TEACHING
Research in Topoi was closely related to teaching at Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or one of the partner universities. The central themes of the Topoi project were explored in a multitude of courses on various levels. BA and MA students benefited not only from the cooperation between the universities and various partner institutions, but also from the fact that findings from toplevel interdisciplinary research were integrated into university teaching. There was a wide choice of formats – from standard seminars and lectures integrated in the ongoing academic curriculum of the universities to the central “Topoi lecture series” open for a broad academic and non-academic audience.
MSc PROGRAMME LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY
The MSc programme Landscape Archaeology evolved from interdisciplinary cooperation in Topoi. The cross-departmental, inter-university programme (participating are Freie Universität Berlin and Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin) combined the academic disciplines Physical Geography, Prehistoric Archaeology and Excavation Technique. The MSc programme was directly linked to the BerGSAS PhD programme Landscape Archaeology and Architecture. Both the M.Sc. curriculum “Landschaftsarchäologie” and the B.Sc. and M.Sc. curricula “Geografische Wissenschaften” at Freie Universität Berlin offer project seminars on a regular basis, often in cooperation with Topoi.
PROJECT SEMINARS
Various Topoi projects are based upon BA and MA seminars. Students participated in the preparation and organization of projects.
| Museumsvisionen | Supervised by Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy at the Technische Universität Berlin |
| Digitales Forum Romanum | Winckelmann-Institut of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in cooperation with Topoi research project (C-6-1) Raumnutzung und Raumbeanspruchung |
| Auf den Kopf gestellt | An exhibition planned by students of the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek Berlin and Topoi. |
| Spätpleistozäne und Holozäne Landschaftsentwicklung der Rituallandschaft Königsgrab Seddin/Prignitz | Project seminar based upon Topoi research project (B-2-5) The royal tomb of Seddin in the Prignitz |
TOPOI SEMINAR SERIES
Topoi offered continuous series of seminars for a university audience:
Mehr als Schätze und Abenteuer
Starting in summer semester 2017, this annual BA/MA seminar (organized by Nina Diezemann and Hauke Ziemssen) discussed traditional and new forms of public communication in ancient studies – from articles in popular journals, interviews, and institutional press offices to social media, blogs, or science slams.
Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven
The seminar series (2016-2018, organized by Florentina Badalanova Geller and Rainer Kampling) was a cooperation between Topoi and the German-Israel Fund Project “Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven: Judeo-Christian Encounters and the Last Lingua Sacra of Europe”.
Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin
The Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin was inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar. It was organized in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Since 2012/2013 the seminar series ran every winter term in the Topoi house Dahlem. The seminar was part of the academic program of the Freie Universität under the name “Digitale Methoden in den Altertumswissenschaften”. http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/.
Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences
The six Dahlem Seminar series (2012-2016) were organized by Topoi professors Mark Geller and Klaus Geus. Every semester, international experts in various fields of the study of ancient science present their research in the Topoi house Dahlem.
TOPOI LECTURE SERIES
Starting in 2015, Topoi organized a central “Topoi lecture series” every semester. Key topics of the cluster were presented to a broad academic and non-academic audience. In some cases additional BA/MA seminars were offered.
| Welt der Archäologie – Neue Ansätze und Perspektiven |
summer semester 2019 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Die Spätantike – eine expandierende Epoche? | winter semester 2018/2019 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Krieg und Gewalt vom Altertum bis in die Gegenwart | summer semester 2018 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| “Identität“ – Probleme eines Konzepts und seine Entstehungsgeschichte | winter semester 2017/2018 | Freie Universität berlin |
| Frühe Ökonomien und modernes Wirtschaftsdenken | winter semester 2016/2017 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Migration. Wanderungsbewegungen vom Altertum bis in die Gegenwart | summer semester 2016 | Freie Universität Berlin, associated blog migration.hypotheses.org, |
| Grossbauten in ihren Gesellschaften. Zwischen praktischer Nutzung und symbolischer Bedeutung | winter semester 2015/2016 | Freie Universität Berlin |
THEMATIC LECTURE SERIES ON TOPOI RELATED TOPICS
| Einführung in die Archäometrie | winter semester 2016/2017 | organised by Elke Kaiser and Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke |
| “Tam diu Germania vincitur” – Roms Aufgabe Germaniens vor 2000 Jahren, | winter semester 2016/2017 | organised by Ernst Baltrusch and Christian Wendt |
| Die Seele ist ein Oktopus: Antike Vorstellungen über den belebten Körper | summer semester 2016 | organized by research group (D-2) Mapping Body and Soul, series of lectures accompanying the exhibition at Medizinhistorisches Museum) |
| Modellkaiser – Kaisermodell. Zum 2000. Todesjahr des ersten römischen Kaisers Augustus | winter semester 2014/2015 | organized by Ernst Baltrusch, Christian Wendt |
| Glas und Glasproduktion in ur- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit. Herstellungstechnik, Adaption und Diffusion von Glastechniken | winter semester 2014/2015 | organized by Hans-Jörg Nüsse and Florian Klimscha, series of lectures accompanying the seminar on the same topic |
| Ökonomie früher Kulturen | summer semester 2014 | organized by Michael Meyer and David Warburton, accompanying the seminar on the same topic |
| Räumliche und quantitative Analysemethoden | winter semester 2011/12 | organized by Silvia Polla, Undine Lieberwirth |