Activities
2026
Symposium: Babylon, Mirror of the Hellenistic Near East - Roundtable discussantHoo, M. (Chair)
5 Jun 2026
2025
Eighth Seleukid Study Day: The Afterlife of the Seleukids: Receptions and Reinterpretations from Antiquity to the Present - Panel Remembering the Seleukids in Post-Seleukid DynastiesHoo, M. (Chair)
12 Nov 2025 → 15 Nov 2025
Globalizing the Mediterranean: Religious connectivities to the farther EastHoo, M. (Speaker)
9 Jul 2025
, Colloquium Mediterranean Platform (Universität Konstanz)Imponeren met macht en macht door te imponeren: Baktrisch koningschap in globaliserend Eurazië (3e en 2e eeuw v.Chr.)Hoo, M. (Speaker)
5 Jun 2025
, NINO-Ex Oriente Lux VoorjaarslezingOIKOS Annual Meeting (OIKOS Dag)- Panel Ancient History & ArchaeologyHoo, M. (Organiser)
23 May 2025
, OIKOS Annual Meeting (OIKOS Dag) - Panel Ancient History & ArchaeologyEurasian Localisms: A new approach to Hellenism in the EastHoo, M. (Speaker)
19 May 2025
, The Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (University of Cambridge)Materializing connectivity: Cultural entanglement and transforming religiosity in Hellenistic and Kushan Central AsiaHoo, M. (Speaker)
7 May 2025
, Sacrality Seminar (Utrecht University)What is the Hellenistic World?Hoo, M. (Speaker)
6 May 2025
What is the Hellenistic World?Hoo, M. (Speaker)
6 May 2025
, HelleNET Scholar TalksBetween homelands and wastelands: Rhetorics of mobility and the affordance of northeastern nomads in the construction of placeHoo, M. (Speaker)
31 Jan 2025 → 1 Feb 2025
, Home and Displacement: Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean and West Asia (6th ct. BCE – 2nd ct. CE) (Aarhus University/University of Copenhagen)2024
The Mnemonic Imagination of Central AsiaHoo, M. (Speaker)
27 Nov 2024
, At the Ends of the Earth? How novel methods and approaches are changing our understanding of Central Asian landscapes and objectscapes (Inaugural Symposium of the Central Asia Netherlands Network)Globalizing Mnemonic Geographies: A Cultural Approach to the Impact of Nomads on Ancient Eurasian ConnectivityHoo, M. (Speaker)
25 Oct 2024
, Macrohistorical Dynamics in Eurasia (University of California, Berkeley)Diversity in context: Cultural entanglement and religiosity in Hellenistic and Kushan Central AsiaHoo, M. (Speaker)
31 May 2024
, OIKOS Annual Meeting (OIKOS Day)Shifting frontiers, imagined geographies: A global perspective on ‘the North-East’ as a nomadic frontier zone of the ancient worldHoo, M. (Speaker)
2 May 2024
, New Discoveries Seminar (Utrecht University)Frontiers of ambition: Diplomacy, peer-polity interaction, and identity formation between the Graeco-Bactrian and Seleucid kingsHoo, M. (Speaker)
21 Mar 2024 → 23 Mar 2024
, Whose Custom Is It Anyway? Empire, Cities and People through Archaeology, Art and Written Sources in Hellenistic Central Asia (HCARN 5)