Summary of activities for “Where East meets West”, January-December 2014 1. Activities in Denmark Meetings of the steering group (business meetings) Mar 28, Copenhagen (Lâtife Summerer participating) Apr 24, Amasya (Christian absent) May 15, Odense Sep 15, Odense Nov 6, Odense Seminars Feb 12, Copenhagen, theme: Strabo of Amaseia (Daniela Dueck) Mar 28, Copenhagen, theme: Actors of Urban Development in Pompeiopolis (Lâtife Summerer) May 15, Odense, Manuscript seminar (Søren and Kristina) Aug 30: Round table on “The Roman emperor and imperial worship” at the annual meeting of the Danish Historical Society, Odense (organized by Søren) Nov 6, Odense, theme: Archaeological guide to Neoklaudiopolis (Tønnes) Dec 4, Odense, Manuscript seminar (Jesper) Participation in conferences, workshops etc. in Denmark Aug 29-30: Round table on “The Roman emperor and imperial worship”, Annual meeting of the Danish Historical Society, Odense (Jesper, Søren, Tønnes) Oct 1-2: International workshop on “Ancient Economy and Early Economic Developments: Synergies in Research across Disciplines”, Esbjerg (Tønnes) Oct 29-31: International conference on “Cassius Dio: Greek intellectual and Roman politician”, Odense (Jesper, Søren) 2. Activities abroad Conference Apr 24-26, Amasya: International conference on ”Landscape Dynamics and Settlement Patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Early Byzantine Period” (Kristina co-organizer with Lâtife Summerer) Fieldwork Apr 27: Visit to Niksar and Eupatoria (Søren, Tønnes, Marit) Jul 3-Aug 27: Excavation in Oymaağaç (Toke) Jul 23-Aug 27: Excavation in Oymaağaç (Berit) Aug 19-29: Visit to Pontos (Vera) Sep 12-26: Visit to Pontos (Vera) Oct 16-21: Visit to Kocaeli, Amasra, Eskipazar, Cankırı, Çorum and Amasya (Tønnes, Marit, Søren, Kristina) Oct 22-26: Visit to Çevresu, Yeşilyayla and Vezirköprü (Tønnes, Marit, Søren) Participation in conferences, workshops etc. abroad Feb 3-4: Workshop, “Recursos marinos y productos transformados en la antigüedad”, Madrid (Tønnes) Mar 20-22: Conference on “Pathways of Communication: Roads and Routes in Anatolia from prehistory to Seljuk times”, Ankara (Søren, Tønnes) Apr 24-26: Conference on “Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Early Byzantine period”, Amasya (Jesper, Kristina, Søren, Tønnes, Vera) May 28-31: International workshop on “Imperial Identities in the Roman World”, Gent (Jesper) June 2-6: “36th international symposium of excavations, surveys and archaeometry”, Gaziantep (Kristina) June 13-14: International workshop on “Les femmes dans les sociétés hellénophones de l’Orient romain”, Paris (Jesper) July 4: International colloquium, “Soziale Bindungen und Netzwerke im griechischen Osten”, Munich (Tønnes) Sept 25-27: International workshop on “Imperial cult in the Roman provinces”, Zürich (Jesper, Søren, Tønnes) Nov 3: Epigraphy workshop, ”Cilicia and the Commagenian Dynasty”, Oxford (Søren) Nov. 14-15: ”Tag der antiken Numismatik”, Münster (Vera) Guest lectures abroad Oct 14: “The WEmW project”, Kocaeli University (Kristina, Tønnes) Nov 10: “The Pompeian Cities of northern Anatolia”, Bar-Ilan University (Tønnes) Other Oct 14: Meeting at the Archaeology Laboratory, Kocaeli University (Kristina, Tønnes) Oct 16: Meeting with the department of antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Ankara (Søren, Tønnes) Oct 19: Meeting at the Black Sea Region Research and Application Center, Çorum (Kristina, Søren, Tønnes) 3. Visitors from abroad Feb 10-13: Daniela Dueck, Bar-Ilan Mar 25-31: Lâtife Summerer, Kastamonu 4. Dissemination Lectures and conference presentations Feb 3: “Perspectives levantines et pontiques sur les ressources marines romaines”, Madrid (Tønnes) Feb 23: “En vej har mindst 3 dimensioner: hvordan tænker en romersk ingeniør?”, University of Copenhagen (Tønnes) Mar 12: “Provinsialisering og pacificering af Pontos – En ny udgave af kejsereden fra Neapolis”, Filologisk-Historisk Samfund, Copenhagen (Søren) Mar 20: "Ancient roads in the third dimension", Ankara (Tønnes) Apr 24: “The coinage of Neoklaudiopolis and Pompeiopolis against the background of minting practices of Pontic and Paphlagonien cities in the age of the Roman Empire”, Amasya (Vera) Apr 24: ““Contextualizing Neoclaudiopolis: a glimpse at settlement dynamics in the city's hinterland”, Amasya (Kristina) Apr 25: “The imperial oath from Neapolis”, Amasya (Søren) Apr 25: “Roads and bridges of the Phazemonitis”, Amasya (Tønnes, co-presented with Rainer Czichon, Uşak University) Apr 26: “Pompey’s urbanisation of Pontus: were the cities Greek or Roman?”, Amasya (Jesper) May 29: “Belonging to the Empire: Imperial cult as marker of a shared imperial identity”, Gent (Jesper) Jun 4: “The 2013 Neoklaudiopolis survey”, Gaziantep (Kristina) Jun 14: “Roman women from Pontus and Bithynia”, Paris (Jesper) Jul 4: “Networking at the Local,Regional and Imperial Levels: the case of Dio Chrysostom”, Munich (Tønnes) Aug 30: “The Bithynians again! The koina and their supposed involvement in cases of repetundae“, Odense (Søren) Sep 25: “Who introduced Emperor Worship in Asia Minor: The Imperial Cult according to Cassius Dio”, Zurich (Jesper) Sep 26: “The Bithynians again: the koina and their supposed involvement in cases of repetundae“, Zurich (Søren) Sep 27: “Leading men of the province“, Zürich (Tønnes) Oct 2: “The Space-Time Economy of Roman Road Design”, Esbjerg (Tønnes) Oct 29: "Cassius Dio and the Need for Roman Republican History in Byzantium" (Christian) Oct 29: “Criticizing the benefactors: Dio’s criticism of the dynasty in Power”, Odense (Jesper) Oct 30: “Dio, the imperial cult and the foreigners”, Odense (Søren) Nov 14: “Where East meets West”, Odense (Christian) Nov 15: “Städtischer Raum – aus der Perspektive der kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung in Nordanatolien”, Münster (Vera) Nov 21: “Where East meets West”, Odense (Berit) Nov 28: “Where East meets West”, Odense (Tønnes) Publications Bekker-Nielsen, T. ”Hard and Soft Space in the Ancient World”, in K. 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