Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Alte Geschichte

Bücher

• R.E.M. van der Heijden, S. Fahner, C. Feichtinger (eds.), Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg). DOI: 10.1515/9783111229591 [open access].
• R.E.M. van der Heijden, Empire and Temporal Imagination in the Roman World: Cultural Memory and Civic Identities in the cities of Asia Minor and the Levant, Impact of Empire (Leiden: Brill) (in Vorbereitung).

Aufsätze

• Seeing the Colosseum Valley as a Flavian District. Urban Space as a Demonstration of Imperial Ideology in the Flavian Period, BABESCH 97 (2022): 113–32. DOI: 10.2143/BAB.97.0.3290536.
• Sardis/Rome, 26 CE: An Imperial Cult Temple in the Province of Asia, in: Elisabeth Piller et al. (eds.), Imperial Moments. An Anthology (2024). DOI: 10.6094/UNIFR/249553 [open access].
• Empire and imagination in Roman Sardis. The Wadi B Temple of the Imperial Cult as Mnemonic Cluster, in: S. Fahner, C. Feichtinger and R.E.M. van der Heijden (eds.), Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025), 137–63. DOI: 10.1515/9783111229591-007 [open access].
• (mit S. Fahner, C. Feichtinger) Introduction: Politics of Pasts and Futures”, in: S. Fahner, C. Feichtinger and R.E.M. van der Heijden (eds.), Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025), 1–10. DOI: 10.1515/9783111229591-001 [open access].
• What’s in a name? Verankering van heden en verleden in stedelijke namen in het Romeinse Midden-Oosten, Leidschrift 40:2 (2025): 33–51. URL: https://www.leidschrift.nl/_files/ugd/8ebe3f_a89d2cb8d7ea499980a6638ae786de6a.pdf.
• Imperial past, imperial present? Emperor and empire in civic historical discourses in the cities of Asia during the early Principate. (in Vorbereitung)
• (mit V. Scano) Ein Brief aus Theadelphia (P.Hamb. graec. 261). (in Vorbereitung)
• Forms of ‘Greekness’ and Cultural Capital in the Multi-Ethnic Roman Levant, in: S. Borello, F. De Ponti, F. Reali und F. Russo (eds.), Realtà greche in epoca romana: populi, comunità, città. (in Vorbereitung)
• Temporal experiences, festivals and religious euergetism: Dimensions of identity, memory and practices of benefaction in Roman Asia, in: S. Remijsen und C. Williamson (eds.), Religious Temporalities and the Greco-Roman City, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World (Leiden: Brill). (in Vorbereitung)
• Negotiating Empire: Seleukid Memory in the Civic Narratives of Roman Asia Minor and the Levant, in: A. Coşkun, P. Möhring und R. Strootman (eds.), The Afterlife of the Seleukids, Seleukid Perspectives. (in Vorbereitung)

Rezensionen

• Miko Flohr (hrsg.), Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman Word (London: Routledge, 2020). Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (2021) 134:3, S. 482–83. DOI: 5117/TVG2021.3.008.HEIJ.
• Martin Hallmannsecker, Roman Ionia: Constructions of Cultural Identity in Western Asia Minor, Cambridge University Press 2022. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft (2023) 26, S. 1025–30. DOI: 14628/gfa.2023.1.100724. [open access]
• Damien Agut-Labordère und Miguel John Versluys (hrsg.), Canonisation as Innovation. Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation 3 (Leiden: Brill). TALANTA (2024) 55/56, S. 145–48.
• Frank Görne und Marian Nebelin (hrsg.), Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze. Antike Kultur und Geschichte (Berlin: LIT Verlag).  Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2026). URL: https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.28/ [open access]

Kleinere Veröffentlichungen und Wissenschaftskommunikation

• Neun Beiträge in der studentisch-akademischen Zeitschrift Historisch Tijdschrift Aanzet (Aufsätze, Interviews, Rezensionen und Editorials).
• Walk and Talk Podcast series, “Episode #3 “Roaming through Rome – an imaginary walk through an ancient city” with Rogier van der Heijden”. International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen University. (https://jho3qg.podcaster.de/).
• Instagramkanal “The Colosseum Chronicles” (@thecolosseumchronicles), zur Wissenschaftskommunikation und Kommunikation Aktivitäten sowie Meilensteine ​​der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft.
• (mit A.L. Osthof) Conference Report: Social Time in Written Artefacts. Developing Understandings of ‘Time’ in Urban Communities Across Cultures”, H-Soz-Kult, 23.06.2025, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-155723. [open access]
• Panel member Symposium “Anchoring Innovation. Traditie als fundament voor innovatie”. Leidschrift, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, 6. November 2025.

