[Antiquitas] 30.-31.1. HCAS symposium "Emperor and the Divine"

[Maijastina Kahlos]

HCAS symposium “Emperor and the Divine –Rome and Its Influence”


Time: 30-31 January 2014

Venue: Seminar Room 136, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
Fabianinkatu 24, Helsinki



The symposium is free for all but pre-registration is required. All the
relevant information, including symposium programme and a link to the
registration form can be found at the symposium’s web page at:
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/emperor-and-the-divine/index.html



In the course of history, the divine sphere has often been harnessed to
serve the needs of political leaders. Political power has frequently been
legitimized as authorized of the divine forces. In pre-modern societies, and
especially in the Roman Empire, phenomena that we call religion and politics
were closely intertwined, indeed inseparable. This can be perceived at its
clearest in the relationship of the Roman emperors to the divine – in their
support of different divinities, in their role as the mediators between the
divine and humankind, and in their religious policies. The closeness to the
divine was a way of legitimization of imperial power.



The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scholars from different
disciplines to discuss the mutual problems of the research of Roman emperors
– that is, scholars of history, classics, comparative literature,
archaeology, comparative religion, Biblical studies, church history and
Roman law. The symposium aims at connecting scholars working on the earlier
imperial period and late antiquity, research fields that often tend to
remain as separate.



The symposium will combine the scholarly discussions on the emperors as the
protégés of particular gods, the emperors as the representatives of the
divine sphere and even as (more or less) divine beings themselves. One of
the aims of the symposium is to discuss the phenomenon of emperors and the
divine in a wide-ranging perspective, also bringing Christian material into
the larger context of the Roman Empire.






-- 
Maijastina Kahlos
Research fellow, PhD, Docent (adjunct professor) of Latin language and  
Roman literature
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24 (P.O. Box 4)
University of Helsinki
maijastina.kahlos at helsinki.fi
http://www.maijastinakahlos.net/b/
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/staff/Kahlos/kahlos.htm

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