All welcome to the workshop
The workshop takes place on Monday, 16 and Tuesday, 17 March, 2026, in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom.
It is co-organized by Hannah Smagh (Pennsylvania State University) and Beatriz Pañeda Murcia (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).
Funding Entity: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
09:00 – 09:30
Reception
09:30 – 10:00
Introduction
Hannah Smagh & Beatriz Pañeda Murcia
10:00 – 10:40
From Courtyard to Corner: Ritual Spaces and the Materiality of Greek Domestic Religion
Hannah Smagh, The Pennsylvania State University
10:40 – 11:20
Terracottas from the Archaic-Classical Settlement at Philia and the Use of Terracottas in Household Shrines in Ancient Thessaly
Stelios Ieremias, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
11:20 – 11:40
Coffee break
11:40 – 12:20
Terracottas in the Neighborhood: Interactions at Classical Corinthian Shrines
Theodora Kopestonsky, University of Tennessee Knoxville
12:20 – 13:00
Domestic Religion, Migration, and Home-Making in Hellenistic Corinth
Beatriz Pañeda Murcia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
13:00 – 14:45
Lunch
14:45 – 15:25
Glocalizing Domestic “Magic”: Individual, Household, and Empire in an Amulet from Roman Dion
Caitlín E. Barrett, Cornell University
15:25 – 16:05
“Mysterization” in Roman Cyrene and Crete: A Mode of Religious Competition in Private Contexts
Pablo Rodríguez Valdés, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
16:05 – 16:45
General discussion
17:00 – 18:30
Glass offered for speakers and audience at the SIA
20:00
Dinner for speakers
09:30 – 10:10
Greek Religious Texts and How to Use Them
Katie Rask, The Ohio State University
10:10 – 10:50
Beyond Lead: The Materiality of Language in Classical Sicilian Curse Tablets
Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
10:50 – 11:10
Coffee break
11:10 – 11:50
Moulding Religion in Private Spaces. An Attempt of Reassessing the Function of the Impressed Terracotta Discs from Magna Graecia
Ginevra Benedetti, Università degli Studi di Siena
Davide Caruso, Scuola Archeologica Italiana Atene
Valentino Gasparini, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
11:50 – 12:30
General discussion
12:30 – 13:00
Conclusions
Jenny Wallensten, Director of the Swedish Institute at Athens
13:00
Lunch
15:00
Visit to the Acropolis Museum
Warmly welcome!
Attached files: Poster, Program
Printed: 2026-02-24
From the web page: Swedish Institute at Athens
https://www.sia.gr/en/sx_PrintPage.php?export=html&tid=1267