2019
Aug 22-24 | The Strange and the Familiar: Identity and Empire in the Ancient Near East (in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East) |
Sept 12-14 | Conference “Living Communities and Their Archaeologies: From the Middle East to the Nordic Countries” (in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires) |
Oct 24-26 | Concluding meeting with Scientific Advisory Board |
PAST EVENTS
2019
May 9-11 | CSTT Annual Meeting |
May 8 | Workshop “Perspectives on Virtue: From Qumran to Qur’an and Beyond” (in cooperation with the Uusimäki’s VIRTUE project and the Centre of Excellence in Reason and Religious Recognition) |
April 29-30 | Workshop: “Imperial Architecture in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle East” (in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires) |
Jan 9-11 | Workshop: “Persian Empire, Social Sciences, and Ancient Historiography” (Program) (in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires) |
March 27 | CSTT Lecture Series: Michael Langlois (Strasbourg / HCAS) |
2018
Dec 15-18 | Women’s Academia: Writing Retreat and Career Development Seminar for the CSTT Women |
Nov 28-30 | Workshop “Global and Local Cultures in the Roman East: From Domination to Interaction,” Helsinki (funded by Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences) |
Oct 22-24 | Coptic Bible Workshop, Helsinki |
Oct 15 | Workshop on Kings, Helsinki |
Aug 31 | CSTT Summer meeting, Helsinki |
July 31-Aug 3 | EABS Annual Meeting / SBL International Meeting, Helsinki |
May 21-24 | Workshop “Texts, Traditions and Transmission: Global and Local Transitions in the Late Second Temple Period,” Tbilisi, Georgia |
April 30-May 4 | Team 3 Workshop, Abbey of Frauenwörth, Bavaria, Germany |
April 16-20 | Masterclass in Achaemenid Elamite (by Dr. W. Henkelman, EPHE Paris), Helsinki (in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires) |
March 21-23 | Conference “Conceptualizing the Divine in the Levant”, Helsinki |
March 8 | Wiki edit-a-thon “Women in the Ancient World” (in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires) |
Feb 8-11 | CSTT Annual Meeting 2018, Lammi, Finland |
Jan 12 | Workshop “Translation and Theology in the Septuagint,” Helsinki |
2017
Sept 8-10 | OTSEM Research Network Meeting, Helsinki |
Aug 30 | CSTT Summer Meeting, Helsinki |
Aug 24-25 | Summer Symposium on the Construction of Identity in the Ancient Near East, Helsinki |
June 5-6 | International symposium “Working with Cultural Objects and Manuscripts: Provenance, Legality, and Responsible Stewardship”, Helsinki |
June 1-4 | International conference “Soisalon-Soininen Symposium on the Septuagint”, Helsinki |
May 29-31 | Fifth Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North Africa Studies, Joensuu |
May 25-28 | Workshop “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Broader Perspective on Textual Change in the Hebrew Bible”, Hong Kong |
May 10-13 | CSTT Annual Meeting, Tvärminne |
April 27 | CSTT Lecture Series: David Chalcraft (John Moores University), Moving Through Texts: The Rituals of Reading and the Sociology of Mobility. |
Mar 23 | CSTT Lecture Series: Jonathan Stökl (King’s College London), Becoming and Being a Priest: Reflections on Exodus 29, Leviticus 8 and other Ancient Near Eastern Initiation Rites |
Mar 10 | Wikipedia edit-a-thon “women and the Bible”, Helsinki |
Feb 9 | CSTT Lecture Series: Martti Nissinen (University of Helsinki), Why should Greek Oracle and Near Eastern Prophecy Be Compared? |
Feb 1-3 | Second International Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East, Barcelona |
Jan 26 | CSTT Lecture Series: Omar N’Shea (University of Malta), Masculinities in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. |
Jan 12-14 | Samuel-Kings’ Editors Workshop, Helsinki |
2016
Dec 15 | CSTT Lecture Series: Pablo Torijano Morales (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), The Qumran Texts and the History of the Biblical Texts |
Dec 3-4 | International workshop “Kings and Power: Exploring Jewish Texts in their Hellenistic Contexts“, Helsinki. |
Oct 27-28 | Workshop on Mortuary Rituals, Helsinki |
Oct 21-25 | Conference “Religion and Empire in the First Millennium BCE Levant”, Beirut, Lebanon. |
Sept 28-29 | Sisälle Septuagintaan -Symposium + Farewell Lecture by Prof. Anneli Aejmelaeus, “Septuaginta ja tekstikritiikki – elämänmittainen oppimisprosessi“, Helsinki. |
Sept 21-24 | International conference “The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends”, Helsinki. In cooperation with the CoE ‘Reason and Religious Recognition’ and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East > Booklet: Conference program + other info |
Sept 15 | CSTT Lecture Series: Amar Annus (University of Tartu), “On How to Bridge the Gap between Ancient Creativity and Modern Neurobiology” |
May 23-24 | International workshop “Patterns of Change in Literary Development“, Helsinki. |
May 16 | Workshop “Poetry in Ben Sira“, Helsinki. |
May 12 | CSTT Lecture Series: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (University of Copenhagen), “Visiting the Dead: Traces of Mortuary Ritual Practices in Roman Palestine”, University of Helsinki. |
April 7-10 | CSTT Annual Meeting 2016 “Change?!”, Saariselkä, Lapland. |
Mar 10 | CSTT Lecture Series: Jason Silverman, “Worshiping the Wise Lord: An Introduction to the Avesta in Its Iranian Context for Biblical Scholars,” University of Helsinki. |
Feb 11 | CSTT Lecture Series: Drew Longacre, “When Did the Pentateuch Become a Book?“, University of Helsinki. |
2015
Sept 25-26 | International workshop: “Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period (Part 2)“, Helsinki (Finland) Sponsored by the Nordic Research Council (NRC) |
Sept 17-18 | International research colloquium: “Faces from the Past: Ancient Near Eastern Figurines“, Tallinn |
Sept 14-15 | European Qumran Network meeting, Helsinki |
Sept 26-28 | CSTT Annual Meeting 2015: “What is Text?”, Tallinn |
June 15-16 | International workshop: “Ancient Jewish Cosmology: Sacred Time and Order“, Jerusalem Co-sponsored by the Finnish Institute in the Middle East |
May 7-9 | International workshop: “Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period (Part 1)“, Copenhagen Sponsored by the Nordic Research Council (NRC) |
April 21 | Mini-conference “What is ‘Ethnicity’ and Who Belongs to a ‘Minority’ in the Fertile Crescent“, Helsinki |
April 14-15 | International workshop “Text, Ritual and Magic“, Helsinki In cooperation with CoE ‘Reason and Religious Recognition’ |
Mar 17-19 | International workshop “Editorial Techniques in Light of Empirical Evidence“, Münster In cooperation with the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster |
Mar 3-4 | International research seminar “Trends and Challenges in the Cognitive Science of Religion“, Helsinki |
2014
Oct 27-28 | International workshop “Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East“, Helsinki |
Oct 3-5 | CSTT Annual Meeting 2014: “What is Sacred?”, Tallinn |
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