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2024-02-19T11:36:26Z
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2024-01-30T15:00:00Z
Round table on „Between Sahara and Sea. Africa in the Roman Empire“ (with Touatia Amraoui, Stefan Ardeleanu, Sami Ben Tahar, David J. Mattingly, Sabine Panzram and David L. Stone)
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22706094/cover-book-733x414-e1b6213224a276fa62b6a795f46a3b5a9b0cfc56.jpg" /><p>In collaboration with the University of Michigan Press, the Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies" seeks to discuss the book "Between Sahara and Sea. Africa in the Roman Empire" (The University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbour 2023) on an international platform and with the integration of several international scholars currently active in the field. The roundtable discussion will be held online via zoom, on January 30, 2024, 4–6 pm (Central European time!). Comments and remarks will be provided by: </p>
Touatia Amraoui (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-en-Provence)
Stefan Ardeleanu (RomanIslam - Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies in Late Antiquity, University of Hamburg)
Sami Ben Tahar (Institut Nationale du Patrimoine, Tunis)
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)<br>
Sabine Panzram (RomanIslam - Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies in Late Antiquity, University of Hamburg)
David L. Stone (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
<p> We kindly invite scholars from all over the globe to attend this event. For registration in order to receive the zoom link, please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de. For further information, please contact stefan.ardeleanu@uni-hamburg.de.</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © Michigan Press</p>
NAGR-fakgw-23027653-production
2024-01-28T23:00:00Z
Military Foundations, Ribāṭs, and Urbanization
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22639125/umayyad-castle-of-gormaz-733x414-99b3c55a4ed1f0b0e945a6dc5b1112f157249fcf.jpg" /><p>Registration until January 29, 2024</p>
<p>Kindly register for the the workshop "Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization" February 1–2, 2024, organized by Stefan Heidemann and Kurt Franz. For those who like to attend the workshop, kindly send an email to katharina.mewes@uni-hamburg.de.</p>
<p>The workshop wants to challenge the ongoing discourse on the origins of the ‘Islamic’ city. It looks at military settlements and the presence of garrisons as a driving force of colonialization as well as the proliferation of Islamic civilization. Using a comparative approach to Empire Studies, the workshop aims at looking at cases of military city foundations in empires that were likewise founded by conquering military elites promoting at the same time a salvation religion, i.e., the Roman and Hispanic empires</p>
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<p></p><p>Photo: © J. F. Esteban Barahona</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22877615-production
2024-01-17T16:00:00Z
Luxury Ceramics
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22877058/luxus-ceramics-733x414-c4e1aa7048fd23e6adc1c1819554488a48f54788.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Luxury Ceramics" on Wed. Jan. 17, 2024, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de by Jan. 16, 2024.</p>
<p>The format comprises the lectures "Céramique de prestige au début de la période islamique. Un fossé entre l’Est et l’Ouest“ by Prof. Dr. Susana Gómez Martínez (Universidade de Evora) and "The Islamisation of Material Culture: The Use of Glazed Tableware as Common and Luxury Object" by Dr. Viva Sacco (UCL Institute of Archaeology)</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © Gómez Martínez</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22639137-production
2024-01-01T23:00:00Z
CfP Military Foundations, Ribāṭs, and Urbanization
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22639125/umayyad-castle-of-gormaz-733x414-99b3c55a4ed1f0b0e945a6dc5b1112f157249fcf.jpg" /><p>The RomanIslam Center (Early Islam) invites abstracts for the workshop "Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization" February 1–2, 2024, organized by Stefan Heidemann and Kurt Franz.</p>
