Raphael Szeider
Contact
E-Mail: raphael.szeider@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43 512 507-40856
Short Biography
- 2014 – 2018: Bachelor’s degree in history and classical archaeology, University of Tübingen
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2018 – 2023: Master’s degree in history (focus on ancient history), University of Tübingen
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2019 – 2022: Master’s degree in classical archaeology, University of Tübingen
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2022: Start of the PhD in classical archaeology, University of Tübingen. Topic: Hadrianic references to Augustus
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15.09.2023 – 14.09.2024: Coordinator of the HRS4R-Audit at the University of Tübingen
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October 2024: Acceptance of a doctoral position at the doctoral program 'Entangled Antiquities' as part of the Cluster of Excellence 'EurAsian Transformations' at the Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria
Completed further training and internships
- 24.07.2017 – 18.08.2017: Internship Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, München
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03.04.2018 – 05.04.2018: Spring School „Das Geld liegt auf der Straße – zum wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Fundmünzen“ of the Numismatischer Verbund in Baden-Württemberg
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22.07.2018 – 19.08.2018: Excavation Campaign of the Classical Archaeology Department, University of Tübingen on Pantelleria, Italy
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03.09.2018 – 05.10.2018: Internship Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
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02.09.2019 – 11.10.2019: Internship editorial team DAMALS – Das Magazin für Geschichte
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09.10.2022 – 16.10.2022: Study course „Rom-Bilder. Perspektiven aus Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte und Geschichtswissenschaft“ of the DAI, DHI and the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
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2023 – 2024: Participation at the certificate program ‚scientific management‘ for PhD’s and Postdocs, University of Tübingen
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11.01.2024: Workshop „Mit Mikropolitik souverän umgehen – Macht und Mikropolitik im Alltag des Hochschulmanagements“, held by Dr. Lukas Bischof, Lukas Bischof Hochschulberatung AG, Tübingen
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01.04.2024 – 10.04.2024: Epigraphic Academy in southern France, held by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of the University of Heidelberg and the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of the DAI; funded by the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung
Conference participations
- 13.11.2023 – 14.11.2023: Participation at the conference „A Second Gaze. Intertextuality and Transient Meaning in Roman Texts and Objects“, Mainz
Research interests
- Roman History
- Roman Archaeology
- litterae aureae
- Strategies of legitimisation
- Dealing with remembrance and cultural memory
- Cultural heritage preservation
PhD project
Hadrianus.Augustus – Legitimation und Vergangenheits(re)konstruktionen Hadrians (working title)
The topic of the dissertation project is the often materially tangible and, in their form, extraordinary references of Hadrian's time to the first Roman emperor, Augustus. The thesis is that these references were initially merely a legitimisation strategy intended to protect Hadrian and his fundamentally innovative policies from criticism by the Senate. The emperor repeatedly used the ‘mask of Augustus’ in various media, which he held up to the senators in order to legitimise his actions and innovations. Hadrian's innovations were highly problematic for the Senate, as they virtually eliminated its remaining influence. With his Augustus-imitatio, the emperor cancelled the res publica restituta established by Augustus and introduced a much more autocratic rule on the performative level. In order to justify this, Hadrian repeatedly referred to Augustus, particularly in architectural form, and had, among other things, buildings with references to the first emperor and the Golden Age associated with him repaired. In the provinces, however, this repeatedly led to astonishing architectural citations, with which the local elites believed that they could fulfil an imperial preference to their own advantage. The aim of this thesis is to examine Hadrianic building measures regarding these references and to investigate possible differences between the imperial actions and the adoption of the references by elite members from the provinces from an interdisciplinary archaeological and historical perspective.