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3. CRASIS Mortuary Ritual Network Conference and Studium Generale
The CRASIS Mortuary Ritual Network is pleased to invite you to their conference “Grave Goods From Antiquity to the Modern Era: Theoretical Approaches to the Mortuary Ritual of Gift-Giving”, with a keynote by professor Michael Parker Pearson (UCL).
The conference takes place on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October 2026 at the University of Groningen. Please find attached the programme or navigate to the Network’s website for more information. To register use the following link: https://forms.gle/VT8CufBf5SWxwELCA. The deadline for registration is Sunday 18 October 2026.
In addition, Studium Generale Groningen and the CRASIS Mortuary Ritual Network are co-organising a lecture by professor Michael Parker Pearson on Stonehenge. The event takes place on Wednesday 21 October 2026, 20.00-21.30h. For more information and tickets, please go to Studium Generale’s website.
The CRASIS Mortuary Ritual Network is looking forward to welcoming you in Groningen!
On behalf of the CRASIS Mortuary Ritual Network,
Dr Tamara Dijkstra (University of Groningen, Fryske Akademy)
Paula Kalkman MA (University of Groningen)
Dr Femke Lippok (Leiden University)
Janis Oomen MA (University of Groningen)
Nina Schreuder MA (University of Groningen)
Caroline van Toor MA (University of Groningen)
John Turco MSc (University of Groningen)
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Memory and Oblivion: Ancient Societies in Perspective
Congress / Conference / Symposium, Fachbereich Latinistik Universität Basel
Internationale DAW-Tagung im Rahmen des Doktoratsprogramms der Basler Altertumswissenschaften
23. – 24. November 2026
Hotel Odelya, Missionsstrasse 21, 4055 Basel
Organizer:
Cinzia Tuena (Alte Geschichte), Dr. Massimo Cè (Latinistik)Neben Doktorierenden und Postdocs sind auch fortgeschrittene BA- und MA-Studierende sowie weitere Interessierte nach Voranmeldung herzlich willkommen!
Die Tagung wird hybrid durchgeführt. Alle Teilnehmenden erhalten vor der Veranstaltung einen Zoom-Link
Anmeldefrist für Teilnahme an der Tagung: 08.11.2026
Anmeldung und Kontakt: c.tuena@unibas.ch
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Antike und Neuzeit – Orientwissenschaften und Kulturkontaktein der k.u.k. Monarchie | Antiquity and Modern Times
Egypt and Austria XV
Antike und Neuzeit – Orientwissenschaften und Kulturkontakte
in der k.u.k. Monarchie | Antiquity and Modern Times – Oriental
Studies and Cultural Contacts in the Austro-Hungarian MonarchyKonferenzprogramm |
Conference Programme
Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2026 | Thursday, 8 October 2026
Veranstaltungsort | Venue:
Universität Graz, RESOWI, Bauteil A, 2. Stock, Universitätsstraße 15, SZ 15.21 |
University of Graz, RESOWI, Building Section A, 2nd floor, Universitätsstraße 15, SZ 15.21
08:00 Registrierung | Registration
09:00 Begrüßung | Welcome Speech
Session 1:
KÜNSTLERISCHE AUSEINANDERSETZUNGEN MIT
ÄGYPTEN UND DEM ORIENT | ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS
WITH EGYPT AND THE ORIENT
09:30 Kateřina Hrušková
Jablonec – Egypt … and back again
10:00 Massimo De Grassi
With Egypt in their eyes and minds: traveling artists
between Trieste and Venice in the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries
10:30 Kaffeepause | Coffee break
11:00 Marta Herucová
Prayer in Damascus. Identification of Two Aquarelles
11:30 Vesna Kamin Kajfež
Franc Kavčič’s Personification of the River Nile
12:00 Mittagspause | Lunch break
Session 2:
DAS ALTE ÄGYPTEN IN VISUELLEN MEDIEN |
VISUALIZING ANCIENT EGYPT ACROSS MEDIA
13:30 Mladen Tomorad
Ancient Egypt on Croatian Theatre Stages (1881–1931):
Visual Identity, Authenticity, and Reception
14:00Jan Šejbl
Egypt in 3D: The Visual Representation of Egypt
in Nineteenth-Century Stereoscopic Photography
14:30 Adela Jůnová Macková
Film and photography in the role of transferring (not only)
scientific information – new archival documents on
Czechoslovak exploration of the Orient
15:00 Uroš Matić and Julia Ametsreiter
From Streets of Alexandria to Island of Elephantine:
Sketches and Descriptions of Ancient Egyptian Monuments
in the Diary of Alois Negrelli (TMW NL-050-1595)
15:30 Kaffeepause | Coffee break
Session 3:
VERSCHIEDENES | VARIA
16:00 Ivica Šute
The “Pharaohs” in Zagreb: A History of the 1927 Egyptian
Football Tour in Interwar Croatia
16:30 Elisabeth Monamy
Between the Spice Rack and the Projection:
The Imagined and Experienced Flavours of the Orient in
the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
