<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Kahlos, Maijastina" <<a href="mailto:maijastina.kahlos@helsinki.fi" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">maijastina.kahlos@helsinki.fi</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, November 2016</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">28 September 2016 at 15:46:43 GMT+2<br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.786666870117188px;" class="">Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages</span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">3.-4-11.2015<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Venue</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" class="">: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24 A, Seminar Room 136, Ground Floor.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span lang="SV" class="">Organisers</span></strong><span lang="SV" class="">: Katja Ritari, William van Andringa, Jan Stenger & Maijastina Kahlos<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Registration</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" class="">: The symposium is open for all, but there is a limited number of seat. Registration is free but required. The deadline to register is October 26.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/being%20pagan/index.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/being%20pagan/index.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Programme:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Thursday 3.11.2016</span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">09:00 Registration and coffee<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">09:30 Opening of the symposium<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">09:45 Session 1<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">William Van Andringa (HCAS):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;" class="">Material Culture and Religious Identity in Fourth Century Gaul: Time of Invisibility<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Eric Rebillard (Cornell University):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Archaeology and Identity: Being Christian, 250-450 CE<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">11:15 Coffee/Tea <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">11:30 Session 2<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge):<i class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Liber pontificalis and the Transformation of Rome from Pagan to Christian City in the Early Middle Ages<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Stefanie Dick (Bonn University):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Christianity and the Development of Frankish Kingship: the Baptism of Clovis</i><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">13:00 Lunch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">14:00 Session 3<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Elva Johnston (University College Dublin):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Converting to Christianity in Fourth and Fifth Century Ireland: A Frontier Phenomenon?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Katja Ritari (HCAS):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Christian Identities and the Memory of the Conversion in Early Medieval Ireland<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">15:30 Coffee/Tea<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">16:00 Session 4<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.2pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Hervé Inglebert (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;" class="">l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Vanishing Identity: the Impossible Definition of Pagans and Paganism in the West (4th-6th Centuries)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 0.2pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">Raimo Hakola (University of Helsinki):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Identities Renegotiated and Contested: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Maijastina Kahlos<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="" class="">(University of Helsinki)</span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Being Pagan and Everyday Nuisances. The Dynamics of Patronage in Late Antiquity</span></i><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">18:15 Reception<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" class=""></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Friday 4.11.2016</span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">10:00 Session 5<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Jan Stenger (University of Glasgow):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Paradise Lost/Regained: Healing the Ascetic Body in the Monastery of Dorotheus of Gaza<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Ine Jacobs (University of Oxford):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Christianity and the Secular… and Other Explanatory Theories</span></i><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 65.2pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">Ilkka Lindstedt (HCAS):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">The Spread of Monotheism in Late Antique Arabia</i><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">12:15 Lunch <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">13:15 Session 6<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-indent: 0.2pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Mark Humphries (Swansea University):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Martyrs, Memories, and Identities in Christian Late Antiquity<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 65.2pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (University of California, Santa Barbara):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Heretics and Collaborators: The Effect of Persecution on Multiple Identities</i><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">14:45 Coffee/Tea</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">15:15 Session 7<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Antti Lampinen (University of St Andrews):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Christianity and Ethnography: ‘Barbarian Sages’ in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 65.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Frédérique Blaizot (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Funerary Practices and Construction of Religious and Social Identities in the South-East of Gaul from the 4th to 10th Centuries</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">16:45 Ending of the symposium<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">19:00 Dinner</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>