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The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities takes pleasure in inviting you to attend an international conference on Palaestina on the Map of Late Antique Mobility and Migration March 12 ======= Greetings ======== Prof. David Harel, President, Israel Academy Prof. Maren R. Niehoff, Academy Member Roman Footprints in Palaestina ======================== Chair ===== Prof. Benjamin Isaac Academy Member, Tel Aviv University Dr. Avner Ecker, Bar-Ilan University “Somewhere Old Heroes Shuffle Safely Down the Street”: Communities of Roman Army Veterans in Provincia Palaestina Prof. Moshe Benovitz, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Ritual and the Road: The Roman Mile as a Measure of Space and Time in Rabbinic Halakhah Pagan Perspectives on Mobility to Palaestina ================================= Chair ===== Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt Edinburgh University Prof. Lieve Van Hoof, Ghent University Migration and Mobility to, from and through Palestine in the Letters of Libanius Permanently Settling in Palaestina: Migrants from East and West ================================================ Chair ===== Prof. Yitzhak Hen The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Maren R. Niehoff, Academy Member, the Hebrew University Caesarea as a Magnet of Mobility and Migration among Jews, Christians and Pagans Mr. Oz Tamir, the Hebrew University The Effects of Migration to Late Antique Palaestina: The Case of Jerome Prof. Geoffrey Herman, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes “The Land of Shinar Conceived and Bore Him; the Land of Desire Nurtured her Delight”: The Babylonian Talmud on Babylonian Rabbinic Migrants in Palestine Keynote Lecture ============= Chair ===== Prof. Guy Stroumsa Academy Member, the Hebrew University Prof. Mischa Meier, University of Tübingen Jerusalem under Heraclius (610–641): Christians, Jews, Muslims and the End of the World March 13 ======= Pilgrimage: Pagan and Christian ======================== Chair ===== Prof. Alexander Fantalkin Tel Aviv University Prof. Ian Rutherford, Reading University Panias and Pilgrimage, 1–1,000 AD Dr. Yana Tchekhanovets, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Byzantine Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: New Insights from Archaeological Excavations in Jerusalem and Surroundings Accommodating Pilgrims, Travelers and Refugees ===================================== Chair ===== Prof. Rina Talgam The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat, the Hebrew University Men in the Street: Movement toward the Temple in Roman Jerusalem Prof. Guy Stiebel, Tel Aviv University “The Wandering Jew”: The Archaeology of Refugees – A View from the Judaean Desert Christian Visions of the Holy Land ========================= Chair ===== Prof. Ora Limor The Open University of Israel Dr. Federico Montinaro, University of Tübingen Religious Conflict, Mobility and the Holy Land: Reframing Late Antique and Byzantine Pilgrimage Prof. Hartmut Leppin, Goethe University Frankfurt Anti-Chalcedonians in a Difficult Region Keynote Lecture ============= Chair ===== Prof. Margalit Finkelberg Vice President Prof. Simon Goldhill, King’s College, Cambridge Migratory Texts and the Topography of Late Antique Religion in Palestine March 14 ======= Pilgrimage and Migration to Palaestina under Islamic Rule ========================================== Chair ===== Dr. Uriel Simonsohn Haifa University Prof. Gideon Avni, the Hebrew University and Israel Antiquities Authority Patterns of Mobility and Migration among Jewish and Muslim Populations in Palestine Following the Islamic Conquest – Some Archaeological Observations Dr. Milka Levy-Rubin, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Migration to, from and within: The Reshuffling of the Settlement Pattern of Palaestina Following the Muslim Conquest Prof. Stephen Shoemaker, University of Oregon Early Islamic Imperialism and Colonialism: Some Preliminary Thoughts with Particular Reference to Palestine March 12–14, 2023
