[Antiquitas] XIX Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity, Tvärminne 15-16 October, 2010

[Riku Partanen]

  Hei kaikki myöhäisantiikin harrastajat!

  Tvärminnen myöhäisantiikin seminaariin 15.-16.10.2010 on vielä pari  
paikkaa vapaana. Mikäli olet sitten viime tiedotteen innostunut  
osallistumaan, mutta luullut seminaarin olevan jo täynnä, ehdit tällä  
viikolla yhä ilmoittautua.

  Otan ilmoittautumisia vastaan perjantain 8.10. puolipäivään (klo 12.00) asti.

  Seminaarimaksu: 50 euroa / 25 euroa jatko-opiskelijoille tai opiskelijoille.

  Syysterveisin,

  konferenssisihteeri
  Riku Partanen
  riku.partanen at helsinki.fi
  050-5257793

  Seminaarin ohjelma (perjantai-iltana myös sauna ja iltaruoka,  
kuljetus ja majoitus Tvärminneessä kuuluvat hintaan):

  FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER

  9.00 Departure by coach from Helsinki

  11.00 Arrival and accommodation
  11.30 Lunch

  12.30 Opening of the Symposium

  12.45 Friday session I: Family
  - Kate Cooper (Liverpool): The Transformation of the Roman Household  
at the End of Antiquity
  - Christian Laes (Bryssel/Antwerp): Disabled Children in the Ancient  
World. Disability History and Late Antiquity Narrative
  - Mariachiara Giorda (Torino): Retelling the Family: Blood Ties in  
Ancient Monasticism (IV-VI centuries)

  14.30 Coffee break

  15.15 Friday session II: Living Conditions
  - Chris Wickham (Oxford): Rural realities: Spain and Sicily around 600
  - Kalle Korhonen (Helsinki) Did the Fifth-Century Bishops of Rome  
Have a Language Policy? The Case of Paschasinus, Bishop of Marsala
  - Margherita Carucci (Helsinki) Domestic Life in the Vandal Carthage
  - Zbigniew T. Fiema (Helsinki) Rome Beyond the Frontiers: the  
Excavations at Mada'in Salih (ancient Hegra) in the Saudi Arabian Hijaz

  SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER

  08.00 Breakfast (by 9.30 check out from the rooms)

  09.30 Saturday session Ia : Religious Life
  - Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham): Embedding Sacred Images in Everyday Life:
Representation and Transformation of Culture in Byzantium
  - Risto Auvinen (Helsinki) The Jewish Revolt of Egypt in 115-117 and  
the Rise of Egyptian Christianity
  - Rita Lizzi (Perugia): The origin and the development of defensor ecclesiae
  - Raimo Hakola (Helsinki): An Ancient Synagogue Revealed? The  
Excavations at Horvat Kur, Galilee, in the Summer 2010.

  12.00 Lunch

  13.00 Saturday session II : Philosophy and Literature
  - Christophe Erismann (Helsinki) New Ways of Doing Philosophy in  
Late Antiquity
  - Katarina Petrovicova (Brno) Seven Arts - Seven Maidens.  
Popularization of the Cycle of Liberal Arts in De Nuptis Philologiae  
et Mercurii by Martinus Capella
  - Closing words and feedback

  14.30 Coffee

  15.00 Departure
  c. 17.00 Arrival in Helsinki