International Conference: New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD), LMU Munich & Online, 26-27 January 2024

International Conference

New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD)

LMU Munich & Online

January 26-27 2024

An international conference on New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD) takes place at LMU Munich on January 26th and 27th, 2024. We are pleased to be able to support the initiative of Prolet Decheva and Charles Wastiau.

The conference takes place in Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10 in the large lecture hall (R. 242). The lectures can also be followed via live stream. All times are according to CET.


Registration

To register online for each day, click the link for the day that you want to attend.

Day 1

Day 2

PROGRAM

A copy of the program can be downloaded.


Friday,  26 January 2024 (All Times CET)

13:15 – 13:30 Introduction

13:30 – 14:00 Anna-Laura Honikel, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Personifications on Mosaics of the Province Lusitania

14:00 – 14:30 Sarah Hollaender, University of Graz

Visualizing ‘Manliness’: The Goddess Virtus and Her Transformations in Late Antiquity

14:30 – 15:00 Giovanna Ferri, University of Sassari

Seasons Personifications in the Decorative Programs of Roman Catacombs and Privately-Owned Hypogea in Late Antiquity: Felicitas Temporum and Heavenly Aeternitas

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:00 Caroline Bridel, University of Bern

The Use of Personifications in Late Antique Jewish Spaces: Establishing a Cultural Frame?

16:00 – 16:30 Amélie Belleli, INRAP/University of Limoges

Late Roman Empresses as Allegorical Figures

16:30 – 17:00 Prolet Decheva, University College Dublin

Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Proper Names

17:00 – 18:00 Break

18:00 – 19:00 Keynote lecture: Emma Stafford, University of Leeds

Nemesis: A Greek Personification in the Later Roman World


Saturday, 27 January 2024 (All Times CET)

09:00 – 09:30 Annegret Klünker, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Coining Embodied Conditions: The Severan Era as Synopsis for the Visual Emergence of Personifications in Rome

09:30 – 10:00 Charles Wastiau, University of Liège/University of Bonn

The End of the „Divine Qualities“ on Late Roman Coins

10:00 – 10:30 Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová, Czech Academy of Sciences

The Last Echoes of Tyche Poleos on Byzantine Coins: Several Cases from the 6th Century

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Amel Bouder, Freie Universität Berlin/Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

The Multiple Personifications of Saturnus the African God and his Assessors: an Allegory between the River God and the Master of the Universe

11:30 – 12:00 Julian Hollaender, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg

Greetings from the Jordan River: The Anthropomorphic River in Early Christian Baptismal Representations

12:00 – 12:30 Natalia Turabelidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Classical Prototypes in Medieval Georgian Mural Painting: The Evidence of Ateni Sioni Murals

12:30 Conclusions

For more information, https://sabkmuenchen.com/2023/12/07/workshop-2/