CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 11th October
09.00-09.30 -- coffee & registration
09.30-09.45
word of welcome by Prof. Vincent Gabrielsen, Director of the Copenhagen Associations Project
09.45-10.00
introduction: Annelies Cazemier & Stella Skaltsa
10.00-10.45
chair: Vincent Gabrielsen (University of Copenhagen)
Annelies CAZEMIER (University of Copenhagen)
‘Group identity and the gods: theophoric names of associations’
10.45-11.15 -- coffee & tea
11.15-12.45
chair: Vincent Gabrielsen (University of Copenhagen)
Mario C.D. PAGANINI (University of Copenhagen)
‘"So that, after building a gymnasium and a hall, we may perform sacrifices on behalf of the Kings..." Religion and leisure: a gentry association of Hellenistic Egypt’
Andrew MONSON (New York University)
‘Political and sacred animals: religious associations in Greco-Roman Egypt’
12.45-13.45 -- lunch break
13.45-16.00
chair: Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen)
Monika TRÜMPER (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
‘The role of religion in Delian associations: sacred space in meeting places of associations’
Stella SKALTSA (University of Copenhagen)
‘The religious and social landscape of private associations in Hellenistic Thera’
Hanna STÖGER (University of Leiden)
‘Ostia's guild seats - fact or fiction?’
16.00-16.30 -- coffee & tea
16.30-18.00
chair: Signe Isager (University of Southern Denmark)
Christian A. THOMSEN (University of Copenhagen)
‘Before Gods and Men - the public relations of private associations’
Emanuel MAYER (University of Chicago)
‘Pillars of Society: the public face of collegia in the Roman Empire’
19.00 -- dinner at Café Alma (for speakers and registered participants)
Friday 12th October
09.00-09.15
address by Prof. Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation
09.15-10.45
chair: Peter Fibiger Bang (University of Copenhagen)
Claire HASENOHR (University of Bordeaux)
‘The Italian associations at Delos: cult, social integration and politics’
Onno M. VAN NIJF (University of Groningen)
‘Staying Roman – becoming Greek: associations of Romaioi in Greek cities’
10.45-11.15 -- coffee & tea
11.15-12.45
chair: Thomas Heine Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
Barbara KOWALZIG (New York University)
‘Religious associations in a world of interactive polytheisms’
Paschalis PASCHIDIS (Institute of Historical Research - KERA, Athens)
‘Civic cults and (other) religious associations: in search of collective identities in Roman Macedonia’
12.45-13.45 -- lunch break
13.45-16.00
chair: Anders Holm Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
Paraskevi MARTZAVOU (Oxford University)
‘I Beroia 27: a cultic group around Zeus Hypsistos in its socio-cultural and historical context’
Sara M. WIJMA (University of Groningen)
‘The Thracian managers of Bendis' cult in Piraeus: orgeones as official mediators in Athenian polis religion’
Michał GAWLIKOWSKI (University of Warsaw)
‘The marzeḥa of the priests of Bel and other religious associations in Palmyra’
16.00-16.30 -- coffee & tea
16.30-18.00
chair: Sophia Zoumbaki (Institute of Historical Research - KERA, Athens)
Ilias N. ARNAOUTOGLOU (Academy of Athens – KEIED)
‘Cult and craft. Variations on a (neglected) theme…’
Matt GIBBS (University of Winnipeg)
‘Artisans and their gods: cult, religion, and ritual in the trade associations of Roman Egypt’
19.30 -- dinner at Madklubben Bistro-de-Luxe (for speakers and registered participants)
Saturday 13th October
09.30-10.15
chair: John S. Kloppenborg (University of Toronto)
Philip A. HARLAND (York University, Toronto)
‘The economics of ritual in the associations’
10.15-10.45 -- coffee & tea
10.45-12.15
chair: John S. Kloppenborg (University of Toronto)
Philip F. VENTICINQUE (Cornell College)
‘The economics of association funerals and commemoration’
Stéphanie MAILLOT (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)
‘Funerary aspects of religious associations in the Hellenistic period’
12.15-13.15 -- lunch break
13.15-13.45
conclusion: Vincent Gabrielsen
13.45-14.00
closing of the conference: Annelies Cazemier & Stella Skaltsa