Space, Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity
Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: We are organizing three panels this year. 1. An open call: successful papers will have a clearly defined theoretical framework and direct relationship to lived experience in antiquity. 2. Spaces of catastrophe, ruin, and ruination. How do our sources understand spaces of catastrophe, ruin, and ruination? And how do we scholars understand them? We anticipate proposals concerning large-scale, public catastrophes (e.g., earthquakes, war, famine, etc.) but we also welcome proposals on a more domestic, intimate, private scale (e.g., familial trauma, pregnancy loss, financial ruin, etc.). Theoretical frameworks informed by gender, trauma, occupation, and war are especially sought. 3. A joint session with The Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament dedicated to the theme of intersectionality and urban space in Common Era Antiquity. The session will be a combination of invited contributions as well as papers accepted for presentation. We invite proposals for papers that consider ways in which shared urban spaces such as marketplaces, crossroads, streets, cemeteries, shops, cauponae, insulae, domus, associations, etc. furnished places for, e.g., the generation of social contacts, differing forms of visibility, displays of identity, the exchange of ideas, the dynamic construction of social and religious identities, etc., and ways in which such such generation, possibilities, displays, and exchanges shaped the practices, experiences, and imagination of urban spaces.
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