Research Seminar in Ethnology & Archaeology and Ancient History. The Sea, Cemeteries and Other Sticky Places: The Emotional Topography of the Roman World
- Date
- 1 April 2026, 13:15–15:00
- Location
- English Park, Room Eng/2-0024 and Zoom.
- Type
- Seminar
- Lecturer
- Camilla Asplund Ingemark & Dominic Ingemark
- Organiser
- Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
- Contact person
- Kristina Öhman
Please note: The seminar will be held in English in the afternoon, 13:15–15:00.
In this seminar, we revisit a concept introduced in our book Representations of Fear: Verbalising Emotion in Ancient Roman Folk Narrative (2020). Emotional topography implies that places evoke specific emotions, which may vary depending on the time of day, season or other factors. The focus is on places that elicited the emotions of fear, dread and disgust, taking cemeteries, the sea and crossroads as examples. We also discuss our theoretical sources of inspiration and how they have fed into our own model.
This is a joint research seminar between the Ethnology and Classical Archaeology and Ancient History departments.
Please note: The seminar will be held in English in the afternoon, 13:15–15:00. For the Zoom link, please email contact person Kristina Öhman no later than 31 March.
Presentation of the speakers:
Dominic Ingemark is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the Department Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests include ancient folklore (in particular ancient Roman folk narrative, such as stories about ghosts, witches and demons), Roman social history, Roman foodways, Roman horticulture and agriculture, Roman glass and Roman-native relations in Norther Europe.
Camilla Asplund Ingemark is Senior Lecturer in Ethnology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University/Campus Gotland. Her research interests include narrative and belief in different periods from antiquity to the present, therapeutic uses of storytelling and the history of emotions.