Priv. Doz. Dr. Markus Sehlmeyer

Lecturer

Ancient History
Department of History
Osnabrück University
Schloßstraße 8
49074 Osnabrück

E-mail:  markus.sehlmeyer@uni-osnabrueck.de

Office hours: by appointment

 

  • 1995 1st State Examination for Secondary Teacher Education (Gymnasium) (History and Latin)
  • 1996/97 Doctoral scholarship from the state of Lower Saxony for the dissertation "Urban Roman honorary statues of the Republican period"
  • 1998/2001 Postdoctoral researcher at the GK "Social History of Groups, Strata, Classes and Elites", Bielefeld, and at the GK "Leitbilder der Spätantike", Jena
  • 2002 - 2010 Research assistant (C1) and research associate at the Heinrich Schliemann Institute for Classical Studies (Ancient History), University of Rostock
  • 2008 Habilitation on "Images of history in the transition from pagan to Christian empire"
  • 2010 - 2013 Temporary Senior Academic Councillor at Bielefeld University (deputizing for the Dean's teaching)
  • 2013 - 2015 Research assistant and deputy chair at the Philipps University of Marburg, Ancient History
  • 2016 - 2019 Teaching assignments at Osnabrück University, substitution of the professorship's courses in WS 16/17
  • 2019 - 2022 Representative of the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Rostock
  • 2021 Funding Award for Teaching from the Society of Sponsors of the University of Rostock e.V. (GFUR)
  • 2022/23 Lectureship at the Osnabrück University

  • Migration in antiquity, in particular deportations and migration regimes
  • Political culture of Athens and Rome
  • Historiography, especially of the Roman Republic and late antiquity
  • historical culture

Winter semester 2022/23:

Advanced Seminar  Hellenistic Civilization

Winter semester 2018/19:

Proseminar  Cultural History of Hellenism

SoSe 2018:

Proseminar  Greek Colonization as Migration

Summer semester 2017:

Exercise  Feature films and TV documentaries on Roman history

Exercise  Media of Roman Memory Culture - Yesterday and Today

Winter semester 2016/17:

Lecture  The Athenian Democracy

Advanced seminar  Athens in the world of the 4th century BC

 

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  • 2023: Models of Roman citizenship from Augustus to Boris Johnson, in: R. Zelnick-Abramovitz/ C. Plastow/ J. Filonik (eds.): Citizenship in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge), 15 Seiten (eingereicht März 2021; erscheint Sommer 2023).
  • 2022: Greek burial, 2. Auflage, Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
  • 2020: More Publicity through very Short Books. Historical Epitomes in Late Antiquity and Renaissance. In: J. Muñoz Morcillo / Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (eds.): Genealogy of Popular Science. From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality, Bielefeld 2020, 302-332.
  • 2018: Die apuanischen Ligurer bei Livius. Geschichte einer (fast) vergessenen Deportation, Hermes 146 (2018) 470-483.
  • 2011: Proskynese und andere Loyalitätsgesten in der frühen Kaiserzeit – Christen, Polytheisten und der Körper, Zeitschrift für Neues Testament, 14 (2011), Heft 27, 27-35.