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&#160;Thursday March 7, 2013&#160;&#160;CEU Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Popper Room&#160;10:00-10:30 am  Marianne Sághy (Budapest) Welcome and Introductory Remarks: What’s new pagans and Christians? &#160;10:30-12:30 pm Cities, Sophists, BishopsChair:  Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia)&#160;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)&#160;12:30-1:30 lunch break&#160;1:30-3:00 pm  Religion and PhilosophyChair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;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 philosophers&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;3-3:30 Coffee break&#160;3:30-5:00 pm Cohabitation and/or ConversionChair: Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)&#160;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 Christianity&#160;5:30-6:30 pm keynote lectureCEU,  Budapest, Nádor utca 9, AuditoriumChair: Wolf Liebeschuetz&#160;Alan Cameron (New York): Were pagans afraid to speak their mind?&#160;7:00 pm Buffet dinner&#160;&#160;&#160;Friday March 8 CEU Budapest&#160;10:00 -12:00 a.m Parallel sessions&#160;&#160;Historical PerceptionsPopper RoomChair: Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg)&#160;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 chroniclers&#160;Pagan and Christian BurialsGellner RoomChair: Dino Milinovic (Zagreb)&#160;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)&#160;Posters:&#160;Claudia-Maria Behling (Vienna): Pagan garden to Christian paradise: Early Christianity in the eastern Transdanubian RegionStefanie Hofbauer (Vienna): Finger rings from Antiquity to Christianity&#160;&#160;12:00-1:00 pm lunch break&#160;1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Religious ProfilingPopper RoomChair: Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki)&#160;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’&#160;3:00 pm-3:30 pm Coffee break&#160;3:30-5:30 Social and Economic Relations – Civic LifePopper RoomChair: Josef Rist (Bochum)&#160;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 antiquity&#160;5:30 pm-6:00 pm Coffee break&#160;&#160;6:00-8:00 pm Pagans, Christians and Material Culture:  Artistic CrossoversPopper RoomChair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)&#160;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 Cycle&#160; &#160;Saturday March 9, 2013&#160;Pécs/Sopianae, Late Antique CemeteryCella Septichora Visitor Center (Pécs, Szent István tér)&#160;1:00-3:00 pm The Archaeology of ChristianisationChair: Zsolt Visy (Pécs)&#160;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?&#160;3:00-4:00 pm Coffee break and poster exhibition&#160;Zsolt 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 Isles&#160;4:00-5:00 pm Concluding remarksChair: Danielle Slootjes (Nijmegen)Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)&#160;5:00-6:30 pm The Late Antique Cemetery of Sopianaewith guides Zsolt Visy, Levente Nagy and Olivér Gábor&#160;6:30-7:30 pm closing lectureChair: Alan Cameron (New York)&#160;Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg):Constantine and Rome - between pagans and Christians&#160;