Monday, 11.12.2023

14.00 – 14.15 / Welcome and Introduction / Achim Lichtenberger (Münster) and Francesca Mazzilli (Münster)

14.15 – 14.30 / Research Cloud Introduction

Sacred Places and Water from the East to the West

14.30 – 15.00 / On Agencies and Belonging to Sacred Springs in the Ancient Near East / Guiseppina Marano (Toulouse) and Corinne Bonnet (Toulouse)

15.00 – 15.30 / Idol of the Spring. Cultic Landscape of the Springs in Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Syria / Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider (Wrocław)

15.30 – 16.00 / Waterways of the Gods in first Millennium BC Southern Mesopotamia. The Use of Channels as Travelways for the Gods / Bernhard Schneider (Warsaw)

16.00 – 16.30 / Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.00 / A Valley-Wise Belonging. Hydrology and Sacr(aliz)ed Places in the Lebanon Mountains in Roman Times / Katharina Rieger (Graz)

17.00 – 17.30 / The Mosque and the Falaj. Sacredness of Water and Settlement Morphology in the Arab-Persian Gulf Region in the Late Antique to Middle Islamic Periods / Agnieszka Lic (Warsaw/Copenhagen)

17.30 – 18.00 / Appropriating Nymphs and Bodies. Spring Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces / Csaba Szabó (Szeged)

18.00 – 18.15 / Break

Keynote Lecture

18.15 – 19.15 / Timeless Roots. Divine Narratives and Ritual Practices as Urban Anchors of Belonging / Christina Williamson (Groningen)

19.30 / Reception at the Archaeological Museum

Tuesday, 12.12.2023

Greek Sacred Natural Places

9.00 – 9.30 / Just Passing through? The Cave of Antiope. Belonging and Settlement in the Mazi Plain / Roy van Wijk (Trento)

9.30 – 10.00 / Aspects of Belonging in Laconia / Sophia Nomicos (Münster)

10.00 – 10.30 / The Sacredness of Natural Elements and the Movement of People on an Insular Landscape. A Case Study of the Sanctuaries of Apollo on the Cycladic Archipelago / Erica Angliker (Athens)

10.30 – 11.00 / Coffee Break

Sacred Places, Landscape and Settlements

11.00 – 11.30 / The Materiality of the Sacred Space as a Resource of Belonging. The Northern Apennines during the Iron Age / Raffaella Da Vela (Tübingen)

11.30 – 12.00 / Powerful Landmarks. Sacred Rocks as Ritual Foci / Manuel Fernández-Götz (Edinburgh)

12.00 – 12.30 / Gods in a Frontier Landscape. Rethinking local Deities and Regional Iconography on Hadrian’s Wall / Eleri Cousins (Lancaster)

12.30 – 13.00 / Where the Iron is Born. The Meaning of Place in the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus / Michael Blömer (Münster)

13.00 – 14.30 / Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.00 / Place-Making in the End of the Bronze Age. Aspects of the Locational Strategies of Warrior Stelae in the Portuguese Beira Interior and Spanish Alta Extremadura / Pedro Baptista (Freiburg/Coimbra)

15.00 – 15.30 / Sacred Place of Garvão. Overlooking Hills, River Streams, and Settlements / Francesca Mazzilli (Münster/London) and Tiago Costa (Ourique/Coimbra)

15.30 – 16.00 / The Heart of Latium. Jupiter Latiaris, the Mons Albanus, and the Latini / Marian Helm (Münster)

16.00 – 16.30 / Coffee Break

Sacred and Belonging in Urban Landscapes

16.30 – 17.00 / Urban Emotionspaces. On the Significance of Affordances and Atmospheres in Roman Place-Attachment Processes / Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Marburg)

17.00 – 17.30 / Transformations in the Cultic Practices of Isis in Cyrene during Roman Rule / Pablo R. Valdés (Madrid)

17.30 – 18.00 / The Coins of Tel Dor. A Methodological Approach – Understanding Urban Dynamics and the City’s Sacred Spaces / Vagner Carvalheiro Porto (São Paulo)

18.00 – 18.30 / The Sacred Space and the Water System in the Roman City of Pax Iulia (Beja) / Maria Conceição Lopes (Coimbra) and Francesco K B. Simi (Rome)

18.30 – 18.45 / Break

18.45 – 19.15 / Concluding Remarks / Pedro Paulo Funari (Campinas)

19.30 / Conference Dinner