ERC Stone-Masters Project

ERC Stone Masters Project is pleased to announce that Marina Masteo will participate in the international conference “Hors de l’atelier. L’artisan acteur des sociétés prémodernes”, organized by Université Laval in Quebec, Canada.

The conference will take place on March 26–27, and she will be taking part online, presenting the paper:

👉 Shaping Memory in Stone: Artisans, Comissioners, and the Making of Late Antique Sarcophagi in Pannonia Inferior.

This event brings together specialists working on the role of artisans in premodern societies, offering a valuable opportunity for scholarly exchange.

We are delighted to announce that Marina Bastero Acha has been awarded a five-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Basque Government. This fellowship will enable her to lead her own research project: “Artisans, Workshops, and Commissioners: The Epigraphic Trade in Roman Hispania”, which she will conduct between the University of Warsaw and the University of the Basque Country.

Marina will also remain formally affiliated with the ERC Stone Masters project, continuing her collaboration as her research aligns with our study of how changes in elite approaches to epigraphy were disseminated by the workshops of stonecutters and mosaicists during Late Antiquity.