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Research and Teaching

In this menu you find an overview of CRASIS research and teaching activities as well as upcoming CRASIS-funded projects.

Course name

Ocasys page

Lecturer(s)

Archaeological Theory

2025-2026

Dr. L. de Jong, Dr S. Desjardins

Research and Professional Skills in Archaeology (ReMA 5 EC)

2024-2025

Dr C. Çakirlar, Dr F. Builian

Landscape Archaeology: Europe's Settled Landscapes (ReMA 10 EC)

2024-2025

Dr T. de Haas, Dr S. Arnoldussen

Death as a Mirror of Life (ReMA 10 EC)

2025-2026

Prof. S. Voutsaki, Dr A.C. Moles

Dirk Smilde Research Seminar: Comparative Studies with Special Reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls

here

Prof. dr. M. Popovic

Greek Epigraphy

2024-25

Prof. dr. O.M. van Nijf

Historical Methods in Early Christianity

here

Prof. dr. F.L. Roig Lanzillotta

Greek for Research

LQX035M10

Dr M. Capano

Latin for Research

LQX033M10

H.D. Williams
Latin Research Seminar I
Prof. dr. B.L.Reitz-Joosse

Research Seminar Greek I

LQX047M10

F. Budelmann

Urban Timescapes in the Ancient World

LGX272M10

C. G. Williamson

Reception and Re-Use of Authoritative Texts

here

Dr. K. Fowler, Ma Phd

Texts of Terror

here

A.F. Bakker, Phd

Text, Language and Religion

LQX046M05

Dr S. Peels-Matthey, Dr R. Van Hove

Tragedy: Experiments in Pain and Pleasure

LLS058M10

J Flood, F Budelmann

Hero-Worship in Ancient Mediterranean Colonialism

LGX269M10

J. Pelgrom

International Workshop: Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City


Time: 15–16 May 2025

Location: Doopsgezindekerk, Groningen

Ancient cities brought together a plurality of time systems such as calendars, shared rhythms and routines, narratives of the past and future, mixing the quotidian with the profound in a spatio-temporal continuum. Religion is at the crossroads of many of these urban temporalities. Rituals regulated the days, months, and seasons of human time, with transregional ‘panhellenic’ festivals synchronizing cities across the Mediterranean. Yet festivals also had a transcendent capacity of lifting the individual out of the everyday, creating ‘atemporal’ spaces in the city, but especially ‘atemporal’ communities that extended beyond the boundaries of the living and the dead. Who belonged to these temporal communities? Where were their timescapes located, how did they shape urban space? Which religious temporalities outlined the contours of civic identity?

This workshop brings together scholars from across the world, and at different career stages, to focus on the role of religion and time in creating a multivalent sense of the city.

For full programme, please see website religioustemporalities.wordpress.com, for more information about the network please click here.

Last modified:02 May 2025 12.19 p.m.