Friday, May 7, 2010

Athens in Late Antiquity: Civic, Intellectual, and Religious Life Between Paganism and Christianity, Princeton University, 14 May 2010


Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies
Conference 
Athens in Late Antiquity: Civic, Intellectual, and Religious Life Between Paganism and Christianity 
Friday May 14, 2010 
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103 

Welcome: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University) 

Introduction: Johannes Hahn and Christian Wildberg

Johannes Hahn (Münster University / Princeton University), Provincial Backwater Town or Mediterranean Intellectual Metropolis: Foreigners and Urban Identity in Late Antique Athens 
Andreas Gutsfeld (Université Nancy 2), Lokale Eliten im spätantiken Athen / Local Elites in Late Antique Athens
Edward Watts (Indiana University, Bloomington), Athens between West and East: How Fourth-Century Political Liminality led to Fifth-Century Pagan Survival 
Christian Wildberg (Princeton University), Imagining the Material Culture of Intellectual Life in Late Antique Athens

Concluding Remarks: Peter R. Brown (Princeton University)

Cosponsored by: Princeton University, Group for the Study of Late Antiquity
In Collaboration with: Münster University, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion und Politik'.