Opening Lecture: Rethinking Religion in the Greek and Roman Worlds: The Concept of Appropriation and Its Applications’
| When: | Tu 16-09-2025 16:15 - 17:30 |
| Where: | Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society (Oude Boteringestraat 38) - Courtroom |
About the Speaker
Jitse Dijkstra's research centres round the question how religion became transformed in Late Antiquity. In order to answer this question, he focuses on the particular regional and local context of religious transformation rather than on the ideological and general story. Trained as a papyrologist but multidisciplinary in approach, his main interest is Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. He is the author of a monograph on the religious transformation in the First Cataract region, southern Egypt, in particular at the island of Philae, and a study of the graffiti in the temple of Isis at Aswan. He has conducted field work in the region from 2001 onwards and is currently directing two more graffiti projects (at Elephantine and Philae), as well as, since 2018, one at Abydos.
Abstract shall follow soon.