both its architecture and its diachronic evidence.
Thursday, July 13
Topic #2: The Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum)
Visiting faculty: Kathleen Coleman
We will be able to consider this famous (and famously problematic) structure through a variety of representations, including a VR model that allows us to test theories of its construction and design. We will also consider the textual evidence for its uses, and its symbolic value.
Introductory Readings: “Amphitheatrum Flavium” Richardson 1992, Dudley 1967 142-145.
Ancient Sources: Augustine, Confessions 6.8, Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Commodus 15, Probus 19, Suetonius, Titus 7.3, Cassius Dio 66.25 and 79.25, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 6.32254-55, Chronographus (anni 354) 146,
Secondary Readings: Vismara 2002, Vismara and Gregori 2002, Rea 2002a, Rea 2002b: 161-192
Optional: La Regina 2001.
Friday, July 14
Topic #3: The Roman Forum, Part I
Visiting faculty: Robert Morstein-Marx
Interactive models here allows us to explore various problematic areas of the Forum associated with a variety of civic functions, including public meetings, trials, dramatic entertainments, and the triumphal procession. An examination of this area, complicated by complex spatial and temporal considerations, will begin in the late-antique forum and move backward in time to the Republican Forum lurking below. A key aspect of the discussion here will be the relationship of the physical space as we can reconstruct it with how we know from the textual record that space was used.
Introduction to the Forum
Introductory Readings: “Forum (Romanum or Magnum)” Richardson 1992, Purcell 1989, Purcell 1995a and Purcell 1995b
Ancient Sources: Virgil, Aeneid 8.336-361, topographical excerpts in Dudley 1967 73-119.
Secondary: For a background in methodologies, see Haselberger et al. 2002; Stambaugh 1988: 102-122 serves as a general introduction to the space;Morstein-Marx 2004: 34-67 frames the specific topographic problem of the assembly area; NSF-funded forthcoming new website on the Forum (give URL)
Saturday, July 15
Bus tour of Los Angeles
This tour of architectural highlights will offer participants the opportunity to observe in a living context certain urban developments that are analogous to the problems studied in the context of ancient Rome. These include the redevelopment of Bunker Hill, with its redesigned civic spaces at the expense of a coherent urban fabric, the use of architecture to make political and religious statements, and the alteration of the natural landscape to accommodate new artificial features.
Sunday, July 16
Free day – recommendations for activities will be provided to participants.
Monday, July 17 & Tuesday, July 18
Topic #3: The Roman Forum, Part 2
Visiting faculty: Robert Morstein-Marx (7/14 and 7/17) and Joy Connolly (7/17 and 7/18)
Interactive models here allows us to explore various problematic areas of the Forum associated with a variety of civic functions, including public meetings, trials, dramatic entertainments, and the triumphal procession. A key aspect of the discussion here will be the relationship of the physical space as we can reconstruct it with how we know from the textual record that space was used.
Public Assembly and Oratory
Ancient Sources: Pliny, Naturalis Historia 7.210-213, Varro, de Re Rustica, 1.2.9, Cicero, de Amicitia 25.96, Plutarch, Gaius Gracchus 5, Cicero, In Catilinam 3 (esp. 3.21-22) and Pro Milone, Asconius’ Commentary on Cicero’s Pro Milone
Secondary Readings: Millar 1989, Millar 1998: 1-48, Morstein-Marx 2004: 67-287, Vasaly 1993: 16-40, Lehmann-Hartleben 1938, Boethius 1945
Fiction: Saylor 1993: 389-421 and Saylor 1996: 3-27
Dramatic Performances
Ancient Sources: Plautus, Curculio 462-86, Poenulus 1-128, Terence, Hecyra 1-57
Secondary Readings: Goldberg 1998, Gruen 1992: 210-15, Jocelyn 1969, Moore 1998: 131-9, Sandbach 1982
Wednesday, July 19 and Thursday, July 20
Topic #4: The Capitol
Visiting faculty: Mary Beard (7/19 only, via video conference)
Perhaps the most important (and problematic) visual relationship to be found in ancient Rome is the impact of the Capitoline Hill on the surrounding city. The religious center of the city, the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, looked down on its surroundings and could be seen from many angles. Its referential importance in literary texts has been abundantly noted by scholars, but its actual visual relationship to the city is poorly understood. Reconstructions of the ancient Capitoline have been complicated by an inadequate understanding of the original contour of the hill and a paucity of in situ remains. Only recent geological studies and archaeological work provide information sufficient to reconstruct the original shape of the hill and a selection of the most important religious monuments in the area. In 1996 an extensive geologic study revealed a drastically different picture of the Capitoline hills apex; and a series of recent excavations have brought to light a substantial amount of remains of this integral temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. The UCLA ETC will insert an updated, hypothetical reconstruction of this area into our digital model of the city, and so our last urban study will be able to consider the interplay between the city’s civic heart and religious apex.
Introductory Readings: “Capitolinus Mons” Richardson 1992, “Area Capitolina” Steinby 1993, Dudley 1967 51-72
The Historiographical Problem
Primary Sources: Livy 3.44-48 and 6.18-22, Plutarch Aemilius Paullus 33-35, Suetonius, Caesar 37.51
Secondary Sources: Miles 1995: 8-74, Cornell 1995: 1-30, Feldherr 1998: 203-225
The Triumph
Primary Sources: Josephus 7.118-162, Plutarch Caesar 50, Appian 7.116-117
Secondary Sources: Brilliant 1999, Beard 2003, Favro 1994, Makin 1921
Texts and Viewsheds
Ancient Sources: Ovid, Fasti 1.1-88, Tacitus, Historiae 3.69-71, Pliny, Naturalis Historia 33.111-12
Secondary Readings: Stamper 2005: 1-33, 84-103, Weigel 1986, Mellor 1978 Versnel 1970 78-94
Optional: Hölkeskamp (Köln) 2001, Alvarez 1996, Ammerman and Terenato 1996
Friday, July 21
Topic #5: Urban Summary
Visiting faculty: Nicholas Purcell (via video conference)
This work implies throughout serious issues of urban design and urban function. We will use our last sessions to review those issues and explore the theoretical basis in urbanistics for understanding them.
Secondary Readings: Favro 1996 1-19, 217-280, Ford 2000, Lynch 1960, Wallace-Hadrill 1994 17-37, Coarelli 2002
Concluding Institute remarks, distribution of evaluation forms. Afternoon party!
Saturday, July 22
Free day – recommendations for activities will be provided to participants.
Check out of housing (depending on participant’s schedules)
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