Conference Programme:
Institutions and Institutionality in Late Antiquity
Göttingen, March 22–24, 2023
Venue: Conference Centre “Alte Mensa”, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen
Institutions and Institutionality in Late Antiquity
Göttingen, March 22–24, 2023
Venue: Conference Centre “Alte Mensa”, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
14.00 Robert Edwards & Peter Gemeinhardt (Göttingen, Germany)
Opening and Introduction
14.30 Main Paper 1: Conrad Leyser (Oxford, UK)
How Institutions Remember
15.30 Main Paper 2: Peter Gemeinhardt (Göttingen, Germany)
Institutionalizing the Charisma? Early Christian Monasteries between Ascetic Practice and Organization
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Research Paper 1: Alexander Pierce (South Bend, USA)
On the Concilia Africae as the Principal “Institutional” Means of Ecclesial Unity in Africa Proconsularis
17.45 Research Paper 2: Mihai-D. Grigore (Mainz, Germany)
Primacy in the Pentarchy: The Influence of Dogmatic Debates and Conciliar Dynamics on Constantinople’s Rank Ascension (4th to 7th centuries)
18.30 Dinner (Catering)
19.30 Main Paper 3: Jens Scheiner (Göttingen, Germany)
The Early Islamic Caliphate as an Emerging Institution
Thursday, March 23, 2023
08.30 Main Paper 4: Robert Edwards (Göttingen, Germany)
The Marks of Institutionality in Late Antique Christian Schools
09.30 Main Paper 5: Catherine Hezser (London, UK)
Did Rabbinic ‘Institutions’ Exist in Palestinian Judaism of Late Antiquity? A Reconsideration of the Terms ‘Institution’ and ‘Institutionalisation’
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Research Paper 3: Lennart Lehmhaus (Tübingen, Germany)
Competition and Collaboration: Rabbinic Cultures and Jewish Institutions of Knowledge Production
11.45 Research Paper 4: Jeremiah Coogan (Berkeley, USA)
Caesarean Philology: Distributed Cognition, Scholarly Apparatus, and Institutional Coherence
12.30 Lunch (Catering)
14.30 Main Paper 6: Christoph Markschies (Berlin, Germany)
The Dresden Concept of “Institution” and “Institutionalization” and its Usefulness for the Study of Ancient Christianity and the Christianization of Ancient Society
15.30 Coffee Break
16.30 Research Paper 5: Dorothee Schenk (Göttingen, Germany)
Institutions and Conflicts: How do they influence each other?
17.15 Research Paper 6: Becca Grose (York, UK)
A Burgundian Church or The Church behind Burgundian borders?
19.00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant)
Friday, March 24, 2023
08.30 Main Paper 7: Christian Hornung (Bonn, Germany)
Constructing the Clergy. Aspects of ecclesiastical institutionalization in late antique Christianity
09.30 Main Paper 8: Maria Doerfler (New Haven, USA)
The paterfamilias and the patriarchs: institutional deviance, innovation, and retrenchment in the late ancient family
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Research Paper 7: Mariana Bodnaruk (Budapest/Vienna)
Integrating State and Aristocracy: Senate, Consistorium, and Comitatus from Constantine I to Theodosius I
11.45 Research Paper 8: Lydia Schriemer (Ottawa, Canada)
The Bishops shall Oppose the Provincial Governor: The Relationship be-tween Roman Law and other Late Antique Institutions
12.30 Lunch (Catering)
13.30 Research Paper 9: Julia Wilm (Freiburg, Germany)
Patrimonium Sancti Petri: Ecclesiastical Institutionalisation in the Sixth Cen-tury
14.15 Final Discussion
15.00 The End
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