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Opening Event October 2026 for the new AU Interdisciplinary Water Cluster (AU-WaTeC)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200

Organizer: AU WaTeC

Date: Friday 2 October 2026
Venue: Ole Worms alle 3, Building 1170 in the auditorium 347 (third floor)

Registration: You can register for the meeting here: https://event.au.dk/events/opening-the-au-interdisciplinary-water-cluster

We are happy to announce the first plenary meeting of the Water Cluster at Aarhus University. AU WaTeC embraces trans-/interdisciplinary water research, education, and innovation within the Faculties of Arts, Natural Sciences, Health and Technical Sciences.

Our first meeting will be a journey around AU to shine a light on the different water interests and activities living at AU through general presentations, matchmaking and networking activities. In addition, external speakers will provide inspiration and showcase the wider water universe. Funding opportunities for future cross-disciplinary activities will also be presented. The meeting is followed by a dinner in Fysisk Kantine at 7th floor in building 1520 with a view over the Aarhus waterscape.

Join us if you are interested in helping to shape the Water Conversation at AU!

The invitation is for all PhD students, Post docs, Assistant, Associate, Full professors, who are interested and active in water-related research at AU.

We will have a limited number of seats for the auditorium and for dinner. Note that unless otherwise informed, a 100 DKK no show fee will apply to offset costs. We need your latest confirmation before 17 September, but you are encouraged to register before this date. You can contact Uffe Sognstrup Thomsen if you have questions via email ust@bce.au.dk or telephone 93 52 22 62.

Tentative program:

12.00 Arrival, and then

Welcome by prof. Barth F. Smets
Keynote speaker 1
Scientific presentations on the topics Water, Health and Prosperity
Break - Matchmaking 1
Keynote speaker 2
Scientific presentation(s) on the topics Water Resources: Excess and Absence
Scientific presentation(s) on the topics Water, Nature and Food
Break - Matchmaking 2
Keynote speaker 3
Scientific presentation(s) on the topics Water in the Technosphere
EIT Water a large EU investment

18.00 Dinner at Fysisk kantine

20.00 Water in the Arts Spoken Word/Audio-Visual Work

We will end at approximately 21.00

Yours sincerely,
AU-WaTeC leadership team Barth F. Smets, Uffe Sognstrup Thomsen, Anders Vest Christiansen, Ciara Kierans, Klaus Koren, Nikolai Friberg, Pedro Carvalho, Anette S. Hansen and Jörg Schullehner.

From Actium to Rome; The Tropaeum at Nicopolis and the Visual Construction of Augustan Victory

Bende Ingvorsen — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0200

Konstantinos Zachos
Emeritus Curator of Antiquities, Greek Ministry of Culture

From Actium to Rome: The Tropaeum at Nicopolis and the Visual Construction of Augustan Victory
The Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis is a monumental and permanent tropaeum erected on the hill where Octavian established his headquarters before the naval battle of Actium in 31 BC. The results of a long-term interdisciplinary research project, recently completed with the publication of its third volume, have brought together archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and art-historical evidence to reconstruct the monument and explore its role in the formation of Augustan political ideology.

Particular attention will be devoted to the monumental altar on the upper terrace and to its sculpted friezes, especially the upper frieze depicting the triumph celebrated by Augustus in Rome in 29 BC following his victory at Actium. The lecture will examine the monuments architecture, dedicatory inscription, sculptural decoration, and the thirty-five sockets that once held the rams of captured ships, exploring how a military victory was transformed into a carefully constructed visual and monumental statement of power.

The monument at Nicopolis offers a unique perspective on the relationship between victory, ritual, and representation at the beginning of the Roman Empire. By examining the visual language of the Actian triumph and its monumental evocation at Nicopolis, the lecture will consider how Augustus transformed the memory of a decisive military victory into an enduring statement of legitimacy, authority, and imperial power.

Teologisk Forening

Rikke Bjørn Jensen — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0200

Kristendommen som religion? v. Anders Klostergaard Petersen og Mikael Stæhr Brorson

Unpublished tombs, work-life-balance, and ungrateful visitors: Harald Ingholts excavation diaries

Vinni Nørskov — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0200

KlikpåHjemmesideidenblåboksovenforforatlæsemereomforedraget.