Methodologies in Ancient Material Culture - 02-03-04/10/2015, Winnipeg (Canada)
The Methodologies in Ancient Material Culture conference will be held at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on October 2-4, 2015. In recent decades there has been a dramatic shift in studies of ancient material culture away from the long-established avenues of scholarship that prioritised the identification of objects by renowned ancient artists towards a contextualised assessment of the ancient record. The function of antiquities, their context and their interpretation as part of a wider assemblage of material is now a focus of attention. This conference will explore the different aspects of these issues, and the confirmed keynote speaker will be Elizabeth Marlowe, author of Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (London, 2013).
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 10-11-12/09/2015
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, Canada)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr Allison Surtees (University of Winnipeg); Dr Kate Cooper (Royal Ontario Museum/University of Toronto).
INFO: web - a.surtees@uwinnipeg.ca - kate.cooper@utoronto.ca
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: online hasta el 1 de septiembre /online until September 1st/ online fino al 1 Settembre
Tasa normal / Regular Rate / Tariffa ordinaria
Inscripción / Registration / Registrazione $75
Cena / Banquet / Banchetto $60
Tasa reducida / Discounted Rate / Tariffa ridotta
Inscripción / Registration / Registrazione $35
Cena / Banquet / Banchetto $35
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Programa preliminar / Preliminary program / Programma preliminare
Friday, October 2nd
8:30 – Welcome and Breakfast
9:00 – Session 1: METHODOLOGY
Surtees, Laura, Picking up the pieces: the interpretation of ceramics from survey contexts at Kastro Kallithea in Thessaly
Banducci, Laura, Use wear analysis in the ancient Mediterranean: a view from Roman Italy
Goduto, Don Carlo, Privileged Objects or Privileging Relations?: Using network perspectives to re-examine socio-cultural interpretations of southern Italian necropoleis
MacKinnon, Michael, Zooarchaeology and Classical Archaeology: Questions, Answers and Approaches for the Future
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Session 2: INTERROGATING THE TRADITIONS I
Rous, Sarah A., Upcycling: A New Approach to Studying the Reuse of Material Culture
Gordon, Jody Michael, Venus Liberata: Reassessing Art and Empire in the Archaeology of Roman Cyprus Freed, Joann, A Fourth-Century Shrine of Symmachus at Carthage
12:30 – Lunch
2:00 – Session 3: UNDERSTANDING SPACE & ARCHITECTURE
Fitzsimons, Rodney, Monuments for the Living, Monuments for the Dead: A Stone-by-Stone Guide to Mycenaean State Formation
Maher, Matthew, Contextualizing Comparanda for Arkadian Fortifications
Cassis, Marcia, Space as Artefact: Reconsidering the Household in Byzantine Anatolia
3:30 – Coffee Break
4:00 – WAG Tour (with Angeliki Bogiatji, curator of the WAG Olympus exhibition)
5:00 – Dinner Break
7:00 – Keynote Lecture (Elizabeth Marlowe) and Reception at the WAG Can Ancient Art Teach Us Anything We Didn't Already Know From Texts?
Saturday
8:30 – Breakfast
9:00 – Session 4: AGENCY
Dyer, Jennifer, The Role of Thing Theory in Contemporary and Ancient Visual Art History
Schörner, Günther, ‘Aegyptiaca’: Stressing the materiality of religious groups in the Roman Empire.
Blake, Sarah, Objects in Roman Literature
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Session 5: CONSUMERISM & CUSTOMISATION
Meredith, Hallie, The Challenges of Dating: Carved, Portable Openwork Vessels in Context
Patnaude, Ann, Being Epic in Archaic Corinth: Reconsidering poetic allusions and pictorial narrative in Greek vase‐painting
Bevis, Elizabeth, Can Difficulty Itself Be a Methodology? Discontinuous Material Discourses as Problems and Opportunities.
12:30 – Lunch
2:00 – Session 6: AESTHETICS/ DELIGHTING THE SENSES
Öhrman, Magdalena, The Soundscape of Textile Work in the Roman World
Barham, Nicola, A cup of delight: admiring glass in ancient Rome
Hardiman, Craig, Ancient Artistic Sense-abilities: Neuroarthistory as Methodology
3:30 – Coffee Break
4:00 – First Roundtable session: Material Culture in the Classroom (with Allison Surtees)
5:00 – Break
6:30 – Cocktails and Banquet
Sunday
8:30 – Breakfast
9:00 – Session 7: INTERROGATING THE TRADITIONS II
Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou, Angele, Terracotta Figurines and the Female Nude in Classical Greek Sculpture
Stirling, Lea, Mystery Statue in Search of a Context: The “Aspasia” Statue Type in the Roman Empire
Sharp, Amanda, Roman Figured Capitals: From Catalogue to Architectural Context
Bologna, Francesca, Painters and workshops in Pompeii: identifying craftsmen to understand ancient working practices
11:00 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Second Roundtable session: How Museums Present the Past (with Kate Cooper)
12:30 – Concluding remarks (Allison Surtees and Kate Cooper)