{"id":7334,"date":"2019-10-31T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lama.fileli.unipi.it\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2019-10-31T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:00:30","slug":"cfp-sailing-with-the-gods-malta-17-21-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lama.fileli.unipi.it\/fr\/cfp-sailing-with-the-gods-malta-17-21-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP Sailing with the Gods (Malta, 17-21 June 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sailing with the Gods: Religion and Maritime Mobility in the Ancient
\nWorld
\nSponsored by: The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
\nLocation: Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana, Malta
\nDates: June 17-21, 2020
\nRitual practices dedicated to maritime success appear across a wide
\nspan of human cultural history, from the Mediterranean to the North
\nSea, Southeast Asia across the Pacific to the west coast of the
\nAmericas. Culturally-constructed seafaring rituals could be seen as
\nspiritual or superstitious, and respond to the combination of risk and
\nprofit endemic in even short voyages by water. Maritime religion
\ninfuses all water-borne contact across cultural boundaries; the crafts
\nof those who build rafts, canoes, and sailing vessels; navigational
\nskills which may reach back to ancestors who have faded into cultural
\nlegend; and myriad mnemonic and naming strategies extending to
\nlittoral markers and celestial patterns. Mythic and ritual responses
\nare accordingly complex, ranging from apotropaia to the divine
\nauthorization of civic structures, shipboard shrines and functional
\nepithets which could link divinities, heroes and nearly-deified rulers
\nto the control of the waves and winds.
\nStudies of religion and maritime mobility are often framed within
\nindividual cultural contexts, but this international conference seeks
\nto bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines and
\nhistorical periods, from prehistoric to the seventh century CE, to
\naddress critical questions in method and theory relevant to religion
\nin the context of maritime mobility. Among these questions are:
\n\u2022 What are the benefits and limitations of the types of data
\navailable for the investigation of ancient seafaring \u2013 myths,
\nlegends and histories, the excavations of harbors and shipwrecks, the
\niconography of sea gods, the analysis of artifacts?
\n\u2022 What is the range of critical frameworks \u2013 from network
\nanalyses to iconography \u2013 appropriate for these data sets?
\n\u2022 How do data from ports and land-based institutions complement or
\neven contradict evidence from seagoing vessels?
\n\u2022 How can we de-essentialize the question of \u2018maritime
\nritual\u2019; what might the role of cross-cultural or
\ncross-chronological studies contribute to this end?
\n\u2022 How might the studies of maritime ritual offer fresh questions
\nfor the analysis of Christianity vis-\u00e0-vis traditional Greco-Roman
\nand Mediterranean religions?
\n\u2022 How do Judaism, Christianity and\/or Islam deploy maritime
\nreligion in different yet complementary ways to one another, or to
\npolytheistic traditions such as Indian or Chinese religions?
\n\u2022 How do the divine protections sought for religiously-motivated
\njourneys such as pilgrimage compare with the day-to-day appeal to the
\ngods on seafaring vessels?
\nAbstracts should be submitted by email attachment as .doc or .docx
\nfiles to socamr@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and should be from 500-600 words in length
\nfor a paper to last between 25 to 30 minutes. Abstracts should contain
\na title and a word count, but should not have any information
\nregarding the identity of the submitter. The deadline for submission
\nof abstracts is January 1, 2020, and all abstracts for papers will be
\nreviewed anonymously. Please direct all queries to SAMR at
\nsocamr@gmail.com<\/a>. To register for the conference and see schedules as
\nthey develop, please visit:
\nhttp:\/\/classics.emory.edu\/home\/news-events\/samr.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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