The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism

I haven’t been keeping up with entries lately. I plan to return to more regular updates next week.

In the meantime, here’s news about an interesting forthcoming conference – although this one I unfortunately won’t be able to attend.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LATE ANTIQUE PAGANISM
(LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2005, MEETING 2)
KULeuven, Belgium, 25th-26th November 2005

Full programme below the curtain.

FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER
Welcome
09.00-09.10 Prof. Marc Waelkens (KUL)

Paganism in late antiquity
09.10-09.50 Peter Van Nuffelen (KUL-Exeter)
Eusebius of Caesarea and the concept of paganism.
09.50-10.30 Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh)
Pagan survival: spring sanctuaries in the late antique world.

10.30-10.50 Discussion

10.50-11.20 Break

Temples in the West

11.20-12.00 Gareth Sears (Birmingham)
The fate of temples in Africa and Cyrenaica
12.00-12.40 Jorge López Quiroga and Artemio Martínez Tejera (Madrid)
The fate of temples in late antique Hispania:
between paganism and Christianity

12.40-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Temples in the East
14.00-14.40 Laurence Foschia (Athens)
The fate of temples in Greece
14.40-15.20 Georgios Deligiannakis (Oxford)
Late paganism on the Aegean Islands and Christianisation
15.20-16.00 Lies Vercauteren and Peter Talloen (KUL)
The fate of temples in Western Asia Minor

16.00-16.20 Break

16.20-16.40 Discussion

Archaeology and Material Culture
16.40-17.20 Peter Talloen (KUL)
Material culture in the East.
17.20-18.00 Prof. Arnold Provoost and Koenraad Demarsin (KUL)
Material culture in the West

18.00-18.20 Discussion

SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER

Religious Statues
09.00-09.40 Beatrice Caseau (Paris)
Religious statues in late antiquity:
from veneration to ridicule.
09.40-10.20 Ine Jacobs (KUL)
Production to destruction? Pagan statuary
in Asia Minor during late antiquity.

10.20-10.40 Discussion

10.40-11.10 Break

Religious Statues
11.10-11.50 Luke Lavan (KUL)
The urban function of surviving pagan statues in late antiquity: some thoughts.
11.50-12.30 Georgios Deligiannakis (Oxford)
Christian attitudes towards pagan statuary:
the case of Anastasius from the city of Rhodes.

12.30-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Reception

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