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"Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire : New Evidence, New Approches (4th-6th Centuries)"Il aura lieu du 7 au 10 mars 2013 le colloque international  organisé par Marianne Sághy à l'University of Pécs.Voici le programme :Thursday March 7, 2013CEU Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Popper Room10:00-10:30 am  Marianne Sághy (Budapest) Welcome and Introductory Remarks: What’s new pagans and Christians?  10:30-12:30 pm Cities, Sophists, BishopsChair:  Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia)Josef Rist (Bochum): Conversion in a late antique city: The Life of Bishop Porphyry of Gaza by Mark the DeaconRaffaella Cribiore (New York): The sophist Libanius as a grey paganWolf Liebeschuetz (Nottingham): A view from Cyrrhus: Theodoret’s ‘Affectionum graecarum curatio’Samuel Provost (Nancy): Living side by side in a changing urban landscape: Christians, Pagans and Jews in Philippi (4th-6th centuries)12:30-1:30 lunch break1:30-3:00 pm  Religion and PhilosophyChair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (Paris): Relations between philosophical and religious traditions at the beginning of the Christian era : two new digital research toolsRóbert Somos (Pécs): Sentences as elements of philosophia moralis: Adaptations of a pagan literary form in the Works of Rufinus of AquileiaMaël Goarzin (Lausanne): Pagan and Christian biography in late antiquity: On the importance of practical life for pagan and Christian philosophers3-3:30 Coffee break3:30-5:00 pm Cohabitation and/or ConversionChair: Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)Zsófia Buzádi-Sallai (Budapest): A pagan who converted and became bishopMargarita Vallejo-Girvés (Alcalá): Empress Verina among the pagansMiriam Adan Jones (Amsterdam): Conversion as convergence: Understanding Gregory the Great's attitude toward pagan and Jewish influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity5:30-6:30 pm keynote lectureCEU,  Budapest, Nádor utca 9, AuditoriumChair: Wolf LiebeschuetzAlan Cameron (New York): Were pagans afraid to speak their mind?7:00 pm Buffet dinnerFriday March 8 CEU Budapest10:00 -12:00 a.m Parallel sessionsHistorical PerceptionsPopper RoomChair: Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg)Mar Marcos (Cantabria): Eusebius and Maximinus DaiaAnna Tóth (Budapest):  John Lydus as pagan and ChristianJuana Torres (Cantabria): Rhetoric and historical deformation: Marcus of Arethusa, heretic and martyrEcaterina Lung (Bucharest): Religious identity as seen by 6th-century historians and chroniclersPagan and Christian BurialsGellner RoomChair: Dino Milinovic (Zagreb)Ivan Basic (Split): From Sepulcrum divi Diocletiani to Ecclesia gloriosae Virginis: New propositions on the Christianisation of Diocletian’s mausoleum in SpalatoMonica Hellström (Providence): Circiform funerary basilicas in Rome in the context of previous burial placesOlivér Gábor (Pécs): Pagan and Christian burial customs in SopianaeElizabeth O’Brien (Dublin): Impact beyond the Empire: Burial practices in Ireland (4th – 8th centuries) Posters:Claudia-Maria Behling (Vienna): Pagan garden to Christian paradise: Early Christianity in the eastern Transdanubian RegionStefanie Hofbauer (Vienna): Finger rings from Antiquity to Christianity 12:00-1:00 pm lunch break1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Religious ProfilingPopper RoomChair: Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki)Jerome Lagouanère (Paris): The figure of ‘Paganus’ in the Works of Augustine of HippoLinda Honey (Calgary): Religious profiling in the Miracles of St. TheklaMonika Pesthy Simon (Budapest): Martyres versus PharmakoiVolker Menze (Budapest): The dark side of holiness: Fear, punishment, death and Barsaumo ‘the Roasted’3:00 pm-3:30 pm Coffee break3:30-5:30 Social and Economic Relations – Civic LifePopper RoomChair: Josef Rist (Bochum)Joseph Grzywaczewski (Paris): Sidonius Apollinaris’s pagan vision of Roma bellatrix in Christian RomeLucy Grig (Edinburgh): Late antique popular culture and the creation of “paganism”: the Case of the Kalends of JanuarySofie Remijsen (Leuven): Christianizing the rhythm of life? Sundays in late antique papyriJaclyn Maxwell (Ohio): Social relations and status anxiety across religious divides in late antiquity5:30 pm-6:00 pm Coffee break6:00-8:00 pm Pagans, Christians and Material Culture:  Artistic CrossoversPopper RoomChair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia): The Economy of pagan temples and Christian churchesEdward M. Schoolman (Nevada): Religious images and contexts: “Christian” and “pagan” terracotta lampsDino Milinović (Zagreb): Pagan, Christian, or “secular”? The problem of the silver plateSteven D. Smith (New York): Pagan literary mimésis in Christian Constantinople: The devotional epigrams of Agathias’ s CycleSaturday March 9, 2013Pécs/Sopianae, Late Antique CemeteryCella Septichora Visitor Center (Pécs, Szent István tér) 1:00-3:00 pm The Archaeology of ChristianisationChair: Zsolt Visy (Pécs)Mustafa Şahin (Bursa): Myndos Rabbit Island (Tavşan Adası): from pagan sanctuary to Christian monasteryBranka Migotti (Zagreb): The cult of Sol Invictus and early Christianity in Southern PannoniaHristo Preshlenov (Sofia): Pagans and Christianisation along the South-West Black Sea Coast in the provinces of Scythia, Moesia Secunda and HaemimontosRoy Flechner (Dublin): Economic change and conversion to Christianity in early medieval Britain and Ireland: consequence or coincidence? 3:00-4:00 pm Coffee break and poster exhibitionZsolt Visy (Pécs): Sopianae and Valeria in the late Roman periodLevente Nagy (Pécs): Christian objects from PannoniaIstván Lovász (Pécs): The northern cemetery of Sopianae in 3DMarijana Vuković (Budapest/Oslo): Saint Irenaeus of SirmiumFerenc Fazekas (Pécs) - Antal Szabó (Paks): “Pagan” and Christian culture in LussoniumRéka Neményi (Pécs): Early Christian cross-bow broochesFrancesca Diosono (Perugia): Pagani and peasants: the rural site of Villa San Silvestro di CasciaAlessandra Bravi - Silvia Margutti (Perugia): Transformation of sacred spaces:  Constantinople and the Eastern EmpireRoy Flechner (Dublin): Converting the Isles4:00-5:00 pm Concluding remarksChair: Danielle Slootjes (Nijmegen)Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)5:00-6:30 pm The Late Antique Cemetery of Sopianaewith guides Zsolt Visy, Levente Nagy and Olivér Gábor6:30-7:30 pm closing lectureChair: Alan Cameron (New York)Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg): Constantine and Rome - between pagans and Christians8:00 pm Dinner Restaurant Pezsgőház, Pécs, Szent István térConference coordinators:Johanna Rákos-Zichy: eruntale@gmail.comAndrea-Bianka Znorovszky: Znorovszky_Andrea-Bianka@ceu-budapest.edu.Special thanks to Attila Üveges and the Zsolnay Örökségkezelő Nonprofit Kft. PécsFile attachments:  Poster of the Pagans and Christians Conference