News and events

Upcoming events

  • 17 September 2025 – 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, for a seminar in the research MA program
  • 24 September 2025 – Venice/Online – ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion at Pergamon. A roadmap through challenges, pitfalls, and solutions’ – Christina Williamson & Alexandra Katevaini, at the online international workshop ‘Deep-mapping Dialogues: Towards a systematic deep mapping approach in archaeology and history’, organized by Valentina Mignosa and Cristina Manzetti, hosted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) – see the website for more information
  • 20-21 October 2025 – Wrocław, Poland – ‘Co-creating sacred space. Inscribed resonances at the Asklepieion of Pergamon‘ – Christina Williamson, at the international conference ‘The epigraphic programs of Greek sanctuaries: space, actors and visual strategies‘, organized by Dominika Grzesnik and Joanna Wegner at the University of Wrocław – see the website for further information
  • 19-20 November 2025 – Lille – Polis conference, organized by Julie Bernini, Université de Lille

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).

Related papers and events

  • 20.06.2025 – University of Groningen, ‘The Volatility of Digital Data’ – Christina Williamson, at the Studenten Geschiedenis Nederland (SGN, national organization of history student associations) SGN event ‘The Future of History’, organized by the Groningen association Ubbo Emmius – see website
  • 05.04.2024 – Tresoar (Leeuwarden), ‘Tussen Hemel en Aarde. Religie en Landschap in de Griekse Wereld’ – Christina Williamson, public talk during the ‘Week van de Klassieken’
  • 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)

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