International Colloquium
(Excellence Cluster ROOTS)
October 21-23, 2021, CAU Kiel

This interdisciplinary colloquium explores the utilisation of enclosed roofed cult buildings (temples, churches) in ancient societies and their significance in the context of ritual and social practices in urban contexts.

The colloquium invites approaches of four potential veins of inquiry:

I. Concepts of use and worship.
The concepts of use within the inner rooms may be predefined by the spatial configuration of the facilities, their permanently installed equipment, and their accessibility. Structural changes within the buildings are of special interest because they are hints for changing requirements/notions and thus may refer to altered ritual procedures or liturgies.

II. The agency of acting persons.
Forms of utilisation and acquisition of built ritual space by the users beyond ritual use also play a decisive role. This raises the question of the extent to which users (with their own interests and strategies) changed the spaces and helped shape them.

III. The integration of concepts of action into urban space and their role in social urban life.
By focusing on enclosed cult buildings, an urban space comes into view which initially appears to be separated and excluded from the rest of urban life by walls and doors. At the same time, the enormous importance of cultic activities in pre-modern cultures ensures that activities performed inside the buildings had a substantial impact on urban society. Therefore, the interaction between practices in the temple and in the city is integral. Hereby, the focus is the integration through actions and practices: In what way was the use of space integrated into the urban space, e.g., through ritual processes connecting outdoor and indoor space (processions, multi-step rituals, etc.)? What relevance did the practices within the built ritual space have for urban space and urban society, and how were they received or referenced to outside the cult buildings?

IV. ethodological reflections.
The reconstruction and evaluation of actions and practices in pre-modern cultures – thus from a retrospective perspective – involve many methodological problems especially because of the highly fragmented sources in all cases. These methodological problems highlight the fact that the overall topic can only be approached in an interdisciplinary way in order to be able to make full use of the possibilities offered by different approaches and, above all, different sources.

The main focus will be on the Mediterranean area and the neighbouring regions and chronologically ranging from Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The geographical and chronological framework is intentionally wide to grasp the specific problem of dealing with enclosed cult buildings, usually called temples, in all their diversity.

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11.45 Dare and Acting in the Holy Cave: Archaeological Evidence for the Initiations into the Mysteries of Mithras
Dr. Ines Klenner (Hamburg)
12.30-14.00 Lunch break

Objects of use
14.00 Der Παρθενών im Parthenon: Die Schatzverzeichnisse von der Athener Akropolis
Dr. Sebastian Prignitz (Vienna)
14.45 Fragments of Cult: Aspects of Cult Action and Agency through the Terracotta Figurines of the Acropolis
Sanctuary of Stymphalos
Dr. Matthew Skuse (St Andrews)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00 Everything in its place: Metal votive objects in the sacred space at Monte Casale (Sicily)
Dr. Azzurra Scarci (Mainz)
16.45 Final discussion

Due to the pandemic, access to the conference venue is currently restricted to the speakers.
External audiences are welcome to attend the meeting via ZOOM and to participate in the discussion.

If the country regulations change and a larger on-site audience is possible, we will inform you accordingly at:
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organization and contact
For access data to the zoom conference please contact
Frauke Tammen
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For all other questions:
Philipp Kobusch
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
im Anhang finden Sie das Programm für den diesjährigen "Tag der Antiken Numismatik" (TAN) am 6.11.2021 in Münster.
Anders als in den Jahren zuvor werden wir zwar auf einen großen öffentlichen Abendvortrag verzichten, der eigentliche Vortrags-Samstag soll aber wie geplant in Präsenz stattfinden.
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Angehängt finden Sie außerdem die Ausschreibung für Reisekostenzuschüsse für engagierten numismatischen Nachwuchs, die die Numismatische Kommission finanziert.
Wir freuen uns, wenn Sie beides, Programm und Ausschreibung, an Interessierte in Ihren Teams weitergeben.
Im Namen des gesamten TAN-Teams: herzliche Grüße aus Münster!
Katharina Martin

15-17 October 2021

Online via zoom

Organizers: Prof Dr Sven Günther (Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China) & Dr Elisabeth Günther (Classical Archaeology, University of Trier, Germany)

Contact & Registration: Prof Dr Sven Günther (Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! / Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!)

 The online conference Frames and Framing in Antiquity II builds on the results and discussions of the first conference (IHAC & IfDH, 16–18 October 2020) and aims at linking different ancient source materials, contexts, and actors in order to explore entanglements, communicative dynamics, and affordances of frames and framing. While ancient source categories (literary texts, inscriptions, coins, papyri/ostraca, archaeological remains) are often treated separately we seek to analyze interrelations, interdependencies, and entanglements of these sources within their respective contexts.

Based on frame and framing models from the field of sociology, psychology, and communication studies – and particularly inspired by the works of Erving Goffman, Charles Fillmore, and Marvin Minsky – we understand frames as descriptive tools to analyze how people understand, react to, and are influenced by situations and activities (frame analysis); while the phenomenon of framing assesses how individuals or institutions might use, modify, or challenge existing frameworks by creating new frames.

As methodological tool and heuristic approach, frames and framing offer the possibility to make ancient communication, discourse, and negotiation processes as well as practices visible. Hence, we see ancient sources not only as passive media but as active partners in various frame and framing processes. Ancient sources are frames with framing potential per se that link to actors producing or perceiving them, who themselves live, (re-)act, and rule their world within and through frames and framing.

Within the five panels, we will discuss the concept by looking at case-studies from ancient literature, epigraphy, numismatics, and archaeology. The keynote will be delivered by Prof Dr Alexander ZIEM (University of Düsseldorf). There is no registration fee. Registrations are welcome and shall be sent to Prof Dr Sven Günther (Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! / Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!). Upon registration you will receive abstracts and/or the full papers.

