RomanIslam - Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies in Late Antiquity

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RomanIslam - Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies in Late Antiquity

Our approach aims at comparing transcultural assimilation processes in the historical region of the

The Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) brings together the disciplines of comparative empire and transcultural studies into a broader historical and more contemporary perspective. Our approach aims at comparing transcultural assimilation processes in the historical region of the western Med

iterranean with attention on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE, the so-called Long Late Antiquity, including the Early Islamic Period. The economically significant Iberian Peninsula and Maghreb were peripheral regions during pagan times, the later Christianized Roman period, and during the Islamic Empire. At the beginning of the millennium both regions were characterized by Celt-Iberian and Berber cultures, influenced by Hellenistic civilization but maintaining their distinct characteristics. Both Roman and Islamic empires shaped the formation of societies, cities, administration, and landscapes. Both introduced a religion of salvation, originating from the Middle East, as the state religion, but with a different approach to its social implementation (forced religious homogenization / religious, albeit not equal, plurality). Following the two empires, Roman culture flourished under Germanic leaders, as Islamic culture did under the autonomous Umayyads and Aghlabids. While in the Iberian Peninsula the Roman-Christian element remained in evidence for centuries, despite Islamication, the same Roman-Christian culture of North Africa (Augustine) disappeared almost entirely two to three centuries after the Arab conquest. Here, cultural Islamication merged with a religious Islamization. This situation permits the construction of theoretical models of transcultural adaptation in an area that, although geographically distant from imperial centers, continued to be of importance.

18/06/2026

😃📅 Beyond the Iberia and Northafrica - Beyond the Iberia and Northafrica 📅😃

BORDERS AND LEGITIMACY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Italian-Chinese Dialogues 2.0. 😃 Looking Sideways:
Medieval and Early Modern History in Italian and Chinese perspectives

🗣 Monday, 22nd June 2026
⏱️ Time: 10:00–12:00 (CET) / 16:00–18:00 (CST)
🔗 Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/e/LYbhiX9jDU
🗣🗣 Organized by Donato Sitaro (Naples), Jiawei Weng (Tübingen/Beijing), Qianyu Wang (Ghent)

🎯 Join us for the next session of the Italian-Chinese seminar series, organized by the University of Naples “Federico II”. This series continues to build bridges between Italian and Chinese scholarship, exploring shared historical topics and challenges through a global lens.
🎯🎯 This session explores the fluid nature of political legitimacy and identity formation across the contested frontiers of early medieval Europe. By examining the ambiguous political status of eighth-century Bavarian dukes under Carolingian domination alongside the strategic use of memory on the Pillar of Eliseg to define Welsh identity, we will explore how rulership and ethnic self-perception were negotiated in transitional landscapes.

🗣 Donato SITARO (UNINA), The Pillar of Eliseg and its implications for Anglo-Welsh relationship in 8th-9th century Britain

🗣 🗣 Xuke WANG (Beijing), Contemporary perceptions on the Frankish and Bavarian rulership in the 8th century

🥳🥳 Check out the program: https://www.dottoratostoria.unina.it/index.php/italian-chinese-dialogues-2-0/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSc9BBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFSQURvdWRDbmhkcm5KSkVzc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHupCUOVK-TYOf6L9u52iqUFrg-0yVc0RLVYg4P4htVTdwY9Y0axDcC9nAM-Y_aem_YWdncwB40K0tDHONsyk054QV2jmF&brid=YWdncwE9_aKHKc9MMIXfJVYmBJeo

See you 👉😃

17/06/2026

😃📅 SAVE THE DATE, it's tomorrow 📅😃

The monastery of Deir el-Bachît in Western Thebes/Upper Egypt and a brief look at Byzantium
Ina EICHNER (Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

🗣 June 18 th, 4 PM
📕 To receive the link, please write to: [email protected]

🎯 This seminar series brings together scholars working on Early Christianity and monasticism across the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions from Late Antiquity to the early Islamic period. By looking beyond regional and disciplinary boundaries, the series aims to compare and contextualise the material, architectural, and social traditions that emerged alongside the spread of Christianity from the 4th century onward.
🎯🎯 As Christianity gradually replaced earlier religious systems, the transformation was neither uniform nor immediate. In many regions, new religious practices developed through the adaptation of long-standing local traditions, landscapes, and building practices. Christian communities—both lay and monastic—negotiated these continuities while responding to major geopolitical and cultural shifts, including the gradual Christianisation of society and the profound transformations brought about by the Arab conquests....

🥳🥳 Check out the program: https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/.../pcma-seminar-local-traditions.../ 😃
See you soon 👉😃

16/06/2026

😃📅 TAVOLA ROTONDA 2026 📅😃

TRA DIRITTO ED ECONOMIA: LA QUALITA DELLA VITA IN ETA TARDOANTICA

🗣 June 19th: 15h, 20th: 9h, 2026
📕 SPELLO, sala del Rescritto, Antico Palazzo Civico, piazza della Repubblica
🗣🗣 Organized by Rita Lizzi Testa - Carlo Lorenzi - Marialuisa Navarra (Peruggia)

