[Antiquitas] XXI Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity in Tvärminne

[Ulla Tervahauta]

Myöhäisantiikin tutkimuksen 21. suomalainen kokoontuminen järjestetään  
12.-13. lokakuuta 2012. Tänä vuonna vuorossa on kansainvälinen,  
englanninkielinen symposiumi, jonne on vielä muutama paikka vapaana.  
Ohjelma alla ja liitteenä,  ilmoittautumiset allekirjoittaneelle -  
tervetuloa mukaan!

Popular & Elite: Religious Practices in Late Antiquity

The XXI Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity takes place on October  
12-13, 2012. This year, we explore the interaction between popular and  
elite religious practices in Late Antiquity; please, refer to the  
programme attached.

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 (http://luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi/english). It  
is organized by Classical Philology (Department of World Cultures,  
University of Helsinki) together with an interdisciplinary organizing  
committee (see below).

The seminar is free. We offer 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  
travelling to Helsinki first, or accommodation there.

In order to registrate as a participant for the seminar, please send  
an email to Ulla Tervahauta, ulla.tervahauta(at)helsinki.fi. Upon  
applying for participation, you are kindly asked to update your  
contact information and to inform us about food allergies and special  
diets etc. Please mention also, if you do NOT need the coach  
transportation from Helsinki. There are places for a few participants  
left.

Welcome!

Maijastina Kahlos (Classics, University of Helsinki)
Ulla Tervahauta (Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki)
Ville Vuolanto (History, University of Tampere)

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Järjestelytoimikunnan puolesta
Ulla Tervahauta


FRIDAY  12 OCTOBER

  9.00 Departure by coach from Helsinki

11.00 Arrival and accommodation
12.00 Lunch

12.45 Opening of the Symposium

13.00 Friday session I (Reading the Word, Reading the Picture)
- Guy Stroumsa: Reading practices in early Christianity and the  
individualization process
- Roald Dijkstra: Paulinus of Nola: Intermediary between the Elite and  
the Common Man
- Cillian O’Hogan: Elite perspectives on popular religious practices  
in fourth- and fifth-century Latin poetry

14.45 Coffee

15.15 Friday session II: (Religious Practices: Magic, Touch,  
Purification, Dreams)
- Iain Gardner and Jay Johnston:  Prolegomena to considering the  
function of images in magical papyri and artefacts of ritual power  
from Late Antiquity
- Béatrice Caseau: Touching the Sacred: the privileges of the elite?
- Jesse Keskiaho: Prognostication from dreams from Late Antiquity to  
the early Middle Ages

17.00 Sauna/Men
18.30 Sauna/Women
20.00 Dinner

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER

08.00 Breakfast

09.15 Saturday session I: (Reinterpretations: Instruction and Cult)
- Reidar Aasgaard: “Childhoods A.D. 400: Three saints on Christian upbringing”
- Fiona Kao: "For one must in dealing with insensate folk be as  
audacious as a hawk": Wealth and lineage in Late Antique female  
hagiography

- Rick Bonnie: Recycling of sculptural imagery in Late Antique  
Galilee. An archaeological reflection on their contemporary message  
and original meaning.
- Raimo Hakola: Kinneret Regional Project Excavations at Horvat Kur,  
Galilee, season 2012

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Saturday session II: (Late Late Antiquity and the Rise of Islam)

- Sarah Stroumsa: Mass education and elite formation: the Almohad version
- Anthony Lappin: The Martyrs of Córdoba: popular and elite religion  
in a multi-faith environment
- Anna-Liisa Tolonen: Feasting at the Monastery of Ashmuni – Popular  
approaches to the Christian cult

14.45 Coffee

15.15 Departure
c. 17.15 Arrival in Helsinki


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Ulla Tervahauta
Amanuenssi

Eksegetiikan osasto
Teologinen tiedekunta
PL 33, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto
Puh. 09-191 23850

Biblical Studies
Faculty of Theology
P.O.Box 33 (Aleksanterinkatu 7)
Fin-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel. +358-9-191 23850
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