Véronique Dasen (born 1957) is a Swiss archaeologist and Professor in Classical Archaeology and Art History at the

University of Fribourg The University of Fribourg (; ) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland. The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisius founded the Collège Saint-Michel in the City of Fribourg ...

. Her research is led in a multidisciplinary and anthropological perspective. Her research interests range from ancient iconography and material culture, the history of the body, of medicine and magical practices to gender studies, history of childhood, and ludic culture (games and divination, games and love, passage rites).

Career

Dasen received her PhD in 1989 from the

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with a thesis titled "Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece", which she published as a monograph in 1993. Since 2008, she has worked as the Professor in Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Fribourg. She was the fifth woman to receive her habilitation from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Fribourg in 2000. In 2016, she gave a series of lectures at the

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on 'Magic, divination, and the history of the body'. In 2017, she was a visiting lecturer at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Also in 2017 she was involved in the successful funding application to the

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for a €2.4million grant for a five-year project titled ' Locus Ludi: The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity'. Dasen is the chair of the panel 'SHS-4 Social sciences and humanities' for the

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) (Dutch: ''Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek'' (NFWO), French: ''Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique'' (FNRS)) was once a government institution in Belgium for supporting scienti ...

Publications

*2018. "Amulets, the Body and Personal Agency", in Parker, A. and McKie, S. (eds) ''Material Approaches to Roman Magic: Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances'' (TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology 2). Oxford, Oxbow. *2015. "Probaskania: Amulets and Magic in Antiquity", in Boschung, D. and Bremmer, J. ''The Materiality of Magic'' (Mophomata 20). Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink. *2015. ''Le sourire d'Omphale. Maternité et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité. Rennes. *2014. With Spieser, J-M., ''Les savoirs magiques et leur transmission de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance''. Florence *2010. With Späth, T. ''Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture''. Oxford 2010. *2008. With King, H. ''La médecine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine''. Lausanne *2005. ''Jumeaux, jumelles dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine''. Kilchberg. *1993. ''Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece'' (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology). Oxford, Clarendon Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dasen, Véronique Living people 1957 births Women classical scholars Academic staff of the University of Fribourg Alumni of the University of Oxford Swiss archaeologists Swiss classical scholars European Research Council grantees Swiss women archaeologists