[Antiquitas] Muistutus: Call for papers: XXII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity

[Maijastina Kahlos]

Call for Papers 2013

XXII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity
Tvärminne, Finland, November, 8-9, 2013
“Spaces – Past and Present”

The XXII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity will be organized on  
November, 8-9, 2013. 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 broadly  
spaces in Late Antiquity 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, art history and other disciplines that deal with Late  
Antiquity. http://www.helsinki.fi/worldcultures/fsla/index.html

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). It is organized by  
Classics (Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki)  
together with an interdisciplinary organizing committee (see below).

The theme of the symposium this year is “Spaces – Past and Present”.  
This theme includes the analysis of spaces in late antiquity such  
experience of space; re-use and interpretation of spatial experience;  
conceptualization of space; imperial presence and border-areas;  
movement and migration; as well as religious and liturgical place.

This year’s symposium features five specially invited speakers:

Juliette Day (Church History, University of Helsinki). Dr Day is  
university lecturer in Church history and the specialist on the Late  
Antiquity and early Christianity, especially early Christian liturgy.  
She has published e.g., The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem: 4th and  
5th Century Evidence in Jerusalem, Egypt and Syria (2007) and Proclus  
on Initiation in Constantinople (2005).

Zbigniew Fiema (Humboldt Universität, Berlin). Dr Fiema is specialist  
in late antique archaeology and the late antique Near Eastern region.  
He is currently visiting professor in the Winckelmann Institut at the  
Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He has led the excavations of Jabal  
Harun as the research director in the Academy of Finland Centre of  
Excellence “Ancient and Greek Documents, Archives and Libraries” and  
has e.g., coedited Petra - the mountain of Aaron: The Finnish  
archaeological project in Jordan. The church and the chapel (with  
Jaakko Frösen, 2008)

Claudia Rapp (Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Universität  
Wien). Prof. Rapp is the specialist on cultural and social history of  
Late Antiquity and early Byzantine period. She has published, e.g.,  
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in  
a Time of Transition (2005) and coedited the volumes Bosphorus. Essays  
in Honour of Cyril Mango (1995), Elites in Late Antiquity (2000) and  
Violence in Late Antiquity. Perceptions and Practices (2006).

Hagith Sivan (Department of History, University of Kansas). Prof.  
Sivan is specialist in Roman history, early Christianity, Late  
Antiquity, Jewish history and the study of women in Antiquity. She has  
published e.g., Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy  
(1993); Between Woman, Man and God: A New Interpretation of the Ten  
Commandments (2004); Palestine in Late Antiquity (2008) and Galla  
Placidia. The Last Roman Empress (2011).

Jürgen Zangenberg (Religious Studies / Archaeology, University of  
Leiden). Since 2006 prof. Zangenberg is chair New Testament and Early  
Christian Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and professor at the  
Faculty of Archaeology. He is especially interested in the cultural  
context of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Apart  
from textual studies, he specialises in the archaeology of Qumran,  
ancient Judaism, particularly in Galilee and Samaria. He has lastly  
co-edited Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee. A  
Region in Transition (with Harold Attridge & Dale B. Martin, 2006). He  
is co-director of the Kinneret Regional Project archaeological  
excavations at Horvat Kur, Galilee.

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 May 31, 2013 to Dr. Ville Vuolanto (ville.vuolanto(at)uta.fi).  
Applicants will be informed by June 19, 2013 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 20 minutes.

The seminar is free. We will 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. Registration for  
the conference will start September 20, 2013.

The organizing committee
Maijastina Kahlos, PhD, Classics / Helsinki Collegium for Advanced  
Studies, University of Helsinki maijastina.kahlos(at)helsinki.fi
Ulla Tervahauta ThD, Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki  
ulla.tervahauta(at)helsinki.fi
Ville Vuolanto, PhD, History, University of Tampere / University of  
Oslo ville.vuolanto(at)uta.fi


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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