🎯 Hendrik Dey (CUNY): Derrate nordafricane e consumo romano nella tarda antichita: commercio libero o economia statale?
🎯🎯 Boudewijn Sirks (Oxford): Production, Distribution, Consumption: Legal Aspects
🎯🎯 🎯 Chiara Corbo (Napoli "Federico II"): Stato, Chiesa, privati: l'assistenza, ai poveri nella tarda antichita
🎯🎯 🎯🎯 Christel Freu (Evry Paris-Saclay): Financer l'assistance: l'Eglise, l'Etat et les particuliers
🎯🎯 🎯 Peter Sarris (Cambridge): Environment, Disease, and Eurasian Connection
🎯🎯 Salvatore Puliatti (Parma): Didicit homo naturam provocare: uomo e ambiente nelle fonti giuridiche romane. Percorsi interpretativi e cautele metodologiche

See you in SPELLO 👉😃

15/06/2026

😃📣 CFP Call for Papers CFP 📣😃

EXPERIENCING AND COPING WITH TRAUMA, GRIEF AND DEATH IN LATE ANTIQUITY (250-800 CE)

📌 📌 International Conference on Patristic Studies Oxford
📅 August, 2nd - 6th, 2027 📅
📌📌 Organisation: Lisa Scilipoti - Sharareh Ashouri | MSCA Doctoral Fellow | Cardiff University

👉👉 In light of recent research on the history of emotions, particularly how individuals and religious communities managed the powerful emotions precipitated by Trauma, Grief and Death, the proposed workshop aims to investigate how people and cultures experienced and coped with physical and mental manifestations of illness-health, grief, and trauma in religious, philosophical and theological discourses.
We encourage the broad conceptualisation of these topics and by way of some examples, the workshop will include papers on trauma arising from medical intervention in Persian literature, and salvific understandings of death in Gnostic and Manichaean traditions.
👉 We invite proposals on topics exploring (but not limited to):
• Trauma and Grief as Religious and Cultural Responses to Suffering and Death;
• Philosophical and/or Religious Discourses on Illness, Death, Trauma and Grief;
• The fate of the Soul and the Body at Death;
• Martyrdom, Torture, and the Experience of Violence and Pain;
• Individual and/or Societal Responses to Loss through ritualised acts of Mourning, Grief, and Commemoration;
• Trauma as a Transformative or Redemptive Experience;
• Soteriological Interpretations of Death.

🎯 Deadline for proposals: 15 July 2026
🎯🎯 Please submit a title and abstract (up to 300 words) and a short bio (max. 150 words) to [email protected] and [email protected]

Check it out 👉👉 👉 https://www.oxfordpatristics.com/

14/06/2026

Visigothic Kingship in Action: Impact and Re-signification, 11.-13.06.2026, Warburg-Haus Hamburg, 3rd Day 😉

13/06/2026

Visigothic Kingship in Action: Impact and Re-signification, 11.-13.06.2026, Warburg-Haus Hamburg, 2nd Day 😉

11/06/2026

Visigothic Kingship in Action: Impact and Re-signification, 11.-13.06.2026, Warburg-Haus Hamburg

10/06/2026

🥳🥳 From time to time, we leave Hamburg and the RomanIslam Center and go on trips )🚌🚂✈️

These days, we were guests in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where the annual meeting of the European Master in Classical Cultures program is taking place, in which Universität Hamburg is participating alongside 🥳🥳 13 other universities: Universität Münster - Münster University, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès , University of Perugia, University Roma Tre, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Nicosia, Istanbul University, Universidad de Salamanca, University of Palermo, University of Ljubljana, University of Lisbon and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom - Istituto Archeologico Germanico 🏛 🏛

👉👉👉 A great undertaking to establish a joint Master’s program in Classics among all of us. David Movrin is a wonderful host; we enjoyed a marvelous city tour through Roman Emona ⚒🏺⚰ 🏛 and Hamburg is very well represented 🧐🤓

👉👉 Check it out: https://www.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/studium/studiengaenge/ma-emcc.html

09/06/2026

📣📣 Do you want to learn something about SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE FIRST MILLENIUM CE?
🥳 Participate in the seminar series organised by SSE1K: ERC, 🥳🥳 PI Helen Foxhall Forbes

🏛 Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia
📆 09/06/2026, 16.00 CEST

📌📌 Edward Schoolman (University of Nevada, Reno):
NEW RESOURCES AND SHIFTING LANDSCAPES: HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN RIETI AND LUCCA, 600-1000 CE

👉👉 Check it out: https://pric.unive.it/projects/sse1k/home
📌📌📌 Register here: https://unive.zoom.us/.../register/fI2e1fC6TVWVY8QBtRbkAQ...

08/06/2026

😃📣 CFP Call for Papers CFP 📣😃

WORKSHOP ON LETTERS AND EPISTOLARY CULTURE IN SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY

📌 📌 International Conference on Patristic Studies Oxford
📅 August, 2nd - 6th, 2027 📅
📌📌 Organisation: The research group on “Syriac Epistolography” at KU Leuven

👉👉 We are issuing a call for papers that investigate letters and letter writing in Syriac Christian communities, including translations of letters into Syriac, across the first millennium CE. Proposals are particularly invited in relation to three themes:
👉 (1) the principal actors involved in Syriac epistolary culture, from authors, recipients, scribes, patrons, and letter carriers to persons greeted, thanked, corrected, or otherwise addressed within letters;
👉👉 (2) the exchange of knowledge and the mobility of people, objects, languages, and ideas evidenced by Syriac letters; and
👉👉 👉 (3) the circulation, collection, and transmission of Syriac letters, including in manuscripts, and the formation of epistolary corpora.

🎯 Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2026.
🎯🎯 Please submit a title and abstract (up to 250 words) to Marion Pragt: [email protected]

Check it out 👉👉 👉 https://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/letters-and-epistolary-culture-in-syriac-christianity

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