Tagungsorganisation

• Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts – GRK 2571 „Imperien“, Freiburg, 01.–03.12.2022 (mit S. Fahner, C. Feichtinger, É. Mazurié und C. Beckers).
• CBR Promovierendentreffen – Freiburg, 05.07.2024 (mit S. Schall).
• Understanding Social Time in Written Artefacts: Developing transcultural understandings of ‘time’ in urban communities – CMSC, Hamburg, 13.–15.03.2025 (mit A.L. Osthof).
• (Re-)Negotiating Social Cohesion in Antiquity: Systematic Aspects of Religion and Community – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 30.09.–02.10.2026 (mit B. Dignas, J.N. Ortel und C. Tiersch).

Vorträge

• Sensing the Imperial. Urban experience and imperial ideology in the Flavian Colosseum Valley (69–96 CE) – OIKOS Cities and Settlements, Leiden, 25.02.2022.
• Once the city of Gyges and Alyattes. Evolving historical memories in Roman Sardis, 133 BCE – 253 CE – Collegium Beatus Rhenanus, Freiburg, 24.06.2022.
• Empire and Imagination in Roman Sardis: The Wadi B temple of the imperial cult as mnemonic cluster – Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts, Freiburg, 01.12.–03.12.2022.
• Constructing the past. Imperial temporality and civic identity in Roman Sardis and Gerasa – Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus, 10.02.2023.
• Empire and Imagination in Roman Sardis: The Imperial Cult as Focal Point of Memory and Myth – Memory, Space, and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece, Trient, 23.02.–24.02.2023.
• Imperial past, imperial present? Emperor and empire in civic historical discourses in the cities of Asia during the early Principate – Experiencing Emperors and Emperorship, Nijmegen, 17.11.–18.11.2023.
• Peer pressure, status, and identity: Discourses of civic histories in the Greek cities of the Roman Empire – Urban Dimensions: Materiality, Society, and Discourses of the Ancient City, Tübingen, 24.–25.06.2024.
• Between past and future. Combining historical and archaeological approaches to time-experiences under imperial rule in the Greek cities of the Roman empire – OIKOS Cities and Settlements (online), 16.12.2024.
• “Two Kinds Of People: Greeks, And Everybody Else Who Wish They Was Greek”: Forms of ‘Greekness’ and Cultural Capital in the Multi-Ethnic Roman Levant – Realtà greche in epoca romana: populi, comunità, città / Greek Entities in Roman Times: Peoples, Communities, and Cities, Mailand, 06.–07.03.2025.
• Connecting Social Time and Written Artefacts: Towards a Cross-cultural Understanding of ‘Time’ in Urban Communities – Understanding Social Time in Written Artefacts, Hamburg, 13.–15.03.2025 (mit A.L. Osthof)
• The multi-temporality of benefaction: Dimensions of identity, memory and the practice of civic benefaction in the Roman-period cities of Asia Minor – Understanding Social Time in Written Artefacts, Hamburg, 13.–15.03.2025.
• First of the earth, metropolis of Asia, Lydia and Greece: Intertwining past and present in the cults and benefactions of Roman Sardis – Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City, Groningen, 15.–16.05.2025.
• Über Kalender hinaus: Eine soziologische und archäologische Perspektive auf imperiale Zeiterfahrungen im römischen Arabien – Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Saarbrücken, 30.10.2025.
• What’s in a name? Verankering van heden en verleden in stedelijke namen in het Romeinse Midden-Oosten – Leidschrift Symposium: Anchoring Innovation, Leiden, 06.11.2025.
• Negotiating Empire: Seleukid Memory and History in the Narratives of Roman Cities of Asia Minor and the Levant – Seleukid Study Days VIII: The Afterlife of the Seleukids, Utrecht, 12.–15.11.2025.
• Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der Antike: Eine Einführung – Oberseminar Alte Geschichte, Freiburg, 09.12.2025.
• (mit C. Tiersch und J. Ortel) Sozialen Zusammenhalt verhandeln. Religion und Gesellschaft in der Antike – IfG Forschungstag, Berlin, 13.02.2025.
• Cohesion in Cosmopolis: Religious spaces and social cohesion in Hellenistic Alexandria – Cosmopolities in Antiquity and Modernity – Mechanisms of Multiethnicities, Samos, 15.–16.05.2026.
• Religious Extremism in Alexandria? Temporality in religious discourses of a late antique and early medieval metropolis, 4th-6th centuries CE – IMC 2026, Leeds, 06.07-09.07.2026.

Lehrtätigkeit

• SoSe 2025, Proseminar, Das ptolemäische Alexandria: ägyptisch, griechisch, kosmopolitisch?, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• WiSe 2024/25, Proseminar, Geschlechterbeziehungen und Geschlechterkonzepte von Homer bis Aristoteles, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
• SoSe 2024, Proseminar, Once upon a time in the present: Cultural Memory in the Roman World, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
• SoSe 2023, Übung, The Flavians, their empire and their dynasty, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Mitgliedschaften

• Network of Early-career researchers of Social Time (NEST) – Mitgründer und Mitglied.
• OIKOS (National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands) – Assoziierter Mitglied.