Description: Explores post-humanist approaches to re-examine Roman material culture and interactions between human and non-human agents in the Roman world.
Brief description: Irene Selsvold is a doctoral student in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg. Her thesis is entitled Damnationes et transformationes memoriae - Transforming religious memory in late antique Asia Minor.
Review Quotes: "A ten-page editors' introduction includes an explanatory outline of posthumanism and a map of the state of scholarship on posthuman perspectives in archaeology and the study of the ancient world. Then the eight main papers are on posthuman ambitions in the Roman principate..."-- "New Testament Abstracts"