[Antiquitas] CFP

[Katariina Mustakallio]

Children and Families in the Ancient World
  The Society of Biblical Literature


Call For Papers: Childhood and family historians have but lately  
turned their attention to the information which lies hidden in late  
antique sources. So far their research has led to promising results,  
both from the angle of family and childhood metaphors in early  
Christian discourse and in the field of the social reality of  
families. Thanks to the abundance of the source material, is seems as  
if late antique literary sources constitute an almost inexhaustible  
reservoir of information for very diverse aspects concerning family  
life ? information that even applies to earlier periods. Yet this  
wealth has not been fully explored in scholarly publications which do  
not seldom seem to always contain the same stock of references. Even a  
large amount of writers of the late Republic and the Principate have  
not been studied profoundly in connection with childhood and families.  
The new unit will host one or two sessions that will combine invited  
papers and an open call. We welcome proposals on the full range of  
topics and sources - whether well known or less studied - covered by  
the unit's theme.

2010 International Meeting
Tartu, Estonia

Meeting Begins: 7/25/2010
Meeting Ends: 7/29/2010
Call For Papers Opens: 10/1/2009
Call For Papers Closes: 1/31/2010


See:
http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=16&VolunteerUnitId=520

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Katariina Mustakallio, Director
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
Roma, tel:+39 6880 1674
Mustakallio at irfrome.org