<p>The workshop wants to challenge the ongoing discourse on the origins of the ‘Islamic’ city. It looks at military settlements and the presence of garrisons as a driving force of colonialization as well as the proliferation of Islamic civilization. Using a comparative approach to Empire Studies, the workshop aims at looking at cases of military city foundations in empires that were likewise founded by conquering military elites promoting at the same time a salvation religion, i.e., the Roman and Hispanic empires</p>
<p>[ CALL FOR PAPER ]</p>
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<p></p><p>Photo: © J. F. Esteban Barahona</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22568857-production
2023-12-14T16:00:00Z
Empowering the Sacred Spaces
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22568769/reliquienbehaelter-733x414-804b2ffba8a3d7fcd8c36e171a46eb0d81b4c81b.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Empowering the Sacred Spacesr" on Thurs. December 14, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de</p>
<p>The format comprises the lectures "Subverting Objects, Values, and Ideas: Material Transformations of the Cult of Saint in Late Antique Afro-Eurasia" by Adrien Palladino (Masaryk University of Brno) and "An Ifrīqiyyan Inventio: Gesturing toward North African Sacred Space with a Messenger’s Tomb" by Adam Bursi (Cornell University).</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22739241-production
2023-12-06T23:00:00Z
Anthropology of the Object
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22739289/anthropology-733x4141-7a4d6102d241e28e6e759af548d707d80377d620.jpg" /><p>Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg.</p>
<p>How can objects reveal processes of cultural and social change in the Early Islamic period? Any ‘object’, in the broadest possible meaning, is the material result of complex entangled social, economic, and even transcultural processes that lead to its creation, use, and disposal. Disentangling these, or in a way retro-engineering these processes, can shed light on the agency of craftsmen, consumers, patrons, and users, and thus also on its larger social embeddedness. The ‘object’ would not exist without a culture of professional training, a legal system, labor laws, monetary exchanges, transport infrastructure, or simply the prevailing taste. In order to unravel the ‘object’ as a historical source, it needs contextualization with a wide assortment of literary sources, and scholarly methods.</p>
<p>The workshop is organized along two axes.The first centers on ‘object biographies’,tracing the life story of objects from their inception on. The second axis stresses the social embeddedness of objects, of what they reveal to us regarding the individual agents in these processes, and how their life cycles are influenced by religious, legal, and economic patterns.</p>
<p>[ programm & more ]</p><p>Photo: © MET</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22529068-production
2023-11-21T17:00:00Z
Round table on „Late Roman Italy. Imperium to Regnum“ (with Jeroen Wijnendaele, Fabrizio Oppedisano, Sabine Panzram and Rocco Selvaggi)
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22528610/cover-book-733x414-377175cf56ca395ea71be654b74677ee3465ed0e.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our event "Round table on „Late Roman Italy. Imperium to Regnum“ (with Jeroen Wijnendaele, Fabrizio Oppedisano and Rocco Selvaggi; moderation: Sabine Panzram" on Tues. November 21, 2023, 6 -8 pm (German time).</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © Edinburgh University Press</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22587657-production
2023-11-15T16:00:00Z
Ivories in Roman and Islamic Contexts
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22573309/ivory-733x414-cf6753c38a0ecccc3ed0777f279d883f4db200e4.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Ivories in Roman and Islamic Contexts" on Wed. Nov. 15, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de</p>
<p>The format comprises the lectures "Roman Ivory – A Brief (Trans)Cultural Biography of a Luxurious Material" by Kasper Grønlund Evers (Copenhagen University) and "From Trans-Saharan to Trans-Iberian: Early Islamic Ivory and Ivories" by Rose Walker (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London).</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © The Met</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22260831-production
2023-10-19T16:00:00Z
Espacios para el diálogo. La diplomacia hispana entre la república y al-Andalus (ss. III a.C. - IX d.C.)
