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I am happy to announce that this volume I have been coediting has just been published: Spaces in Late Antiquity – Cultural, Theological and Archaeological Perspectives, eds. Juliette Day, Raimo Hakola, Maijastina Kahlos & Ulla Tervahauta, Routledge: London, 2016.
Most of the articles are based on papers that were given in the Finnish symposium on Late Antiquity in 2013 (”Spaces Past and Present) and in 2012.
 
Contents
Day, Hakola, Kahlos, Tervahauta, ”Introduction: Spaces in Late Antiquity – Cultural, Theological and Archaeological Perspectives”
I Cultural perspectives
Maijastina Kahlos, ”Meddling in the Middle? Urban Celebrations, Ecclesiastical Leaders and the Roman Emperor”
Steven D. Smith, ”Classical Culture, Domestic Space and Imperial Vision in the Cycle of Agathias”
Andreas Westergren, ”Monastic Space: The Ascetic Between Sacred and Civil Spheres in Theodoret of Cyrrhus”
II Theological perspectives
Juliette Day, ”Seeing Christ at the Holy Places”
David Hunter, ”Sacred Space, Virginal Consecration and Symbolic Power: A Liturgical Innovation and its Implications in Late Ancient Christianity”
Joona Salminen, ”City of God and the Place of Demons: City Life and Demonology in early Christianity”
Anna-Liisa Tolonen, ”Preaching, Feasting and Making Space for a Meaning”
III Archaeological perspectives
Raimo Hakola, ”Galilean Jews and Christians in Context: Spaces Shared and Contested in the Eastern Galilee in Late Antiquity”
Jürgen Zangenberg, ”Performing the Sacred in a Community Building: Observations from the 2010-2015 Kinneret Regional Project Excavations in the Byzantine Synagogue of Horvat Kur (Galilee)”
Rick Bonnie, ”Thrown into Limekilns: The Reuse of Statuary and Architecture in Galilee from Late Antiquity Onwards”
 

Helsingin yliopistossa järjestetään iso uskontotieteen konferenssi EASR 2016 (European Association for the Study of Religion) 28.6.-1.7.2016 eli aivan parin viikon kuluttua. Ohjelma on monipuolinen, ja antiikin uskonnot ovat vahvasti edustettuina.
Itse olen mukana kolmessa paneelissa:

• Panel: Parallels and differences between Late Antiquity and Europe today (Chairs: Peter Antes &  Mar Marcos Sanchez)
  Peter Antes: Europe’s Identity in the cultural memory of today
  Mar Marcos Sanchez: Interreligious Dialogue: Past and Present
  Giovanni Filoramo: In the mirror of Late Antiquity. Religious pluralisms in comparison
  Maijastina Kahlos: Waiting for Immigrants

• Panel: The words of religious pluralism (II) (Chair: Alessandro Saggioro)
  Maijastina Kahlos: #RELIGIOUS FREEDOM “Religious freedom” in the Ancient Context – The cases of Tertullian and Ambrose
  Mar Marcos Sanchez: #ABUSE AND COERCION Peithô and Bia in Ancient Political and Religious Debate
  Juana Torres: #DIALOGUE & CONFLICT The role of logos in resolving religious conflict (II-V centuries). The ”Debates against pagans”: Dialogue or Dispute?
  Eduard Iricinschi: #SHARING Sharing Religious Practices between Manichaeans and Christians in Fourth-Century Egypt

• Panel: Relocating religious identities and memories of the past in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Chair: Maijastina Kahlos)
  Marika Rauhala: Negotiating the Masculine Ideal: Gender Stereotypes in Ancient  Religious Discourse
  Marja-Leena Hänninen: Parallel or Alternative Identities: Religious Communities of Ostia in the Early Imperial Era
  Antti Lampinen: Memories of the Subaltern: ‘Ethnicising Religion’ in Roman Literature, c. 100-300
  Katja Ritari: Dealing with the Pre-Christian Past: Pagans and Christians in Early Medieval Irish Narratives Concerning the Conversion

 

Blogini nimestä on kyselty. Mitä ihmettä tarkoittaa Arduum res gestas scribere? Sitaatti roomalaisen historiankirjoittajan Sallustiuksen Catilinan salaliitosta. Sallustius kirjoittaa:

”… monia, jotka ovat kirjoittaneet toisten teoista, ylistetään siinä kuin töiden tekijöitäkin. Mutta vaikka selostaja ei saa osakseen likimainkaan niin suurta kunniaa kuin se, joka on suorittanut nuo teot, minun mielestäni historian kirjoittaminen on kuitenkin tavattoman vaikeaa (arduum videtur res gestas scribere) …” (Sallustius, Catilinan salaliitto, suom. Marja Itkonen-Kaila, 1980, s. 2-3).

