The UCI Department of Classics warmly welcomes Visiting Scholar, Dr. Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, from the University of Erfurt in Germany.
Dr. Asuman Lätzer-Lasar is currently working on a post-doc project with the title “Religious Placemaking in the City of Rome", where, by using a case study on the veneration practices and places of the goddess Mater Magna, she is analyzing how far the physical and non-physical urban setting impacted the religious practices, and vice versa, in how far the religion changed the city. With an interdisciplinary approach, Dr. Lätzer-Lasar is investigating not only the archaeological remains, but also takes literary sources and epigraphy, as well as concepts of religious history into account in order to evaluate religious and urban change. Dr. Lätzer-Lasar’s field of expertise comprises different topics, such as Roman Religion and Urbanism, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, object studies and archaeometry, as well as theories of culture contact.
Dr. Lätzer-Lasar received her PhD in Archaeology of the Roman Provinces from the University of Cologne/Germany in 2014. From 2013 until 2017, she served as the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Studies Morphomata at the University of Cologne. In 2017, she joined the University of Erfurt, and as a Junior Fellow, she is part of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. In the frame of the Max Weber Centre she is also a member of the research group: “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations“.
Dr. Lätzer-Lasar has been part of several excavation projects in Turkey (Dolche, Ephesos, Ainos, Patara), Greece (Aigeira), China (Hancheng), Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar), and Germany (in the scope of the Cologne subway construction). Dr. Lätzer-Lasar will be at UC Irvine until the end of August 2019 and will primarily be working and conducting research in Murray Krieger Hall in School of Humanities.
Dr. Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
Research Associate / Junior Fellow
Center for Advanced Studies “Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal transformations"
Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
University of Erfurt
asuman.laetzer-lasar@uni-erfurt.de
Dr. Asuman Lätzer-Lasar is currently working on a post-doc project with the title “Religious Placemaking in the City of Rome", where, by using a case study on the veneration practices and places of the goddess Mater Magna, she is analyzing how far the physical and non-physical urban setting impacted the religious practices, and vice versa, in how far the religion changed the city. With an interdisciplinary approach, Dr. Lätzer-Lasar is investigating not only the archaeological remains, but also takes literary sources and epigraphy, as well as concepts of religious history into account in order to evaluate religious and urban change. Dr. Lätzer-Lasar’s field of expertise comprises different topics, such as Roman Religion and Urbanism, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, object studies and archaeometry, as well as theories of culture contact.
Dr. Lätzer-Lasar received her PhD in Archaeology of the Roman Provinces from the University of Cologne/Germany in 2014. From 2013 until 2017, she served as the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Studies Morphomata at the University of Cologne. In 2017, she joined the University of Erfurt, and as a Junior Fellow, she is part of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. In the frame of the Max Weber Centre she is also a member of the research group: “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations“.
Dr. Lätzer-Lasar has been part of several excavation projects in Turkey (Dolche, Ephesos, Ainos, Patara), Greece (Aigeira), China (Hancheng), Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar), and Germany (in the scope of the Cologne subway construction). Dr. Lätzer-Lasar will be at UC Irvine until the end of August 2019 and will primarily be working and conducting research in Murray Krieger Hall in School of Humanities.
Dr. Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
Research Associate / Junior Fellow
Center for Advanced Studies “Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal transformations"
Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
University of Erfurt
asuman.laetzer-lasar@uni-erfurt.de