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I am Roman historian and literary scholar working on the historiography of the late republican and early imperial periods. I am especially interested in the fall of the republic (and rise of the Empire), the Augustan Age, imperial ideology, and the literary aspects of ancient historiography. I also dabble in metaphor theory, Foucault and Agamben, futurity and alternative pasts, and theories of translation. My main speciality is the historian Tacitus, on whose Annals I wrote my PhD thesis, but I have also published on Virgil and Sallust.
I did my undergraduate degree at Oslo University (classical studies) and my PhD at Lund University (Latin). Since graduating in 2018, I have spent six months at the Swedish Institute in Rome and two and a half years at Bristol University, where I worked on a project on Peace and Power in the Roman Empire. My main research outputs, besides the thesis on Tacitus, include an edited volume on Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 18 entries for the forthcoming Tacitus Encylopedia, and articles on the lack of mercy in Virgil’s Aeneid, on the language of freedom and slavery in Tacitus’ Agricola, and on alternative futures in Tacitus’ Annals 1-2, as well as a forthcoming article on Sallust’s philosophy of history in The Cambridge Companion to Sallust.
My current project here at Aalborg explores whether one-man rule was perceived as inevitable by Roman historians of the early Roman Empire (31 BCE – CE 117). While imperial ideology, for sure, promoted the idea that one-man rule was the only alternative, there were other voices, too, other historians. Their works, however, have not been read with the approach required to grasp how alternatives to autocracy - i.e. alternatives to the course of events that came to pass - may be activated in historical texts, especially those written under the watchful eye of an emperor. Inspired by recent work on the use of literary devices that activate so-called "futures past", I will explore how alternatives to autocracy are activated (or shut down) in historical texts from the early Empire.
Ekspertise relateret til FN’s Verdensmål
I 2015 blev FN's medlemslande enige om 17 Verdensmål til at bekæmpe fattigdom, beskytte planeten og sikre velstand for alle. Denne persons arbejde bidrager til følgende verdensmål:
Uddannelse (Akademiske kvalifikationer)
Latin, Phd, Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annals , Lund University
1 sep. 2013 → 18 maj 2018
Dimissionsdato: 18 maj 2018
Eksterne ansættelser
Postdoc, University of Bristol
1 feb. 2019 → 31 aug. 2021
Emneord
- Historie
- Oldtidskundskap
- Latin
- Historiografi
- Filologi
- Romersk historie
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Samarbejde i de sidste fem år
Projekter
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EWA: Empire without Alternative? Autocratic Power and Inevitability in the early Roman Empire
Poulsen, A. D., Lange, C. H., Ash, R., Russell, A., O’Gorman, E., Brännstedt, L., Cornwell, H., Lowrie, M., Martino, C., Sakstrup, C., Dukalsksis, A., Gerschewski, J., Blackburn, M., Møller, J., Madsen, J. M., Lamers, H., Fiorentini, M., Havener, W., Meret, S., Thein, A., Chomse, S., Tuncer-Ebetürk , I. & Sika, N.
01/09/2021 → 30/06/2024
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The Language of Autocracy: Ancient and Modern
Lange, C. H. (red.) & Poulsen, A. D. (red.), 2024, (Under udarbejdelse)Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Antologi › Forskning › peer review
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“Ampsivarii”
Poulsen, A. D., apr. 2023, (Accepteret/In press) The Tacitus Encyclopedia . Pagán, E. V. (red.). Wiley-BlackwellPublikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/konference proceeding › Encyclopædiartikel › Forskning › peer review
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“Boiocalus”
Poulsen, A. D., apr. 2023, (Accepteret/In press) The Tacitus Encyclopedia, ed. by V.E. Pagán . Wiley-BlackwellPublikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/konference proceeding › Encyclopædiartikel › Forskning › peer review
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“Caratacus”
Poulsen, A. D., apr. 2023, (Accepteret/In press) The Tacitus Encyclopedia, ed. by V.E. Pagán. Wiley-BlackwellPublikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/konference proceeding › Encyclopædiartikel › Forskning › peer review
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“Cimbri”
Poulsen, A. D., apr. 2023, (Accepteret/In press) The Tacitus Encyclopedia, ed. by E.V. Pagán . Wiley-BlackwellPublikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/konference proceeding › Encyclopædiartikel › Forskning › peer review
Priser
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Westrupska priset
Poulsen, Aske Damtoft (Modtager), 2019
Pris: Forsknings- uddannelses og innovationspriser
Aktiviteter
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The Language of Autocracy: Ancient and Modern (Aske Damtoft Poulsen & Carsten Hjort Lange)
Carsten Hjort Lange (Arrangør) & Aske Damtoft Poulsen (Arrangør)
9 jun. 2023 → 10 jun. 2023Aktivitet: Deltagelse i faglig begivenhed › Organisering af eller deltagelse i konference
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Fra Nero til Putin: Sådan slipper aspirerende diktatorer af sted med tyranni
Aske Damtoft Poulsen (Foredragsholder)
25 apr. 2022 → 28 apr. 2022Aktivitet: Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag › Foredrag og præsentationer i privat eller offentlig virksomhed
Presse/medier
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Debat: Underskrivere på indlægget
Anne Bach, Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Hjalte Emil Juliussen, Kresta Sørensen, Lars Jørgensen, Maria Quvang Harck Vestergaard, Thomas Christiansen, Torben Juulsager & Astrid Faaborg Jacobsen
24/02/2023
3 Mediebidrag
Presse/medie