All times are CEST (Central European Summer Time). Papers last 15 minutes followed by equal time for discussion. After each session 30 minutes are reserved for overall discussion of papers and the panel-topic.

Friday, 15 October 2021

14.30-15.00: Elisabeth Günther & Sven Günther (University of Göttingen & IHAC): Theoretical Remarks

 PANEL I: Framing (in) Ancient Literature

15.00-15.30: MA Jiancheng (IHAC): Framing accusations against Livia (Tacitus, Annals 1.3–6)

15.30-15.45: Break

15.45-16.15: Aaltje HIDDING (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich): The legend of Diocletian. ‘Naming and framing’ Diocletian in the hagiography of late antique Egypt

16.15-16.45: Dominik DELP (University of Tübingen): Framing threat. Procopius’ Anekdota in context of catastrophe

16.45-17.15: Panel Discussion

17.15-17.30: Break

17.30-18.30: Key-Note Lecture: Alexander ZIEM (University of Düsseldorf): Why frames matter: a cognitive approach to analyzing and understanding linguistic (and other) artifacts

Saturday, 16 October 2021

PANEL II: Framing (in) Ancient Epigraphy

10.00-10.30: Irene BERTI (PH Heidelberg): Framing the poletai inscriptions: some hypotheses on the stelai of the Hermokopidai

10.30-11.00: ZHANG Duoduo (IHAC): Hieron and hosion interaction: a case study on the Parthenon inventories

11.00-11.30: LUO Fuxing (IHAC): Integrating into family lives: frames and framing in the Dalmatian military inscriptions

11.30-12.00: Panel Discussion

12.00-14.00: Break

PANEL III: Framing (in) Ancient Religion

14.00-14.30: Sebastian BORKOWSKI (University of Bern): Exploiting religious frames for ideological terraforming in the 21st century BC: the dedication and branding of canals in Southern Mesopotamia by the kings of Ur

14.30-15.00: Iria SOUTO (University of Alcalà de Henares, Madrid): The case of personal beliefs in ancient Egypt: the framing theory in religious interactions

15.00-15.15: Break

15.15-15.45: Katelin MCCULLOUGH (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Sacred spaces and the framing of women’s social identities

15.45-16.15: Panel Discussion

PANEL IV: Framing (in) Ancient Art and Archaeology I

16.15-16.45: Yael YOUNG (The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana): Re-framing the mundane: The representation of domestic objects in violent situations in Athenian vase painting

16.45-17.15: Sven GÜNTHER (IHAC, NENU, Changchun): Reframing Roman imagery in Mesopotamian Edessa? The case of Ma‘nu VIII Philorhomaios

17.15-17.45: Panel Discussion

Sunday, 17 October 2021

PANEL V: Framing (in) Ancient Art and Archaeology II

10.00-10.30: Lidia CHINÉ ZAPATER (University Complutense of Madrid): Roman gardens: framing space and time

10.30-11.00: Tommasina MATRONE (University Ca’ Foscari, Venice): Middle Ground. Integration, hybridization and entanglement phenomena in pre-Roman Campania (Italy)

11.00-11.30: Rosemarie Cordie, Torsten MATTERN, Maximilian Rensch, Sascha David SCHMITZ (University of Trier): Expectation and augmented reality: frames and framing of ancient buildings in 3D reconstruction

11.30-12.00: Panel Discussion

12.00-12.30: Final Discussion and Perspectives

Dear all,

I am happy to announce the first Ancient World Seminar of this academic year. We aim to organise a hybrid event where the public can be present physically, while the speaker will be present virtually as COVID-restrictions currently prevent travel from the UK to the Netherlands without quarantine. However, since this is the first AWS of this academic year, we would like to welcome everyone else physically to enjoy the awarding of Crasis Bachelor’s Thesis Prize, the opening lecture, and drinks afterwards. The event will take place at the Norman building (Lutkenieuwstraat 5). The doors will be open from 16.00 onwards. We would like to ask you to register before the 16th of september via this form, where you can also indicate your interest in joining the dinner afterwards. 

On the 21st of September 2021, 16.15-18.00, dr. Valerie Hope (The Open University) will give a lecture on:

'Torn, Cut and Offered: Roman mourners and some of their hair'

Abstract
In 38 CE the sister of the emperor, Gaius Caligula died.  Gaius was devastated and one way in which he demonstrated this was through his hair. Gaius was said to have oscillated between letting his hair grow long and shaving it close, his hair thus represented his indecisive and inept character as both mourner and emperor.  In the Roman world hair presentation and styling was important for both men and women, and this continued to apply during mourning. Following the death of a close relative, mourners were expected to treat their hair in certain ways, ways that often reversed and challenged the normative expectations for clean, neat and arranged hair. This paper explores what mourners were expected (or were thought) to do to their hair, with a particular focus on cutting the hair and offering locks of hair to the dead. It explores the potent symbolism of hair and the ways in which it contributed to the embodied experience of public mourning, and was used to construct moralising evaluations of individual mourners.

About the speaker
Valerie Hope is a senior lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. Her main research area is Roman social history, with a focus on funeral and mourning rituals. Recent publications include several chapters investigating Roman mourning, including its sensory dimensions, and gendered presentation. Books include: Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death; Roman Death: The Dying and the Dead in Ancient Rome; and Death in Ancient Rome. A Sourcebook.

CRASIS Thesis Prize
The third CRASIS Bachelor’s Thesis Prize will be awarded before the lecture.

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Evelien de Graaf

ReMa-student Classical, Medieval and Early Modern studies.

on behalf of the CRASIS team

University of Groningen

CRASIS is the Groningen institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture, Religion and Society of the Ancient World. Follow CRASIS on Facebook or find out more about us on www.rug.nl/crasis.

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