Friday, 26 January 2024

13:15 – 13:30 Introduction

13:30 – 14:00 Anna-Laura Honikel, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.:
Personifications on Mosaics of the Province Lusitania

14:00 – 14:30 Sarah Hollaender, University of Graz:
Visualizing ‘Manliness’: The Goddess Virtus and Her Transformations in Late Antiquity

14:30 – 15:00 Giovanna Ferri, University of Sassari:
Seasons Personifications in the Decorative Programs of Roman Catacombs and Privately-Owned Hypogea in Late Antiquity: Felicitas Temporum and Heavenly Aeternitas

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:00 Caroline Bridel, University of Bern:
The Use of Personifications in Late Antique Jewish Spaces: Establishing a Cultural Frame?

16:00 – 16:30 Amélie Belleli, INRAP/University of Limoges:
Late Roman Empresses as Allegorical Figures

16:30 – 17:00 Prolet Decheva, University College Dublin:
Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Proper Names

18:00 – 19:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Emma Stafford, University of Leeds:
Nemesis: A Greek Personification in the Later Roman World

Saturday, 27 January 2024

09:00 – 09:30 Annegret Klünker, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin:
Coining Embodied Conditions: The Severan Era as Synopsis for the Visual Emergence of Personifications in Rome

09:30 – 10:00 Charles Wastiau, University of Liège/University of Bonn:
The End of the „Divine Qualities“ on Late Roman Coins

10:00 – 10:30 Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová, Czech Academy of Sciences:
The Last Echoes of Tyche Poleos on Byzantine Coins: Several Cases from the 6th Century

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Amel Bouder, Freie Universität Berlin/Deutsches Archäologisches Institut:
The Multiple Personifications of Saturnus the African God and his Assessors: an Allegory between the River God and the Master of the Universe

11:30 – 12:00 Julian Hollaender, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg:
Greetings from the Jordan River: The Anthropomorphic River in Early Christian Baptismal Representations

12:00 – 12:30 Natalia Turabelidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University:
Classical Prototypes in Medieval Georgian Mural Painting: The Evidence of Ateni Sioni Murals

12:30 Conclusions

Download workshop program here: https://sabkmuenchen.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/personif_programm.pdf