A. G. Leventis Conference: "Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity" - 06-07/12/20
The conference aims at bringing together scholars working on the living/moving artifact from the fields of ancient technology, philosophy, archaeology and art. Specifically, the conference focuses on the living/moving artifact and the experience that it might offer, as the outcome of a technological procedure that exempts it from its association with illusion and artifice.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 06-07/12/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Exeter (Exeter, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Maria Gerolemou
INFO: web
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Deadline: 25/11/2019
-Un día/one day/un giorno: £25
-Dos días/both days/entrambi i giorni: £50
The registration fee includes the coffee breaks and lunch each day, however, not the conference dinners. Please, let Maria Gerolemou (m.gerolemou@exeter.ac.uk) and Elis Jones (erj205@exeter.ac.uk) know if you would like to attend the dinners.
Through the generosity of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the A. G. Leventis Foundation there are 2 bursaries (of £100 each) available for students and early-career academics who can make a strong case for financial support (for further information, please, visit: http://sites.exeter.ac.uk/techanima…/student-travel-bursary/)
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1st Day: 6th of December – Reed Hall, Exeter University Streatham Campus 9.15-9.30: Registration 9.30.-9.40: Opening Remarks 1st Panel: Simple Moving Devices Chair: Lynette Mitchell 9.40-10.20: Deborah T. Steiner (Columbia), The Sorcerers’ Apprentices: cauldrons, bellows and the furnace in the early Greek imaginary 10.20-11.00: Carol C. Mattusch (George Mason University), Dead or Alive? Giving Life to Bronze 11.00-11.40: Richard Seaford (Exeter), The Living Image: Mesopotamia and Archaic Greece 11.40-12.10: Coffee/Tea Break Chair: Barbara Borg 12.10-12.50: Maya B. Muratov (Adelphi University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), From “dolls” to puppets: mechanisms and purpose of articulated figurines in antiquity 12.50-13.30: Jane Draycott (Glasgow), Living Dolls: Articulation, Animation, and Prostheses 13.30-14.10: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews), Votive toys: animation and value 14.10-15:10: Lunch Break 2nd Panel: Naturally Moving Devices Chair: Rebecca Langlands 15.10-15.50: Maria Gerolemou (Exeter), Ἡφαιστότευκτα 15.50-16.30: Jean De Groot (CUA), Imitation and life: Device in the fifth to fourth century 16.30-17.00: Coffee/Tea Break Chair: Irene Salvo 17.00-17:40: Colin A. Webster (UC Davis), Aristotle and the Artifice of the Living Heart 17.40-18.20: Gabriele Galluzzo (Exeter), Automatic puppets, toy carts and robots. Aristotle’s metaphysics of artefacts and the question of automata 19.00: Dinner 2nd Day: 7th of December – Forum Exploration Lab 2, Forum Building, Exeter University Streatham Campus 3rd Panel: Mechanical Devices Part One: The scientific presentation of mechanical motion Chair: Christopher Gill 10.00-10.40: Arthur Harris (Cambridge), Does Mechanics Violate the Principle of Non-Contradiction? 10.40-11.20: SeungJung Kim (Toronto), Visualising time: The Lysippan Kairos in the scientific landscape of the fourth century BCE 11.20-12.00: Isabel Ruffell (Glasgow), Trains and boats and planes: animating the ship in Greek culture 12.00-12.30: Coffee/Tea Break Chair: David Braund 12.30-13.10: Tatiana Bur (Cambridge), The importance of the construct in viewing religious automata 13.10-13.50: Courtney Ann Roby (Cornell), Strange loops: experiment and program in Hero of Alexandria’s Automata 13.50-14.50: Lunch Break Part 2: The literary representation of mechanical motion Chair: John Wilkins 14.50-15.30: Ruth Bielfeldt (Munich), Carpe! The Unmaking and making of food-images in the Cena Trimalchionis 15.30-16.10: Antje B. Wessels (Leiden), (Living) Objects and their Aesthetic Experience in Petronius Satyricon 16.10-16.40: Coffee/Tea Break Chair: Richard Flower 16.40-17.20: Karen ní Mheallaigh (Exeter), Mesomedes’ clock: technical animation and the choreography of the quotidian 17.20-18.00: Dunstan Lowe (Kent), Half Past Wonder: Automaton Clocks in Late Antique Folklore 18.00-18.20: Break Chair: Maria Gerolemou 18.20-19.00, Sonya Nevin (Roehampton), Animating Artefacts: The Panoply Vase Animation Project 19.00-19.10, Closing Remarks 20.00, Drinks and Dinner