On Friday, July 4, 2014 an international colloquium about social relations and networks in the Graeco-Roman East will be held in Munich, organized by Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich: “Soziale Bindungen und Netzwerke im griechischen Osten.”

Registration is required (until June 20, 2014).

Programme

9:15 Annika Kuhn (University of Munich): Welcome and Introduction

9:30 Athanasios Rizakis (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens): ‘Social Networks in the Greek Mainland under the Roman Empire: A New Model of Social Hierarchy and Social Structure’

10:15 Rebecca Sweetman (University of St Andrews): ‘Insular Cyclades? Networks in the Roman Empire’

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Peter Scherrer (University of Graz): ‘Spenderlisten, Ehrenstatuen und Baukonsortien: Soziale Netzwerke im kaiserzeitlichen Ephesos’

12:15 Lunch break

14:00 Helmut Halfmann (University of Hamburg): ‘Ein pamphylisch-galatisches “Netzwerk” frueher senatorischer Familien’

14:45 Christian Marek (University of Zurich): ‘Herkunft und Netzwerk des Senators Gnaeus Claudius Severus’

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark): ‘Networking at the Local, Regional and Imperial Level: The Case of Dio Chrysostom’

16:45 Thomas Witulski (University of Bielefeld): ‘Bischof contra Prophet: Das kleinasiatische Christentum des 2. Jahrhunderts zwischen lokaler Verfasstheit und universaler Freiheit des Geistes’

For further information, please visit the conference website:

http://www.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/forsch_projekte/netzwerkekonferenz/index.html

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Annika Kuhn ([email protected]).

The colloquium will take place at the Tagungszentrum Kardinal Wendel Haus, Munich.