The programme may be subject to changes.
Nota bene: Times are Helsinki (East European winter time zone). The allocated time for speakers is 15 minutes for the talk, plus 10 minutes for questions.
Thursday, December 10
11.15 A brief welcome note by the HCAS director and the organisers (chair: Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz)
11.30-12.30 Session 1: Mobility – Ancient and Modern (chair: Maijastina Kahlos)
- Greg Woolf, “What we take with us, what we leave behind”
- Lena Näre, “Collective imaginaries in migration – Notes on how hope and rumours move people”
12.45-13.30 Break
13.30-14.30 Session 2: A Mediterranean of Interaction (transport, trade, politics) (chair: Melanie Wasmuth)
- Sarah Green, “Mediterranean animal movements”
- Antti Lampinen, “Condemning mobility: Identity politics and the fear of reverse colonization in the Roman Imperial era”
14.45-15.00 Break
15.00-16.00 Session 3: The World of Beliefs (ideas, values, religion) (chair: Anna Usacheva)
- Peter N. Singer, “Students and texts in motion: Medical and philosophical intellectual communities in the second century CE”
- Miira Tuominen,”The ’movement’ of Aristotle’s theory of perception in the commentaries of Philoponus and Pseudo-Simplicius (Priscian?)”
Friday, December 11
11.30-12.30 Session 4: Materiality and Movement (objects in motion) (chair: Tero Alstola)
- David Inglis, “The world flows with Mediterranean wine: On the roles of Mare Nostrum in global wine dynamics”
- Andras Handl, “Bones in motion: Long distance relic translations in late antiquity”
12.45-13.30 Break
13.30-15.00 Sessions 5-6: Intersectional Identities in Motion (recreated selves) and Mobility across Boundaries (theoretical approaches) (chair: Suzie Thomas)
- Pieter B. Hartog, “Reading Acts in motion: Travel and glocalisation in the Acts of the Apostles”
- Pascucci & Krivonos, “Flowing labour: Race, gender and intimacies in transnational mobilities”
- James Gerrard, “Travelling Britannia: A diachronic perspective on the movement of people and things on the Roman periphery”
15.00 Final discussion and closure of the symposium (chair: Elisa Uusimäki)