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Dr. Soi Agelidis

Room: 0.1.2a
Phone: +49 (0)234 32-29902
Email: soi.agelidis@rub.de
Academic Senior Counselor and Custodian of the Ruhr-University´s Antique Art Collection
Office hours: Please arrange a Meeting via E-Mail

Agelidis
Agelidis

Research Interest, Career and Projects
  • Greek religion and festival culture
  • Afterlife, death and funerary cult
  • Concepts of space in Greek antiquity
  • Legitimation strategies of ancient rulers
  • Topography and urbanistics
  • Greek sculpture
  • Choregia and theatre
  • since 03/2024  Academic Senior Counselor at the Institute of Archaeological Studies and scientific director of the Kunstsammlungen Antike (arts collection antiquity) of the RUB
  • since 03/2021–02/2024 Academic Counselor (Assistant professor/Lecturer) at the Institute of Archaeological Studies and scientific director of the Kunstsammlungen Antike (arts collection antiquity) of the RUB
  • 01/2020–02/2021 Temporary Academic Counselor (Assistant professor/Lecturer) at the Institute of Archaeological Studies and acting scientific director of the Kunstsammlungen Antike (arts collection antiquity) of the RUB
  • since winter term 2016/17 Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the Ruhr-University Bochum
  • 2015–2016 lectureship at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
  • 2010–2015 Scientific Adviser for Library and Excavations at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute
  • winter term 2011/2012 lectureship at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
  • 2008–2010 Scientific museum assistant-in-training at the Antiquity Collection of the State Museums in Berlin
  • 2006–2008 Advanced training scholarship holder from the German Archaeological Institute in the Istanbul Department
  • 2005–2006 Independent contractor for the State Art Collections in Dresden – Sculpture Collection
  • 2004 Doctorate of Philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
  • 2001–2004 Scholarship holder at the DFG-funded graduate's college at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz for a project entitled "Raum und Ritual. Funktion, Bedeutung und Nutzung sakral bestimmter Räume und Orte" (Space and ritual. Function, meaning and use of sacred spaces and places).
  • 2001 Magistra Artium at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • 1995–2001 Study of Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology / Greek and Art History
    at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Participation in excavation and
    survey projects in Abdera (Greece), Pergamon (Turkey), Milet (Turkey) and Kalapodi
    (Greece)
  • Hated and irreconcilable? Hades in the religious practice and the religious ideas of
    the Greeks from the Archaic to the Imperial Period (habilitation project)
  • The Ploutoneion of Eleusis: Recording – Visualization – Processing
  • The spatial turn in the exploration of ancient festivals

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