Dr. Vladimir Ivanovici

Biography

Vladimir Ivanovici studied ancient history and archaeology at the University of Bucharest and the Freie Universität Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in ancient history from the University of Bucharest in 2011, with a thesis on early Christian martyrs as living images of Christ. In 2014, he earned a doctoral degree in art history from the Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, focusing his research on the theophanic dimension of Late Ancient Christian architecture in the upper-Adriatic area. His work explores the manners in which the divine manifested during Late Antiquity, emphasizing the significance of the living body as a theophanic medium. Ivanovici's research intersects with cultic architecture, art, and anthropological perspectives on religions, with a goal to identify the artifices utilized for divine materialization in that period. From 2015 to 2017, he developed a research project at the Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, examining self-display techniques in late antique Rome. He was a Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. in 2019, part of Harvard University, and in 2021, he served as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna, focusing on the ritual use of emotions during annual martyr celebrations in the late antique period.

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