Historian kirjoittaminen on tavattoman vaikeaa. Yksi pahin vaikeus on siinä, että menneisyys on meille vieras, kuten lausahdus ”The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” kertoo. Lausahdus on lennähtänyt yleiseen käyttöön L.P. Hartleyn romaanista The Go-Between (1953).
Menneisyys ihmisineen on vieras maasto, mutta toisaalta vieras on aina toinen ihminenkin. Näin laulaa myös Pentti Saarikoski (vaikka en Saarikoski-fani olekaan, laitetaan sitaatti tähän):

minä rakastan sinua / niin kuin vierasta maata / kallioita ja siltaa / niinkuin yksinäistä iltaa joka tuoksuu kirjoilta / … (Pentti Saarikoski, Mitä tapahtuu todella, 1962).

 

Keskustelin Eeva Luotosen kanssa Yle Radio Yhdessä Rooman viimeisistä päivistä eilen tiistaina. Ohjelma uusitaan sunnuntaina 22.5 ja on kuunneltavissa myös Yle Areenassa täällä.
 

Keskustelen kirjastani Rooman viimeiset vaiheet Kalle Haatasen kanssa, Yle Radio 1:ssä tänään kello 10. Kuunneltavana myös Yle Areenassa.

Organized by the Centre of Excellence ”Reason and Religious Recognition” (Academy of Finland)
Venue: Main Building, Lecture Hall 7 (3007), address: Fabianinkatu 33, 3rd floor
Thursday 26 May
I Recognition: Novel Articulations
10:00–10:15 Welcoming words
10:15–11:00 ● Cillian McBride (Queen’s University Belfast): Social Recognition: Agency and Social Interaction
11:00–11:45 ● Heikki Ikäheimo (University of New South Wales): Conceptualizing Causes for Lack of Recognition – Capacities, Costs and Understanding
11:45–13:15 Lunch break
13:15–14:00 ● Risto Saarinen (University of Helsinki): Is Recognition a Gift? Do Gifts Express Recognition?
14:00–14:45 ● Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Helsinki): Mediated Recognition: Suggestions towards an Articulation
II Historical Struggles for Recognition
14:45–15:30 ● Hartmut Leppin (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Early Christians and the Politics of Recognition
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:45 ● Niko Huttunen (University of Helsinki): Early Christians and Philosophy: Seeking Recognition in the Greco-Roman Culture
16:45–17:30 ● Maria del Mar Marcos Sanchez (University of Cantabria): The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Late Antique Religious Debate
Friday 27 May
10:15–11:00 ● Maijastina Kahlos (University of Helsinki): On the Road – Late Antique Argumentation for Religious Recognition
III Medieval Intersections
11:00–11:45 ● Ritva Palmén (University of Helsinki): Shame, Self-Assessment and Recognition in the Middle Ages
11:45–14:15 Lunch break
14:15–15:00 ● Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven): Aquinas and the Course of Recognition
15:00–15:45 ● Virpi Mäkinen (University of Helsinki): Recognizing the Property Rights of Pagans and Infidels in the Political Thought 1200–1400
15:45–16:15 Coffee break
IV Roots of Recognition Theory
16:15–17:00 ● Ericka Tucker (Marquette University): Spinoza, Religion and Recognition
17:00–17:45 ● Paul Redding (University of Sydney): Hegel’s Actualist Metaphysics as a Framework for Understanding his Recognition-Theoretic Account of Christianity
Saturday 28 May
V Limits of Recognition
10:15–11:00 ● Simon Thompson (University of the West of England): The Recognition of Religion in Public Spaces
11:00–11:45 ● Arto Laitinen (University of Tampere) & Teea Kortetmäki (University of Jyväskylä): On the Natural Basis and Limits of Social Recognition
11:45–12:00 Short break
12:00–12:45 ● Miira Tuominen (University of Jyväskylä): Justice without Recognition? – Porphyry on Abstinence from Injuring Animals
12:45–13:00 Concluding words
► For more information on the conference, please contact the organizers:
maijastina.kahlos(at)helsinki.fi, heikki.koskinen(at)helsinki.fi, or ritva.palmen(at)helsinki.fi.

