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Religion Department 2003 Travel Study


Attention: New topics are available as of today (10/23); many of the new tiopics are general essays on the religious communities of a partuicular place in history.  If you choose such topic, please talk to other students who are dealing with the same location.  More than one person can treat the same location, focusing on different eras in history.

Below, find a list of sites to be visited. Each student will write an introduction to a specific site, or an introductory essay on a broader topic (see list D). The essays have to be finished before the Thanksgiving break, and will be made available to all students in our own guide-book before we leave on the trip.  Sites listed on a red background have already been assigned, those on a green background are still available.

Additionally, each student is expected to deliver a brief report (10-20 minutes, depending on circumstances) on location during the trip. While irregularities in scheduling travel will at times prevent individual students from delivering their report, all students are expected to be sufficiently prepared to introduce the students to the site when time permits.

Research on your particular site can serve as a basis on which you can write your term paper. The term paper will not exclusively focus on a particular site, but will rather draw together aspects of different sites visited into a coherent thesis about the historical interconnections between different religious traditions, common backgrounds, etc.

Grading:

Your introductory essay, to be published in the guide-book, should fit on one page. The essay and on-site presentation together will count for 10 % of your grade. In cases where on site presentation is not feasible, your essay will count 10 %.

Another 20 % of the grade will be based on your final research paper, between five to seven pages in length.
 
 
 

A. Turkey
 

City Day Sites  Presented by:
Istanbul 2 St. Sophia  Jacob Schroder Rel 95, 
St. Irene
Istanbul 3 Topkapi Palace  Jacob Moody Rel 95
The Hippodrome
Istanbul 4 Suleymaniye Mosque Jean Schwab Rel 95
The Blue Mosque Zac Brooks Rel 95
Archaeological Museum
Istanbul 5 Jewish communities Spence Young Rel 95
Jewish communities (in antiquity, medieval ages, modern times)
Ahrida Synagogue, Galata Alice Stone Rel 95
Museum of the Ancient Orient
Istanbul 6 Travel to Bursa
Bursa Jewish Community Drew Walker Rel 95 
The Green Mosque Leslie Peacock Rel 95 
Bursa 7 Travel to Ankara
Ankara Anatolian Civilization Museum
Ankara 8 Haci Bayram Camii &Temple of Augustus Kristin Neal Rel 95, 
Ankara; 

Cappadocia

 9 Travel to Cappadocia
Cappadocia 10 Avanos: Open-air Museum of Goreme (rock-cut churches) 
Nevsehir:Hacibektas, Mamasun, & Uchisar (view)
Cappadocia 11 Urgup:SoglaniValley, Derinkaya (underground city), Ihlara Valley
Cappadocia 12 Travel to Konya
Konya Tomb of Mevlana Kate Watkins Rel 95
Whirling Dervish Performance / background Amanda Byers Rel 95
Konya;

Antaliya

 13 Travel to Antaliya
Antaliya 14 Yivli Minare ? Amanda Owens ? Rel 95
Hidirlik Kalesi
Perge:

Hellenistic, Roman sites
Antaliya; 

Pamukkale

 15 Travel to Pamukkale
Pamukkale;

Marmaris

 16 Travel to Marmaris:

on way visit Aphrodisias
Marmaris;

Rhodes

 17 Travel to Rhodes via ferry
Rhodes 18 Murad Reis Mosque Alina Kelman Rel 95
Suleymaniye Mosque Betsy Buchanan Rel 95
Byzantyine Museum

Palace of Grand Masters

Museums
Rhodes 19 Kal Kadosh Shalom  Meredith Robertson Rel 95
Filerimos Monastery

Tharri Monastery 
Rhodes;

Marmaris;

Kusadasi

 20
 

Travel to Kusadasi
Kusadasi 

Izmir

 21 En route visit Miletus, Priene

Ruins of Ephesus

St. John Virgin Mary sites

Travel to Izmir
Izmir 22 Jewish Community Sardis: Florence Bell Rel 95
Ancient Gymnasium

Temple of Artemis
Izmir; 

Canakkale

 23 Travel to Canakkale

Pergamon, Asclepion,

Troy
Canakkale; 

Ipsala;

Komotini

 24
Border Crossing to Greece

 

B: Greece:
 

Komotini 25 Komotini religious makeup Elizabeth Trufant Rel 95
Komotini 26 Travel to Thessaloniki via Philippi
Thessaloniki Jewish community Thad Roupas Rel 95
Jewish community (ancient / medieval / modern) 
Synagogue of Thessalonki Tracy Wells Rel 95
Thessaloniki 27 Byzantine Thessaloniki (White Tower, Archeological Museum, St. Demetrius, St. Sophia)
Thessaloniki 28 Excursion to Pella, Vergina
Thessaloniki 

Kalambaka

 29 Travel to Kalambaka

Monasteries at Meteora
Jewish Communities in Athens: antiquity Anne Henry Rel 95
Jewish Communities in Athens: medieval ages: 
Jewish Communities in Athens: modern times
Kambalaka 

Athens

 30 Travel to Athens
Athens 31 Acropolis, Dionysos Theater, Temple of Zeus
Athens 32 Areopagus, Agora, National Archaeological Museum 
Jewish Museum Susan LaGrone ? Rel 95 
Athens Synagogue Marla Geddis Rel 95 
Muslims in Athens  Bear Tullis Rel 95
Athens 33 Day trip to Delphi
Athens 34 Travel to Venice:

Board Ferry at Patris Late
35 On Board Ferry

C: Italy
 

Venice 36 St. Mark's Square & Basilica 
Venice 37 Jewish Quarters  Courtney Casto Rel 95
Jewish community (ancient / medieval / modern)
Accademia Museum
Venice  38 Travel to Florence via Trento
Trento Blood Libels (in Trento and elsewhere) Susan LaGrone (?)
Florence 39 Walking tour of city (St. Mark, Uffizi and Academy Museums)
Jewish community of Florence
Florence; 

Rome

 40
Travel to Rome via train
Rome 41 Vatican Museums and Gardens Sistine Chapel 

St. Peter's Basilica
Excavation Tour
Jewish Communities in Rome in antiquity Robby Cloninger Rel 95
Jewish Ghetto Ann Beckwith Rel 95
Synagogues in Rome David Vendt Rel 95
Rome 42 Pantheon

Roman Forum
Colosseum
Catacombs, Palatine Hill
Muslim community in Rome Todd Prevost Rel 95
Flight to Atlanta 43

 

D: Broader topics:
 

If you are interested in broader topics, such as Jewish / Christian / Muslim relations in Turkey / Greece / Italy in late antiquity / medieval times / modern times, the Holocaust and Greece or Italy, Blood Libels in medieval Europe, anti-Jewish sentiments in Turkey, or other topics of your choice, please contact us with you ideas, and we can discuss possible topics.