MARE 2027 Conference: Mortuary Ritual in the Roman Near East

International academic conference at the University of Groningen on mortuary ritual in the Roman Near East. Archaeologists, osteologists, art historians and epigraphers discuss new research and theory on how people in antiquity responded to death and cared for the bereaved.

Researching death and mourning in antiquity

This conference focuses on burial rituals in the Roman Near East. The central question is how tombs, grave goods and human remains reveal the ways people responded to a death. It also looks at how the dead and the bereaved were reintegrated into society.

Organised by the MARE project

The conference is part of the MARE project (Mortuary Archaeology of the Roman East) at the University of Groningen, funded by a VICI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Discussants are Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck, University of London) and Björn Ewald (University of Toronto). The organisers plan to publish the contributions afterwards.

For early-career and senior scholars

The conference is aimed at researchers in archaeology, osteology, art history, epigraphy and material culture studies. Contributions are twenty-minute papers or posters, in person only. Limited travel and accommodation funding is available for independent scholars and for participants whose universities do not cover these costs.

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