Working for the Gods: Religion & Labor in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Ohio State University, December 1-3, 2023
University Hall 386B, African and African American Studies Conference Room
230 North Oval Mall, Columbus OH
MICAR PROGRAM
Join us for the 2023 Midwestern Consortium on Ancient Religions (MiCAR) conference. Founded in 2002 by the University of Chicago, The Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan, the Consortium meets once a year for a faculty and graduate student conference on a topic relevant to a range of ancient Mediterranean religions (Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Jewish, etc.). This year MiCAR returns following a three-year pandemic pause.
The 2023 meeting is in-person and open to all.
Friday, December 1st
6:00pm MiCAR Discussion with OSU Classics Faculty, Guest Speakers, and Steering Committee Members
Saturday, December 2nd
8:30am Breakfast snacks and coffee
8:50 Opening statements (Katie Rask, Sarah Iles Johnston)
9:00-9:35 Christian Borgen (Chicago)
Labor and Religion in 24th-22nd Century BCE Mesopotamia: Sargonic Temple Estates in Light of Recently Published Texts
9:35-10:10 James Moore (OSU)
Farm-to-(God’s-)Table: A Case Study of the Temple Led chaîne opératoire within a Recognized Community of Colonial State Dependents from Achaemenid Egypt
10:10-10:25 Coffee
10:25-11:00 Chris Parmenter (OSU)
Who Made Greco-Egyptian Faience? Making Egyptianizing Votives in the Archaic Aegean
11:00-11:35 Katie Rask (OSU)
Labor’s Toil: The Division of Religious Work in Greece
11:35-11:50 Coffee
11:50-12:25 Laura Gawlinski (Loyola)
Instrumenta Domestica or Instrumenta Sacra? Using Textile Tools for Ritual in Ancient Greece
12:25-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:15 Gaia Gianni (OSU)
The Pious Apprentice? A Dedication to Jupiter Tifatinus
2:15-2:50 Kelsi Morrison-Atkins (Denison)
Failure to Thrive in Christ: Intimate Labor in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3
2:50-3:05 Coffee
3:05-3:40 Travis Proctor (Wittenberg)
Enslavement, Labor, and Christian Scribes in the Shepherd of Hermas
3:40-4:15 Brittany Joyce (Michigan)
Teaching Virginity: Enslaved Women and Education in Jerome
4:15-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:05 Kathryn Jasper (Illinois State)
The Cell is a Workshop: The Labor of Hermitism
5:15pm Dinner, open to all
Sunday, December 3rd
9:00-9:30 Breakfast snacks and coffee
9:30-10:30 Round Table Discussion: Religion and Work
10:30-11:30 MiCAR Discussion & Future Work
MiCAR 2023 Steering Committee: Jessie DeGrado, Christopher Faraone, Sarah Iles Johnston, Carolina López-Ruiz, Katie Rask
If you have questions, please contact Katie Rask (rask.4@osu.edu).
