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Martijn Icks is a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam, with research focusing on the Roman Empire, particularly late antiquity. His interests extend to the ancient world and cover topics such as the representation and perception of imperial power, Roman art and coinage, imperial rituals, and gender reception studies. Icks is particularly interested in the phenomenon of character assassination as a historical and cross-cultural occurrence. He obtained his PhD cum laude from the University of Nijmegen in 2008 and published his doctoral thesis, 'Crimes of Elagabalus: Life and Legacy of Rome’s Decadent Boy Emperor', in 2011. As a Marie Curie Fellow, he led the project 'Making and Unmaking the Emperor' at the University of Heidelberg from 2009 to 2011, focusing on the defamation of Roman emperors through negative interpretations in ancient texts. His subsequent experience includes being a research fellow at the University of Düsseldorf (2011-2014) and a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast (2014-2016) before returning to Amsterdam. Currently, his research project investigates the visibility and invisibility of Roman imperial power. Icks is a founding member of CARP, a lab for Character Assassination and Reputation Politics at George Mason University, Virginia.
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