Date: Monday, February 13, 2017

The workshop takes place at the Faculty room (tiedekuntasali) of the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, address Vuorikatu 3 (courtyard), floor 5B.

PROGRAMME

11.00–11.45 (chair: Aino Lahdenranta)
Risto Saarinen: Opening words and Reason and Religious Recognition (OUP)

11.45–12.30
Mikko Tolonen: Text and Data Mining for Eighteenth-Century History of Ideas

Lunch break

13.30–14.15 (chair: Virpi Mäkinen)
Martina Reuter: Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women

14.15–15.00
Kari Saastamoinen: Natural Equality and Natural Law in Locke’s Two Treatises

Coffee break

15.20-16.20 (chair: Heikki Haara)
Kinch Hoekstra: Thucydides in the Reformation

Commentator: Pekka Kärkkäinen

The programme of Rico’s visit includes a lecture on “The Hellenistic World and its Language,” as well as an introduction to the Polis method. The event is open to everyone (see https://www.facebook.com/events/1786506914950512/). In order to register, please, contact: anna-liisa.tolonen@helsinki.fi.

Read also our blog entry: Resurrecting Ancient Languages: Interview with teachers of the Polis Institute Jerusalem.

MA Ivan Miroshnikov väittelee 14.10.2016 klo 12 Helsingin yliopiston teologisessa tiedekunnassa aiheesta “The Gospel of Thomas and Plato: A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the ‘Fifth Gospel'”. Väitöstilaisuus järjestetään osoitteessa Päärakennus, sali 13, Fabianinkatu 33.

Vastaväittäjänä on professori Harold W. Attridge (Yale Divinity School) ja kustoksena on professori Ismo Dunderberg.

Registration for the symposium starts!

Tvärminne, Finland
11–12 November, 2016

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.

The keynote speakers of the symposium are: Chris De Wet (New Testament and Early Christian Studies, University of South Africa), Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo) and Marja Vierros (Classics, University of Helsinki). Please refer to the programme below.

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. In order to register as a participant for the seminar, please send an email to Ville Vuolanto ville.vuolanto(at)uta.fi. Upon applying for participation, you are kindly asked to provide your contact information as well as to inform us about special diets etc. Please also mention if you do NOT need the coach transportation from Helsinki.

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.

SLAVERY IN LATE ANTIQUITY
XXIV Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity
Tvärminne, 11–12 November 2016

Friday 11 November
9.00 Departure by coach from Helsinki
c. 11 Arrival and accommodation
11.30 Opening of the Symposium
11.45 Lunch

12.30 Friday session I: Rethinking slavery in Late Antiquity
Chris De Wet: The Captive Monk: Late Antique Slavery and Syrian Ascetical Theology and Practice
Kate Cooper: Slavery and social exclusion: Christian advice to late Roman landowners
Arkadii Avdokhin: (Il)legal Freedom? Christ and Redemption from Slavery to Satan in Late Antique Liturgical Texts
14.15 Coffee

14.35 Friday session II: Early Christian discourses
Marianne Bjelland Kartzow: The Paradox of Slavery in Early Christian Discourse: An Intersectional Approach
P.J.J. Botha: Marking bodies: ritual and discipline in early Christian discourse

16:00 Friday session III: Coloni
Uiran Gebara da Silva: Rural Slavery in Late Roman Gaul
Florian Battistella and David Pitz: Colonos, qui fugam meditantur, in servilem condicionem ferro ligari conveniet (Cod. Theod. 5,17,1). Some Observations about the Relationship between Slavery and the Colonate in Late Antiquity

17.00 Sauna/Men
18.30 Sauna/Women
20.00 Dinner

Saturday 12 November:
8.00-9.00 Breakfast

9.00 Saturday session I: Slavery in the Margins
Marja Vierros: Slaves in the Sixth Century Palestine in the Light of Papyrological Evidence
Judith Evans Grubbs: From Slave to Saint: the enslavement of St Patrick
Ilkka Lindstedt: Slavery in the early Islamic period in the light of epigraphy
11.45 Lunch

12.00 Saturday session II: Living as a slave
Elizabeth Fentress: The Material Culture of Slave quarters in Roman Italy
Mariana Bodnaruk: Inscribing Inequality: Late Antique Slavery in Epigraphic Evidence
Ilaria Grossi: Tene me ne fugiam et revoca me ad dominum! The relationships between slaves and owners through late antique collaria

14.00 Conclusion of the symposium and coffee
15.00 Departure
c. 17 Arrival in Helsinki

Conference program: “The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine” (Helsinki, Sept 21-24, 2016)

The conference on Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language to be organized at the University of Helsinki, 8-9 September 2016, has its own webpages at http://limitsconference.fi/. See the link for the program and other details.

