The Frightful and the Familiar: Exploring the Uncanny in the Ancient World - 02/08/2018, Liverpool (
Since its establishment as a fixed idea by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, the concept of the Uncanny has been examined and developed by a range of thinkers and theorists from different fields, including Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. This workshop aims to explore ancient conceptions and manifestations of the Uncanny and discuss the suitability of modern theories for use in this area of study. We therefore welcome papers from PhD students from fields connected with any aspect of the ancient world which address ancient notions of the Uncanny.
FECHA /DATE/DATA: 02/08/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Liverpool (Liverpool, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Elaine Sanderson (University of Liverpool)
INFO: e.c.sanderson@liverpool.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Deadline: 25/07/2018
Se ruega enviar un email a /please contact /sono pregati di inviare una e-mail a e.c.sanderson@liverpool.ac.uk
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
0945-1000: Registration & Welcome
1000-1100: Signifiers and the Uncanny
Thinking with Monsters
Dr Henry Heitmann-Gordon (LMU Munich)
The Ambiguity of Eleusis in Eleusis: ‘Uncanny Gameplay’ in an ‘Ancient Videogame’
Ross Clare (Liverpool)
1100-1115: Break (Coffee & Refreshments)
1115-1245: Uncanny Figures
Waking Nightmares: Circe and the Uncanny
Katharine Mawford (Manchester)
Lycanthropy in the Ancient World
Jordan Poole (Liverpool)
Medusa’s Gaze and the Uncanny
Ivan Nenchev (Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik der Charité) & Benjamin Wilck (Humbolt)
1245-1345: Lunch
1345-1445: Rites, Rituals, and the Uncanny
Talking Heads: From Familiar Haruspicium to Unfamiliar Necromantia in Seneca’s Thyestes
Maria Haley (Leeds)
Uncanny Rites: The Syncretism of Magical Practice and Mystery Cults in the Roman Novels
Hannah Burke-Tomlinson (KCL)
1445-1500: Break (Coffee & Refreshments)
1500-1630: The Uncanny in Epic
Nefas-tic Scenes from a Memory: Remembering Civil War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool)
Passing to the Unknown: A Lacanian Approach to the Uncanny in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Dr Eleni Ntanou (Manchester)
Enthusiastic Prophecy and Uncanny Prophets in Ancient Epics and Their Reception
Dr Anactoria Clarke (KCL)