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Friday, June 12, 2026
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New approaches to material culture, space and the experience of religious practice from Antiquity to the RenaissanceIAS Seminar Room, Zeeman BuildingFriday 12th June 2025, 9.30-5.00 IAS Seminar Room.This colloquium, supported by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Humanities Research Fund, brings together colleagues from Warwick (Depts of Classics/Ancient History and History of Art) with colleagues from the Universities of Groningen and Vienna to discuss the ways spaces, monuments and objects functioned within religious rituals from Antiquity to the Renaissance. All are welcome but numbers are limited - please sign up here. Provisional Schedule: Christina Williamson (Groningen): ‘Material culture, ritual space and the experience of healing at the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon’ Zahra Newby (Warwick, Classics and Ancient History): ‘The Festive cityscape in Roman Aphrodisias: art and experience' Clare Rowan (Warwick, Classics and Ancient History): ‘Mobilising Culture: Tokens and festival experience in Roman Ephesus’ Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Vienna): ‘Atmospheric Politics: Festival Controversy and Stigma Management Around Mater Magna and Isis’ Basema Hamarneh (Vienna): ‘Sacred in Motion: Festivals, Processions, and the Making of Religious Space in the Late Antique Levant’ Jenny Alexander (Warwick, History of Art): ‘The Angel Choir at Lincoln Cathedral as mausoleum: public and private space in the later medieval period’ Marta Ajmar (Warwick, History of Art): 'Space, landscape and human/more-than-human partnerships in the intarsia cycles of Santa Maria dell'Organo in Verona'. |