Conference Programme:
Institutions and Institutionality in Late Antiquity


Göttingen, March 22–24, 2023
Venue: Conference Centre “Alte Mensa”, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen



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


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)


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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