PERSIKA - A day of "Persian Things" - 27/11/2019, Cardiff (Wales)
The British Institute of Persian Studies is pleased to announce a Day of 'Persian Things' - PERSIKA- at Cardiff University.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 27/11/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; Dr Eve MacDonald
INFO: Llewellyn-JonesL@cardiff.ac.uk MacDonaldG@Cardiff.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis/free/gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA: Disponible también en PDF/Also available in PDF/Anche disponibile in PDF
Wednesday 27th November 2019
Session 1 9.30-12.00: The Tower Building (70 Park Place) room 0.03
Session 2 1.00-6.00: The Tower Building (70 Park Place) room 0.01
9.30am Assemble for COFFEE
10.00am
Jan Stronk (Amsterdam) - ‘The Greeks and Persia’.
10.40am
Eran Almagor (Jerusalem) - ‘Notes on the Chronology of the Reign of Artaxerxes II’.
11.20am
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff) - ‘Dating the Book of Esther: Between the Achaemenids and the Hasmoneans’.
12.00 LUNCH
1.00pm
Stephen Harrison (Swansea) - ‘Borders and the Limits of Universality in the Achaemenid and Seleucid Empires'.
1.40pm
Melissa Benson (UCL) - ‘Violence in the Behistun Monument’.
2.20pm
Mai Musee (Oxford) - ‘Myth and Reality: Persia in the Ancient Novel’.
3pm COFFEE
3.20pm
Kirstin Droß-Krüpe (Kassel) - ‘Semiramis, Queen of Babylon, in Baroque Opera’.
4.00pm
Julia Hartley (Warwick) - ‘Resuscitating the Achaemenids: Jane Dieulafoy’s Parysatis on the Page and on the Stage'.
4.45pm
Keynote Speaker:
Irene Madreiter (Innsbruck) – ‘Abduction into the seraglio: gendered notions of the ‘harem’ from Ctesias of Cnidus to Cristina de Belgiojoso and Lady Montagu’.
6.00pm Drinks & Dinner