[Antiquitas] Third CEMS International Graduate Conference

[Maijastina Kahlos]

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Maijastina Kahlos

TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION: DISSENT AND CONSENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

Third CEMS International Graduate Conference

Budapest, May 31–June 1, 2013

The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at Central  
European University, and its junior members are proud to announce the  
forthcoming third International Graduate Conference on “Tradition and  
Transformation: Dissent and Consent in the Mediterranean,” Budapest,  
May 31–June 1, 2013. This two–day conference intends to explore a  
broad spectrum of aspects regarding the appropriation and  
transformation of cultural and religious traditions that informed the  
spiritual and intellectual struggles and changes in the Mediterranean  
from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Taking into account  
the dynamic sociohistorical setting of religious and cultural  
processes, it seeks to approach the manner in which the permanently  
competing communities questioned, structured and performed their own  
beliefs and religious practices by disclosing heresies and shaping  
their orthodoxies.

The vast dimensions of the intellectual and religious concord and  
strife between, but also within, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,  
which shaped their traditions and unveiled their dissenting  
interpretations, commend a persistent and multifaceted  
interdisciplinary research. Graduate students of Late Antique,  
Islamic, Jewish, Byzantine, Western Medieval, Ottoman studies as well  
as students in the field of philosophy, theology, history of religion,  
sociology of religion, anthropology, etc., are invited to present  
their research on particular themes that reflect and address the  
complex formation and development of cultural, intellectual and  
religious identities in the Mediterranean.

Please submit by March 25, 2013 a short abstract (300 words or less)  
together with a paragraph about your affiliation and academic/research  
interests, using the abstract submission form. For further information  
please contact the organizers at cemsconference at ceu.hu.



Possible topics for papers might include, but are not limited to:

• Hellenic paideia and philosophy

• Late Antique monotheisms

• ‘Pagan,’ Christian, Jewish, Muslim controversies and polemics

• “authoritative” authors/texts, exegesis and the (re)writing of the past

• tensions between Word and Image and transformations of religious identity

• oral traditions as agents of dissent/consent

• religious persecution and martyrdom, strategies of resistance and dissent

• political power and religious debates

• witchcraft and magic

• networks and the diffusion of orthodoxies/heresies

• religious dissent and gender

• warfare and religion: bellum iustum and bellum sacrum

• the making and unmaking of elites in the changing religious landscape

• comparative and theoretical approaches to concepts of ‘heresy,’  
‘heterodoxy’ and ‘orthodoxy’



The conference committee aims at publishing a selection of  
interrelated papers, chosen both by quality and relevance to the theme  
of the conference, in one of the forthcoming issues of CEU Late  
Antique, Byzantine and Ottoman Studies series published by CEU Press.



Plenary speakers

• Albrecht Berger (Ludwig Maximilians University)

• Philip Wood (Aga Khan University, London)



Accommodation and Travel Grants

Accommodation for the participants will be provided at the CEU  
Residence Center. To encourage participation from a wide range of  
individuals and institutions, a small number of travel grants will be  
available to assist in partially covering travel expenses for  
participants with limited institutional support. Those who wish to be  
considered should include an additional justification in the relevant  
section of the abstract submission form.



Sponsors:

• CEU Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

• CEU Center for Religious Studies


-- 
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