The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity

The 2024 Connected Past Conference “Religious Networks in Antiquity” will be held at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada from 4-6 October 2024. An optional network science workshop will take place from October 2-3 2024.

For further details click here or https://phh-connected-past-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

We recognize the workshop and first day of the conference overlap with Rosh Hashanah and apologize to those who may not be able to attend because of this. We are looking into some workarounds to mitigate this unfortunate conflict.

Preliminary List of Speakers and Paper Titles

M. Ali Akman, Brown University: “Understanding Territories of the Divine: A Network Perspective on the Influence of the Hittite Gods”

A. Alaica, University of British Columbia, “Non-Human Networks: Herding, Mobility and Moche Religious Impact”

C. Barnes, University of British Columbia and G. Braun, University of Cincinnati: “Labour Input and Knowledge Networks in the Construction of Ashlar Buildings on Cyprus”

S. Blakely, Emory University: “Networks, Narratives, and Emergence: Approaching Complexity through the Epigraphic Networks of Samothrace”

Z. Buck: “Polis and Patron: Modelling Patron Deities and Cultic Spread in Ancient Greece using Hansen’s Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis”

E. Buckinham, University of Missouri: “(Criss-)Crossing Cultural Frontiers: A Social Network Approach to Early Archaic Religious Sites in Sicily”

F. Coward, Bournemouth University: “From forager ideologies to agricultural religions? A networked approach to the spread of religious effects across the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of southwest Asia”

S. A. Cox, San Francisco State University, and E. Bentley, University of Edinburgh: “Protection for the Ladies: Diffusion of Egyptian Bes and Taweret to Minoan Beset and Genii during the Middle Bronze Age”

Z. Crook, Carleton University: “Locating Paul’s Ekklēsiai among Occupational Associations”

R. Da Riva, University of Barcelona: “Networks and Religious Festivities in First-Millennium BCE Babylonia”

M. Daniels, University of British Columbia: “Visualizing religious networks in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Intercultural Iconographies Project”

M. Egri, Romanian Academy: “Networks of power and authority in the lower Danube basin during the 1st century AD”

D. Grant, Trinity College Dublin: “Sailing to Sanctuaries. Locating Aegean Sanctuaries as Nodes on Trade Networks and Waypoints on Navigation Routes”

L. Hickox, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: “Iconographic Transformations in the Northern Apennines: A Social Network Analysis of Rural Etruscan Religion from the 6th-4th Centuries BCE”

Z. Husser, Biola University: “The Sacred Landscape of Jovian Epithets in Roman Imperial Italy”

E. A. Keyser, University of California, Berkeley: “The Role of Rhyta in Mycenaean Networks of Ritual Practice and Power”

G. Landgraf, University of British Columbia: “Origins of the Omphalos: Delphi in the Age of Colonies”

K. Mallinson, Westminster College and M. Harder, University of Missouri: “Computational Approaches to Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Outside of Crete”

L. Mazurek, Indiana University Bloomington: “The Greek Heröon in the Roman Period: Portraits, Pasts, and Networked Memory”

F. Mazzilli, University of Münster, and José Carlos López-Gómez, Universidad de Málaga: “Interplay between Religious, Social, and Spatial Networks in Lusitania”

B. Mills, University of Arizona: “Internal Frontiers and Broad Bridges: Spatial and Social Networks of Religious Innovation and Diffusion in the Ancient U.S. Southwest”

C. P. Omilanowski, University of Arizona: “Creating the Social Network of the Self: Negotiating Marcus Agrippa’s Public Identities through his Inscribed Media”

H. Özlen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Navigating Identity: Christian Selfhood and Rejection in ‘Octavius’”

M. Peeples, Arizona State University: “Structural Embeddedness, Relational Embeddedness, and the Diffusion of Ritual Practice in the U.S. Southwest”

P. Petit, Université Laval: “The Sphinx in the Ancient Mediterranean Network of the Phoenicians”

A. T. Proestos, McMaster University: “Reconstructing Regional and Local interaction of the Ancient Oenotrians”

L. Radloff, University of Toronto: “Sacred Seafaring: Intervisibility, Cult Sites, and Maritime Mobility”

E. Slingerland, University of British Columbia: “Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History (DRH)”

A. F. Ward, Fairfield University: “Modelling Ritual Adoptions in a Colonial Middle Ground – Western Sicily”

S. Wilker, Oberlin College: “Contagious Cups: Investigating the Impact of Complex Contagions on Wine Vessels, Wine Drinking, and Community Social Networks in the Ancient World”

B. Winnick, University of British Columbia: “Clique Structures of Mythic Genealogies as Indicators of Ancient Greek Ethnogenesis”

J. Wood, University of Lincoln: “Named and unnamed intermediaries in the making of the Church in late antique Iberia”

This workshop and conference is sponsored by The Connected Past, The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UBC Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, The UBC Centre for Computational Social Sciences, Green College UBC, The UBC Centre for Migration Studies, The UBC Public Humanities Hub, UBC History, UBC Anthropology, the Vancouver Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Database of Religious History, UBC Advanced Research Computing, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.