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Research and Teaching

In this menu you find an overview of CRASIS research and teaching activities as well as upcoming CRASIS-funded projects.

Course name

Ocasys page

Lecturer(s)

Archaeological Theory

2025-2026

Dr. L. de Jong, Dr S. Desjardins

Research and Professional Skills in Archaeology (ReMA 5 EC)

2024-2025

Dr C. Çakirlar, Dr F. Builian

Landscape Archaeology: Europe's Settled Landscapes (ReMA 10 EC)

2024-2025

Dr T. de Haas, Dr S. Arnoldussen

Death as a Mirror of Life (ReMA 10 EC)

2025-2026

Prof. S. Voutsaki, Dr A.C. Moles

Dirk Smilde Research Seminar: Comparative Studies with Special Reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls

here

Prof. dr. M. Popovic

Greek Epigraphy

2024-25

Prof. dr. O.M. van Nijf

Historical Methods in Early Christianity

here

Prof. dr. F.L. Roig Lanzillotta

Greek for Research

LQX035M10

Dr M. Capano

Latin for Research

LQX033M10

H.D. Williams
Latin Research Seminar I
Prof. dr. B.L.Reitz-Joosse

Research Seminar Greek I

LQX047M10

F. Budelmann

Urban Timescapes in the Ancient World

LGX272M10

C. G. Williamson

Reception and Re-Use of Authoritative Texts

here

Dr. K. Fowler, Ma Phd

Texts of Terror

here

A.F. Bakker, Phd

Text, Language and Religion

LQX046M05

Dr S. Peels-Matthey, Dr R. Van Hove

Tragedy: Experiments in Pain and Pleasure

LLS058M10

J Flood, F Budelmann

Hero-Worship in Ancient Mediterranean Colonialism

LGX269M10

J. Pelgrom

International Workshop: Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City

When: 15-16 May, 2025

Where: University of Groningen, venue t.b.a.

The focus of this international workshop is on the role of religion in conceptualizations of time and its importance in the ancient city. Ancient cities brought together a plurality of time systems such as calendars, shared rhythms and routines, narratives of the past and future. Religion is at the crossroads of many of these urban temporalities. Rituals regulated the days, months, and seasons of human time, with transregional ‘panhellenic’ festivals synchronizing cities across the Mediterranean. Yet festivals also had a transcendent capacity of lifting the individual out of the everyday, creating ‘atemporal’ communities that extend beyond the boundaries of the living and the dead.

This workshop aims to explore the diversity of temporalities of the ancient city through the lens of religion. 

Keynote speaker is Prof.dr. Jörg Rüpke (Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt).

Organized through the CRASIS network ‘Time and Temporalities in the Ancient World’ and the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG) at the University of Groningen, together with the OIKOS research groups ‘Cultural Interactions in the Ancient World’, and ‘Cities and Settlements in the Ancient World’.

More information to follow!

For questions, please contact: p.schievink rug.nl

Last modified:03 March 2025 12.17 a.m.