Friday, 27th of November 2009
I Introduction – What was ‘Oriental’ about the Oriental Cults in the Roman Empire?
9:00 Joachim Friedrich QUACK/Christian WITSCHEL (Heidelberg): “Why Oriental Cults Again? New Perspectives on Religious Flows in the Roman Empire”
9:20 Jaime ALVAR (Madrid): “The Oriental Cults in the Roman Empire”
10:10 – 10:30 Coffee Break
II Origins and Diffusion of Oriental Cults in the Imperium Romanum – Agents and Participants
Chair: N.N.
10:30 Laurent BRICAULT (Toulouse): “The gens Isiaca in Greco-Roman Coinage”
11:20 Engelbert WINTER (Münster): “Der Kult des Iupiter Dolichenus und seine Ursprünge. Neue Funde und Forschungen im ‚Zentralheiligtum’ bei Doliche”
12:10 – 13.30 Lunch Break
Chair: Stephan R. HAUSER (Konstanz)
13:30 Christian WITSCHEL (Heidelberg): “The Cult of Mithras in the East – a Backward Flow of a Western Invention?”
14:20 Michael BLOEMER (Münster): “From Local Cult to Imperial Religion – the God of Doliche in the East”
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
III The Visual Conceptualization of Oriental Gods and their Worshippers
Chair: Attilio MASTROCINQUE (Verona)
15:30 Miguel John VERSLUYS (Leiden): “From the Nile to Greece, Rome and Beyond? Egypt as Part of the Mediterranean koine”
16:20 Darius FRACKOWIAK (Heidelberg): “The Many Facettes of Mithraic Imagery”
17.10 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17:30 Ralf KRUMEICH (Bonn): “Zwischen Orient und Okzident. Bilder des Iuppiter Dolichenus und seiner Adoranten“
Saturday, 28th of November 2009
IV The Transfer of Linguistic Concepts within the Oriental Cults: The Example of Isis
Chair: Friedhelm HOFFMANN (Heidelberg/Würzburg)
9:00 Ian MOYER (Ann Arbor): “Isidorus at the Gates of the Temple: Mediating between Traditions in the Egyptian Countryside”
9:50 Martin STADLER (Würzburg/Tübingen), “On the Universality of Isis – a New Source on Isiac Religion from Roman Egypt”
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 Joachim Friedrich QUACK (Heidelberg), “Resting in Pieces and Integrating the Oikoumene. On the Mental Expansion of the Religious Landscape by Means of the Body Parts of Osiris”
11:50 Svenja NAGEL (Heidelberg): “One for All and All for One? Isis as una quae es(t) omnia in the Egyptian Temples of the Graeco-Roman Period”
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
V Changing Forms of Sacred Space, Sanctuaries and Rituals
Chair: Manfred CLAUSS (Hennef)
14:00 Kathrin KLEIBL (Mainz), „An Audience in Search of a Theater – The Staging of the Divine in Sanctuaries of Graeco-Egyptian Gods“
14:50 Florence SARAGOZA (Paris): “Exploring Walls: On Sacred Space in the Pompeian Iseum”
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 Andreas HENSEN (Heidelberg): “Spelaea et templa Mithrae. Unity and Diversity in Topography, Architecture and Design of the Sanctuaries”
16:50 Marleen MARTENS (Zellik/B): “Sanctuaries of Mithras in the Northwestern Provinces: Unity and Diversity in Depositions, Finds and Practices”
17:40 Richard GORDON (Erfurt): “Persia and Rome: Staging Religious Experience in the Mithraic Temple”
18:30 Final Discussion