Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Internal meeting of the members of the ERC-project ‘Lived Ancient Religion’ at Schloß Ettersburg, 8-9 December 2016

Ten members of the ERC-funded project ‘Lived Ancient Religion’, co-directed by Prof.es Jörg Rüpke (MWK) and Rubina Raja (Aarhus), came together at Schloß Ettersburg near Weimar (Thuringia) on 8-9 December 2016 to assess progress on individual projects as the financial period draws to a close (31 May 2017), and to review preparations for the final conference to be held at Haus Haunstein in Eisenach, 3-5 April 2017. On taking stock of what the participants felt to be the key concepts that had been developed over the five years, it became clear that the original terms have largely, though not entirely, been replaced by others that are more appropriate to individual needs. A number of existing co-operation partners and future conferences were nominated as means of pursuing topics that are only now being opened up or could not be completed within the financial period. In addition to the publication in various forms of individual projects and of the proceedings of the final conference, it was resolved to publish a collective article in a Religious Studies journal to summarise the project’s provisional results in that quarter. The new house-journal Religion in the Roman Empire (Mohr Siebeck) will however be the major long-term forum for the ideas developed by the project.

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