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| Jason Farr |
Jason Farr, assistant trench master with the Gabii Project and Ph.D. candidate in Classical archaeology at the
University of Michigan, will present a paper at the upcoming Duke-UNC Graduate Colloquium in Classics taking place April 1-3, 2011. The colloquium, a long-standing graduate forum, centers this year on the theme of "Refuse and Reuse: The Challenges of Repurposing and Re-imagining in the Ancient World" and will feature keynote speaker Eric Varner (Emory). Jason's paper, "Re-Purposing
Lapis Gabinus and Re-Imagining Gabii: the Exploitation of a Stone Resource and the Memory of a Latin City" will discuss the Roman quarrying of
lapis Gabinus, as well Gabii's role as a symbol in Latin literature. Jason has defended a dissertation proposal at Michigan in fall 2010 entitled "The Quarries of Gabii and
Lapis Gabinus" and is in the early stages of his work on the Gabine quarries.
