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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-variant:small-caps">Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-variant:small-caps">XXV Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-variant:small-caps">Seafaring, Mobility and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (ca. 150-700 CE)</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-variant:small-caps"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Tvärminne, 26.-27.10.2018</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The 25<sup>th</sup> multidisciplinary
<i>Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity </i>will be organized on 26-27 October 2018. The symposium will bring together scholars and postgraduate students with an interest in Late Antiquity from a variety of universities and disciplines (philology, archaeology,
history, theology, religious studies, art history etc.). The theme of this year’s symposium is Seafaring, Mobility, and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (<i>ca.
</i>150-700 CE), which will be approached from a wide perspective, including social, economic, cultural, religious, ideological, and literary aspects; the symposium will be divided into thematic sessions broadly structured around archaeological, literary, and
historical frames of inquiry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The symposium is organized by Raimo Hakola (raimo.hakola@helsinki.fi), Antti Lampinen (antti.lampinen@helsinki.fi) and Ville Vuolanto (ville.vuolanto@staff.uta.fi)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">
and funded by the following research projects: <i>Reason and Religious Recognition</i> (The Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki; headed by Risto Saarinen); S<i>egregated or Integrated? – Living and Dying in
the Harbour City of Ostia, 300 BCE – 700 CE </i>(The Academy of Finland research project, University of Tampere; headed by Arja Karivieri</span><span lang="EN-GB">);
<i>Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">(</span><span lang="EN-US">European Research Council, Consolidator Grant, Kaius Tuori).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There are three invited keynote lectures in the symposium:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Professor Greg Woolf, director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Changes in Traffic Volume across Mediterranean Maritime Networks in the first millennium CE.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Professor Rebecca Sweetman, University of St Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Communication, Complexity and Christianization in the Aegean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Professor Arja Karivieri, director of the <i>Institutum Romanum Finlandiae</i>, Rome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">The Ways to Control Mobility in Ostia and Portus<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">We welcome papers discussing Late Antique seafaring, mobility, and the Mediterranean from any viewpoints, but encourage especially the following themes:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">Networks of Communication and Commodification in the Late Antique Mediterranean</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">Sea as a Metaphor in Late Ancient Literature</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">The Mediterranean as</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"> ‘Mare Nostrum’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">Please send a short abstract of 250–300 words),
<b>by 7<sup>th</sup> of May 2018 </b>to Dr Ville Vuolanto: ville.vuolanto(at)uta.fi. Applicants will be informed
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">by the beginning of June 2018 at the latest</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%"> whether they have been accepted. We have reserved 20 minutes for each presentation,
plus 10 minutes for discussion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%">The symposium will be organized at the zoological research station of the University of Helsinki at Tvärminne, on the southern coast of Finland (<a href="http://luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi/english">http://luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi/english</a>)
– a suitably maritime venue. The symposium will have a participation fee (20€ from students, 60€ from others), which will include accommodation (one night) at the symposium venue, as well as meals for two days. We offer transportation from Helsinki to Tvärminne
and the return journey. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black">Registration for the symposium starts on 20 August and closes on 28 September 2018</span><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please distribute further to potentially interested people. Follow also our facebook page:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/417708365336719/">https://www.facebook.com/events/417708365336719/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Ville Vuolanto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">PhD, Lecturer in History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Faculty of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">University of Tampere, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/contact/personnel/villevuolanto/index.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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