17:00 Danijela Stefanović
Between Austria, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt:
Two Nineteenth-Century “Harem Stories”
17:30 Bethany Reay
Hierarchies of Value: How colonial perceptions and practices
still bias contemporary studies of Greco-Roman cartonnage
18:45–
21:00 Empfang im Gipsmuseum |
Welcome Reception at the Plaster Cast CollectionFreitag, 9. Oktober 2026 | Friday, 9 October 2026
Veranstaltungsort | Venue:
Archäologiemuseum, Schloss Eggenberg, Eggenberger Allee 90, 8020 Graz |
Archaeology Museum, Eggenberg Palace, Eggenberger Allee 90, 8020 Graz8.15 Registrierung | Registration
Session 4:
REISE NACH ÄGYPTEN UND IN DEN ORIENT: REISENDE UND
IHRE DOKUMENTATIONEN | JOURNEYS TO EGYPT AND THE
ORIENT: TRAVELERS AND THEIR DOCUMENTATION
9.00 Karl Peitler
Anmerkungen zum ersten Ägyptenaufenthalt Anton Prokeschs
von Osten in den Jahren 1826/27
9.30 Pavel Onderka
Joseph Wratislaw von Mitrowicz in the environs of Luxor in 1842
Ernst Czerny und Daniel Modl
Der Grazer Naturforscher Franz Unger und seine Reise nach Ägyp-
ten im Jahr 1858
10.00 Kaffeepause / Coffee break
11.00 Libor Jun
Jan Fridmann’s Journey to the Middle East in 1866
11.30 Angela Blaschek
Alexander Freiherr von Warsberg (1836–1889)
Bernhard Hebert und Ulla Steinklauber
Adolf Heiders „Briefe über eine Reise in Kleinasien“ und
die österreichische Archäologie in den 1880er-Jahren
12.00 Mittagspause | Lunch break
14.00 Alenka Pipan Mubi and Marko Frelih
From Carmel to Cheops: Ivan Kogovšek’s Pilgrimage to
the Holy Land and Egypt in 1910
14.30 Christian Liebl Ex Oriente Vox. Phonographische Feldforschungen in Ägypten und
Palästina, 1911–1913 – Protagonisten, Phonogramme und ProblemeSession 5:
ÄGYPTEN IN MUSEEN: OBJEKTE UND SAMMLER |
EGYPT IN MUSEUMS: OBJECTS AND COLLECTORS
15.00 Daniel Modl
Die Genese der ägyptischen Sammlung am
Universalmuseum Joanneum
15.30 Kaffeepause | Coffee break
16.00 Joachim Gierlichs
Ägypten / Ägyptomanie in Indien: Die Sammlung im Salar
Jung Museum (SJM) in Hyderabad
16.30 Mykola Tarasenko
The coffin of Khonsuirdis (OAM No. 71700):
problem of provenance
17.00 Andrea Fullér and Eszter Feró
Lotusflowers Born in Fire – The Challenges and Methodology
of the Curatorial Work
17.45 Führung durch Schloss Eggenberg, den Planetensaal,
die Alte Galerie und das Münzkabinett | Guided tour of
Eggenberg Palace, the Planetary Room, the Old Gallery,
and the Coin Cabinet
19.00- 21.30 Abendempfang im Archäologiemuseum | Evening reception at
the Archaeology Museum -
Greek Geography in the Roman Imperial Period: Reception, Transformation, Innovation
Bologna, November 5th-6th 2026
Venue: Aula Tibiletti, Department of History and Cultures, via Zamboni, 38.
If you wish to participate, please get in contact with the organizers: Niklas Fröhlich (niklas.froehlich@ku.de),
Mattia Vitelli Casella (mattia.vitelli@unibo.it).
Strabo states twice in the Prolegomena of his Geography that he lives in a very favourable period
for geographical research, because Roman expansion and Roman rule had allowed knowledge to
increase significantly. In fact, many parts of the world were previously impossible to visit, and
therefore previous authors were not able to deal with them. With the Imperial Period, however, a
new era began in the Mediterranean world from many points of view, and certainly not least from a
geographical perspective. Not only were new lands discovered and described to the reading public,
but also the ‚old known world‘, of course, continued to be treated, both under the influence of the
new realities of the ‚Pax Romana‘ and on the basis of established, predominantly Greek, traditions
of geographical knowledge. The main question we therefore pose is: What was the way of
approaching Greek geographic knowledge in the literature during the Imperial age and into Late
Antiquity? And more precisely: Was it presented as a fundamental and unchanged matter, as
before? Was it used, but completely revised and updated with reference to the new situation? How
did the very concepts of geographic works and their approach to world description change with
regard to the modus operandi of an individual author? What role did the new opportunities for travel
and firsthand experiences play, as it is often emphasized, for example, in the case of the ‚travelling
author‘ Pausanias? How did such perspectives relate to established textual traditions and scholarly
desk research, as traditionally emphasized in the case of, for example, Claudius Ptolemy? What role
did established literary and scientific practices and genres play in this? What can a closer look on
documentary sources contribute to these issues?
