[H-verkko] Tvärminne, Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity 17.-18.10

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Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity 17.-18.10

Tvärminne
17.10.2014 – 18.10.2014
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XXIII Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity
Tvärminne, Finland, 17–18 October 2014

Conflict in Late Antiquity

Our keynote speakers are Hagith Sivan (Department of History, University of
Kansas), Petri Luomanen (Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki), Lucy Grig
(School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh) and Antti
Lampinen (Classics, University of Turku). Conflict will be approached from a
wide perspective, including different types and levels of conflict and attempts
at solving them. Points of view vary from political and military to cultural and
religious conflicts between and within traditions. Please refer to the programme
below.

Registration for the conference starts on September 1, 2014.

In order to register as a participant for the seminar, please send an email to
Ulla Tervahauta, ulla.tervahauta(at)helsinki.fi. Upon applying for
participation, you are kindly asked to provide your contact information as well
as to inform us about special diets etc. Please also mention if you do NOT need
the coach transportation from Helsinki.

The symposium will be organized in the premises of a zoological research station
operated by the University of Helsinki at a beautiful location in Tvärminne on
the southern coast of Finland (http://luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi/english). The
symposium is organised by an interdisciplinary organizing committee (see below)
and funded by the Academy of Finland‘s Centre of Excellence “Reason and
Religious Recognition”, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, and
Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki.

The seminar is free. We will offer transportation from Helsinki to Tvärminne
and back, as well as accommodation in a shared room (2 persons), and meals at
Tvärminne, but we are not able to cover the costs for travelling to or from
Helsinki, or accommodation in Helsinki.

Welcome!

The organizing committee
Maijastina Kahlos, PhD, Classics / “Reason and Religious Recognition”,
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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PROGRAMME

                                         

Friday  17 October

9.00 Departure by coach from Helsinki

c. 11 Arrival and accommodation

11.30 Opening of the Symposium

11.45 Lunch

12.30 Friday session I:Pilgrimage, asceticism and social conflict

Hagith Sivan: Jerusalem: A Landscape of Conflict in Late Antiquity

Walter Roberts: Soldiers of Christ from the Byzantine Perspective: Monks,
Emperors and Conflict in the Late Antique Byzantine Empire

Kristina Sessa: Conflict, Narrative and the Formation of Monastic Communities in
Sixth-Century Italy

14.15 Coffee

14.35 Friday session II: Identity and religious conflict

Petri Luomanen: Conflict and Identity in Early Christian Heresiologies: The Case
of Jewish Christians

Blossom Stefaniw: Straight Reading: Ideology, Exegesis and the Body in the
Origenist Controversy

15.50 Short break

16.00 Friday session II continues

Susanne Moraw: Conflict and Gender: Why Images of Real Life Publicise Harmony
and Images of Myth Do Not

Raphael Schwitter: Controlling the Debate: Authorial Power in Christian
Dialogues of Late Antiquity

17.00 Sauna/Men

18.30 Sauna/Women

20.00 Dinner




Saturday 18 October

8.00-9.00 Breakfast

9.00 Saturday session I:Social conflict and intolerance in late Roman culture

Lucy Grig: Popular Culture and Social Conflict in Late Antiquity

Victoria Leonard: Texts, Travels, and Turncoats: Intolerance and Conformity in
the Early Fifth Century

10.15 Short break

10.30 Saturday session II:Literary images and the creation of a conflict

Antti Lampinen: Creating a Religious Conflict: Gallic Elite and the Literary
Image of a Persistently Pagan 'Vulgus'

Jaakkojuhani Peltonen:Emperor Julian as a User of Alexander the Great and Marcus
Aurelius in the Competition for Power and Prestige

11.45 Lunch

12.30 Saturday session II: War and political conflict

Alvaro Sánchez-Ostiz: Theodorus and the Two Eagles of Jupiter: Claudianus’s
Propagandistic
Treatment of the Conflict between East and West

Jeroen Wijnendaele: Triumph and Tragedy. Stilicho’s War Against Radagaisus
(405–406 CE)

Charles S. Pazdernik:Conflict Aversion in Procopius of Caesarea

14.00 Coffee and packing

14.30 Conclusion of the symposium

15.00 Departure

c. 17 Arrival in Helsinki

Tiedustelut: Ville Vuolanto (ville.vuolanto at uta.fi)
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