Source: Central European University.
Date: March 7,
2013 - 09:00 - March 10, 2013 - 16:00
Event type:
Conference
Event audience:
Open to the Public
CEU organizer(s):
Marianne Sághy
CEU host unit(s):
Department of Medieval Studies
External organizers:
University of Pécs
CEU contact
person: Marianne Sághy
E-mail: Email contact form
Thursday
March 7, 2013
CEU Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Popper Room
10:00-10:30 am
Marianne Sághy (Budapest) Welcome and Introductory Remarks: What’s new
pagans and Christians?
10:30-12:30 pm Cities, Sophists, Bishops
Chair: Rita
Lizzi Testa (Perugia)
Josef Rist (Bochum): Conversion in a late antique
city: The Life of Bishop Porphyry of Gaza by Mark the Deacon
Raffaella Cribiore (New York): The sophist Libanius as
a grey pagan
Wolf Liebeschuetz (Nottingham) A view from Cyrrhus:
Theodoret’s ‘Affectionum graecarum curatio’
Samuel Provost (Nancy): Living side by side in a
changing urban landscape: Christians, Pagans and Jews in Philippi (4th-6th
centuries)
12:30-1:30 lunch break
1:30-3:00 pm Religion and Philosophy
Chair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)
Luciana Soares Santoprete (Paris): Relations between
philosophical and religious traditions
Róbert Somos (Pécs): Sentences as elements of
philosophia moralis: Adaptations of a pagan literary form in the Works of
Rufinus of Aquileia
Maël Goarzin (Lausanne): Pagan and Christian biography
in late antiquity: On the importance of practical life for pagan and Christian
philosophers
3-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-5:00 pm Cohabitation and/or Conversion
Chair: Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)
Zsófia Buzádi-Sallai (Budapest): A pagan who converted
and became bishop
Margarita Vallejo-Girvés (Alcalá): Empress Verina
among the pagans
Miriam Adan Jones (Amsterdam): Conversion as
convergence: Understanding Gregory the Great's attitude toward pagan and Jewish
influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity
5:30-6:30 pm keynote lecture
CEU, Budapest,
Nádor utca 9, Auditorium
Chair: Wolf Liebeschuetz
Alan Cameron (New York): Were pagans afraid to speak
their mind?
7:00 pm Buffet dinner
Friday
March 8 CEU Budapest
10:00 -12:00 a.m Parallel sessions
Historical Perceptions
Popper Room
Chair: Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg)
Mar Marcos (Cantabria): Eusebius and Maximinus Daia
Anna Tóth (Budapest):
John Lydus as pagan and Christian
Juana Torres (Cantabria): Rhetoric and historical
deformation: Marcus of Arethusa, heretic and martyr
Ecaterina Lung (Bucharest): Religious identity as seen
by 6th-century historians and chroniclers
Pagan and Christian Burials
Gellner Room
Chair: Dino Milinovic (Zagreb)
Ivan Basic (Split): From Sepulcrum divi Diocletiani to
Ecclesia gloriosae Virginis: New propositions on the Christianisation of Diocletian’s
mausoleum in Spalato
Monica Hellström (Providence): Circiform funerary
basilicas in Rome in the context of previous burial places
Olivér Gábor (Pécs): Pagan and Christian burial
customs in Sopianae
Elizabeth O’Brien (Dublin): Impact beyond the Empire:
Burial practices in Ireland (4th – 8th centuries)
Posters:
Claudia-Maria Behling (Vienna): Pagan garden to
Christian paradise: Early Christianity in the eastern Transdanubian Region
Stefanie Hofbauer (Vienna): Finger rings from
Antiquity to Christianity
12:00-1:00 pm lunch break
1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Religious Profiling
Popper Room
Chair: Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki)
Jerome Lagouanère (Paris) The figure of ‘Paganus’ in
the Works of Augustine of Hippo
Linda Honey (Calgary) Religious profiling in the
Miracles of St. Thekla
Monika Pesthy
Simon (Budapest) Martyres versus Pharmakoi
Volker Menze (Budapest) The dark side of holiness:
Fear, punishment, death and Barsaumo ‘the Roasted’
3:00 pm-3:30 pm Coffee break
3:30-5:30 Social and Economic Relations – Civic Life
Popper Room
Chair: Josef Rist (Bochum)
Joseph Grzywaczewski (Paris): Sidonius Apollinaris’s
pagan vision of Roma bellatrix in Christian Rome
Lucy Grig (Edinburgh): Late antique popular culture
and the creation of “paganism”: the Case of the Kalends of January
Sofie Remijsen (Leuven): Christianizing the rhythm of
life? Sundays in late antique papyri
Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio): Social relations and status
anxiety across religious divides in late antiquity
5:30 pm-6:00 pm Coffee break
6:00-8:00 pm Pagans, Christians and Material
Culture: Artistic Crossovers
Popper Room
Chair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)
Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia): The Economy of pagan
temples and Christian churches
Edward M. Schoolman (Nevada): Religious images and
contexts: “Christian” and “pagan” terracotta lamps
Dino Milinović (Zagreb): Pagan, Christian, or
“secular”? The problem of the silver plate
Steven D. Smith (New York): Pagan literary mimésis in
Christian Constantinople: The devotional epigrams of Agathias’ s Cycle
Saturday
March 9, 2013
Pécs/Sopianae, Late Antique Cemetery
Cella Septichora
Visitor Center (Pécs, Szent István tér)
1:00-3:00 pm The Archaeology of Christianisation
Chair: Zsolt Visy (Pécs)
Mustafa Şahin (Bursa): Myndos Rabbit Island (Tavşan
Adası): from pagan sanctuary to Christian monastery
Branka Migotti (Zagreb): The cult of Sol Invictus and
early Christianity in Southern Pannonia
Hristo Preshlenov (Sofia): Pagans and Christianisation
along the South-West Black Sea Coast in the provinces of Scythia, Moesia
Secunda and Haemimontos
Roy Flechner (Dublin): Economic change and conversion
to Christianity in early medieval Britain and Ireland: consequence or
coincidence?
3:00-4:00 pm Coffee break and poster exhibition
Zsolt Visy (Pécs): Sopianae and Valeria in the late
Roman period
Levente Nagy (Pécs): Christian objects from Pannonia
István Lovász (Pécs): The northern cemetery of
Sopianae in 3D
Marijana Vuković (Budapest/Oslo): Saint Irenaeus of
Sirmium
Ferenc Fazekas (Pécs) - Antal Szabó (Paks): “Pagan”
and Christian culture in Lussonium
Réka Neményi (Pécs): Early Christian cross-bow
brooches
Alessandra Bravi - Silvia Margutti (Perugia):
Transformation of sacred spaces:
Constantinople and the Eastern Empire
Roy Flechner (Dublin): Converting the Isles
4:00-5:00 pm Concluding remarks
Chair: Danielle Slootjes (Nijmegen)
Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)
5:00-6:30 pm The Late Antique Cemetery of Sopianae with
guides Zsolt Visy, Levente Nagy and Olivér Gábor
6:30-7:30 pm closing lecture
Chair: Alan Cameron (New York)
Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg): Constantine and Rome -
between pagans and Christians
8:00 pm Dinner
Restaurant Pezsgőház, Pécs, Szent István tér
Conference coordinators:
Johanna Rákos-Zichy: eruntale@gmail.com
Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky: Znorovszky_Andrea-Bianka@ceu-budapest.edu.
Special thanks to Attila Üveges and the Zsolnay Örökségkezelő
Nonprofit Kft. Pécs