Banban Wang
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Ancient History Telephone: - |
Address
Marstallstraße 6
69117 Heidelberg
Room 1.09
Research Interests
- Greek and Latin Epigraphy
- Greek cities in Hellenistic period, Principate and Late Antiquity
- Political Culture and Religious Culture
- Historiography and Historical Theory
- History of Reception and Translation of Western Antiquity in East Asia
Profile also on academia.edu: https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/BanbanWANG
Curriculum
- Since November 2019: Doctoral Study at Seminar for Ancient History and Epigraphy, Heidelberg University.
- Since September 2019: Research Associate in the Subproject A01 UP1 of the CRC 933
- August 2019: Graduation as (Research) Master of Arts (cum laude) with the Thesis ‘Showing Our Grandeur: Elite identity, collective memory, and provincialisation in late-Imperial Aphrodisias’ in English), Fruinprijs (Annual Thesis Award) nominated
- 2017–2019: Research Master Studies on Ancient History in Leiden University (The Netherlands)
- 2016–2017: Assistant at Centre for Western Classical Studies, Peking University
- July 2016: Graduation as Bachelor of History (merit) with the Thesis ‘Clement of Alexandria and Plato: An Intellectual History from a Philological Perspective’ (in Chinese)
- 2012–2016: Studies on World History, Ancient History and Early Christianity at Peking University (China, PR) and University of Bologna (Italy, as exchange student)
- June 2012: High School Diploma (Natural Science-oriented)
- 1994: born in Guangzhou (China, PR)
Scholarships, Research Funding and Research Fellowships
- September 2021: Research Trip in Greece (Athens-Keramikos, Delphi, Delos, Iraklio, Gortyna)
- May 2020: HeiDOCs Initiative Funding (Graduate Academy Heidelberg) for the Workshop 'Sanctuaries as Spaces for Political Actions: Approaching the Sacred in Greek Poleis' (Conference Report: https://sfb933.hypotheses.org/2918)
- November 2019: Research Trip in Greece
- May-June 2019: Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), Istanbul
- 2015: Tung OOCL Scholarship, Peking University
- 2014: National Scholarship, China, PR.
Research Trainings
- 28-29.11.2019: Leiden+ - Epidoc Workshop, Heidelberg University
- September 2019: ‘Coins and the City’, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), German Archaeological Institute, Rome Branch, and John Felice Rome Center
- February–March 2019: ‘Latin Epigraphy on Location’, KNIR
- February 2019: Greek Palaeography, Ghent University (Belgium)
- April 2019: Workshop on the databases OCRE und CHRE, Leiden University
- September 2018: ‘Ancient Greek Coinage and Coins: a methodological intensive course’, Netherlands Institute in Athens (NIA)
- July 2018: Summer School on Papyrology and Classical Armenian, Leiden University
- February-March 2018: ‘Exploring Late Antiquity’, Radboud University Nijmegen & University of Groningen
- January 2016: Sahidic Coptic, University of Bologna
- August 2015: Mediaeval Latin Palaeography, Peking University
Presentations
- 27.11.2021: 'Monumental Landscape in Continuation: Later Inscriptions on Athenian Monuments in Delphi’, Heidelberger Doktorandenkolloquium des Lehrstuhls für Griechische Geschichte, Heidelberg
- 25.06.2021: 'Writing Documents on Monuments: Abduction Theory, Epigraphic Life of Monuments, and Uncertainties’, Workshop »Sanctuaries as Spaces for Political Actions: Approaching the Sacred in Greek Poleis«, Heidelberg
- 19.06.2019: ‘In the Midst of Waters: Water in Early Biblical Exegesis’, Leiden-Münster Workshop ‘Water in Ancient Society and Culture’, Wettringen (North Rhein-Westphalia)
- 14.06.2019: ‘Coping with the New Empire: Aphrodisias from free city to provincial capital’, Research Master Symposium, Leiden
- 07.03.2019: ‘Triumphing the Crisis: Elite and Civic Identity in the Late-Third Century Aphrodisias’, CRASIS Masterclass ‘Identity: Past and Present’, Groningen
Teaching Experience
- Summer Semester 2022: 'Greek Federal States', with Prof. Dr. Kai Trampedach, Research Seminar, Heidelberg University
- Summer Semester 2022: 'Correspondence between kings and cities in the Hellenistic Period: Texts and Materiality', Source-reading course, Heidelberg University
- 11.06.2021: 'Latin Epigraphy in Late Antiquity: Continuity and Chage of Epigraphic Culture', Guest Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai (online)
- 01.06.2021: 'Early Seleucid Coinage: Iconography, Multicentrality, Tradition', Guest Lecture at Heidelberg University, Video.
- 20.01.2020: 'The "sanctuary of Syrian deities" on Delos and Inscriptions', Guest Lecture at Heidelberg University.
- 08.03.2016: ‘Observations on Papyrology: the Archive of Ptolemaios as example’, Guest-presentation in BA-Seminar ‘Ancient Eastern Civilizations’, Peking University
Miscellaneous
- Since 2021: Member of Archaeological Institute of America
- Summer Semester 2021: Sloggers on Han-Dynasty administrative texts with Prof. Dr. Enno Giele (Sinology), Heidelberg University
- Since 2019: Thematic Field Group 3 'Rulership and Administration', CRC 933.
- 2019– : Translation of Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity into Chinese
- 2017–2019: Translation of Greg Woolf, Rome: An Empire’s Story into Chinese
- 2015–2016: Translations and Interpretations of guest lectures from French and English into Chinese, Peking University.
Languages
- Speaking and Writing: Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), English, German (B2-C1), French (B2-C1), Italian (C1), Dutch (A1-A2).
- Reading: Ancient and modern Chinese, Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Ancient Greek, Latin, Russian (limited), modern Greek (limited)
- Computing Languages: SQL, QGIS, C++, LaTeX, XML, CSS (limited), Python (limited), Swift (limited)
