Forskergruppe antikke studier                     

Program for våren 2012


Seminar

Einar Thomassen: Protofanes og Meirotheos: Gnostiske gudenavn i magiske tekster.
Tirsdag 21. februar, 1415-1600, seminarrum 2, Øysteinsgate 3.

Christian Bull: Sacrifice and Post-Hellenistic Philosophy in the Books of Hermes.
Tirsdag 6. marts 1415-1600, seminarrum 2, Øysteinsgate 3.

Jørgen Christian Meyer: Palmyrena in a larger regional and chronological context.
Tirsdag 13. marts 1415-1600, seminarrum 2, Øysteinsgate 3.

Simon Malmberg: Arians on the Esquiline: a new monumental centre.
Tirsdag 20. marts 1415-1600, seminarrum 1, Øysteinsgate 3.

Ingvild Gilhus: Ritual Meals and Polemics in Antiquity.
Tirsdag 27. marts 1415-1600, seminarrum 2, Øysteinsgate 3.

Kristina Hesse: Economic Integration Between Pastoral Nomads and City-States
in the Bronze Age Syro-Mesopotamian Landscape: A Network Perspective

Tirsdag 10. april 1415-1600, seminarrum 1, Øysteinsgate 3.

Eivind Seland: Organizing diaspora trade on the Indian Ocean before Islam:
Ethnicity, religion, profession and geography.

Tirsdag 17. april 1415-1600, seminarrum 1, Øysteinsgate 3.

Gæsteforelæsning

Ilaria Ramelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.
The Theory of Universal Salvation in Ancient Christianity
Tirsdag 28. februar 1415-1600, seminarrum 2, Øysteinsgate 3.

Laura Feldt, Københavns universitet.
Religion, Nature and Ambiguous Space in Ancient Mesopotamia:
the Mountains in Old-Babylonian mythology.

Tirsdag 24 april 1415-1600, seminarrum 1, Øysteinsgate 3.




FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO EARLY ISLAM IN THE NEAR EAST

SEMINAR


Tirsdag 15. maj. 0900-1730, seminarrum 1, Øysteinsgate 3.

0900-0915. Jørgen Christian Meyer, AHKR, University of Bergen: Opening of the seminar.

0915-1015.
Ine Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Leuven Belgia:
From Early Byzantium to the Middle Ages at Sagalassos (SW Turkey).

1030-1130.
Kristoffer Damgård, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies: University of Copenhagen.
Import/Export Strategies at Early Islamic Aylah: New Insights on the Ceramic Corpus.

1130-1215.
Eivind Seland, AHKR, University of Bergen:
Changing networks in the Roman Near East in Late Antiquity.

1215-1315. Lunch

1315-1415
Einar Thomassen, AHKR, University of Bergen:
Late Antique Christian and Jewish Perspectives on the Quran.

1430-1530
Denis Genequand, Service Cantonal d'Archéologie, Geneva, CH, & Council for British Research in the Levant:
The Umayyad Period in Palmyra and its Territory:
Excavations and Surveys in Palmyra, al-Bakhra’, Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi and Other “Desert Castles”


1545-1630.
Jørgen Christian Meyer, AHKR, University of Bergen:
Palmyrena in Late Antiquity and Early Islam.

1630-1730.
Denis Genequand, Service Cantonal d'Archéologie, Geneva, CH, & Council for British Research in the Levant:
The Economic Role of the Umayyad Aristocratic Settlements in Bilad al-Sham