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Carlos Noreña – Public Lecture - HRC 30th Anniversary Event

Monday 3rd March 2025 at 18:00, FAB0.08 followed by a drinks reception at 19:00 - (Booking essential - opens in January 2025)

Carlos F. Noreña - Berkeley

Title: The Roman Atlantic: Ecology and Empire on an Ocean Frontier
Synopsis: This presentation explores the Atlantic façade of the Roman empire, stretching from the British isles to the northwest coast of Africa. It surveys the peculiar ecologies of this seascape and its various interfaces with the coast; examines the making of a distinctly 'Roman' Atlantic, which combined Phoenician and Greek geographical knowledge with Roman infrastructural development; and traces the changing commercial and cultural connectivities that tethered this peripheral region to a Mediterranean empire. It concludes with some more general propositions about how we might write oceanic histories of the ancient world.


An aerial view of the coastline of Galicia

Carlos F. Noreña - Berkeley

Carlos F. Noreña - Berkeley


A modern reconstruction of the Roman lighthouse at A Coruña, Spain (2nd c. CE)

roman lighthouse a corua