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Cult Images

January 20, 2021 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

A video presentation by Dr Philip Kiernan, entitled ‘The Gods at Home: Cult Images in Context in the Roman Empire’.

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Curses

October 14, 2020 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

A video presentation by Professor Greg Woolf, entitled ‘Cursing as Transferable Technology: Provincial Appropriations of a Mediterranean Ritual’.

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Object Narratives

January 14, 2020 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

A collection of short audios recorded with Centre members, our seminar speakers and other collaborators. Follow the link to Soundcloud to browse the playlist and find out more.

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Festivals

December 31, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

A series of short videos about ancient Greek and Roman festivals, filmed during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, as part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) virtual festival, FASSFEST!.

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Divine Saving

December 17, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Theodora Jim (‘Divine Saving and ‘Votive’ Religion in Ancient Greece’) on 21st November 2019. Page includes images, bibliography and extra audio tracks.

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Trees

November 15, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Anna Perdibon (‘Trees and Tree Persons in Ancient Mesopotamia’) on 16th October 2019. Page includes images, bibliography and extra audio tracks.

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Mosaics

July 19, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Sean Leatherbury ("Materializing the Community in the Late Antique Syrian Church") on 11th July 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

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Ritual and Gender

July 4, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Camilla Norman ("The Ritual Ecology of Archaic South-East Italy") on 13th June 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

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Walls and Boundaries

June 10, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Professor Michael Scott ("Walls and the Ancient Greek Experience") on 23rd May 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

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Virtual Collections

May 4, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Jody Cundy ("Paradoxographic mentalité and the sacred: thinking through (im)material collections in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados.") on 21st March 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

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Votives, fertility and early infancy

February 24, 2019 Centre for Ancient Material Religion The Open University

An audio discussion recorded after the inaugural seminar given by Professor Maureen Carroll ("Mater Matuta and her ‘Sisters’: Exploring Fertility Cults and Associated Votives in Early Roman Religion") on 14th February 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

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