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SUMMARY:A Geometric Morphometric Approach to Detecting Regionalism in Roma
 n Theater Architecture - Dr John Sigmier\, University of Toronto
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CONTACT:Akshyeta Suryanarayan
DESCRIPTION:Gallo-Roman theaters—a group of buildings constructed betwee
 n the first century BCE and the fourth century CE in Rome’s northwestern
  provinces—are difficult to typologize because they exhibit numerous non
 -canonical architectural features. Architectural historians have tradition
 ally relied on qualitative description to characterize these theaters’ i
 rregular ground plans\, but this method is limiting when drawing compariso
 ns across a large corpus of buildings. Geometric morphometrics\, an approa
 ch that represents shapes as coordinate scatters for statistical analysis\
 , can overcome some of these limitations. By digitizing a set of plans usi
 ng geometric morphometrics software and then running a series of statistic
 al tests on the morphometric dataset\, I identify several theater shape cl
 usters that appear to correspond geographically to major watersheds in the
  Roman Northwest. I argue that these clusters are plausibly explained as p
 roducts of regional communities of architectural practice that developed a
 round waterways as communicative arteries.\n\nThe speaker will be online\,
  but everyone is welcome to join us in-person at the Faculty of Classics f
 or the talk. Link to register online is here:\n"https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/
 meeting/register/feS71pMITV6B56t053N7Sw#/registration"
LOCATION:Faculty of Classics\, Room G21
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