News and events

• 15-16 May 2025 – University of Groningen – Co-organization of the international workshop ‘Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City‘ – see the website for more information
• 20-21 October 2025 – Wrocław, Poland ‘The epigraphic programs of Greek sanctuaries: space, actors and visual strategies’ – ‘Co-creating sacred space. Inscribed resonances at the Asklepieion of Pergamon‘ – Christina Williamson

Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon The current project Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon, has been presented at the events listed here (largely by invitation).

• 03.04.2025 – CIT services XR Hub, University of Groningen – ‘Story Maps and the Reality Theatre: a path from research to educational tool‘ – Christina Williamson, with Nynke ter Heide and Gerthia Luning presenting their story maps in the Reality Theatre, see blog
• 26.11.2024 – University of Utrecht Seminar for ‘Sanctuaries and the Sacred’ study network – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
• 19.11.2024 – University of Groningen, MA History ‘Atelier Living Heritage’
• 17.09.2024 – University of Groningen, CMEMS Digital Approaches – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon. Spatial narratives and digital experiences at a sanctuary in the ancient Greek world’ – Christina Williamson and Peter Merx (RUG Geodienst)
• 06.06.2024 – CIAC: panel 35 Digitally Enlivening Ancient Space – ‘Deep-mapping the Lived Space of the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
• 05.06.2024 – CIAC: panel 6bis Urban Religion through the Lens of Urban Archaeology – ‘Ephemeral rituals and urban timescapes: object memory and social histories at sanctuaries of Asklepios in Epidauros and Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Pim Schievink
• 31 May: we will also present this paper at the OIKOS day in Amsterdam
• 12.03.2024 – University of Groningen, MA History ‘Atelier Living Heritage’
• 21-23.02.2024 – Universität Erfurt, ‘Urban Co-Temporalities: Historical and Theoretical Approaches’, workshop of the project ‘Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations’ (FOR 2779) – ‘Deep-time narratives and co-temporalities at urban sanctuaries in the Graeco-Roman world‘– Christina Williamson
• 11-12.12.2023 – Universität Münster, ‘Belonging and Sacred Places in Antiquity‘, international workshop of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’ – keynote ‘Timeless roots. Divine narratives and ritual practices as anchors of urban belonging‘ – Christina Williamson – see program
• 22-24.03.2023 University of Erfurt, International Graduate School of the Max-Weber-Kolleg and the University of Graz, PhD workshop ‘Community, Ritual and the power of memory’ – keynote ‘Sliding Timescapes. Redefining sacred communities through ritual practice in the Graeco-Roman world‘ – Christina Williamson
• 17.03.2023 – University of Groningen, MA History ‘Atelier Living Heritage’ – Students create the story map On the Road to Healing – the Via Tecta of the Asklepieion near Pergamon with a workshop on building ArcGIS Story Maps. See also blog ‘Story maps in the classroom’
• 23.02.2023 University of Trento, ‘Memory, space and mindscapes in ancient Greece’, conference of the project Public history in ancient Greece. Archaeology, memory, and mindscapes’ – ‘Urban mindscapes and sacred timescapes: the Asklepieion of Pergamon‘ – Christina Williamson
• 01.02.2023 University of Groningen, Data Round Table – Open(ing) Geospatial Data – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon – approaches and challenges‘– Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
• 08.12.2022 University of Uppsala, workshop ‘More than a place of worship. Complexity of sacred sites in the ancient world’ – co-organizer and speaker – Christina Williamson – see blog
• 16-18.11.2022 Weimar, ‘Urbanity: History, Concept, Uses‘, Annual Conference of ‘Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations’ (FOR 2779) – ‘Sanctuaries as Urban Timescapes: the Asklepieion of Pergamon‘ – Christina Williamson
• 07.11.2022 Radboud University of Nijmegen, Seminar Radboud Ancient and Medieval (RAM) Lecture Series – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon‘ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini – see blog
• 17.09.2022 University of Groningen, Arts Festival – Project ‘Tales from the Asklepieion of Pergamon’– Alexandra Katevaini & Christina Williamson – see blog
• 31.08.2022 Budapest/online: EAA (European Archaeological Association) Annual Meeting 2022, panel 407 ’Digital Religioscapes: Current Methodologies and Novelties in the Analysis of Sacr(aliz)ed Spaces’ – ‘Creating a Deep-map of the Asklepieion of Pergamon: Process and Pitfalls in Digitizing a Religioscape’– Alexandra Katevaini & Christina Williamson
• 27.06.2022 University of Cork: EASR (European Association for the Study of Religion) Annual Meeting 2022, panel ’The Emancipation of Ancient Religions in the Digital Age’ – ’Deep-mapping of the Asklepieion of Pergamon. Emancipating the data through GIS’ 
• 18.05.2022 University of Uppsala: Classical Archaeology and Ancient History seminar – ’Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
  see story map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f57e64f85db744698d874fd9b8130813
• 25.03.2022 University of Groningen, MA class ‘Atelier Living Heritage’ – Project ‘Heroes in the Asklepieion‘ with workshop on building ArcGIS Story Maps – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini – see blog.
• 29.11.2021 Johannes Gutenberg Universtität Mainz: Guest lecture series Klassisches Archäologie/Alt Geschichte – ‘Deep-mapping sanctuaries. The Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini – see story map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a9ea30ae5ed647c7a0650153935898b9
• 05.11.2021 DAI Istanbul Pergamon: TransPergMikro project Meeting / Werkstattgespräch –‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
• 25.05.2021 Swedish Institute at Athens: The Athens Greek Religion Seminar – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
• 19.05.2021 University of Groningen: Ancient History Research Collective, Brown Bag Seminar – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini
• 06.05.2021 HIERON: 2021 Spring Meeting ‘Asking about Asklepios’ – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini

