The international conference Global Gods in Local Contexts will take place in Vienna and Hainburg from 28 to 30 September 2026, bringing together archaeologists, historians and specialists in ancient religion to explore the transmission, adaptation and local development of the so-called “Oriental cults” across the Danubian and Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire.
Mithraic studies feature prominently in the programme. Among the scheduled speakers are Csaba Szabó (Mithras in Roman Dacia), Lucinda Dirven (the Dura-Europos mithraeum), Nirvana Silnović (double-sided Mithraic reliefs from Roman Dalmatia), Tamás Milbich (the newly discovered sixth mithraeum at Aquincum), Matthew M. McCarty (Mithraic built environments), Blanka Misic (ritual experience and learning in the cult of Mithras), and Aleš Chalupa and Tomáš Glomb, who will present new spatial analyses of Mithraic cult diffusion across the Roman Empire.
The conference will also include the announcement of a new exhibition on the cult of Mithras in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
![*Global Gods in Local Contexts*
The international conference Global Gods in Local Contexts will take place in Vienna and Hainburg from 28 to 30 September 2026, bringing together archaeologists, historians and specialists in ancient religion to explore the transmission, adaptation and local development of the so-called “Oriental cults” across the Danubian and Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire.
Mithraic studies feature prominently in the programme. Among the scheduled speakers are Csaba Szabó (Mithras in Roman Dacia), Lucinda Dirven (the Dura-Europos mithraeum), Nirvana Silnović (double-sided Mithraic reliefs from Roman Dalmatia), Tamás Milbich (the newly discovered sixth mithraeum at Aquincum), Matthew M. McCarty (Mithraic built environments), Blanka Misic (ritual experience and learning in the cult of Mithras), and Aleš Chalupa and Tomáš Glomb, who will present new spatial analyses of Mithraic cult diffusion across the Roman Empire.
The conference will also include the announcement of a new exhibition on the cult of Mithras in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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