Celebrating Hercules in the Modern World - 07-08-09/07/2017, Leeds (England)
In June 2013 the conference Hercules: a Hero for All Ages laid the foundations for a large-scale project on the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles in post-classical culture. Work has been proceeding quietly on four volumes arising from the original conference, to be published in Brill’s series Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity. A grant from the AHRC’s Networking fund is now supporting, amongst other things, the development of a new website (http://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/) and a follow-on conference at Leeds in July 2017. Celebrating Hercules in the Modern World will reflect on the progress of the project so far, and work towards finalising the content of the volumes, due for publication in 2018-19: while the first two volumes are almost complete, there is scope for additional papers in all four, as detailed in the Call for Papers below. The conference will reunite a number of scholars from the 2013 conference, but also aims to bring new contributors on board: scholars from a wide range of disciplines are welcome – including history, art history, world literatures, drama, music, film and cultural studies – to share their expertise on the many contexts in which Hercules appears.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 07-08-09/07/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Leeds (Leeds, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Emma Stafford
INFO: herculesproject@leeds.ac.uk
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EDIT: Although booking for physical attendance has closed, it is still possible to register to hear the papers as podcasts online, together with handouts/PowerPoints after the conference (£50).
To book online by credit or debit card go to http://store.leeds.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculty-of-arts/celebrating-hercules-in-the-modern-world/virtual-delegate-registration. For other methods of payment please contact HerculesProject@leeds.ac.uk.
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Friday 7th July
12:00-13.30 Registration: Clothworkers Foyer
12:30-13:30Lunch: Clothworkers Foyer
13:30-13.45 Opening (Music LR1)
Emma Stafford + Matthew Treherne, Head of School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
13:45-15:15 Session 1: Inside and Outside the Church (Music LR1)
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Monash University): Byzantine Herakles
Katrien Levrie (Research Foundation Flanders / University of Leuven): The Herakles Myth in Byzantine Literature
Ivana Čapeta Rakić (University of Split): The Constellation of Hercules and his struggle with the Nemean lion on two romanesque reliefs from Split Cathedral
15.15-15:45Tea/coffee and biscuits: Clothworkers Foyer
15.45-17:45Session 2: Political discourse (Music LR1)
Emily Mayne (St. Hilda’s, Oxford): Reforming the hero, Reforming the king: Henry VIII, “our Englyshe Hercules”
Alexandra Eppinger (University of Mainz): Hercules the Younger? Heroic allusions in late eighteenth century British political cartoons
Maria Xanthou (University of Leeds): Οἱ Ἡρακλεῖς τοῦ στέμματος (“The defenders of the crown”): the reception of Hercules in modern Greek political discourse and history
Tamar Cheishvili (Tblisi State University): Putin as Hercules
19:00-22:00Conference Dinner, Great Woodhouse Room University House
22:00-23:00 Bar: Leeds Students Union
Saturday 8th July
08:00-09.00 Breakfast (for residents): Refectory North
09.00-11.00 Session 3: Hercules Performed (Music LR1)
Lucia Degiovanni (University of Bergamo): Hercules’ Death and Apotheosis in C18th-19th Century Italian Literature
Deborah Chatr Aryamontri (Montclair State University): Hercules and the tragicomic in the epic theatre of Dürrenmatt
Owen Hodkinson (University of Leeds): Strategies of translation and transformation in Tony Harrison’s Labourers of Herakles
Sam Gartland (Christ Church and Corpus Christi, Oxford): Herakles in Space – spatial forms in modern versions of Euripides’ Herakles
11.00-11.30Tea/coffee and biscuits: Clothworkers Foyer
11.30-13.00 Session 4a: Hercules Drawn (Music LR1)
Katherine Lu Hsu (CUNY), “Heroism” is a Madness: Transgressing Boundaries in Steve Moore’s Hercules: The Thracian Wars
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University): Sex and gender, race and Orientalism in Steve Moore’s Hercules comics
Ayelet Peer (Tel Aviv): The labours of Hercules-Sama
Session 4b: Iberian Hercules (Music ##)
Adriana Nogueira (University of Algarve / CECH – University of Coimbra): When the Saints are Greek Heroes: Heracles and Saint Anthony of Lisbon
Pamina Fernández Camacho (University of Almería): What Identity for Hercules Gaditanus? The Role of the Gaditanian Hercules in the Invention of National History in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Maria Seijo-Richart (University of Leeds): A Coruña, cidade herculina: Hercules as founder of cities
13.00-14.00Lunch: Clothworkers Foyer
14:00-15:30Session 5: Art and the Viewer (Music LR1)
Anne-Sophie Laruelle (University of Liège)ː Hercules in the art of Renaissance Flemish tapestry
Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia (King’s College London)ː Hercules’ ethical dilemma in Early Modern Paintings and Drawings: At the crossroads between the virtue and the vice
Macsotay: From Winckelmann to Emeric-David
15.30-16.00Tea/coffee and biscuits: Clothworkers Foyer
16.00-17.30Session 6: Literature and Popular Thought (Music LR1)
Will Desmond (University of Maynooth)ː Hercules among the Germans
Frances Foster (University of Cambridge)ː Demigod, god or monster? Rick Riordan’s Hercules
Eleanor OKell (University of Leeds)ː Hercules in 21st Century Historical Fiction
18.00-19.00Dinner: Great Woodhouse Room, University House
19.30Oratorio event: Clothworkers Concert Hall
21:30-23:00Bar: Clothworkers Foyer
Sunday 9th July
08.00-09.00Breakfast (for residents): Refectory North
09:00-10:45Session 7: Hercules on and off the big screen (Music LR1)
Michael Williams (University of Southampton)ː ‘The Muscles of Hercules Beneath the Skin of Antinous’: Mapping Herculean Stardom in Film Fan-Magazine Discourse
Elena d’Amelio (University of the Republic of San Marino)ː The myth of Hercules in 1950s and 1960s peplum films
Jon Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)ː The Convergence of Family Values, Computer-Generated Monsters, and Cleavage in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
10.44-11.15Tea/coffee and biscuits: Clothworkers Foyer
11.15-12.45Session 8: Hercules on a variety of screens (Music LR1)
Sam Summers (University of Sunderland) A Real American Hero: The Superhero-ification of Disney’s Hercules
Jean Alvares and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell (Montclair State University)ː Hercules’ self-fashioning on screenː Millennial concerns and political dimensions
(virtual Joel Gordon (University of Otago)ː “I am Hercules!”: Rebooting, rationalization and heroism in 2014)
Alix Beaumont (ʏork)ː Through a Glass Partly: Reflections of Hercules in Cinema, Television and Video Games
12.45-13.00Conference close (Music LR1) Alastair Blanshard / Emma Stafford