Workshops and Industry in the Late Antique City: Negotiating New Workspaces
Lecture by Visiting Professor Elizabeth Murphy (Florida State University). Lecture 3/5 in the lecture series "Socially Re-Constructing the Late Roman City: Labor, Networks, Economy, and Narratives of Urban 'Decline'".
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Moesgaard Museum, Moesgård Allé 15, 8270 Højbjerg, 4240-301
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Registration deadline: 26 October 12:00.
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Abstract
As economic spaces, workshops are designed to facilitate patterns of productive activity; as work spaces, they serve to structure social interaction and hierarchies among workers. However, when workshops come to occupy buildings that were designed for very different purposes, how do we understand the architectural re-negotiation of these spaces, as well as the labor specialization and production organization that is sustained therein? Rather than viewing these contexts as simply ‘squatter’ occupations, this lecture interrogates the archaeological record of these sites, both as economically organized worksites and as working places of tradespeople.