Thursday, 27th April 2017
13.00h
Opening Statement
Section 1: „Visual“ Middle Ground
13.15h
Achim Lichtenberger, Münster: Die hellenistischen Münzen Syriens und Phöniziens
13.50h
Peter Mittag, Köln: Seleukidisches auf den postseleukidischen Münzen Mesopotamiens
14.25h
Anne Sartre-Fauriat, Tours : Proche-Orient: une épigraphie pour écrire l'Histoire
15.00h
Coffee Break
15.30h
Bettina Fischer-Genz, Berlin: "Where and When - the changes in rural settlement patterns in the Beqaa valley at the beginning of the Roman period"
Section 2: What the Gods have to do with it
16.05h
Rubina Raja, Aarhus: Negotiating social and cultural interaction through priesthoods. The iconography of priesthood in Palmyra
16.40h
David Graf, Miami: The Nabataean Ruler Cult and Ptolemaic Egypt
17.15h
Ted Kaizer, Durham: Pagans, Jews and Christians in Dura-Europos: questions regarding religious interaction in a provincial small town
18.30h
Dinner with the Speakers
Friday, 28th April 2017
Section 3: Successor States - Interaction or Conflict
9.00h
Edward Dąbrowa, Krakau: Origins and function of Hellenistic patterns in the Hasmonean kingship
9.35h
Julia Hoffmann-Salz, Köln: The Itureans as a Hellenistic Dynasty
10.10h
Lucinda Dirven, Amsterdam: Hatra and Rome. Cultural interaction versus political conflict
10.45h
Coffee break
Section 4: Cities, Communities and the negotiation of power
11.05h
Corinne Bonnet, Toulouse : La place et le rôle de l’agôn dans le middle ground phénicien à l’époque hellénistique et romaine
11.40h
Katharina Knäpper, Wien: Die Seleukiden im Umgang mit den Asyliegesuchen kleinasiatischer Städte. Facetten zwischen königlichem Euergetismus und Mediation
12.15h
Lunch Break
13.15h
Paul Newson, Beirut: Hybridization and non-hybridization: socio-cultural interactions of the Graeco-Roman Bekaa.
13.50h
Hannah Cotton, Jerusalem: Back to the Nomos Hellenikos in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert, and the concept of eleuthera in them
Section 5: The Middle Ground and the long durée
14.25h
Sabine Müller, Marburg: Lukian von Samosata und das hellenistische Erbe
15.00h
David Engels, Brüssel: Hellenisierung, Iranisierung, Arabisierung und Sinisierung - Überlegungen zum Konzept des Kulturtransfers in den Kulturen der Vormoderne
15.35h
Closing Discussion
16.00h
End of Conference