Local Horizons of Ancient Greek Religion - 21-22/11/2018, Sydney (Australia)
There has recently been an upsurge of scholarly interest in diversifying our understanding of ancient Greek religion. At the same time, conceptual work on the local provides new insights into the lived experience in the ancient Greek world. The conference ‘Local Horizons of Ancient Greek Religion’ combines both lines of inquiry. The overall aim is to complicate our understanding of ancient Greek religion by exploring the local as a space for divergence, idiosyncrasy, and plurality. Rather than simply reviving the idea of polis religion, advocacy for the local perspective encourages a conception that is not confined to the political and social aggregation of the city-state alone.
A critical discussion of ancient Greek religious localism and how it can inform different areas of study is still outstanding. Recent advances in the field of local/global interactions disclose the tension between the local sphere on the one hand, and regional/universal, or Panhellenic, paradigms on the other. The individual papers of this conference will come together to explore this tension. In doing so, they will investigate the local both as a sphere of religious conduct and as a quantity in its own right that informs the exercise of religion in ancient Greece.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 21-22/11/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia, University of Australia (Sydney, Australia)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Hans Beck (Montreal); Julia Kindt (Sydney)
INFO: web - julia.kindt@sydney.edu.au - hans.beck@mcgill.ca)
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Gratis/free/gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Day 1 – Tuesday, November 20
4pm Special Free Tour of the Nicholson Museum for Conference Participants
5:00 – 5:15 Welcome—Julia Kindt
Public Lecture
5:15 – 6:45 Hans Beck, McGill University—The Gods in Place. Local Religion in Ancient Greece
7.00 Opening Reception (CCANESA)
Day 2 – Wednesday, November 21
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks—Hans Beck and Julia Kindt
Session 1 (Session Chair: Dr. James Collins, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington)
9:15 – 10:00 Julia Kindt, University of Sydney—Localism and the Greek Gods
10:00 – 10:45 Diana Burton, Victoria University of Wellington—Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Local Topography in Greek Cult
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
Session 2 (Session Chair: Dr. Ben Brown, The University of Sydney)
11:15 – 12:00 Greta Hawes, The Australian National University—Observations on Local Cult within the Topography of Pausanias’ Periegesis
12:00 – 12:45 Barbara Kowalzig, New York University—Local, Glocal, Global: Towards a Maritime Perspective on Greek Religion
12:45 – 1:45 Lunch
Session 3 (Session Chair: Daniel Hanigan, The University of Sydney)
1:45 – 2:30 Amelia Brown, University of Queensland—Local Horizons, Distant Shores: Ancient Greek Mariners and their Mediterranean Community of Costal Cults
2:30 – 3:15 Julietta Steinhauer, University College London—Between Local and Global: Minor Shrines and Religious Associations on Delos
3:15 – 3:45 Coffee Break
Session 4 (Session Chair: Dr. Jelle Stoop, The University of Sydney)
3:45 – 4:30 Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania—The Lindian Chronicle and the Rhodian Priests
4:30 – 5:15 Juliane Zachhuber, University of Oxford—Protecting Hiera from the Polis: Localizing Tendencies in Post-Synoikism Rhodes
6 pm Conference Dinner (for presenters and session chairs only)
Day 3 – Thursday, November 22
Session 5 (Session Chair: Edward Armstrong, The University of Sydney:)
9:45 – 10:30 Susan Lupack, Macquarie University—Mycenaean Worship in Minoan Territory
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Tulsi Parikh, University of Cambridge—Polytheism and the Distribution of Votives in Corinthia
11:45 – 12:30 Kate McLardy, Monash University—Local Variation in the Thesmophoria Festival: Athens and Sicily
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
Session 6 (Session Chair: Maree Rodriguez, The University of Sydney)
1:30 – 2:15 Peter Londey, Australian National University—Finding the Local in Delphoi
2:15 – 3:00 Peter Funke, Universität Münster—Panhellenic Sanctuaries, the Local and the Regional Perspective
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
Session 7 (Session Chair: Professor Matthew Dillon , University of New England).
3:30 – 4:15 Claire Taylor, University of Wisconsin-Madison—Problematizing Local and Global: Religion in/and/around the Piraeus
4:15 – 5:00 Irene Polinskaya, King’s College London—Personal or Communal? Choice and Responsibility in Ancient Greek Religion
5:00 – 6:00 Concluding Discussion