Thursday, 4 October

14:00 - 14:30 Registration

14:30 - 15:00 Florian Wöller (Munich/Copenhagen): Welcome Address and Introduction

Panel I (Chair: Franz Alto Bauer, Munich)

15:00 - 15:45 Jonathan Stutz (Munich): Mock parades, mob violence and temple destruction in Late Antique Alexandria

15:45 - 16:30 Mali Skotheim (Madison/Athens): On the Road Again: Traveling Players in Late Antiquity

17:00 - 17:45 Iulia Soficaru (Budapest): Pathways to Health: Urban Healthscape in Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean

17:45 - 18:30 Vicky Manolopoulou (London): Religious Processions and Village Life in Late Antiquity

Friday, 5 October

Panel II (Chair: Katherine Crawford, Southampton)

09:00 - 09:45 Ofer Pogorelsky (Jerusalem): Pilgrimage and Urbanism in the Negev Desert

09:45 - 10:30 Fabio Guidetti (Edinburgh): A ritual from the Good Old Days: Q. Aurelius Symmachus and the Last pompa circensis

11:00 - 11:45 Kristine Iara (Rome): Fluid Topographies: Rome’s non-Christian Sacral Topography in Late Antiquity

12:00 - 13:30 Keynote Lecture: Simon Malmberg (Bergen): Three Approaches to the Study of Urban Movement

Panel III (Chair: Markus Löx, Regensburg/Munich)

14:30 - 15:15 Florian Wöller (Munich/Copenhagen): Ambrose’s Heritage? Street Processions in Fifth-Century Milan

15:15 - 16:00 Till Stüber (Berlin): Undesirable Aliens? Strangers as Bishops in Post-Roman Gaul

16:30 - 17:15 Catherine Keane (Munich): Re-examining Urban Shifts in 6th/7th Century Cyprus: The Irrelevance of Arab Invasions

17:15 - 17:45 Plenary Debate and Farewell