Yle Puheessa voi kuunnella Länsimaisen sivistyksen lyhyttä oppimäärää eli sitä mikä koulussa jäi oppimatta historiasta. Salme Unkuri haastattelee useita tutkijoita mm. antiikin Kreikasta ja Roomasta ja kristinuskosta. Itse olen vuorossa haastateltavana jaksossa ”Kaikki tiet vievät Roomaan” , kuuneltavissa Yle Areenassa.

It is my great pleasure to announce that Emperors and the Divine – Rome and its Influence (edited by Maijastina Kahlos) has just been published. The volume comes in the series COLLeGIUM, Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences (vol. 20), published by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
In the course of history, the divine sphere has often been harnessed to serve the needs of political leaders. Political power has frequently been legitimized as authorized by the divine forces. The articles of this volume analyse the relationship of the Roman emperors to the divine – their support of different divinities, their role as the mediators between the divine and humankind, and their religious policies. Emperors and the Divine brings together scholars from different disciplines, history, classics, comparative literature, archaeology, comparative religion, Biblical studies, church history and Roman law.
The contents:

Maijastina Kahlos: Introduction: Roman Emperors and the Divine: Shifts and Downshifts
Emperors and Their Divine Honours
William van Andringa: Rhetoric and Divine Honours: On the “Imperial Cult” in the Reigns of Augustus and Constantine
Janneke de Jong: Emperor Meets Gods: Divine Discourse in Greek Papyri from Roman Egypt
Mika Kajava: Gods and Emperors at Aigeai in Cicilia 56
Emperors – Legitimation and Criticism
Jussi Rantala: Gods of Cultivation and Food Supply in the Imperial Iconography of Septimius Severus
Tobias Georges: Tertullian’s Criticism of the Emperors’ Cult in the Apologeticum
Emperors and Christians – Identity Formation
Outi Lehtipuu: “What Harm Is There for You to Say Caesar Is Lord?” Emperors and the Imperial Cult in Early Christian Stories of Martyrdom
Maijastina Kahlos: The Emperor’s New Images – How to Honour the Emperor in the Christian Empire?
Imperial Authority and Divine Knowledge
Alan Cameron: Pontifex Maximus: from Augustus to Gratian – and Beyond
Caroline Humfress: Ordering Divine Knowledge in Late Roman Legal Discourse
Emperors – Praise and Mockery
Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini: Coping with Ancient Gods, Celebrating Christian Emperors, Proclaiming Roman Eternity: Rhetoric and Religion in Late Antique Latin Panegyrics
Sari Kivistö: Satirical Apotheosis in Seneca and Beyond

CALL FOR PAPERS
Slavery in Late Antiquity
Tvärminne, Finland
11–12 November, 2016
 
The multidisciplinary Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity will be organized on 11–12 November 2016. The symposium brings together scholars and postgraduate students of Late Antiquity from a variety of universities and academic disciplines.
The theme of this year’s symposium is Slavery in Late Antiquity. Research on slavery in the late Roman Empire and in the post-Roman kingdoms has been expanding and evolving in the recent decades. The theme will be approached from a wide perspective, including social, economic, political, legal, ideological and religious levels. We welcome papers that discuss slavery from the point of view of landowning, local differences, changes in rural and urban settings, alterations in ideas and attitudes, and modifications in status and everyday life. Papers that analyse scholarly approaches to late antique slavery are also welcome.
The keynote speakers of the symposium are:

• Chris De Wet: Emancipating the Spirit: Late Ancient Slavery in/and the Religious Thought of Eunomius and Basil of Caesarea. Prof. De Wet (New Testament and Early Christian Studies, University of South Africa), is specialist of slavery in early Christianity and early Christian Greek and Latin literature, especially John Chrystostom. His next book The Unbound God: Slavery and the Making of Early Christian Theology will be published this year.

