Ancient World Seminar

interdisciplinair en interfacultair discussieforum

The Ancient World Seminar offers an opportunity for students and staff from all Groningen faculties and departments with an interest in the Ancient World to meet and discuss their research. In support of the CRASIS mission, it aims to advance the interdisciplinary studies in the Culture, Religion and Society of the Graeco-Roman world. Since 2004, the Ancient World Seminar has successfully brought together staff and students from the departments of Ancient History, Greek and Latin, Archaeology, Ancient Philosophy, Jewish Studies and Early Christianity. The Ancient World Seminar gathers monthly during term time and invites beginning and advanced scholars from the University of Groningen and from other universities in the Netherlands or abroad. Papers are given on a broad variety of subjects and from a wide range of perspectives. In this way, the Ancient World Seminar crosses institutional boundaries and facilitates the study of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in its widest sense.

Location

Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
Oude Boteringestraat 38

Room 130

Time

16.15-17.30 (drinks afterwards)

Contact

The Ancient World Seminar is organized by Marleen Termeer, Birgit van der Lans and Marco van der Schuur. Please contact us at crasis.aws@rug.nl.

Programme 2011-2012

2011
19 September	Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch / Muenster), 'Empire and New Testament Texts. Theorising the Imperial in Subversion and Attraction'
17 October	Gerard Boter (VU), 'Epictetus: Freedom as Philosophy´
28 November	Margreet Steiner (RuG), 'Nieuw archeologisch onderzoek te Tell Abu Sarbut in de Jordaanvallei: op zoek naar een Romeinse boerderij'
19 December	Evert van Emde Boas (RuG / Leiden), "A Man of Fashion Never Has Recourse to Proverbs": General Reflections in Greek Tragedy´

2012
20 February	Christoph Pieper (Leiden), 'Memoria saeptus. The power of memory and rhetoric in two of Cicero’s “finest hours”
12 March	April DeConick (Rice University), 'Network Criticism: An Embodied Historical Approach to Understanding Gnosticism in the Ancient New Age'
16 April	Karin Neutel (RuG), ´When the Ideal meets the Real: Paul's Community Construction'
21 May	Eva Mol & Maaike Leemreize (Leiden), ´Literary and Archaeological Perspectives on Egypt in the Roman World: a Case Study on Animal Worship'

Previous programmes

2010-2011

2010
20 September	Henk Kubbinga (Groningen), 'Lucretius' De rerum natura: groot nieuws over kleine deeltjes'
18 October	Sara Wijma (RuG), 'Rauw vlees en statusvorming: de rol van metoiken tijdens de Hephaisteia'
22 November	Leonard Rutgers (UU), 'Nieuw archeologisch onderzoek in de joodse en vroegchristelijke catacomben van Rome'
13 December	Mathieu de Bakker (UvA), 'Early Greek Historical Narrative: Setback and Comeback'
2011
21 February	Simon Speksnijder (RuG), 'Roman Greeting Rituals: Creating Social Hierarchies'
21 March	Paul van Geest (VU/FKT), 'St. Augustine on Good Government' (session with EMO)
18 April	Marius Heemstra (Groningen), 'Persecution of Christians in the New Testament: Rhetoric or Reality?'
16 May	Tanja Scheer (Goettingen), 'Autochtony and the Greek Past'

2009-2010

2010
15-02-'10 \| Ancient World Seminar \| Sarah Willemsen Een veranderend grafritueel te Crustumerium (Rome). Verarming of verschuiving?
21-05-2010 \| SPECIAL SESSION CRASIS Ancient World Seminar Timothy Moore, Ancient auloi in Eelde and Elsewhere
15-03-'10 \| Ancient World Seminar \| Matthias Henze Why Should We Read the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha? The Case of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
19-04-'10 \| Ancient World Seminar \| Jürgen Zangenberg Peace from the Ashes: The Year 70 from a Roman Perspective
17-05-'10 \| Ancient World Seminar \| Christina Williamson Rational rituals in landscapes of power. The use of sanctuaries by rulers to transform space in Karia (Zeus at Labraunda) and Pergamon (Meter Theon at Mamurt Kale)\| Ancient World Seminar

2009
The Gospel of Judas: from Villain to Hero? The Text, its Context and its Message \| dr. F.L. Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Death and Despair: On aponoia in Plutarch's and Appian's Depiction of Spartacus' Death \| Lydia Langerwerf
'Imperial Ideology in Early Christian Thought' \| Karla Pollmann (St. Andrews)
The Diversity of Apologetics - from Genre to a Mode of Thought' \| Anders Klostergaard Petersen (Aarhus)
The Christianization of the Late Roman City - Problems and Perspectives \| Johannes Hahn (Münster)

2008
How do you know that Paul is joking when nobody laughs? \| Karin Neutel
Galli in Rome \| Lucinda Dirven
The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia in Aulis \| Jan Bremmer
Callimachus'Aetia \| Annette Harder
Assimilation to the God as the Goal of Ethics in Acient Philosophy, Philo and Paul \| G.H. van Kooten
Unraveling the threads of Qumran's hystory by scientific means \| Jan Gunneweg

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