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22260902/toletum-xiv-733x414-2389fe9790d5e3308ee62cfcc77d7097660c4f05.jpg" /><p>We would like to invite you to the International Workshop "Espacios para el diálogo. La diplomacia hispana entre la república y al-Andalus (ss. III a.C. - IX d.C.)", October 19-21, 2023, Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstr. 116, 20249 Hamburg.</p><p>Photo: © Panzram</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22413356-production
2023-10-18T15:00:00Z
Luxury of Water
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22349689/tipasa-nymphaeum-733x414-5e50f7dd2736843868d4d6986380f2d02cc4bbdf.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Luxury of Water" on Wed. October 18, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de</p>
<p>The format comprises the lectures "Still splashing waters: monumental fountains in Late Antique North Africa" by Nicolas Lamare (Université de Picardie) and "Social significance of irrigated agriculture in al-Andalus and Western Mediterranean. Changes in landscapes and productive strategies from Late Antiquity to the Islamic period" by José María Martín Civantos (Universidad de Granada).</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © Lamare</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22419777-production
2023-10-17T11:30:00Z
Demography, Economy and Law in (Post-)Imperial Worlds, 800–1600: Latin Europe and the Western Islamic World in Comparison
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22419438/demography-733x414-bdd29d579e107f2501af647f3face88b4c79ce79.jpg" /><p>Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann (Universität Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer (Bucerius Law School) invite to their workshop "Demography, Economy and Law in (Post-)Imperial Worlds."</p>
<p>The entanglement of law, economy, and demographics is delicate and complicated. Looking at the growth of cities might provide a yardstick for intercultural comparison. Other factors such as political structures, geography, climate, and epidemics influence the growth of economies and populations, too. Thereby, the difference between pull and push factors seems often to be blurred.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, the 8th and 9th centuries were an extraordinarily prosperous time for the Islamic Empire, after which economy,population, and urbanism started to decline. On the other hand, the Latin Christian world gained momentum at around 1200 with an unprecedented growth until the Early Modern period. Altogether, available sources for a macroeconomic assessment and the demographics of both developments – narrative sources and the archival remains – do not easily lend themselves to comparison. Weber’s idea of autonomous mercantile cities as the cradle of capitalism, reformation, and protestant ethics places deficiencies on the side of the Islamic world, but do not answer why it was so successful to begin with. In that, Weber’s approach was flawed by the Orientalist discourse of the time.</p>
<p>[ programm & more ]</p><p>Photo: © Mewes</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22057393-production
2023-10-05T07:00:00Z
Cities, Objects, and Circulation of Goods in the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22057448/circulation-733x414-c6438e7ad271277219afd8fd4f956049b116363b.jpg" /><p>The RomanIslam Center (Early Islam) and our former fellows Dr. Nouri Boukhchim (Université de Tunis) and Dr. Meriem Marzouki (Université de Tunis) , and our former colleague Dr. Antonia Bosanquet (Utrecht University) organize a workshop "Cities, Objects, and Circulation of Goods in the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula" to enhance a better understanding of political and cultural changes witnessed by the Maghreb and Iberian Peninsula between Late Antiquity and the Early and Middle Islamic Period. In some regions, tribes became virtually autonomous, and in others, emirates arose that were integrated into broader, cross-African networks. </p>
<p>[ program & more ]</p><p>Photo: ©The Walters Art Museum</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22147534-production
2023-09-26T22:00:00Z
The Anthropology of Objects: How can Objects Reveal Processes of Cultural and Social Change?
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22169017/anthropology-733x414-271d2441a679118742d3848cab957b6fac756a6f.jpg" /><p>The joint workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann and Prof. Dr. Kurt Franz (RomanIslam Center (Early Islam) - Universität Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Abigail Krasner Balbale (NYU) and Prof. Dr. Ramzi Rouighi (USC), "The Anthropology of Objects: How can Objects Reveal Processes of Cultural and Social Change?", Dec. 7 – Dec. 8, 2023, will explore how both surviving objects and discussions of objects in written sources reveal the vast political, religious and cultural changes that accompanied the transition from late antiquity to early Islam.</p>
<p>The RomanIslam Center focuses on the processes of empire building on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa during the Roman and Islamic periods, considered from a transcultural perspective. As part of the Center’s theme for 2023-24, “Architecture and Materials of Prestige,” this workshop examines how objects can shed light on cultural and political transformation, from both a theoretical level of analysis and the practical level of case studies. Although the case studies will mainly focus on al-Andalus and the Maghreb and on the long Late Antiquity (5th-11th centuries), broader papers that appraise the state of material culture studies or present examples from other regions that can offer a comparative perspective are most welcome.</p>
