Mediterranean Flows: People, Ideas and Objects in Motion - 10-11/12/2020 - (Online)
As a number of scholars work on shifting identities in the context of different academic disciplines, we would like to create a space for interdisciplinary inquiry into the movement of individuals, objects, and ideas. Movement is fundamentally concerned with relationships among time, object, people, and space. The rationale of this symposium is the notion that understanding movement in the human past as well as in the present, requires a shift away from traditional, fieldwork-based archaeological ontologies or historical narratives towards fluid, interdisciplinary studies. A symposium like the one proposed here must break away from this stasis and, instead, cut new pathways, tracing the boundary-crossing contextuality that is inherent in the mobility of objects, people, practices, and ideas.
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 10-11/12/2020
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Online
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Anna Usacheva (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies); Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies); Elisa Uusimäki (University of Aarhus / Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) ; Maijastina Kahlos ( Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Deadline: 09/12/2020 Aquí/here/qui
Gratis/free/gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Nota bene: Times are Helsinki (East European winter time zone). The allocated time for speakers is 15 minutes for the talk, plus 10 minutes for questions.
Thursday, December 10
11.15 A brief welcome note by the HCAS director and the organisers
Preliminary notes: Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz (University of Helsinki, Eurostorie)
11.30-12.30 Session 1: Mobility – Ancient and Modern
Chair: Maijastina Kahlos (University of Helsinki, HCAS)
Greg Woolf, “What we take with us, what we leave behind”
Lena Näre, “Collective imaginaries in migration – Notes on how hope and rumours move people”
12.45-13.30 Break
13.30-14.30 Session 2: A Mediterranean of Interaction (transport, trade, politics)
Chair: Melanie Wasmuth (University of Helsinki, ANEE)
Sarah Green (University of Helsinki), “Mediterranean animal movements”
Antti Lampinen,(Finnish Institute at Athens)“Condemning mobility: Identity politics and the fear of reverse colonization in the Roman Imperial era”
14.45-15.00 Break
15.00-16.00 Session 3: The World of Beliefs (ideas, values, religion)
Chair: Anna Usacheva (University of Helsinki)
Peter Singer, (Cambridge University) “Students and texts in motion: Medical and philosophical intellectual communities in the second century CE”
Miira Tuominen (University of Stockholm),”The ’movement’ of Aristotle’s theory of perception in the commentaries of Philoponus and Pseudo-Simplicius (Priscian?)”
Friday, December 11
11.30-12.30 Session 4: Materiality and Movement (objects in motion)
Chair: Tero Alstola (University of Helsinki, ANEE)
David Inglis, (University of Helsinki) “The world flows with Mediterranean wine: On the roles of Mare Nostrum in global wine dynamics”
Andras Handl (KU Leuven) “Bones in motion: Long distance relic translations in late antiquity”
12.45-13.30 Break
13.30-15.00 Sessions 5-6: Intersectional Identities in Motion (recreated selves) and Mobility across Boundaries (theoretical approaches)
Chair: Suzie Thomas (University of Helsinki)
Pieter B. Hartog (Theological University in Groningen), “Reading Acts in motion: Travel and glocalisation in the Acts of the Apostles”
Pascucci & Krivonos (University of Helsinki), “Flowing labour: Race, gender and intimacies in transnational mobilities”
James Gerrard (University of Newcastle), “Travelling Britannia: A diachronic perspective on the movement of people and things on the Roman periphery”
15.15 Final discussion and closure of the symposium
Concluding remarks: Elisa Uusimäki (University of Aarhus)