Borders and Boundaries. 7th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference - 20/06/2016, Leeds (En
Recent events have provoked much debate on the transgression of geographical borders and the impact this has on the lived experience of the global community. This throws up many questions as to how we define boundaries, be they geographical, social, cultural or psychological and what happens when these boundaries are broken.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 20/06/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Devonshire Hall (Leeds, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Department of Classics within the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies - University of Leeds
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
8:30-9:00Registration
9:00-9:15First Keynote Speaker
Fenton Room
Dr Ingrid Sharp
The University of Leeds
9:15-9:20Break
Panel 1.1: Human and Divine
Chaired by Andrea Basso
Fenton Room
Panel 1.2: Constructing Boundaries
Chaired by Maria Haley
Evans Room
9:20-9:40Crossing Psychic Boundaries: Humoral infection of the soul in Plato’s Timaeus
Natalie Enright
A Game of Regions: The fluctuating borders of Aeolis, Mysia, and Troad
Stefanos Apostolou
9:40-10:00Crossing Human Boundaries: Narrative theology in the Iliad andGilgameš
Bernardo Ballesteros Petrella
Borders Set, Borders Broken, Borders Restored: Antigone from the Greek National Theatre at the Epidaurus festivals of 1940 and 1956
Andria Michael
10:00-10:20Woman, Animal, Foreigner: Boundaries on the example of Iphigenia
Alicia Calvo-Panera
Crafty Barbarians? Technological progress and the Empire in Roman thought
Tuuli Ahlholm
10:20-10:40The Daimonic Eagle
Ben Greet
How analytical aesthetics can inform classical scholarship: authorial intention, message and causality in Propertius Elegies IV
Laura Nicoara
10:50-11:00Tea and Coffee Break
Panel 2.1: Aquatic Boundaries
Chaired by Anthi Chrysanthou
Fenton Room
Panel 2.2: Home and Away
Chaired by Devon Allen
Evans Room
11:00-11:20The Durius River Valley: A cultural boundary in the ancient Iberian peninsula
Henry Clarke
Not Again: How “Saving the Muslim” Rhetoric Refuses to Die out
Sadia Seddiki
11:20-11:40“Trans Tiberim peregre venum ibant“: Reconsidering the role of the Tiber as a territorial boundary in the Twelve Tables.
James Crooks
Identity and the Hero in Greek and Egyptian Epic Poetry: Cultural identity and self-rediscovery in Homer’s Odyssey and the Tale of Sinuhe
Max Stocker
11:40-12:00‘No further than this Arethusa’ (Ov.Met. 5.642): Geographical and Generic Boundaries in Ovid’sMetamorphoses
Eleni Ntanou
Shakespeare in the Arab World: Behind Borders and Boundaries
Imen Elkhazri
12:10-1:00
Lunch
1:00-1:10Second Keynote Speaker
Fenton Room
Dr Emma Stafford
Panel 3.1: Frenemies
Chaired by Henry Clarke
Fenton Room
Panel 3.2: Intertextuality
Chaired by Leonardo Costantini
Evans Room
1:10-1:30The Key-Words of Colonisation: From ‘Barbarians’ to ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in the approaches to Greek history in the West
Valentina Mignosa
To What Extent is There a Mythological Influence over the Folkloric Type of a ‘Mermaid’
Devon Allen
1:30-1:50To what extent was the semantic opposition between the self and theother relevant for the proclamation of the First Crusade?
Irene Diego
Pushing and Inspecting Comic Boundaries with Characters in The Birds
Timothy McConnell
1:50-2:10Caput et Membra Alia: Reflections of Roman society in Solinus and Martianus’ descriptions of India.
Caroline Belanger
A Foreshadowing Feast: Observations on Microstructure and Intertextuality in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 13.1-20
Stephan Renker
2:10-2:30A load of Schmitt? The problems with Carl Schmitt’s account of friend and enemy
Ben Chwistek
‘A bull you fell into milk’. Performative and Oral elements in written texts: from the Orphic gold tablets to the Eighth Book of Moses
Anthi Chrysanthou
2:40-2:50Tea and Coffee Break
Panel 4.1: Transgression
Chaired by Natalie Enright
Fenton Room
Panel 4.2: Water and Land
Chaired by Ben Greet
Evans Room
2:50-3:10Beyond Justice: Atreus’ Transgressive Revenge in Greek Tragedy
Maria Haley
Lemnos: A foggy border set amid various cultures
Evi Kyratsou
3:10-3:30The ‘Erotopoetics’ of Borders: Propertius and the Confinement of Cynthia
Pietro Morlacchi
Resistance to Territorial Loss in the Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim
Michael Economou
3:30-3:50Philosophy as Transgression of Boundaries: Myth and language in Plato’s conception of the barbarians
Andrea Basso
Empire with Limits? Geographical and cultural boundaries in the Black Sea region in two Hadrianic texts
Joanna Kemp
4:00-4:10Tea and Coffee Break
Panel 5.1: Memory
Chaired by Anna Reeve
Fenton Room
Panel 5.2: Openness
Chaired by Timothy McConnell
Evans Room
4:10-4:30‘He Who Must Not Be Named’: An overview of the different degrees of damnatio memoriae
Elinor Cosgrave
Individual Freedom and Free Will as Principles of Tolerance: A focus on religions of ancient Greek societies
Marialilia Cavallaro
4:30-4:50‘Transnational’ and ‘Global’ Memories: Truly ‘cosmopolitan’ or a form of selective amnesia?
Jade Douglas
The Purpose of the Anastasian Wall
Joe Dawson
4:50-5:10An Exploration of the Possibilities Offered by Memory for the Analysis of Classical Texts
Sophie Raudnitz
Approaching Empires through Networks instead of Borders
Sam van Dijk
End of Conference