The Life of the Death. StAGE conference - 17-18/05/2019, Edinburgh (Scotland)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 17-18/05/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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.
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
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