FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER
Welcome
09.00-09.10 Prof. Marc Waelkens (KUL)

Paganism in late antiquity
09.10-09.50 Peter Van Nuffelen (KUL-Exeter)
Eusebius of Caesarea and the concept of paganism.
09.50-10.30 Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh)
Pagan survival: spring sanctuaries in the late antique world.

10.30-10.50 Discussion

10.50-11.20 Break

Temples in the West
11.20-12.00 Gareth Sears (Birmingham)
The fate of temples in Africa and Cyrenaica
12.00-12.40 Jorge López Quiroga and Artemio Martínez Tejera (Madrid)
The fate of temples in late antique Hispania:
between paganism and Christianity

12.40-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Temples in the East
14.00-14.40 Laurence Foschia (Athens)
The fate of temples in Greece
14.40-15.20 Georgios Deligiannakis (Oxford)
Late paganism on the Aegean Islands and Christianisation
15.20-16.00 Lies Vercauteren and Peter Talloen (KUL)
The fate of temples in Western Asia Minor

16.00-16.20 Break

16.20-16.40 Discussion

Archaeology and Material Culture
16.40-17.20 Peter Talloen (KUL)
Material culture in the East.
17.20-18.00 Prof. Arnold Provoost and Koenraad Demarsin (KUL)
Material culture in the West

18.00-18.20 Discussion

SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER

Religious Statues
09.00-09.40 Beatrice Caseau (Paris)
Religious statues in late antiquity:
from veneration to ridicule.
09.40-10.20 Ine Jacobs (KUL)
Production to destruction? Pagan statuary
in Asia Minor during late antiquity.

10.20-10.40 Discussion

10.40-11.10 Break

Religious Statues
11.10-11.50 Luke Lavan (KUL)
The urban function of surviving pagan statues in late antiquity: some thoughts.
11.50-12.30 Georgios Deligiannakis (Oxford)
Christian attitudes towards pagan statuary:
the case of Anastasius from the city of Rhodes.

12.30-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Reception

All sessions will be held in the Klein Aula, Maria-Theresia College, Hogeschoolplein, Leuven. Admission: 15 Euros / 5 Euros student & unwaged. To reserve a place contact info@lateantiquearchaeology.com or write to LAA2005, Sagalassos Project, Blijde Inkomstraat 21, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, before 20th November. Tea and coffee with be provided. Meals can be bought in the immediate vicinity.

Accommodation
For a list of accommodation in Leuven see www.leuven.be (click on green tourism icon on left of page in your correct language). This includes details of a youth hostel. As a cheap alternative, with single rooms and breakfast, but 4km from the city centre, there is also the Monastery of Paters Oblaten, Pellenbergstraat 160, 3010 Kessel-Lo, which can be booked through Bruder Omer 0486405490 br.omer@skynet.be. Price: 15 euros first night, 10 euros subsequent nights, for single room plus breakfast .

Orientation
The most useful map of Leuven can be found at www.mappy.com (choose Place 'Leuven', Country 'Belgium' in the map box on the right side of the page, and 'Hogheschoolplein' for Street to see the location of the college, which is on the East side of the square). Zoom out to see the position of the train station and car parks.

Air Travel
With early booking, Leuven can be reached on the conference weekend by air from Madrid & Rome for 100 euros, Dublin 70 Euros, London & Berlin ca. 150 euros, Athens ca. 200 euros (see www.skyscanner.net). Brussels international is the most convenient airport for Leuven, though Charleroi, at around two hours travelling time from Leuven offers many cheap flights.
-If arriving at Brussels international, take a train to Bruxelles Nord/Brussel Noord then to Leuven. Timetables www.sncb.be.
Taxis from the airport to Leuven cost about 50 Euros.
-If arriving at Charleroi, take the shuttle bus to Bruxelles Midi/Brussel Zuid station (NB the bilingual signs), then catch a train from here direct to Leuven (not Louvain la Neuve). For bus details see http://www.charleroi-airport.com/ under 'access', coach transfer. Train timetables: www.sncb.be. Taxis are prohibitively expensive from Charleroi, unless in a group.

Rail travel
With early booking, Leuven can be reached on the conference weekend by rail from Paris for 49 euros, Cologne & Amsterdam ca. 32 Euros (www.thalys.com, tariff smilys), and for around 130 Euros from London www.eurostar.com.
Most international trains will arrive at Bruxelles Midi/Brussel Zuid station (NB the bilingual signs), then catch a train from here direct to Leuven (not Louvain la Neuve). For bus details see http://www.charleroi-airport.com/ under 'access', coach transfer. Train timetables: www.sncb.be.

Arriving by car
For route planning see www.mappy.com. Many streets in the centre of the city are pedestrian streets and no car traffic is allowed there. In addition the car traffic circulation within the ring-road boundaries has been organized in such a way (loops) so as to discourage people to use their car to get from one place to another. Leuven is a small town and it is quite easy and pleasant to walk to the places you want to get to. Thus you would be advised to leave your car in one of the many public parking places and to continue on foot.
 
 

The Archaeology of Major Heresies
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford) Is there an archaeology of Arianism?
Sander Evers (Utrecht) Archaeology, texts and the Donatists.

Samaritans and Non-Conforming Jews
Shimon Dar (Bar Ilan) The Samaritans in late antiquity
Jodi Magness (Chapel Hill) Non-conforming Jews in late antiquity

The 'secular' in Late Antiquity
Claire Sotinel (Tours) The 'secular' in late antiquity

Recent Fieldwork in Spain
Sebastián Rascón Marqués (Alcalá de Henares) Complutum: a Spanish city in late antiquity (with 3D graphics)

Everyday Magic and Syncretic Religious Culture
Arja Karivieri (Stockholm) Magic and syncretic religious culture in the East

Religious Apathy?
Michel Perrin (Paris X) The limits of the heresiological ethos: inter-denominational mixing
Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford) and Mark Humphries (Maynooth) Literary genre or religious apathy? the presence and absence of theology and religious thought in late antique secular writing.

Popular Piety
Susanne Bangert (Oxford) Christian popular piety: Abu Mena and beyond
Elias Khamis (Oxford) Popular piety and Islamicisation: material culture at Scythopolis.

Recent Fieldwork in Israel
Zeev Weis (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Sepphoris in late antiquity: recent research.

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SUNDAY 16th MAY

Understanding finds in context
Toon Putzeys (Leuven) Contextual analysis at Sagalassos
R. R. R. Smith (Oxford)  Statues and their contexts in Late Antiquity:  recent work at Aphrodisias in Caria
Artefacts in Commercial Space
Elias Khamis (Oxford)  The Scythopolis shops: finds in context
Artefacts in Personal Space
12.10-12.50 Maria Parani (Nicosia, Cyprus)  Dress and accessories in Late Antiquity
Artefacts in Military Space
John Conyard (Comitatus Military Re-enactment Group)  Reconstructing the late Roman army (with equipment displays)
Andrew Poulter (Nottingham)  Deconstructing destruction deposits:  finds in context from a late Roman fort in Bulgaria.