[Antiquitas] Call for papers ja ennakkotieto: Tvärminnen myöhäisantiikin seminaari 15.-16.10.2010

[Ville Vuolanto]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Fall and Rise of the Roman World c. 200--700 CE*
XIX Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity**
Tvärminne, Finland, 15-16 October, 2010

The XIX Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity will be organized on October 
15-16, 2010. The aim of the symposium is to bring together students and 
scholars with an interest in Late Antiquity from a variety of 
universities and disciplines. This year, we explore the aspects of 
depression, recovery and renaissance related to the every-day life, but 
suggestions for papers dealing with other topics will also be 
considered. Our main aim is to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue 
between philology, archaeology, history, theology and other disciplines 
that deal with Late Antiquity. Geographically, the focus of the 
symposium is on the Mediterranean world.

This year's symposium features three specially invited speakers:

-          Kate Cooper (Manchester): The transformation of the Roman 
Household at the end of antiquity

-          Chris Wickham (Oxford): Rural realities: Spain and Sicily 
around 600

-          Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham): Embedding sacred images in 
everyday life: representation and transformation of culture in Byzantium

There is space for a maximum of eight more papers. If you wish to 
deliver a paper, please send a short abstract  (of less than 300 words) 
*by June 15^th , *to Dr. Ville Vuolanto (ville.vuolanto at uta.fi). 
Applicants will be informed by July whether they have been accepted. We 
have reserved 30 minutes for each presentation, including discussion 
following the paper. Therefore, we recommend limiting the papers to 15 
minutes. For each paper, we aim at finding a commentator for a first 
response of about 5 minutes.

The symposium will be organized in the premises of a zoological research 
station operated by the University of Helsinki at a beautiful location 
at Tvärminne on the southern coast of Finland 
(http://luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi/english). Its organizers are the 
Department of World Cultures of the University of Helsinki together with 
an interdisciplinary organizing committee (see below). The seminar fee 
of 50 euros will cover transportation from Helsinki to Tvärminne and 
back, as well as accommodation, meals, coffee and sauna at Tvärminne. 
However, we are not able to cover the costs for traveling to Helsinki 
first, or accommodation there. Especially for the PhD students it is 
possible to apply for a reduced conference fee of 25 EUR. Registration 
for the conference will start August 30^th .

The Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity is organized annually since 
1992. It started as a Finnish-language seminar for postgraduate 
students. However, over the years, more and more papers were presented 
by established scholars. Moreover, in many years, a few well-known 
scholars were invited from abroad, and the language of the symposium was 
changed to English, thus making it more and more international. This 
year, for the second time, we do not only have a few specially invited 
guests from abroad, but we invite suggestions for papers from anyone who 
is interested. In keeping with the symposium's traditions, we encourage 
not only senior, but also junior scholars and postgraduate students to 
participate.

(Please, feel free to forward this message to any relevant forum.)


On behalf of the organizing committee,

Maijastina Kahlos, PhD, Classical philology, University of Helsinki
Ville Vuolanto, PhD, History, University of Tampere
Päivi Vähäkangas, MA, Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki,



Ville Vuolanto

PhD.,  Lecturer
Depatment of History and Philosophy
33014 University of Tampere
Finland

tel. +358 -3-3551 6535
fax. +358-3-3551 6980
ville.vuolanto at uta.fi <mailto:ville.vuolanto at uta.fi>
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