• Marianne Bjelland Kartzow: The Paradox of Slavery in Early Christian Discourse: An Intersectional Approach. Prof. Kartzow (New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo) has worked with theories of gossip and other types of oral communication in the ancient world, and written books and articles related to gender and slavery in early Christian texts.

• Marja Vierros: Slaves in the Sixth Century Palestine in the Light of Papyrological Evidence. Dr Vierros (Classics, University of Helsinki) is specialist of Greek papyrology and linguistics. She is author of Bilingual Notaries in Hellenistic Egypt. A Study of Greek as a Second Language (2012) and has been involved in publishing the Byzantine papyrus dossier found in Petra, Jordan.

Please send a short abstract of 250–300 words along with your name, institution, e-mail and title by 2nd May 2016 to Dr. Ville Vuolanto: ville.vuolanto(at)uta.fi. Applicants will be informed by 1st June 2016 whether they have been accepted. 20 minutes is reserved for each presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
The symposium is free, but the number of participants we can take is limited. It will be organized at the Tvärminne Zoological Station on the southern coast of Finland. We offer transportation from Helsinki to Tvärminne and the return journey, as well as accommodation (one night) and meals in Tvärminne. However, we are not able to cover any travel costs to or accommodation in Helsinki. Registration for the symposium starts on 1 October and closes on 26 October 2016.
The symposium is organised by Maijastina Kahlos, University of Helsinki, Ulla Tervahauta, University of Helsinki and Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere / University of Oslo.
The Symposium is funded by the Centre of Excellence “Reason and Religious Recognition”, Faculty of Theology; Jaakko Frösen Fund; and Department of World Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki.
 

Valtava muuri suojaa sivistynyttä maailmaa hirveiltä barbaareilta. Seitsemän kuningaskunnan pohjoisrajan jäämuuri?
Ei, vaan Rooman valtakunnan pohjoisosaan Britanniaan rakennettu Hadrianuksen muuri. Roomalaiset kutsuivat rajoilla asuvia ihmisiä nimellä Picti, Maalatut, koska näiden sotamaalauksena oli sininen väri.
Valtakunnan rajoilla liikuskelee paimentolaisia, joiden kanssa maan mahtavat välillä liittoutuvat, välillä taistelevat vallasta. Dothrakit ja heidän khalinsa Drogo, joka liiton vahvistukseksi saa vaimokseen Daenerys Targaryenin?
Ei, vaan hunnit ja heidän johtajansa Attila, jonka kerrotaan saaneen avioliittotarjouksen Valentinianus III:n siskolta Honorialta. Tarinan mukaan Honoria lähetti Attilalle sormuksensa ja pyysi tältä tukea valtataistelussaan hovissa. Attila lähti sitten vaatimaan puolta valtakuntaa myötäjäisinä.
Mahtava sotapäällikkö kukistuu, hänet mestataan, ja seuraa verilöyly. Talvivaaran Ned Stark?
Ei, vaan Stilicho, roomalaisen äidin ja vandaali-isän poika, roomalainen sotapäällikkö ja aikanaan Länsi-Rooman mahtavin mies. Stilicho syöstiin vallasta ja hänelle uskolliset sotilaat kapinoivat, mutta keisarille uskolliset joukot surmasivat Stilichon ja hänen mukanaan tuhansia gootteja perheineen.
Vallasta kamppailevat suvut, vuoroin liittoutuvat, vuoroin järjestävät verilöylyjä, joissa omia ja toisten sukulaisia surmataan. Starkit ja Karstarkit?
Ei, vaan frankkien merovingisukuiset kuninkaalliset. Kuningas Klothar I:n pojat Kharibert I, Sigebert I, Khilperik I ja Guntram taistelivat vallasta. Sisällissota alkoi Charibertin kuoltua vuonna 567. Khilperik ja Guntram liittoutuivat ensin Sigebertiä vastaan, mutta Guntram siirtyi Sigebertin puolelle. Khilperikin vaimo Fredegunde salamurhautti Sigebertin, jonka vallan peri hänen poikansa alaikäinen Khildebert II. Ja niin edelleen.
George R.R. Martin on arvatenkin lukenut jonkin verran myöhäisantiikin ja varhaiskeskiajan historioita.
Myöhäisantiikista kerron juuri ilmestyneessä kirjassani Rooman viimeiset päivät (Otava 2016).