<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kahlos, Maijastina" <<a href="mailto:maijastina.kahlos@helsinki.fi" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">maijastina.kahlos@helsinki.fi</a>></span></div><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Muistutus keskiviikon seminaarista / Reminder Constructing Identities in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages on Wednesday</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">29 February 2016 at 10:23:39 GMT+1</span></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Constructing Identities in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Wednesday March 2, 2016 9:00-15:00<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, room 136 (Fabianinkatu 24)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Organisers: Maijastina Kahlos, Katja Ritari & Jan Stenger<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">This one-day seminar explores the construction and presentation of identities in Antiquity and the<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Early Middle Ages. The papers will address, among others, the following topics and questions:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">different types of identities and multiple identities; the fluidity of boundaries and overlap of<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">identities<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">methods and media for shaping identities (texts, rituals and practices, objects).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">strategies of demarcating boundaries between social groups and purposes of such<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">distinctions<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">How are identities performed?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">When do identities become problematic or come under challenge?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">To what extent do categories such as ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ apply to identities in antiquity<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">and the Middle Ages?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Programme:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">9.00-9.45<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Marja-Leena Hänninen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Tampere):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">The religious identity of freedmen in<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">ancient Rome. Examples from the harbour city of Ostia<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">9.45-10.30<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Nina Nikki<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Helsinki):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Explaining intergroup hostility: the Social Identity<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Approach (SIA) and early Jewish-Christian relations<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">10.30-11.00 Coffee<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">11.00-11.45<b class="">Maijastina Kahlos<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Helsinki):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Sacrifice and Christian identity in the early<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">fifth century<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">11.45-12.30<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Jan Stenger<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Helsinki/University of Glasgow):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">The ideal of the Christian<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">scholar in sixth-century Gaza: Getting the priorities right<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">12.30-13.30 Lunch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">13.30-14.15<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Antti Lampinen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Turku/University of St. Andrews):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">‘Gallo-Roman’<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">identities and the social subaltern, 300-594<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">14.15-15.00<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Katja Ritari<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Helsinki):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Narrating the Irish story of conversion: the<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">earliest lives of St Patrick and the formation of Irish Christian identity<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The seminar is free and open to all. Please let us know of your coming by e-mail to<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:katja.ritari@helsinki.fi" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">katja.ritari@helsinki.fi</a>.</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>