Please note that the business meeting of the Greco-Roman Religions Section will be held at the end of S25-125, that is, on Monday, November 25, ca. 11:00 a.m. in Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level) – Hilton Bayfront. Please come and help us discuss plans for the future of the Greco-Roman Religions Section.
| S23-317 Greco-Roman Religions / Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions Joint Session With: Greco-Roman Religions, Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions 11/23/2024 4:00 PM to 6:15 PM Room: Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level) – Hilton Bayfront Theme: Reaching Far and Wide: Elite Values and Wider Social Interactions in Religious Settings across the Ancient Mediterranean Barbette Spaeth, College of William and Mary, Presiding Philp Harland, York University Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ethnography (20 min) Tag(s): Greece/Greek (Greco-Roman Literature), Ancient Near East – Persia (History & Culture), Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture) Junqi Kou, Florida State University From Basileus to Sebastos: The Development of the Imperial Cult of Roman Cyprus from Ptolemaic Royal Worship (20 min) Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Roman Empire (History & Culture), Imperial-critical (empire studies) (Interpretive Approaches) Jacob A. Latham, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Resistance, Religion, and the Cult of Mater Magna in Late Antique Rome (20 min) Tag(s): Roman Empire (History & Culture), History of Christianity (History & Culture) John Bodel, Brown University, Respondent (20 min) Discussion (20 min) SAMR Business Meeting (30 min) S25-125 Greco-Roman Religions 11/25/2024 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Room: Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level) – Hilton Bayfront Theme: Goddess Worship in Greco-Roman Antiquity Sissel Undheim, Universitetet i Bergen, Presiding Ashley L Bacchi, Starr King School for the Ministry Athena in Attalid Pergamon: Centering the Visual Landscape of Power around Wo/men (20 min) Tag(s): Archaeology of Gender (Archaeology & Iconography), Hellenistic Period (History & Culture), Intersectional analysis (Interpretive Approaches) Ahreum Kim, University of Cambridge Eirene, Pax, and the Propaganda of Peace (20 min) Tag(s): Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Gospels – John (Biblical Literature – New Testament) Discussion (10 min) Fabio Caruso, Loyola University of Chicago Women, Voice(s), and Silence: A Transreligious Mediterranean Archetype? Jezebel, Tacita Muta, and the Others (20 min) Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture) Jeffrey Brodd, California State University – Sacramento Divergent Valuations of Virility in Mother Goddess Worship (20 min) Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Roman Empire (History & Culture) Joseph Kimmel, Boston College Ancient Mediterranean Materialism: Onomastic Agency from Tertullian to Jane Bennett (20 min) Tag(s): Material Culture (Archaeology & Iconography), Early Christian Literature (Early Christian Literature – Other), Poststructuralist Criticism (Interpretive Approaches) Discussion (15 min) GRR Business Meeting (25 min) |
| S25-221 Greco-Roman Religions 11/25/2024 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Aqua 310A (Third Level) – Hilton Bayfront Theme: Movement in and beyond the Ancient Mediterranean: Migrants, Tourists, Pilgrims, Travelers Fabio Caruso, Loyola University of Chicago, Presiding Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa To Go See the God in His Place: Pilgrimage, Utopian, and Locative Religion (20 min) Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Religio-Historical Approaches (Interpretive Approaches), Historical Criticism (Interpretive Approaches) Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University Prosocial Religion in Travel Accounts of the Hebrew Bible and the Odyssey (20 min) Tag(s): Hebrew Bible (Ideology & Theology), Greco-Roman Literature (Greco-Roman Literature), Ethical Approaches (Interpretive Approaches) Discussion (10 min) Break (10 min) Naiara Leão, King’s College London Moving in the Borderlands: Apostolic Travel and Local Religion in the Apocryphal Acts (20 min) Tag(s): Apocrypha (Early Christian Literature – Apocrypha), Religio-Historical Approaches (Interpretive Approaches), Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture) Gary D. Wallin, University of Texas at Austin Memorials of Migrants: Recontextualizing the ἐμνήσθη Formula (20 min) Tag(s): 1 Esdras (Biblical Literature – Deuterocanonical Works) Laura Carnevale, University Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy Mobility and Adaptation in a Sacred Place within a Rural Space: The Agentic Role of Transhumant Shepherds; A Case Study from Southern Italy (20 min) Tag(s): History of Christianity (History & Culture) Discussion (10 min) |
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