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
8:00PM - 1:00PM
UH 386B

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Add to Calendar 2023-12-02 20:00:00 2023-12-03 13:00:00 Midwestern Consortium on Ancient Religions (MiCAR) Conference 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-Ruiz, Katie Rask If you have questions, please contact Katie Rask (rask.4@osu.edu). UH 386B Humanities Institute huminst@osu.edu America/New_York public

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-Ruiz, Katie Rask

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

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