REFLECTIONS ON RECOGNITION

(Program as a pdf file)

26–28 May 2016, University of Helsinki. Organized by the Centre of Excellence Reason and Religious Recognition (Academy of Finland). This conference was organized around an international scholarly book project edited by Maijastina Kahlos, Heikki J. Koskinen  and Ritva Palmén.

I RECOGNITION: NOVEL ARTICULATIONS

Heikki Ikäheimo (University of New South Wales): Conceptualizing Causes for Lack of Recognition – Capacities, Costs and Understanding

Lunch break in Salutorget. Arto Laitinen and Risto Saarinen (left); Ericka Turcker and Miira Tuominen (right). Photo: Heikki Ikäheimo

Risto Saarinen (University of Helsinki): Is Recognition a Gift? Do Gifts Express Recognition?

Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Helsinki): Mediated Recognition: Suggestions towards an Articulation

II HISTORICAL STRUGGLES FOR RECOGNITION

Hartmut Leppin (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Early Christians and the Politics of Recognition

Niko Huttunen (University of Helsinki): Early Christians and Philosophy: Seeking Recognition in the Greco-Roman Culture

Maijastina Kahlos (University of Helsinki): On the Road – Late Antique Argumentation for Religious Recognition

III MEDIEVAL INTERSECTION

Ritva Palmén (University of Helsinki): Shame, Self-Assessment and Recognition in the Middle Ages

Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven): Aquinas and the Course of Recognition

Virpi Mäkinen (University of Helsinki): Recognizing the Property Rights of Pagans and Infidels in the Political Thought 1200–1400

Going to the Congress Dinner (Walhalla in Suomenlinna). The organizers of congress from the right to the left: Heikki J. Koskinen, Maijastina Kahlos and Ritva Palmén (Photo: Heikki Ikäheimo)

Some of the participants in the sun set in Suomenlinna.

(Photo: Arto Laitinen)

IV ROOTS OF RECOGNITION THEORY

Ericka Tucker (Marquette University): Spinoza, Religion and Recognition

Paul Redding (University of Sydney): Hegel’s Actualist Metaphysics as a Framework for Understanding his Recognition-Theoretic Account of Christianity

V LIMITS OF RECOGNITION

Simon Thompson (University of the West of England): The Recognition of Religion in Public Spaces

Arto Laitinen (University of Tampere) & Teea Kortetmäki (University of Jyväskylä): On the Natural Basis and Limits of Social Recognition

Miira Tuominen (University of Jyväskylä): Justice without Recognition? – Porphyry on Abstinence from Injuring Animals

Suomenlinna in the sun set. (Photo: Heikki Ikäheimo)

More photographs can be found under this link in the Reason and Recognition blog.

For more information on the conference, please contact the organizers: maijastina.kahlos@helsinki.fi, heikki.koskinen@helsinki.fi, or ritva.palmen@helsinki.fi

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 2^nd 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.

Ilse Paakkinen defend her doctoral dissertation entitled “Gender and Defence of Women in Christine de Pizan’s Thought” (Sukupuoli ja naisten puolustaminen Christine de Pizanin ajattelussa) in the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, on 16 January 2016 at 10:15.

Associate Professor Karen Green, University of Melbourne, served as the opponent, and Professor Jaana Hallamaa as the custos.

Further information: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/159212 .

Explorations in Natural Theology: Helsinki Analytic Theology Workshop (HEAT) 2016, January 15-16

The workshop is co-organized by John Templeton Foundation.

Friday

Pre-Workshop Lecture10.00-11.00 Alister McGrath (University of Oxford), Pieni Juhlasali, Main Bulding

Workshop

Venue: Faculty Hall, Faculty of Theology, Vuorikatu 3, 5th Floor

15.15-1800 Session 1 (Chair: Aku Visala) Welcome, Prof. Risto Saarinen, (University of Helsinki)

Introduction, Olli-Pekka Vainio (University of Helsinki), Natural Theology: A Recent History

Rope Kojonen (University of Helsinki), Criticizing Natural Theology

Amber Griffioen (University of Konstanz), Religious Experience as Natural Theology

Saturday

Venue, Faculty of Theology, 2nd floor, Room 209-210

Session 1, 10.00-1200 (Chair: Olli-Pekka Vainio)

Ilmari Karimies (University of Helsinki), Lutheran Perspective on Natural Theology

Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki), Wittgenstein on Religion

Break 1200-1300

Session 3, 1300-1500 (Chair: Rope Kojonen)

Helen de Cruz (Oxford Brookes), Cognitive Science of Religion and Natural Theology

Panu-Matti Pöykkö (University of Helsinki), Jean-Luc Marion and Natural Theology

1500-1630 Tour at the Library and the Cathedral

Session 4, 1630-1830 (Chair: TBA )

Mats Wahlberg (University of Umeå) Reshaping Cosmological Argument

Final discussion