[Antiquitas] Fwd: Muistutus keskiviikon seminaarista / Reminder Constructing Identities in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages on Wednesday

[Isto Huvila]

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> From: "Kahlos, Maijastina" <maijastina.kahlos at helsinki.fi <mailto:maijastina.kahlos at helsinki.fi>>
> Subject: Muistutus keskiviikon seminaarista / Reminder Constructing Identities in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages on Wednesday
> Date: 29 February 2016 at 10:23:39 GMT+1
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> Constructing Identities in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
>  
> Date: Wednesday March 2, 2016 9:00-15:00
> Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, room 136 (Fabianinkatu 24)
> Organisers: Maijastina Kahlos, Katja Ritari & Jan Stenger
>  
> This one-day seminar explores the construction and presentation of identities in Antiquity and the
> Early Middle Ages. The papers will address, among others, the following topics and questions:
> · different types of identities and multiple identities; the fluidity of boundaries and overlap of
> identities
> · methods and media for shaping identities (texts, rituals and practices, objects).
> · strategies of demarcating boundaries between social groups and purposes of such
> distinctions
> · How are identities performed?
> · When do identities become problematic or come under challenge?
> · To what extent do categories such as ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ apply to identities in antiquity
> and the Middle Ages?
>  
> Programme:
> 9.00-9.45 Marja-Leena Hänninen (University of Tampere): The religious identity of freedmen in
> ancient Rome. Examples from the harbour city of Ostia
> 9.45-10.30 Nina Nikki (University of Helsinki): Explaining intergroup hostility: the Social Identity
> Approach (SIA) and early Jewish-Christian relations
> 10.30-11.00 Coffee
> 11.00-11.45Maijastina Kahlos (University of Helsinki): Sacrifice and Christian identity in the early
> fifth century
> 11.45-12.30 Jan Stenger (University of Helsinki/University of Glasgow): The ideal of the Christian
> scholar in sixth-century Gaza: Getting the priorities right
> 12.30-13.30 Lunch
> 13.30-14.15 Antti Lampinen (University of Turku/University of St. Andrews): ‘Gallo-Roman’
> identities and the social subaltern, 300-594
> 14.15-15.00 Katja Ritari (University of Helsinki): Narrating the Irish story of conversion: the
> earliest lives of St Patrick and the formation of Irish Christian identity
>  
> The seminar is free and open to all. Please let us know of your coming by e-mail to
> katja.ritari at helsinki.fi <mailto:katja.ritari at helsinki.fi>.

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