[Antiquitas] CFP: XXIII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity, Tvärminne, Finland, 17–18 October 2014

Mon Apr 7 12:19:16 EEST 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

XXIII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity
  “Conflict in Late Antiquity”
Tvärminne, Finland, 17–18 October 2014

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The XXIII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity will be organized on  
17–18 October 2014. The aim of the symposium is to bring together  
scholars and postgraduate students with an interest in Late Antiquity  
from a variety of universities and disciplines. Our main aim is to  
stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue between philology, archaeology,  
history, theology, religious studies, art history and other  
disciplines that deal with Late Antiquity.

The theme of the symposium in 2014 is “Conflict in Late Antiquity”. It  
will be approached from a wide perspective, including different types  
and levels of conflict and attempts at solving them. Conflict can be  
discussed from the from the point of view of politics and competition  
for power, ethnic conflicts, conflicts between different areas and  
peoples of the empire, cultural and religious conflicts between and  
within traditions, doctrinal conflict, interpretation and portrayal of  
conflict in literature and art, personal conflicts, and conflicts  
versus everyday life. We welcome papers that discuss scholarly  
approaches to late antiquity, why the sources and scholarship focus so  
emphatically on conflict, and what other perspectives can be applied  
instead.

This year’s symposium features the following invited speakers:

Hagith Sivan (Department of History, University of Kansas). Prof.  
Sivan is specialist in Roman history, Late Antiquity, study of women  
in Antiquity as well as the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history and early  
Christianity. She has written/edited six books: Ausonius of Bordeaux:  
Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy (1993); Shifting Frontiers in Late  
Antiquity (1996, co-edited); Dinah's Daughters. Gender and Judaism  
from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity (2002); 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). She has written articles on topics ranging from the Roman army  
in late ancient Spain to Christian ascetic females, and from the  
Visigothic kings of Toulouse to Jewish childhood and to meandering  
monk Barsauma.

Petri Luomanen (Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki). Prof.  
Luomanen has studied Jewish-Christians - i.e. Christians who embraced  
Christian faith but kept their Jewish way of life - and hostility  
expressed against them by both Christians and other Jews. He has  
employed social-scientific and cognitive approaches in his works. His  
publications include Recovering Jewish-Christian Sects and Gospels  
(2012), Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism: Contributions  
from Cognitive and Social Science (2007, editor with Ilkka Pyysiäinen  
and Risto Uro), and A Companion to Second-Century Christian ‘Heretics’  
(2005, 2008 editor with Antti Marjanen).

Lucy Grig (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of  
Edinburgh). Dr. Grig is specialist in cultural history in Late  
Antiquity, including literary and material culture with particular  
interest in religious history and popular culture. She has published  
Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity (2004) and co-edited (with Gavin  
Kelly) Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (2012).

Antti Lampinen (Classics, University of Turku). Dr. Lampinen is  
specialist in Greco-Roman ethnographical writing. He finished his  
doctoral dissertation, Istae contra omnium religiones. Characterizing  
Northern Barbarian Religiosity in the Graeco-Roman Literary Tradition  
from Hellenism to the Later Empire in 2013.

There is space for a maximum of nine more papers. If you wish to  
deliver a paper, please send a short abstract (maximum length 300  
words) by 1 June 2014 to Dr. Ville Vuolanto: ville.vuolanto(at)uta.fi.  
We encourage not only senior, but also junior scholars and  
postgraduate students to participate.

Applicants will be informed by 19 June 2014 whether they have been  
accepted. We have reserved 30 minutes for each presentation including  
discussion, wherefore we recommend limiting the papers to 20 minutes.

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 an  
interdisciplinary organizing committee under the auspices of the  
center of excellence “Reason and Religious Recognition” in the Faculty  
of Theology, University of Helsinki, together with Department of World  
Cultures, University of Helsinki.

The seminar is free. We will offer transportation from Helsinki to  
Tvärminne and the return journey, as well as accommodation (one night)  
and meals in Tvärminne. However, we are not able to cover any travel  
costs to or accommodation in Helsinki. Registration for the conference  
will start 1 September and close on 30 September 2014.

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

The Symposium website:
http://www.helsinki.fi/worldcultures/fsla/index.html

-- 
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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