Program – MigRel.Net

18:30 – 19:00	András Handl & Olof Heilo Welcome & Introduction
19:00 – 20:00	Public Keynote Lecture Anna Collar, Southampton Mobility/Place: The Intangible and the Material in the Exploration of Past Movement and Religion
	Aperó

9:00 – 10:00	Alexiana Dawn Fry, Stellenbosch Could I Have This Dance? Moving Together with/in the Ancient Past and Our Present
10:00 – 11:00	András Handl, Bern / Leuven How Roman is the Roman Church? Methodological Nationalism in the Making of a Christian Rome
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30	Gillian Glass, Bergen Travels Between and Beyond: Comparative Approaches to Gender, Literary Genres, and Languages in the Study of Second Temple Judaism
12:30 – 13:00	Discussion
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:30	Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus How to write travel history in light of ancient literary sources?
15:30 – 16:30	Amelia R. Brown, Malta (Christian?) Frogs around a Mediterranean Pond: Plotting change & continuity in Christian and Hellenic Aegean Maritime and Migrant Cults, from Plato & Poseidon to St. Paul & St. Menas
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00	Jan Rüggemeier and Caroline Teschmer, Bonn Bodies on the Move. Sexualities, Making Foreignness, and Mediating Difference in Plural Cities, Past and Present

9:00 – 10:00	Alison John, Liverpool Greek in the late antique West: migration, religion and language communities across the Mediterranean, 300 – 700 CE
10:00 – 11:00	Dan Batovici, Vienna A Syriac Presence in Egypt: Deir al-Surian (the Monastery of the Syrians) in Wadi al-Natrun
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30	Madalena Toca, Vienna The Movement of Monks from Egypt to Palestine from the Fourth to the Sixth Century
12:30 – 13:00	Discussion
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:30	Marianna Mazzola, Rome Reshaping and Obscuring Mobility: Retracing Syriac Orthodox Migration in the Tenth-Century Byzantine East through the Sources
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Mateusz Jakub Fafinski, Erfurt Studying Monastic Displacement in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Approaches and Methods
17:00 – 18:00	Garbi Schmidt, Roskilde Researching Migration Based on a Critique of Methodological Presentism

9:00 – 10:00	Annamaria Pazienza, Venice Crossing the Alps: The Mobility of Lower-Ranking Clergy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Italy
10:00 – 11:00	Round Table Panelists: Elisa Uusimäki, Garbi Schmidt, Rens Tacoma, Anna Collar, András Handl
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30	MigRel.Net Kick-off Business Meeting
12:30 – 13:00	Closing Reflections and Future Plans
	Lunch break
afternoon	Excursion to Eyüpsultan