P. Schievink, MA

2022 - present PhD Candidate Ancient History at the University of Groningen (RUG)

NWO-Funded Promoties in de geesteswetenschappen PhD position at the University of Groningen

Research: Creating complex sacred spaces: experience, agency and multivocality in Hellenistic Asklepieia (4th century BC – 1st century BC).

Supervisors: Dr. Christina Williamson (RUG) & Prof. Dr. Onno van Nijf (RUG)

For an introduction (in Dutch) see: Schievink, P. "Creating complex sacred spaces. Experience, agency and multivocality in Hellenistic Asklepieia (fourth-first century BC)." Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 68 (2023): 48.

Project website: https://complexasklepieia.org/

Education:

2018 – 2020 RUG, Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Cum Laude)

Thesis: The complexity of ancient healing sanctuaries: multi-scalar networks and multi-vocality in the Asklepieia of Epidauros and Kos during the fourth century BC until the first century AD.

Supervisors: Dr. Christina Williamson (RUG) & prof. dr. Onno van Nijf (RUG)

September 2019 – December 2019 Autumn term of the intercollegiate Master programme Ancient History/Classics at Royal Holloway London (RHUL), King’s College London (KCL) and the Institute of Classical Studies London (ICS). 

2014 – 2018 RUG, History, BA

Thesis : Connections, identity and Egyptian religion in Athens: the integration of the cults of Ammon and Isis in Athens during the fourth century BC.
Supervisor: Dr. Christina Williamson (RUG)

Publications

Schievink, P. "How perceivers shape objects: three cases of human-object relationships in ancient Greek sanctuaries of Asklepios." Fortid Studentenes Historietidsskrift University of Oslo 20, no. 2 (2023): 78-85

Schievink, P. "Continuïteit in het heiligdom van Asklepios in Epidauros. Verkenning van ideeën over verval in het Asklepieion Epidauros na 146 v.Chr." Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 135, no. 1 (2022): 4-21.

Schievink, P. “Romeinse materiële cultuur als anchor voor vroegchristelijke initiatie.” Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane archeologie 61, (2019): 17-24.

Book reviews

Schievink, P. “Recensie: Xavier Duffy, Commemorating conflict: Greek monuments of the Persian Wars. Oxford: Archeopress Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78491-839-2” Groniek (November 2020): 371-374.

Schievink, P. “Recensie: Ghislaine van der Ploeg, The impact of the Roman Empire on the cult of Asclepius. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-37252-8”. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 63 (July 2020): 37-39.

Encyclopedia entries

Schievink, P. “Asklepieion of Kos.” In the Database of Religious History. 2023. https://religiondatabase.org/browse/1572/#/

Presentations/conferences

U4/Enlight Winter school: “Big and small, global and local”, 11-16th of March 2024
Presented paper: The Asklepieion of Epidauros as a federal sanctuary for the Achaean Koinon?

OIKOS text-in-context day, Aristophanes’ Wealth . Groningen, 15 December 2023
Presented paper: Experiencing Asklepieia: reacting towards the social and physical environment in sanctuaries of Asklepios.

The Many Faces of Artemis Conference Groningen September 2023
Round table discussion on Greek religion. Chair of the session “Artemis in the Peloponnese”

OIKOS ‘Sanctuaries and the Sacred’ May 2023
Presented paper: Identifying the Asklepieion of Pheneos

CRASIS Masterclass 2023 ‘Sensing, Making, Relating: Ontologies of the Divine’ (20-02-2023)
Presented paper: Constructing the sacred on Kos: voices, practices and experiences in the Asklepieion of Kos during the Hellenistic period

University of Uppsala and Agora network workshop: More than a place of worship: complexity at sacred sites in the ancient world (08-12-2022).
Presented paper: Constructing the sacred on Kos: voices, practices and experiences in the Asklepieion of Kos during the Hellenistic period.

Co-organiser HIERON (Network for the Study of Ancient Greek Sanctuaries) Spring Meeting 2021: Asking about Asklepios: reconstructing the many faces of the healing god   (06-05-2021)
Presented paper: Creating complex sacred spaces: tracing experience, agency and multivocality in Hellenistic Asklepieia (4th century BC – 1st century BC).

U4/Enlight: Nature and Culture (23/24-04-2021)
Presented paper: Snakes and Asklepios: the role(s) of stories of migrating snakes.

Brown Bag Seminar – Ancient History Research Collective of the University of Groningen (11-01-2021)
Presented paper: Tracing multivocality in Hellenistic Asklepieia

Co-organiser Classical, Medieval and Early modern studies conference: Appealing to higher powers. The intermingling of the natural and supernatural worlds in the Premodern times (06-06-2019)
Presented paper: Dreaming epiphanies: a cognitive approach on healing dreams in the Asklepios sanctuary of Epidauros in the 4th century BC.

Research introduction

Schievink, P. "Creating complex sacred spaces. Experience, agency and multivocality in Hellenistic Asklepieia (fourth-first century BC)." Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 68 (2023): 48.