Background
Han Lamers joined the Department of Philosophy, Classics, and the History of Art and Ideas in January 2018 (Associate Professor, 2018-2019; Full Professor from 23.08.2019) and is currently Head of Subject in Classics. He studied Classics at the University of Leiden (BA, MPhil) and Art History at KU Leuven (BA, MA) and holds a PhD (2013) from Leiden University. His research focuses on many aspects of the classical tradition, especially in early modern and modern Europe, as well as the history of (classical) scholarship.
Before coming to Oslo, Lamers was postdoctoral research fellow at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, the University of Ghent, and KU Leuven and received research fellowships from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), the Berlin Centre for the History of Knowledge (MPIWG), and the Volkswagen Foundation. He was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Art History of the University of Leuven (Spring 2019).
Lamers is member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition and the book series Innovative Contributions in Classics (Brepols) and Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia (Peeters). He also is in the advisory board of JOLCEL, an open-access journal on the cultural history of Latin (first issue in June 2019). In the past, he was guest editor of the European Review of History (2014), the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2018), History of Humanities (2020), and the Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (2023).
In addition to doing research, Lamers taught classes and courses in the fields of Classics and the classical tradition, Renaissance literature and history, and the history of Classics and Art History.
Lamers is Research Fellow at the Department of Art History of the KU Leuven and Academic Member of the Heterodox Academy and the Heterodox Classics Community.
Academia
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Ongoing research projects
- Together with Natasha Constantinidou (University of Cyprus) and Marie Barral-Baron, Lamers is leading the international research project "Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity", funded by the European Union (2023-2025). Postdoctoral researcher: Chiara Gazzini.
- Lamers is principal investigator of the international research project "New Signs of Antiquity: The Uses of Latin in the Public Culture of Italian Fascism, 1922-1943", funded by the Research Council of Norway (2021-2025). Postdoctoral researcher: Paola D'Andrea. Affiliate researcher: Antonino Nastasi. Predoctoral researcher: Erlend Østrem Myklebust.
- Together with Bettina-Reitz-Joosse (Groningen), Lamers is coordinating a research project studying the uses of the classical languages under Fascism. The project is part of the Anchoring Innovation research agenda of OIKOS and is also supported by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oslo. More information can be found on the project's website. PhD student: Nicolò Bettegazzi (public defence: 17 April 2023). Postdoctoral researcher: Katharina Schön.
Teaching
- ANT1500 Antikken gjennom tidene/The Classical Tradition (Spring 2018-2023)
- ANT4900 Praksisemne for masterprogrammet i klassiske språk (Spring 2022; Fall 2022)
- ANT4502 Classics seminar (Spring 2018; Fall 2021)
- ANT4501 Heritage: Premodern Perspectives (Fall 2021)
- ANT1100 Antikkens verden/The Ancient World (Fall 2019-2020)
- ANT4500 Antiquity in European ideologies (Fall 2018)
- LAT2409/4409 Mussolini Dux: The Latin Literature of Italian Fascism (Spring 2022)
- LAT4309 Ovid's Metamorphoses (Fall 2021)
- LAT2400 Tematisk tekstseminar i latin (Spring 2021; Fall 2021)
- LAT3190 Bacheloroppgave i latin (Fall 2019; Spring 2020-2023; Fall 2021-2023)
- LAT1404 Latin epic poetry (Spring 2021)
- LAT2105 Latin grammar II (Spring 2019; Spring 2021)
- LAT2404/LAT4303 Late antique and medieval Latin texts (Spring 2019; Fall 2020)
- LAT4109 Neo-Latin Literature (Fall 2019)
- LAT4311 Latin verse satire (Fall 2019)
- LAT1401 Caesar (Fall 2019; Fall 2022)
- LAT2401 Augustan poetry (Spring 2019)
- LAT4312 Augustan literature (Spring 2019)
- LAT2407/LAT4407 Seneca's Epistulae morales (Fall 2018)
- LAT4403 Vergil (Spring 2021)
- CLAS 44519 Classical Reception Studies: Key Texts and Ideas (University of Chicago, Department of Classics, Spring 2020) [cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic]
- B-KUL-F0JC8A Iconology (KU Leuven, Department of Art History, 4 seminars, Spring 2019)
- PhD (co-)supervision:
- Victoria Marie Mostue (University of Oslo)
- Nicolò Bettegazzi (University of Groningen)
- Adriaan Demuynck (University of Leuven)
- Stephanie Heremans (University of Leuven)
- PhD seminars at UiO
- Heritage: Premodern Perspectives (Norwegian Institute in Rome, 6-8 Oct. 2021)
- Art and Rhetoric in Roman Literature (Norwegian Institute in Rome, 1-3 Oct. 2018)