Upcoming Events
June 2023
On June 2023, Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider is invited for a colloquium (topic TBA) at the University of Erfurt (Urbanism and Religion). Furthermore, she will consult her work-in-progress with the members of the team of Urban Religions and prof. Jörg Rüpke, the specialist of the ancient religions and PI of ERC Advanced Grant Lived Ancient Religions 2013-2017 (https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/research/researching/research-projects/lived-ancient-religion-questioning-cults-and-polis-religion).
May 2023
Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider will present at the Melammu Workshop on the Experiencing Borders in Antiquity held in Gdańsk (Poland) http://www.melammu-project.eu/workshops/mw18prog.html Her paper will concern the goddess Allat as the deity of a borderland and her connection to the deserts.
March 21, 2023
The PI of the project will give a talk on March 21, 2023 during the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) Webinar on “Goddess as Social Construct. The worshippers of Atargatis in the Mediterranean from the 4th c. BCE to the 4th c. CE.” This paper will provide highlights on the cultic personnel, but also on the individuals who set up dedications and will show the geography of the cult of the goddess, basing on the epigraphical (inscriptions) and archaeological (temples) material. Special accent will be put on Dura Europos and Greek inscriptions from Delos and Macedonia from the Hellenistic times.
March 10, 2023
Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider promotes her book „Dédicaces sans théonyme de Palmyre. Béni (soit) son nom pour l’éterinité » (https://brill.com/display/title/60348) at the seminar series of Early Text Cultures in Oxford, UK. She will be shortly speaking about the current project.