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Midwestern Consortium on Ancient Religions (MiCAR) Conference

Cave painting of 3 men carrying a log with more workers in the background.
December 2 - December 3, 2023
8:00 pm - 1:00 pm
UH 386B

orking for the Gods: Religion & Labor in the Ancient Mediterranean

The Ohio State University, December 2-3, 2023

University Hall 386B, African and African American Studies Conference Room

230 North Oval Mall, Columbus OH

MICAR PROGRAM

 

Join us for the 2023 Midwestern Consortium on Ancient Religions (MiCAR) conference. Founded in 2002 by the University of Chicago, The Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan, the Consortium meets once a year for a faculty and graduate student conference on a topic relevant to a range of ancient Mediterranean religions (Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Jewish, etc.). This year MiCAR returns following a three-year pandemic pause.

The 2023 meeting is in-person and open to all.

Saturday, December 2, University Hall 386B

8:30am Breakfast snacks and coffee

8:50 Opening statements (Katie Rask, Sarah Iles Johnston)

9:00-9:35 Christian Borgen (Chicago)

Labor and Religion in 24th-22nd Century BCE Mesopotamia: Sargonic Temple Estates in Light of Recently Published Texts

9:35-10:10 James Moore (OSU)

Farm-to-(God’s-)Table: A Case Study of the Temple Led chaîne opératoire within a Recognized Community of Colonial State Dependents from Achaemenid Egypt

10:10-10:25 Coffee

10:25-11:00 Chris Parmenter (OSU)

Who Made Greco-Egyptian Faience? Making Egyptianizing Votives in the Archaic Aegean

11:00-11:35 Katie Rask (OSU)

Labor’s Toil: The Division of Religious Work in Greece

11:35-11:50 Coffee

11:50-12:25 Laura Gawlinski (Loyola)

Instrumenta Domestica or Instrumenta Sacra? Using Textile Tools for Ritual in Ancient Greece

12:25-1:40 Lunch

1:40-2:15 Gaia Gianni (OSU)

The Pious Apprentice? A Dedication to Jupiter Tifatinus

2:15-2:50 Kelsi Morrison-Atkins (Denison)

Failure to Thrive in Christ: Intimate Labor in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3

2:50-3:05 Coffee

3:05-3:40 Travis Proctor (Wittenberg)

Enslavement, Labor, and Christian Scribes in the Shepherd of Hermas

3:40-4:15 Brittany Joyce (Michigan)

Teaching Virginity: Enslaved Women and Education in Jerome

4:15-4:30 Coffee

4:30-5:05 Kathryn Jasper (Illinois State)

The Cell is a Workshop: The Labor of Hermitism

5:15pm Dinner, open to all

Sunday, December 3rd, University Hall 386B

9:00-9:30 Breakfast snacks and coffee

9:30-10:30 Round Table Discussion: Religion and Work

10:30-11:30 MiCAR Discussion & Future Work

 

MiCAR 2023 Steering Committee: Jessie DeGrado, Christopher Faraone, Sarah Iles Johnston, Carolina López-RuizKatie Rask

If you have questions, please contact Katie Rask (rask.4@osu.edu).

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