<p>We invite abstracts from scholars at all levels, from graduate student to full professor, working in the fields including history, art history, archaeology, and anthropology. Apart from more conceptual papers, we encourage contributions that specifically respond to the conference’s axes. The first centers on “object biographies,” tracing the life story of objects from their moment of production through their movement across time and space, and considers what objects can tell us about the contexts, in which they were produced and circulated. This axis centers physical evidence, using materials, techniques, patterns of wear and evidence of modification to illuminate the people who interacted with the objects. The second axis analyzes the social embeddedness of objects from a broader cultural perspective, considering how objects (including descriptions of objects in texts) reveal broader political, religious and economic patterns and asks about agents and the groups involved. </p>
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<p></p><p>Photo: © Mewes</p>
NAGR-fakgw-21888707-production
2023-07-27T07:00:00Z
“Al-Muhallabiyyat and More”
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21888741/study-day-42263d4e0f086556f229b5350fc4d8e927ee5071.jpg" /><p>On Thursday July 27, 2023 the RomanIslam Center organized a Study Day about the “Al-Muhallabiyyat and More”. Amongst the speakers: Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia), Corisande Fenwick (University College London), Chokri Touihri (Institut National du Partimoine Tunis) and Abigail Balbale (New York University). </p>
<p>In order to attend please register by July 26, 2023 with Katharina.mewes@uni-hamburg.de</p>
<p>[ program ]</p><p>Photo: © Boukhchim</p>
NAGR-fakgw-22260960-production
2023-07-19T07:00:00Z
Nouvelles approches de la culture matérielle en Algérie romaine et tardive
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22260941/algerie-romaine-et-tardive-733x414-3511bbb6becc284a144c9fbcd787a55d7db6e723.jpg" /><p>We would like to invite you to the International Workshop "Nouvelles approches de la culture matérielle en Algérie romaine et tardive", July 19-20, 2023, Universität Hamburg (Gästehaus).</p><p>Photo: © Bouder</p>
NAGR-fakgw-21780437-production
2023-07-13T15:00:00Z
Gardens of Power
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21780368/jardin-athmenia-733x414-41a599c7fb35a75bd577da5437e220ccf0794f4c.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Gardens of power" on Wed. July 13, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de</p>
<p>The format comprises the lectures "Western Roman gardens in Late Antiquity: between continuity and rupture (4th-5th centuries)" by Eric Morvillez (Avignon Université) and "Living on the Land: the practicalities of agriculture" by Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © Morvillez</p>
NAGR-fakgw-21859539-production
2023-07-10T22:00:00Z
Veneration in Motion in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21859946/veneration-733x414-7a9a5e5b9e95ad968ac97c13e3418077b32c109c.jpg" /><p>Joint Cooperation Workshop between the Project Making a Martyr in Medieval Iberia (589-1080) Universiteit Radboud and the RomanIslam Center (Universität Hamburg)</p>
<p>As an important form of religious and cultural capital in late antiquity and the early middle ages, the cults of sacred figures moved: between institutions, between cities, between regions and between religious traditions. By what vectors did veneration travel? What were the impulses and interests behind importing and exporting sacred figures? By tackling these dynamics of cultural and religious transfer through an interdisciplinary examination of liturgy, music, literature and material culture, we hope to get at the heart of what sacred figures meant to Iberian communities—both Christian and Muslim—and the religious and cultural networks their movement reflects.</p>
<p>[ program ]</p><p>Photo: © Morgan Library</p>
NAGR-fakgw-21806560-production
2023-06-29T12:00:00Z
Local Memories in Tripolitania: alternative narratives about the Futūḥāt and their aftermath
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21806452/bir-hacheim-1990-733x414-e96ff3fb49ae19fea8843ec8bdfd6b4c3945d185.jpg" /><p>We cordially invite you to our guest lecture on Thurs. June 29, 2023, 2 -4 pm (German time). It comprises the lecture "Local Memories in Tripolitania: alternative narratives about the Futūḥāt and their aftermath" by Sébastein Garnier (Centre Jean Pépin - CNRS).</p>
<p>[ more ]</p><p>Photo: © Jerryscuba</p>
NAGR-fakgw-21741702-production
2023-06-28T16:00:00Z
Manuscript Collections in Decentralised Regions: Research Challenges and Strategies for Overcoming These
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21741759/garnier-csmc-733x414-8221e696151e4ac8a1829a070e6c83dcf40e3aa5.jpg" /><p>We would like to invite you to the informal talk organised jointly by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture and the RomanIslam Center, University of Hamburg. <br>Title: Manuscript Collections in Decentralised Regions: Research Challenges and Strategies for Overcoming These<br>Speaker: Dr. Sébastien Garnier (Centre Jean Pépin - CNRS)<br>When: June 28 2023, 6pm CET<br>Where: Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg</p><p>Photo: © CSMC</p>