And, last but not least: How were Greek literary forms and knowledge traditions taken up,
continued, or transformed by Latin authors? In fact, practically all Latin geographical texts fall
within this exact period, and throughout them, the question of dependence on and use of (Greek?)
sources is of central importance. The question also arises for Christian texts, such as the
Diamerisms (from around the 2nd/3rd century AD), which categorize the peoples of the earth on the
basis of biblical interpretations and various, heterogeneous sources, and whose Latin representatives
are all direct translations and adaptations of Greek originals. In order to incorporate these and other,
regularly understudied, Latin geographical texts from the imperial period (and their Greek sources)
more effectively, the conference is realized in cooperation with the Geographi Latini Online: the
Germany-based long-term editorial project (Universities of Eichstätt/Ingolstadt and Cologne) is
currently re-editing and re-exploring many of these texts both by means of new critical editions
with historical-philological commentaries and digital cartographic projections. Accordingly, the
conference will also explicitly include perspectives on new digital methods: How can the
geographical worldviews of the imperial era and their evolution be evaluated and represented, for
example, through digital projections? How can source dependencies and, conversely, innovations be
explored using modern (digital) corpus linguistics?
The conference will bring together these many subfields beyond disciplinary boundaries (history,
philology, patristics, geography, digital humanities etc.) and combine them in a joint exploration of
“Greek Geography in the Roman Imperial period.”
Conference Program
Thursday 5.11.
14:30 Opening Greetings
14:45 Opening Remarks (by the organizers)
15:00 S. Diederich: Questioni e prospettive sulla ricezione del sapere geografico greco nel mondo romano
(Opening lecture)
I Session
15:30 G. Cruz Andreotti, E. Castro Páez: Estrabón, geografía, romanización e imperialismo
15:50 A. Cristofori: Strabone e l’Estremo Oriente tra eredità di Alessandro e geografia augustea
16:10 F. Carriere: La Pace di Apamea e la rappresentazione dell’Asia nella Geografia di Strabone
16:30 Discussion – coffee break
17:00 V. Bucciantini: Misurare il Ponto Eusino: osservazioni sulle distanze nel Periplo di Menippo di Pergamo
17:20 S. Bianchetti: L’ ecumene romana nella Chorographia di Pomponio Mela
17:40 P. Di Benedetto: L’Eolide d’Asia nella rappresentazione dei geografi in età romana: tra ricezione e
riscrittura della tradizione
18:00 E. Filippini: Rappresentare la città: identità geografica e personificazioni cittadine nella monetazione
romana provinciale
18:20 Discussion
20:00 Dinner
Friday 6.11.
9:00 J.R. Reyes González: The Acts of the Apostles and Greek Geographical Knowledge in the Roman Imperial
Period. Itinerary, Autopsy, and Narrative Transformation
II Session
9:20 S. Kröner: Κατὰ τὸν Θρᾴκιον Βόσπορον – Ergo a faucibus Bospori. Traditionen der Periplous-Literatur
in der Kaiserzeit und der Naturalis historia?
9:40 A. Busetto: Geografia tra storia e mito: il Bosforo Tracio nei Bithynika di Arriano
10:00 M.E. De Luna: La Periegesi di Pausania: sulla geografia come ‘pellegrinaggio’ e come esperienza
intellettuale
10:20 A. Haushalter: Ptolémée, carrefour des traditions géographiques grecques et des pratiques
administratives romaines ? Le cas des provinces occidentales
10:40 Discussion – coffee break
III Session
11:20 E. Paganoni: Hellenistic Traditions in Solinus’ Description of Anatolia
11:40 F. Feraco: Le fonti geografiche greche di Ammiano Marcellino
12:00 E. Migliario: Le Alpi di Ammiano: fonti e problemi
12:20 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:30 E. Fallani: I confini dell’ecumene nelle Historiae adversus paganos di Orosio
14:50 A. Pierozzi: Aspetti di geografia greca nella Cosmographia di Giulio Onorio
15:10 Discussion
IV Session
15:20 V. Boano: Beyond Pliny’s Index: Exploring Greek Geographical Sources with a Computational
Approach
15:40 A. Karmann: TP-Online: Editing the Tabula Peutingeriana in the Digital Age – Opportunities and
Perspectives
16:00 J. Bigalke, J. Blumtritt, N. Fröhlich, T. Gengnagel: Geographi Latini Online (GLO): Chances and
Perspectives of a Digital Corpus of Latin Geographical Texts
16:20 Discussion
16:40 Conclusions (by the organizers) -
Colloque international – La résistance africaine à la romanisation, cinquante ans après
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Dokumentieren – Vernetzen – Kontextualisieren. Status quo und Zukunft der Vasenforschung
VERANSTALTER
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der WissenschaftenWISSENSCHAFTLICHE LEITUNG
Prof. Dr. Martin Bentz (Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmidt (München)Anmeldung
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