CALL FOR PAPERS
PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE: NEW EVIDENCE, NEW APPROACHES (4th-6th
centuries)
Budapest, 7-10 March 2013
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
An International Conference organized
by the
Department of Medieval Studies, Central
European University ,
Budapest
in cooperation with the University of Pécs
After a successful
conference that focused on the city of Rome in
September 2012 (“Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome”), we invite papers
for a second conference devoted to examining pagan-Christian
interactions across the Roman Empire . This conference seeks to consider new
evidence and new approaches to the material and textual remains that bear on
the value of these categories in the Roman Empire between the fourth and the
sixth centuries. Did these labels –
pagans and Christians - matter in the daily lives of late Romans? Or are they only relevant in moments of conflict
or for historians? To what degree does geography make a difference in assessing
the nature of pagan-Christian relations?
And, how does the presence of other religious groups – Jews and heretics,
Manichees and schismatics – affect our understanding of pagan-Christian interactions
in different times and places across the
empire?
To facilitate a wide-ranging,
interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline
– history, archaeology, art history, religious studies, classical studies - to
submit abstracts for papers that address the issue of pagan-Christian relation
across the empire. The organizers are particularly interested in papers that
focus on new material evidence, new interpretations of texts or new
interpretive paradigms with which to approach relations between pagans and
Christians in the fourth - sixth centuries of the Roman Empire. The proceedings of the conference will be published.
Participants whose papers are accepted for presentation will be offered
accommodation in Budapest and a field trip along
the Danube limes to Pécs, with a visit to the
late fourth-century Roman cemetery. We cannot, however, underwrite travel
expenses.
Please
send proposals of 400 words for 20-minute papers
in English
by 25 November 2012
Marianne Sághy Rita Lizzi Testa Michele
Salzman
CEU Budapest Università di Perugia University
of California Riverside
