The International Workshop of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”. Belonging and Sacred Places in Antiquity will take place on 11-12 December 2023, in JO 101, Johannisstraße 4, 48143 Münster.
Organization: Francesca Mazzilli ([email protected]), Marian Helm ([email protected]), Achim Lichtenberger ([email protected]), Sophia Nomicos ([email protected])
Registration
For remote participation please register in advance with [email protected]
Programme
Monday, 11.12.2023
14.00 – 14.15 | Welcome and Introduction | Achim Lichtenberger (Münster) and Francesca Mazzilli (Münster)
14.15 – 14.30 | Research Cloud Introduction
Sacred Places and Water from the East to the West
14.30 – 15.00 | On Agencies and Belonging to Sacred Springs in the Ancient Near East | Guiseppina Marano (Toulouse) and Corinne Bonnet (Toulouse)
15.00 – 15.30 | Idol of the Spring. Cultic Landscape of the Springs in Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Syria | Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider (Wrocław)
15.30 – 16.00 | Waterways of the Gods in first Millennium BC Southern Mesopotamia. The Use of Channels as Travelways for the Gods | Bernhard Schneider (Warsaw)
16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.00 | A Valley-Wise Belonging. Hydrology and Sacr(aliz)ed Places in the Lebanon Mountains in Roman Times | Katharina Rieger (Graz)
17.00 – 17.30 | The Mosque and the Falaj. Sacredness of Water and Settlement Morphology in the Arab-Persian Gulf Region in the Late Antique to Middle Islamic Periods | Agnieszka Lic (Warsaw/Copenhagen)
17.30 – 18.00 | Appropriating Nymphs and Bodies. Spring Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces | Csaba Szabó (Szeged)
18.00 – 18.15 | Break
Keynote Lecture
18.15 – 19.15 | Timeless Roots. Divine Narratives and Ritual Practices as Urban Anchors of Belonging | Christina Williamson (Groningen)
19.30 | Reception at the Archaeological Museum
Tuesday, 12.12.2023
Greek Sacred Natural Places
9.00 – 9.30 | Just Passing through? The Cave of Antiope. Belonging and Settlement in the Mazi Plain | Roy van Wijk (Trento)
9.30 – 10.00 | Aspects of Belonging in Laconia | Sophia Nomicos (Münster)
10.00 – 10.30 | The Sacredness of Natural Elements and the Movement of People on an Insular Landscape. A Case Study of the Sanctuaries of Apollo on the Cycladic Archipelago | Erica Angliker (Athens)
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break
Sacred Places, Landscape and Settlements
11.00 – 11.30 | The Materiality of the Sacred Space as a Resource of Belonging. The Northern Apennines during the Iron Age | Raffaella Da Vela (Tübingen)
11.30 – 12.00 | Powerful Landmarks. Sacred Rocks as Ritual Foci | Manuel Fernández-Götz (Edinburgh)
12.00 – 12.30 | Gods in a Frontier Landscape. Rethinking local Deities and Regional Iconography on Hadrian’s Wall | Eleri Cousins (Lancaster)
12.30 – 13.00 | Where the Iron is Born. The Meaning of Place in the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus | Michael Blömer (Münster)
13.00 – 14.30 | Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.00 | Place-Making in the End of the Bronze Age. Aspects of the Locational Strategies of Warrior Stelae in the Portuguese Beira Interior and Spanish Alta Extremadura | Pedro Baptista (Freiburg/Coimbra)
15.00 – 15.30 | Sacred Place of Garvão. Overlooking Hills, River Streams, and Settlements | Francesca Mazzilli (Münster/London) and Tiago Costa (Ourique/Coimbra)
15.30 – 16.00 | The Heart of Latium. Jupiter Latiaris, the Mons Albanus, and the Latini | Marian Helm (Münster)
16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee Break
Sacred and Belonging in Urban Landscapes
16.30 – 17.00 | Urban Emotionspaces. On the Significance of Affordances and Atmospheres in Roman Place-Attachment Processes | Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Marburg)
17.00 – 17.30 | Transformations in the Cultic Practices of Isis in Cyrene during Roman Rule | Pablo R. Valdés (Madrid)
17.30 – 18.00 | The Coins of Tel Dor. A Methodological Approach – Understanding Urban Dynamics and the City’s Sacred Spaces | Vagner Carvalheiro Porto (São Paulo)
18.00 – 18.30 | The Sacred Space and the Water System in the Roman City of Pax Iulia (Beja) | Maria Conceição Lopes (Coimbra) and Francesco K B. Simi (Rome)
18.30 – 18.45 | Break
18.45 – 19.15 | Concluding Remarks | Pedro Paulo Funari (Campinas)
19.30 | Conference Dinner