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Conference program: Echoes of Change. Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Atmospheres 

Thursday, 15th May 2025

9:00 – 9.30      Check-in
9:30 – 10:00  Introduction
10:00 – 10:45  Dunja Sharbat Dar (Bochum): Atmospheric Adaptions. Religious Atmospheres and their Role in the Christian Missionary Context
10:45 – 11:00  Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45  Robert Rohland (Cambridge): Echoes of Religious Stimmung in Horace’s Odes
11:45 – 12:30  Felix Schäfer (Münster): ‘Religious Atmospheres’ in Marinus’ Vita Procli. Literary Device or ‘Echoes of Change’?
12:30 – 14:00   Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45  Jaqueline Stock (Leipzig): The Created Space. The Transmission of the ‘Book of the Fayum’ 
14:45 – 15:30  Pim Schievink (Groningen): Creating an Atmosphere of Exemplarity in the Asklepieion of Kos. Ephebic Rituals and the Educational Function of the Sanctuary
15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45  Johannes Hahn (Münster): (Re-)Inventing Religious Atmosphere in the Constantinian Age
16:45 – 17:30  Marcella Boglione (Bern): Enlightening the Role of Women in Religious Sphere of the Greek Colony of Himera. Goddesses and Worshippers
17:30 – 18:00  Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:30  Keynote (hybrid), Annette Haug (Kiel): Religious Atmospheres in Pompeii. The Contribution of Graffiti and Dipinti 

(19:30 Conference Dinner)

Friday, 16th May 2025

9:00 – 9:45  Judith E. Filitz (Augsburg): Meet and Greet with the Deities. Religious Atmosphere During the Mesopotamian Akītu-Procession
9:45 – 10:30  Richard Lim (Erfurt): ‘No Laughing Matter?’. Festive Joy and Religious Atmosphere in Late Antique Syrian Antioch
10:30 – 11:00  Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45  Regina Hanslmayr (Zürich): Herms as Markers of ‘Sacro-Idyllic’ Landscapes. The Example of the Rooster Sacrifice (Hahnenopfer) and Related Motifs – A Case Study
11:45 – 12:30  Elia Weber (Berlin): Smell of Consciousness?: Avestan baōiδi. ‘Smell, Incense’, baōδah- ‘Consciousness’, and the Religious Atmosphere of Avestan Liturgies in Antiquity
12:30 – 14:00  Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:30  Workshops 
16:30 – 17:00  Break
17:00 – 17:45  Maryam Heydarkhani (Oxford): Adapting to Change. The Shifting Atmosphere of Marvi Madrasa in 19th-Century Tehran 
18:00 – 20:00  Panel Discussion: Religious Atmospheres in Digital Games (tba)

Saturday, 17th May 2025

9:00 – 10:30  Keynote (hybrid), Esther Eidinow (Bristol): ‘The Images, However, Are No Longer There’. Reflections on Changes in (Ancient) Religious Atmosphere 
10:30 – 10:50  Coffee Break
11:50 – 11:35  Yasmin Koppen (Leipzig): Sacred Sites, Ideology and Emotional Engagement. The Social-Experiential Sphere and its Role for the Constitution of Sacred Sites
11:35 – 12:20  Adrian Linz (Regensburg): Gods in the Spotlight. Religious Atmospheres in the Cults of Isis and Mithras
12:20 – 12:45  Coffee Break
12:45 –14:00  Concluding Discussion