The Body of the Combatant in the Classical World - 10/07/2018, Bristol (England)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 10/07/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: The Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol (Bristol, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Hannah-Marie Chidwick; The Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, University of Bristol
INFO: web - hc6198 [at] bristol.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: La asistencia es gratuita reservando plazas mediante un correo a la Dr. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (hc6198 [en] bristol.ac.uk) / Free to attend sending a email to Dr. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (hc6198 [at] bristol.ac.uk) / Gratuito inviando una mail a Dr. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (hc6198 [at] bristol.ac.uk)
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Introduction & Panel 1: 10:00 – 11:30
Wounds, Wounding and the Warfare Environment
Chair: Juliette Harrisson (Newman)
• Fiona McHardy (Roehampton): “Mutilation in Greek warfare”
• Rodrigo Gomez (Coimbra), “Some remarks on the evolution of medical knowledge in the military treatises of Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries)”
• Marian Makins (Temple): “Pain, Pollution and Power: The Somatic Experience of the Dead in Roman Civil War Poetry”
Coffee break: 11:30 – 11:45
Interlude: 11:45 – 12:10
What Makes a Military Body?
• Helen Snell (Independent artist): “Fighting Fit"
Panel 2: 12:10 – 13:00
Men at Arms: Military Masculinities
Chair: Hannah-Marie Chidwick (Bristol)
• Sara Tirrito (Nantes/Turin): “The Handsome Combatant is the Unarmed one: the Body of the Combatant as a Weapon in Dio Chrysostom”
• Ben Angell (Oxford): “Fetishising the Roman Soldier: White Nationalism and the Roman Army Veterans: the perception of the post-combat body”
Lunch break: 13:00 – 14:00 (lunch not provided)
Panel 3: 14:00 – 15:15
Arms and Armour: Body Technologies
Chair: TBC
• Elizabeth Mitchell (Harvard): “The Body in Adamantine Pieces: Cupids Holding Armour on Roman Sarcophagi”
• Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff): “Persian Horseback Warriors: Dress and the Portable Environment”
• Effimia Stavropoulou (Warwick): “Eteocles’ Armour and the Erinys in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes”
Coffee break: 15:15 – 15:30
Panel 4: 15:30 – 16:45
Scars, Strength and Status
Chair: TBC
• Korneel Van Lommel (Antwerp): “Stoicism and War Wounds”
• Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool): “Emboldening the Body: Constructive Wounding in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”
• Jane Draycott (Glasgow): “Reconstructing and Repairing the Body of the Combatant: The Commission, Design and Manufacture of Assistive Technology for Wounded Soldiers and Veterans”
Close: 16:45 – 17:00