Related papers and events

• 05.04.2024 – Tresoar (Leeuwarden), public talk during the ‘Week van de Klassieken’ – ‘Tussen Hemel en Aarde. Religie en Landschap in de Griekse Wereld’ – Christina Williamson
• 02.09.2023 – Belfast: EAA (European Archaeological Association) Annual Meeting 2023 – session 618 ’Archaeologies of Religion and Symbolic Behaviour: Building Usable Digital Databases’ – ‘Constructing Connected Contests. Opportunities and challenges in building an online database of Graeco-Roman athletes and festivals’ – Adam Wiznura & Christina Williamson
• 06-8.04.2023 Swedish Institute at Athens, international conference ‘Distant Deities, Central Places: Reconsidering the ‘Extra-urban’ Sanctuary’ – co-organizer and speaker, with Axel Frejman (SIA, Uppsala) and Floris van den Eijnde (University of Utrecht) – see blog
• MA 2022-23 course Urban Timescapes in the Graeco-Roman World – see student story maps
• 01.09.2022 Bordeaux, XVI CIEGL (Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae), Panel  17 ’L’épigraphie quantitative’ – ‘Connecting the Greeks. From agonistic inscriptions to festival networks’ – Tom Britton, Onno van Nijf, Christina Williamson
• 01.09.2022 Antwerp, EAUH (European Association for Urban History) Annual Meeting 2022 – Roundtable 5 ‘A new Urban History’ presenting the forthcoming Cambridge Urban History of Europe – with Maarten Prak (UUtrecht), volume editor-in-chief, and co-editor for Vol. 1 Penelope Davies (University of Texas), editors of Vol. 2: Patrick Lantscher (UCL) and Maarten Prak (UUtrecht); and editors of Vol. 3: Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin), and Gábor Sonkoly (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest).
• 18-20.11.2021 University of Groningen, international conference Rooted Cities, Wandering Gods: Interurban religious interactions in the ancient world – organized by our team, with the aim of bringing scholars together who focus on interurban relations through religious practices in the ancient world. See https://connectingthegreeks.com/rooted-cities-conference-2021/
  At this event I presented the paper – ‘Sacred Circles. Enclosed Sanctuaries as Urban Repeaters in Festival Networks’.  Early in November, I also presented this paper at a colloquium at the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt, in connection with the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (FOR 2779). The paper will appear in revised form in a volume edited by Zahra Newby, The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East (Oxford, in press)
• 03.09.2021  Kiel/online: EAA (European Archaeological Association) Annual Meeting 2021, panel ‘Widening Horizons’ –  ‘Mountains of Memory. Triangulating landscape, cult and regional identity through Zeus’ – Adam Wiznura & Christina Williamson. 
  This paper has now been published in Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens, Vol. 24 (2018-2020)

Fellowships and fieldwork

• September through December 2023 – Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, ‘Religion and Urbanity: reciprocal formations’ – four month fellowship
  Project: Sacred co-temporalities. Sanctuaries and urban timescapes in the Graeco-Roman world
• 24.09-08.10.2023 – DAI Istanbul – Pergamon – individual fieldwork, focusing on the material culture of the Asklepieion
• May / November 2022 – Uppsala Universitet, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History – one month fellowship
• September 2021 through January 2022 – Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, ‘Religion and Urbanity: reciprocal formations’ – five month fellowship
• 26.09-06.10.2021 – DAI Istanbul – Pergamon – individual, focusing on the architectural development of the Asklepieion – see blog
• February 2020 through June 2023 – NWO Vrije Competitie fellowship ‘Connecting the Greeks. Multi-scalar festival networks in the Hellenistic world’ – Deep-mappping sanctuaries is a subproject of this larger project which I co-direct with Onno van Nijf – see website
• September 2019 through January 2020 – Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, ‘Religion and Urbanity: reciprocal formations’ – five month fellowship