U4 Winter School

“Identity and Cultural Transfer in Antiquity”

1-5 February 2010

Monday, February 1
Chair:	University of Groningen
Theme:	"Cultural Transfer"
Location:	Netherlands Institute, Athens
09.00 - 10.00	Welcome
10.00 – 10.40	Prof. Dr G.H. van Kooten (Theology)
	"Cultural transfer and competition in early Christianity: socio-political, philosophical, and religious interactions up to the edict of Milan (313 AD)"
11.00 – 11.40	Dr Job van Eck (History of Philosophy)
	"Plato's defense of Protagoras: on Theaetetus 151e-160e"
12.00 - 12.40	Dr Jan Willem Drijvers (Ancient History)
	"Late-Antique Jerusalem: transformation and cultural transfer"
15.00 – 15.20	Marleen Termeer (Ancient History)
	"Rome and the Latin colonies in the Middle Republic: the perspective of cultural transfer"
15.30 – 15.50	Simon Speksnijder (Ancient History)
	"Showing and shaping Roman social identities: eating and greeting rituals"
16.00 – 16.20	Jörn Soerink (Classical Philology)
	"The ara clementiae in Statius’ Thebaid: from Greek fact to Latin fiction"
17.00 – 17.20	Karin B. Neutel (Theology)
	"Cultural transfer and early Christian universalism"
17.30 – 17.50	Birgit E.A.L. van der Lans (Theology)
	"Cultural transfer and early Christian politics"
Tuesday, February 2
Chair:	Ghent University
Theme:	"Identity and Cultural Transfer"
Location:	Netherlands Institute, Athens
11.00 – 11.40	Prof. Dr Mark Janse (Classical Philology)
	"God’s commandments: the translation poetics of the Septuagint"
12.00 – 12.40	Prof. Dr Danny Praet (Ancient Philosophy)
	"Greek and barbarian wisdom in the Vita Apollonii"
15.00 – 15.20	Dimitra Bougonikolou (Modern Greek)
	"The linguistic construction of identity in Cappadocian-Greek communities"
15.30 – 15.50	Lieve Donnellan (Classical Archaeology)
	"Greek identity in the Euboean colony: Naxos in Sicily and her subcolonies (proto-archaic and archaic period)"
16.30 – 16.50	Sylvie Geerts (Classical Philology)
	"Ideology and identity in recent Dutch retellings of classical mythology"
17.00 – 17.20	Eline Scheerlinck (History of Religions)
	"Orientalism in Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain by Franz Cumont"
17.30 – 17.50	Marloes Deene (Ancient History)
	"Struggling for recognition: the social identity of new-made citizens in Classical Athens"
Wednesday, February 3
Excursion organized by the Göttingen Archaeological Institute
09.00 – 11.00	Prof. Dr h.c. Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier (Director of the German Institute
	at Athens) Guided tour of the Kerameikos and the Kerameikos Museum (German excavations)
12.00 -13.00	Prof. Dr Johannes Bergemann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
	Guided tour of the Piraeus Museum
14.00 - 15.30	Dr Bjørn Lovén (Danish Institute at Athens)
	Guided tour of Philo’s Arsenal and the Zea Harbour Project (Danish excavations)
16.30 - 18.30	Prof. Dr Dimitrios Pandermalis (Director of the New Acropolis Museum)
	Guided tour of the New Acropolis Museum
19.00 - 20.00	NIA Open Evening Lecture by Prof. Dr Mark Janse (Ghent University)
	“The revival of Cappadocian identity”
Thursday, February 4
Chair:	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Theme:	"Identity"
Location:	German Archaeological Institute, Athens
09.40 – 10.00	Welcome
10.00 – 10.45	Prof. Dr Johannes Bergemann (Classical Archaeology)
	"Identity in stone: monuments and Athenian identity in classical and early imperial times"
11.35 - 12.20	Prof. Dr Peter Kuhlmann (Classical Philology)
	"Roman identity in the hymns of Prudentius"
14.40 - 15.10	Felix Bartenstein (Ancient History)
	"The identity of some North Spanish tribes in the Augustan era"
15.25 - 15.55	Astrid Khariouzov (Classical Philology)
	"Roman and Greek handling of heaven-sent signs: a comparison based on the prodigium of the 'miraculous cow' (Liv. 1.45.3-7)"
16.40 - 17.10	Anne Pinkepank (Classical Philology)
	"Reassessing Dionysios: on the difficulty of preserving the self in Chariton's Kallirhoe"
17.25 - 17.55	Thoralf Schröder (Classical Archaeology)
	"Athens, Thessaloniki, Corinth: civic identities in Roman Greece"
Friday, February 5
Chair:	Uppsala University
Theme:	"Polis and Apolis"
Location:	Netherlands Institute, Athens
10.30 – 11.00	Prof. Dr Gullög Nordquist (Classical Archaeology)
	"Building the polis: report on an ongoing project"
11.00 – 11.30	Linda Öhman (Classical Archaeology)
	"The organization of local city life: Roman vici and neighbourhood identity"
11.30 – 12.00	Tor Frey (History of Philosophy)
	"Socrates and virtuous activity"
14.00 – 14.20	Prof. Dr Denis Searby (Classical Languages)
	"Classics in Uppsala"
14.20 – 14.50	Karin Tikannen (Classical Languages)
	"Idiolects, sociolects and national languages: a comparison of ancient Greece and Italy"
15.10 – 15.40	Eric Cullhed (Classical Languages)
	"Homer on the origins of Athens: a Hellenistic Interpretation of the Shield of Achilles"
16.30 – 16.50	Prof. Dr Gabriella Gustafsson (History of Religions)
	"The Odyssey and its reception: perspectives from studies of religion, myth and literature"
16.50 – 17.20	Paulina Partanen (History of Religion)
	"Living on the border: the female threat in Homer's Odyssey"
17.40 – 18.10	Thomas Sjösvärd (History of Literature)
	"Second blindness: on Willy Kyrklund's Elpënor"