Religious convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean - 23-24-25-26/06/2016, Palermo (Italy)

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 23-24-25-26/06/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Villa Whitaker (Palermo, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Sandra Blakely (Emory University) ; Billie Jean Collins (Emory University) ; Lela Urquhart (Georgia State University) ; Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendenza del Mare, Regione Siciliana)
INFO: web - submissions@palermo2016.net
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Thursday, June 23
10:30am OPENING REMARKS: Sandra Blakely
SESSION 1: LANDSCAPE. Chair: Barbara Kowalzig
10:45am Amelia Brown The Role of Mediterranean Seafarers in Cults and Sanctuaries of Aphrodite
11:10am Irene Polinskaya Password? Rituals for Trespassing on the Land of the Gods of Others
11:35am Sandra Blakely Samothracian Networks: Economic Prospects and Ritual Promises in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
12:00–1:45 LUNCH BREAK, FREE TIME
SESSION 2: WESTERN SICILY. Chair: David Scahill
1:45pm Rosella Giglio Lilibeo e i suoi culti: nuovi esempi di ritualità pubblica e privata dalla ricerca archeologica
2:10pm Birgit Öhlinger Ritual Consumption and Local Power Discourse on the Archaic Monte Iato in Western Sicily
2:35pm Meritxell Ferrer Martin Performing Local Responses through Architecture: Ritual, Power, and Community in Western Sicily (Eighth–Fifth Centuries BC)j
3:00–3:15pm break
SESSION 3: PHOENICIANS 1. Chair: Sarah Morris
3:15pm Adriano Orsingher Across Traditions and beyond Boundaries: The Masks of Carthage
3:40pm José Miguel Puebla Morón Greek Coins, Punic People: Analysis of the
Punic Coinage of Sicily from the Iconographical Aspect
4:05–4:20pm break
SESSION 4: ROME 1. Chair: Jeffrey Brodd
4:20pm Kevin Dicus Using Your Head: Local Stylistic Adaptations in Foreign Ritual
4:45pm Eric Orlin Augustus and Italian Cult Practices
5:10pm James Rives Roman Empire and Roman Emperor: Animal Sacrifice as an Instrument of Convergence
6:00–8:00pm RECEPTION VILLA WHITAKER
WELCOMING REMARKS
Friday, June 24
SESSION 5: ANATOLIA 1. Chair: Jared Miller
10:00am Amir Gilan Religious Convergence in Hittite Anatolia: Further Thoughts on (Some) Kizzuwatna Rituals
10:25am Susanne Görke Mythological Parts in Hittite Rituals
10:50–11:00am break
11:00am Billie Jean Collins The “Arzawa” Rituals and Religious Production in Hittite Anatolia
11:25am Elisabeth Rieken Convergence and Divergence in Hittite Prayers
12:00–1:30am LUNCH VILLA WHITAKER
SESSION 6: MAGIC. Chair: Radcliffe Edmonds III
1:30pm Christopher Faraone The Convergence of Domestic and Civic Talismans in the Ancient Greek World: Top-Down or Bottom-up?
1:55pm Lech Trzcionkowski Graffiti from Olbia: Writing Practices and the Articulation of Ritual Boundaries
2:20pm Sarah G. Titus Genetrix et mater superstitionum: The Bulla as Apotropaic Device in Etruscan Art
2:20–2:40pm coffee break
SESSION 7: ROME 2. Chair: Kevin Dicus
2:40pm Megan Nutzman Written in Stone: Jewish Identity in the Roman Epitaphs
3:05pm Claudia Moser Locating Gaul: Continuity and Change in the Architecture of Sacrificial Practices in Pre-Roman and Roman Gaul
3:30pm Marco Romeo Pitone Rituals in Late Bronze Age Southern Etruria and Their Connection with Aegean Cultures
3:55–4:15pm coffee break
SESSION 8: SICILY 1. Chair: Sebastiano Tusa
4:15pm Francesca Oliveri Venere del mare: Testimonianze del culto nell’area del trapanese
4:40pm Margaret Miles The Greek Temple in the Elymian Sanctuary at Contrada Mango, Segesta
5:05pm Giuseppina Mammina Una donna di nome Mozia: Testimonianze
and M. Pamela Toti archeologiche di Eracle/Melqart a Mozia
5:30pm– FREE EVENING
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