PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE:
NEW EVIDENCE, NEW APPROACHES
(4th-6th centuries)
Budapest-Pécs, 7-10 March 2013
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
www.ceu.hu
University of Pécs
www.pte.hu

PROGRAM

Thursday March 7 CEU Budapest (Nádor utca 9)

Popper Room

10-10:30 am Marianne Sághy (Budapest) Welcome and Introductory Remarks

What’s new pagans and Christians?




10: 30-12:30 pm Cities, Sophists, Bishops




Chair: Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia)

Josef Rist (Bochum) Conversion in a late antique city: The Life of Bishop Porphyry of Gaza by Mark the Deacon

Raffaella Cribiore (New York) The sophist Libanius as a grey pagan

Wolf Liebeschuetz (Nottingham) A view from Cyrrhus: Theodoret’s ‘Affectionum graecarum curatio’

Samuel Provost (Nancy) Living side by side in a changing urban landscape: Christians, Pagans and Jews in Philippi (4th-6th centuries)




12:30 -1:30 lunch break




1:30- 3 pm Religion and Philosophy

Chair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)




Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (Paris) Relations between philosophical and religious traditions at the beginning of the Christian era : two new digital research tools

Róbert Somos (Pécs) Sentences as elements of philosophia moralis: Adaptations of a pagan literary form in the Works of Rufinus of Aquileia

Maël Goarzin (Lausanne) Pagan and Christian biography in late antiquity: On the importance of practical life for pagan and Christian philosophers




3-3:30 Coffee break




3:30-5 pm Cohabitation and/or Conversion

Chair: Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)

Zsófia Buzádi-Sallai (Budapest) A pagan who converted and became bishop

Margarita Vallejo-Girvés (Alcalá) Empress Verina among the pagans

Miriam Adan Jones (Amsterdam) Conversion as convergence: Understanding Gregory the Great's attitude toward pagan and Jewish influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity




5:30-6:30 pm keynote lecture

CEU Auditorium

Chair: Wolf Liebeschuetz

Alan Cameron (New York) Were pagans afraid to speak their mind?




7 pm Buffet dinner




Friday March 8 CEU Budapest

10am -12 pm Parallel sessions!

Historical Perceptions

Popper Room

Chair: Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg)

Mar Marcos (Cantabria) Eusebius and Maximinus Daia

Anna Tóth (Budapest) John Lydus as pagan and Christian

Juana Torres (Cantabria) Rhetoric and historical deformation: Marcus of Arethusa, heretic and martyr

Ecaterina Lung (Bucharest) Religious identity as seen by 6th-century historians and chroniclers




Pagan and Christian Burials

Gellner Room

Chair: Dino Milinovic (Zagreb)

Ivan Basic (Split) From Sepulcrum divi Diocletiani to Ecclesia gloriosae Virginis: New propositions on the Christianisation of Diocletian’s mausoleum in Spalato

Monica Hellström (Providence) Circiform funerary basilicas in Rome in the context of previous burial places

Olivér Gábor (Pécs) Pagan and Christian burial customs in Sopianae

Elizabeth O’Brien (Dublin) Impact beyond the Empire: Burial practices in Ireland (4th – 8th centuries)

Posters:

Claudia-Maria Behling (Vienna) Pagan garden to Christian paradise: Early Christianity in the eastern Transdanubian Region

Stefanie Hofbauer (Vienna) Finger rings from Antiquity to Christianity




12-1 pm lunch break




1 pm-3 pm: Religious Profiling

Popper Room

Chair: Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki)




Jerome Lagouanère (Paris) The figure of ‘Paganus’ in the Works of Augustine of Hippo




Linda Honey (Calgary) Religious profiling in the Miracles of St. Thekla




Monika Pesthy Simon (Budapest) Martyres versus Pharmakoi




Volker Menze (Budapest) The dark side of holiness: Fear, punishment, death and Barsaumo ‘the Roasted’




3pm-3:30 pm Coffee break

3:30-5:30 Social and Economic Relations – Civic Life

Popper Room

Chair: Josef Rist (Bochum)

Joseph Grzywaczewski (Paris) Sidonius Apollinaris’s pagan vision of Roma bellatrix in Christian Rome

Lucy Grig (Edinburgh) Late antique popular culture and the creation of “paganism”: the Case of the Kalends of January

Sofie Remijsen (Leuven) Christianizing the rhythm of life? Sundays in late antique papyri

Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio) Social relations and status anxiety across religious divides in late antiquity




5:30-6 pm Coffee Break




6-8 pm Pagans, Christians and Material Culture: Artistic Crossovers

Popper Room

Chair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)




Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia) The Economy of pagan temples and Christian churches

Edward M. Schoolman (Nevada) Religious images and contexts: “Christian” and “pagan” terracotta lamps

Dino Milinović (Zagreb) Pagan, Christian, or “secular”? The problem of the silver plate

Steven D. Smith (New York) Pagan literary mimésis in Christian Constantinople: The devotional epigrams of Agathias’ s Cycle




Saturday March 9 Pécs/Sopianae, Late Antique Cemetery

Cella Septichora Visitor Center (Pécs, Szent István tér)



1-3 pm The Archaeology of Christianisation

Chair: Zsolt Visy (Pécs)

Mustafa Şahin (Bursa) Myndos Rabbit Island (Tavşan Adası): from pagan sanctuary to Christian monastery

Branka Migotti (Zagreb) The cult of Sol Invictus and early Christianity in Southern Pannonia

Hristo Preshlenov (Sofia) Pagans and Christianisation along the South-West Black Sea Coast in the provinces of Scythia, Moesia Secunda and Haemimontos

Roy Flechner (Dublin) Economic change and conversion to Christianity in early medieval Britain and Ireland: consequence or coincidence?




3-4 pm Coffee break and poster exhibition




Zsolt Visy (Pécs) Sopianae and Valeria in the late Roman period

Levente Nagy (Pécs) Christian objects from Pannonia

István Lovász (Pécs) The northern cemetery of Sopianae in 3D

Tóth István Zsolt (Pécs) 10 Janus Pannonius Street:- A Three Apses-Funerary Building from the Northern Cemetery of Sopianae

Marijana Vuković (Budapest/Oslo) Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium

Ferenc Fazekas (Pécs) - Antal Szabó (Paks) “Pagan” and Christian culture in Lussonium

Réka Neményi (Pécs) Early Christian cross-bow brooches

Francesca Diosono (Perugia) Pagani and peasants: the rural site of Villa San Silvestro di Cascia

Alessandra Bravi - Silvia Margutti (Perugia) Transformation of sacred spaces: Constantinople and the Eastern Empire

Roy Flechner (Dublin) Converting the Isles




4-5 pm Concluding remarks

Chair: Danielle Slootjes (Nijmegen)

Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)




5-6:30 pm The Late Antique Cemetery of Sopianae

with guides Zsolt Visy, Levente Nagy and Olivér Gábor

6:30-7:30 pm closing lecture

Chair: Alan Cameron (New York)

Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg) Constantine and Rome - between pagans and Christians

8 pm Dinner (Restaurant Pezsgőház, Pécs, Szent István tér)