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The Life of the Death. StAGE conference - 17-18/05/2019, Edinburgh (Scotland)


FECHA/DATE/DATA: 17-18/05/2019

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Sarah Blair (University of Aberdeen) ; Gladys Mazloum (University of Edinburgh) ; Gardner Moore (University of Glasgow) ; Eugenio Rallo (University of St Andrews). 2019 StAGE conference.

INFO: edinburghstage2019@gmail.com

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Deadline: 10/05/2019

Se ruega enviar un email a /please contact /sono pregati di inviare una e-mail a Edinburghstage2019@gmail.com

There will be a conference dinner on the 17th of May at 20:30, for which there is limited availability, so please indicate interest if you would like to attend. There will also be an informal gathering following the conclusion of the conference.

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StAGE 2019 Conference Schedule


Friday, 17th May

14:30: Conference opens

15:30: First panel: Introduced by Gladys Mazloum, University of Edinburgh

Owen Rees – Manchester Metropolitan University

Picking over the bones: The practicalities of processing the bodies of the Athenian war dead

Eleni Krikona – University of Hamburg/Athens

Death and Isonomia: The burial practices under the new regime in the late sixth century B.C.E. Athens

Dr. Jessica Clementi – Sapienza University of Rome

A Face for the Eternity: funerary mask and the dream of immortality


Saturday, 18th May

10:00: Conference opens

10:30: Second panel: Introduced by Sarah Blair, University of Aberdeen

Emrys Schlatter – Freie Universität Berlin

Some Dead are Livelier Than Others: The Use and Advantage of Eschatological Inconsistency in Attic Tragedy

Malina Buturovic – Princeton University

The Afterlives of Ghosts: Eidola and the self of the Middle Platonists

Dr. Francesco Mari – Freie Universität Berlin

Stones between two worlds: dead and living clasping hands on attic gravestones of the 4th and 5th c. B.C.

12:00: Lunch in the conference venue

14:00: Third panel: Introduced by Gardner Moore, University of Glasgow

Dr. Anna Gorokhova – Moscow State Pedagogic University

Perception of death in Greek society in the archaic period

Simona Martorana – Durham University

Umbrae nocentes, caedite: Seneca’s great sinners – or the Underworld on the stage.

Elaine Sanderson –University of Liverpool

Cadaver Victurum: necromancy, poet and afterlife

c.15:30: Break

16:30: Keynote address: Introduced by Eugenio Rallo, University of St. Andrews

Professor Karen Bassi – University of California at Santa Cruz

Death and Mimesis in Plato

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