[Antiquitas] Emperors and the Divine ensi viikolla: Muistutus ja pieni muutos ohjelmaan

[Maijastina Kahlos]

Hei,

vielä muistutus ensi viikon Emperors and the Divine - symposiumista  
Tutkijakollegiumissa Helsingin yliopistossa! Ohjelmaan on tullut pieni  
muutos (ks. ohjelma alla).

Ilmoittautumisia otetaan vielä vastaan, ilmoittautua voi sähköpostitse  
Kirsi Reyes-Anastaciolle (kirsi.reyes-anastacio at helsinki.fi)

Tervetuloa!

ystävällisin terveisin,
Maijastina Kahlos


Emperors and the Divine – Rome and Its Influence
January 30-31, 2014

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar Room 136 (Ground Floor)

PROGRAMME


Thursday, January 30th

10.00     Opening

10.15     Session 1: Emperors and their divine honours (chair: Eva  
Johanna Holmberg)
William van Andringa: “Honors appropriated to a god: the emperor and  
public religion, Augustus and Constantine”
Javier Arce: “How to become a divus in the Roman Empire"

11.45     Coffee/Tea Break

12.15     Session 2: Imperial policies: emperors and their gods  
(chair: Ville Vuolanto)
Jussi Rantala: “Septimius Severus, Fertility Gods and the Legitimation  
of Power”
Douglas Boin: “Imperial Cult in Fourth-Century Rome and the Memory of  
“Peter” (1 Peter 2.17)”


13.45     Lunch Break

14.45     Session 3: Imperial policies: the peace of gods (pax deorum)  
and its transgressors (chair: Ulla Tervahauta)
Tobias Georges: “Tertullian’s criticism against the emperor’s cult in  
the Apologeticum”
Outi Lehtipuu: “ “For what harm is there in saying, Lord Caesar, and  
sacrificing and saving your life?” Imperial Cult, Martyrdom, and Early  
Christian Identity Formation”

16.15     Coffee/Tea Break

16.45     Session 4: The emperor and the legalities (chair: José  
Filipe Pereira da Silva)
Caroline Humfress: "Ordering divine knowledge in Late Roman Legal Discourse"
Maijastina Kahlos: “The emperor’s New Images – How to Honour the  
Emperor in the Christian Empire?”

18.15     Reception (Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,  
Common Room, 3rd floor)



 
Friday, January 31st

10.15     Session 5: The emperor as the representative of the divine  
(chair: Olli Salomies)
Alan Cameron: “The Emperor as pontifex maximus”
Mar Marcos: “Constantius II as a heretic (or not) in contemporary and  
late historiography”

11.45     Coffee/Tea Break

12.15     Session 6: Imperial cult and the provinces (chair: Darin Stephanov)
Janneke de Jong: “Emperors meet gods: divine discourse in Greek papyri  
from Roman Egypt”
Mika Kajava: "Emperors in the Greek East: Some Divine Epithets"

13.45     Lunch Break

14.45     Session 7: The divine emperor in literature (panegyric,  
criticism) (chair: Marja-Leena Hänninen)
Chiara Tommasi Moreschini: "Coping with ancient gods, celebrating  
Christian emperors: multiple strategies in late antique panegyrics"
Sari Kivistö: “Satirical apotheosis in Seneca and beyond”

16.15     Final discussion and closure of the symposium


-- 
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