Symposium: The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria
Inter alii, Hélène Fragaki, Cécile Harlaut, Marie-Dominique Nenna
Visio conférence
This symposium is meant to present, for a general audience, some of the results of the Leiden VICI project ‘Innovating objects’ that was carried out in close cooperation with the Centre d’Études Alexandrines (https://www.cealex.org/). It also ties in with an ERC project entitled Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries that explores the relations between art, heritage and urban life for the city and aims at using Alexandria’s cosmopolitan past to build a better (urban) future https://www.alexandria-urban-imaginaries.eu/Founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria developed into the economic and cultural centre of the ancient world during the third century BCE. In the final two centuries BCE, Alexandria truly was a world city, a cosmopolis full of people and objects from all over Afro-Eurasia. As such it generated a remarkable amount of innovations. It seems that, throughout its long life and until the present day, Alexandria never completely lost its cosmopolitan character. This public symposium presents a (selective) overview of the development of the city in these cosmopolitan terms. The first day will focus on the period of Antiquity; the second on the era after Antiquity and Alexandria’s future.
20 janvier 2022 :
https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63730188581?pwd=UUZDZGJ2ekYxRTcyaG82UC92M0FQZz09
21 janvier 2022:
https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/67262820009?pwd=SmFzb2dxMDJWRWlRYWFzeGNIZHovdz09