Wednesday, 11th of December
15.00-15.15 Welcome and Introduction to the Conference by Emiliano R. Urciuoli, Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)
15.15-16.45: Birthing Heterarchies: Archaic Cities, Archaizing Religions (Panel 1)
Chair: Elisa Iori (Erfurt)
15.15-16.00: Francesca Fulminante (Bristol)
Exploring Hierarchies and Heterarchies at the Birth of First Cities and State Organizations in Pre-and Proto-Historic Central Italy
16.00-16.45: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Erfurt)
Emergent Religious Authority: The Archaistic Look of the Mater Magna Priests
16.45-17.15: Coffee Break
17.15-18.45 ‘Religiocities’ and ‘Urban Theo-Topias’: When Planning Faces Heterarchy (Panel 2)
Chair: Martin Fuchs (Erfurt/Delhi)
17.15-18.00: Nimrod Luz (Akko)
Religious Gentrification and Heterarchies of Urban Planning: Reflections on the Religious Neighbourhood in Acre
18.00-18.45: Sanjay Srivastava (Delhi)
Urban Theo-Topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurgaon, India
19.15: Dinner
Thursday, 12nd of December
09.00-10.30 Claiming the Street, Staging the Order: Heterarchical Views of Processions (Panel 3)
Chair: Susanne Rau (Erfurt)
09.00-09.45: Simone Wagner (Erfurt)
Forced Hierarchies: Spatial Formations, Processions, and Heterarchies of Monasteries in the City of Constance
09.45-10.30: Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler (Marburg)
The Patriarch's Visit to the Vizier: A Coptic Chronicle Mediating Different ‘Publics’ in Fatimid Cairo
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-13.15: One City, Many Powers: Cases of Intra-Urban Heterarchies (Panel 4)
Chair: Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)
11.00-11.45: Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (Santa Barbara)
Heterarchy in Late Ancient Autun: A Case Study
11.45-12.30: Rubina Raja (Aarhus)
Investigating Early Church Buildings in Gerasa (5th-8th Centuries) as Reflections of Urban Heterarchies
12.30-13.15: Susanne Rau (Erfurt)
Canons, Aldermen and Confreres: Changing Power Constellations in the City of Lyon (Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Times)
13.20-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.00: Untenable Hierarchies: Sacred Orders and Reality Checks (Panel 5)
Chair: Simone Wagner (Erfurt)
14.30-15.15: Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli (Erfurt)
When Intellectualism Confronts Heterarchy: The Case of Cyprian of Carthage
15.15-16.00: Ronie Parciack (Tel Aviv)
Discourses of Sacred Islamic Geographies in Urban India
16-00-17:00 Coffee Break Followed by Guided Tour to the Augustinerkloster
17.00-18.30: Media and Money: Religious Minorities in Different Urban Rankings (Panel 6)
Chair: Martin Christ (Erfurt)
17.00-17.45: Miri Rubin (London)
Sisters, No Longer: Ecclesia and Synagoga in Urban Space
17.45-18.30: Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University)
Fractured Lives: The Challenges of Sixteenth-Century Netherandish Exiles in German Urban Communities
19.00: Dinner
Friday, 13th of December
09.00-10.30: Emplaced Heterarchies: The Urban Location of Religious Authorities (Panel 7)
Chair: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Erfurt)
09.00-09.45: Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)
Urban Places of Religious Authority
09.45-10.30: Katalin Szende (Budapest)
From Model to Rival? Competition or Complementarity in the Spatial Setup of Bishops’ Seats in East-Central Europe
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.30: Centrality Revised: Centre and Periphery Through the Lens of Heterarchy (Panel 8)
Chair: Sara Keller (Erfurt)
11.00-11.45: Shana Zaia (Wien)
In the Shadow of Nineveh: Assessing the Hierarchies and Heterarchies of Temples and Cult Cities in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
11.45.12.30: Anne Murphy (Vancouver)
Articulations of Heterarchical Power Relations at the Intersections of the Urban, Semi-Urban and Rural in Hīr, the 18th Century Punjabi-Language Text by Waris Shah
12.30-13.15 Final Discussion
13.30 Lunch