Creating and Strengthening Identities: Greek and Roman Stereotypes of the East - 08-09/02/2019, Athe

The intention of the workshop is to bring together a set of papers and contributors with the hope of reassessing some of the Greco-Roman literary and mental stereotypes that tended to be primed by associations with the 'East' and 'Easterners.' We are extremely pleased to have as our two keynote speakers professor Emma Dench from Harvard and professor Tom Harrison from St Andrews.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 08-09/02/2019

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Finnish Institute at Athens (Athens, Greece)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Antti Lampinen

INFO:

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis / Free / Gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

Friday 8 February

19.00 Opening of the Colloquium (Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9)

Björn Forsén (FIA) Opening remarks

19.30 First keynote

Emma Dench (Harvard) Inventing Barbarians?

20.30 Reception with refreshments (Finnish Institute at Athens, Zitrou 16)

Saturday 9 February

10.00 Second keynote (FIA, Zitrou 16) Chair: Antti Lampinen

Tom Harrison (St Andrews) Rethinking the Other in Greek religion

11.00 Coffee & tea

11.30 Session I Chair: Kostas Buraselis

Kostas Vlassopoulos (Crete) The Barbarian Repertoire in Greek Culture around 500 BCE

Jasmin Lukkari (Helsinki) International Friendship and Cultural Identity in Polybius and Livy

12.30 Lunch break

14.00 Session II Chair: Emma Dench

Joe Skinner (Newcastle) Greeks in the Making? Mercenary Service as a Source of Ethnographic Knowledge

Antti Lampinen (FIA) Orientalizing the Galatae: Methods, Motives, Motifs

15.00 Coffee & tea

15.30 Session III Chair: Tom Harrison

Anca Dan (ENS, Paris) King of Kings: the Occidental History of an Oriental Symbol

Elina Pyy (Helsinki) Gratuitous Sex and Senseless Violence: Hellenistic Queens as the Absolute Other

16.30 Closing discussion

19.00 Dinner for the speakers