Map of Late Antique Mobility | D3 19\19 Early Islamic Imperialism and... - Stephen Shoemaker

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
takes pleasure in inviting you to attend an international conference on
Palaestina on the Map of Late Antique Mobility and Migration
March 12
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Greetings
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Prof. David Harel, President, Israel Academy
Prof. Maren R. Niehoff, Academy Member
Roman Footprints in Palaestina
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Chair
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Prof. Benjamin Isaac
Academy Member, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Avner Ecker, Bar-Ilan University
“Somewhere Old Heroes Shuffle Safely Down the Street”: Communities of Roman Army Veterans in Provincia Palaestina
Prof. Moshe Benovitz, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
Ritual and the Road: The Roman Mile as a Measure of Space and Time in Rabbinic Halakhah
Pagan Perspectives on Mobility to Palaestina
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Chair
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Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt
Edinburgh University
Prof. Lieve Van Hoof, Ghent University
Migration and Mobility to, from and through Palestine in the Letters of Libanius
Permanently Settling in Palaestina: Migrants from East and West
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Chair
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Prof. Yitzhak Hen
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Maren R. Niehoff, Academy Member, the Hebrew University
Caesarea as a Magnet of Mobility and Migration among Jews, Christians and Pagans
Mr. Oz Tamir, the Hebrew University
The Effects of Migration to Late Antique Palaestina: The Case of Jerome
Prof. Geoffrey Herman, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
“The Land of Shinar Conceived and Bore Him; the Land of Desire Nurtured her Delight”: The Babylonian Talmud on Babylonian Rabbinic Migrants in Palestine
Keynote Lecture
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Chair
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Prof. Guy Stroumsa
Academy Member, the Hebrew University
Prof. Mischa Meier, University of Tübingen
Jerusalem under Heraclius (610-641): Christians, Jews, Muslims and the End of the World
March 13
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Pilgrimage: Pagan and Christian
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Chair
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Prof. Alexander Fantalkin
Tel Aviv University
Prof. Ian Rutherford, Reading University
Panias and Pilgrimage, 1-1,000 AD
Dr. Yana Tchekhanovets, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Byzantine Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: New Insights from Archaeological Excavations in Jerusalem and Surroundings
Accommodating Pilgrims, Travelers and Refugees
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Chair
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Prof. Rina Talgam
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat, the Hebrew University
Men in the Street: Movement toward the Temple in Roman Jerusalem
Prof. Guy Stiebel, Tel Aviv University
“The Wandering Jew”: The Archaeology of Refugees - A View from the Judaean Desert
Christian Visions of the Holy Land
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Chair
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Prof. Ora Limor
The Open University of Israel
Dr. Federico Montinaro, University of Tübingen
Religious Conflict, Mobility and the Holy Land: Reframing Late Antique and Byzantine Pilgrimage
Prof. Hartmut Leppin, Goethe University Frankfurt
Anti-Chalcedonians in a Difficult Region
Keynote Lecture
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Chair
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Prof. Margalit Finkelberg
Vice President
Prof. Simon Goldhill, King’s College, Cambridge
Migratory Texts and the Topography of Late Antique Religion in Palestine
March 14
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Pilgrimage and Migration to Palaestina under Islamic Rule
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Chair
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Dr. Uriel Simonsohn
Haifa University
Prof. Gideon Avni, the Hebrew University and
Israel Antiquities Authority Patterns of Mobility and Migration among Jewish and Muslim Populations in Palestine Following the Islamic Conquest - Some Archaeological Observations
Dr. Milka Levy-Rubin, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
Migration to, from and within: The Reshuffling of the Settlement Pattern of Palaestina Following the Muslim Conquest
Prof. Stephen Shoemaker, University of Oregon
Early Islamic Imperialism and Colonialism: Some Preliminary Thoughts with Particular Reference to Palestine
March 12-14, 2023

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How do we know the number of inhabitants? On what is it based? Could you supply a source ?