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Friday, June 12, 2026
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New approaches to material culture, space and the experience of religious practice from Antiquity to the RenaissanceIAS Seminar Room, Zeeman BuildingFriday 12th June 2025, 9.30-5.00 IAS Seminar Room.This colloquium, supported by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Humanities Research Fund, brings together colleagues from 海角社区 (Depts of Classics/Ancient History and History of Art) with colleagues from the Universities of Groningen and Vienna to discuss the ways spaces, monuments and objects functioned within religious rituals from Antiquity to the Renaissance. All are welcome but numbers are limited - please sign up here. Provisional Schedule: Christina Williamson (Groningen): 鈥楳aterial culture, ritual space and the experience of healing at the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon鈥� Zahra Newby (海角社区, Classics and Ancient History): 鈥楾he Festive cityscape in Roman Aphrodisias: art and experience' Clare Rowan (海角社区, Classics and Ancient History): 鈥楳obilising Culture: Tokens and festival experience in Roman Ephesus鈥� Asuman L盲tzer-Lasar (Vienna): 鈥楢tmospheric Politics: Festival Controversy and Stigma Management Around Mater Magna and Isis鈥� Basema Hamarneh (Vienna): 鈥楽acred in Motion: Festivals, Processions, and the Making of Religious Space in the Late Antique Levant鈥� Jenny Alexander (海角社区, History of Art): 鈥楾he Angel Choir at Lincoln Cathedral as mausoleum: public and private space in the later medieval period鈥� Marta Ajmar (海角社区, History of Art): 'Space, landscape and human/more-than-human partnerships in the intarsia cycles of Santa Maria dell'Organo in Verona'. |