Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World - 21-22-23/06/2016, Birmingham (England)
When people in the ancient world imagined the afterlife they invested it with their hopes and fears. Across the Mediterranean world these imagined afterlives took various forms, occupied different places, and did peculiar things to the people who would reside in them. As they did so they became integrated into broader narratives of selfhood, social life and cosmology. Talking about life after death necessarily meant reflecting on the social, cultural and political world in which people lived their lives before death.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 21-22-23/06/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Birmingham ; Newman University (Birmingham, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Juliette Harrisson ; Tom Hunt ; Niall Livingstone
INFO: web - Juliette.Harrisson@staff.newman.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: 60£; estudiantes / students / estudenti: 40£
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Tuesday 21 June
12pm: Coach from Birmingham Central Bull Ring Travelodge to Newman University
12pm – 1pm: Registration
1pm – 2pm: Lunch
2pm – 3.30pm: Panel 1: Imagining the afterlife
Juliette Harrisson: The afterlife in popular culture
Isabella Bossolino: “Break on through to the other side”: The Etruscan Netherworld and its demons
Suzanne Lye: Imagining katabasis in Homer’s underworlds
3.30pm – 4pm: Tea and coffee
4pm – 5.30pm: Panel 2: Funerary rituals
Molly Allen: Visualizing the role of the afterlife in the lives of Classical Athenians: A study of the development of the image of the eidolon on white-ground lekythoi
Julia Doroszewska: A ritual of the afterlife or the afterlife of a ritual: The nachleben of the maschalismos
Stephanie Crooks: The singer’s shrine: Constructing space for poetic immortality in Vergil’s fifth Eclogue
5.30pm – 6.15pm: Break
6.15pm – 7.30pm: Drinks reception in Newman atrium
7.30pm: Coach from Newman to Birmingham Central Bull Ring Travelodge
Wednesday 22 June
8.30am: Coach from Birmingham Central Bull Ring Travelodge to Newman
9.30am – 11am: Panel 1: Mystery cults and Orphism
Yulia Ustinova: Greek thanatonauts: Near-death experiences and mystery rites in Ancient Greece
Daniel Markovic: Epicurus and the Orphic Gold Tablets
Josipa Lulic: Guide of Souls? Mercurius Psychopompos in Roman Dalmatia
11am – 11.30am: Tea and coffee
11.30am – 1pm: Panel 2: Inscribing the afterlife
Nick Brown: Phrasikleia: Playing with signs
Gabriela Ingle: Funerary decoration in Roman tombs: ensuring happiness in the afterlife.
Niall Livingstone: Where are they now? Signing the Niall Livingstone: Where are they now? Signing the afterlife in Attic funerary epigram.
1pm – 2pm: Lunch
2pm – 3.30pm: Panel 3: Philosophy
Pablo de Paz Amérigo: The eschatological conception in The Pythagorean Golden Verses
Giuseppe Feola: Where are Plato’s afterlives?
Christoph Jedan: Puzzling afterlives: Seneca’s Ad Marciam and the consolatory tradition
3.30pm – 4pm: Tea and coffee
4pm – 5.30pm: Panel 4: Greek literature
Saffi Grey: Cosmology, psychopomps, and afterlife in Homer’s Odyssey.
Stamatia Dova: On old and new friends in Hades: Theseus, Heracles, and the poetics of salvation
Amit Shilo: The laws of Hades against the laws of Athena: The afterlife and political dissent in theOresteia
6pm: Coach from Newman to Birmingham Central Bull Ring Travelodge
Thursday 23 June
8.30am: Coach from Birmingham Central Bull Ring Travelodge to Newman
9.30am – 11amPanel: Reception
Luke Houghton: The elegiac afterlife, from Rome to the Renaissance
Judith Fletcher: The underworld inverted: Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder.
Frances Foster: The dark side of the underworld:Hades Speaks!
11am – 11.30am: Tea and coffee
11.30am – 1pm: Final roundtable discussion
1pm – 2pmLunch
2pm: Coach from Newman to Birmingham Central Bull Ring Travelodge