Seafaring, Mobility and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity c.150-700, Tvarminne, Finland, October 26–27, 2018

The 25th multidisciplinary Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity will be organized on 26-27 October 2018. The symposium will bring together scholars and postgraduate students with an interest in Late Antiquity from a variety of universities and disciplines (philology, archaeology, history, theology, religious studies, art history etc.). The theme of this year’s symposium is Seafaring, Mobility, and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (ca. 150-700 CE), which will be approached from a wide perspective, including social, economic, cultural, religious, ideological, and literary aspects; the symposium will be divided into thematic sessions broadly structured around archaeological, literary, and historical frames of inquiry.

We welcome papers discussing Late Antique seafaring, mobility, and the Mediterranean from any viewpoints, but encourage especially the following themes:

• Networks of Communication and Commodification in the Late Antique Mediterranean
• Sea as a Metaphor in Late Ancient Literature
• The Mediterranean as ‘Mare Nostrum’