UWICAH 2020: Themes of Isolation in, and in the study of the Ancient World - 20-21/11/2020, (Online)
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FECHA / DATE/DATA: 20-21/11/2020
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Microsoft Teams (Online)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: H. Bohun; T. Humphrey.
INFO: Twitter - uwicahconference2020@gmail.com
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PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Friday 20th November
10:00 – Introduction & Welcome talk with Dr. Louise Steel
Room 1: Identity, Myth & Epic:
10:35 - Isolation and Social Interaction; Constructing localised identity in fourth century Arcadia - Thomas Alexander Husøy, Swansea University
11:10 - Isolation through autochthony: the case of the Athenian heroes of the Acropolis - Ioannis Mitsios, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
11:45 - The Solitude of Anna Soror: Intertextuality and National Identity in Silius Italicus Punica 8.1 231 - Avi Kapach, Brown University
12:15 – Lunch
12:50 – Cicero, De Finibus bonorum et malorum, II, 29: the screams of loneliness - Federica Boero, University of Genoa
13:25 – Different loneliness, one single suffering: Penelope and other isolations in the Odyssey - Marika Strano, Independent Scholar
14:00 - Unseen and Unseeing: Oedipus and Isolation in Statius’ Thebaid - Kate Barnes, Bryn Mawr College
Room 2: Text and Historiography:
10:35 – Being a Byzantinist: An Academic Discipline on the Periphery - Sean Strong, Cardiff University
11:10 – Imperial isolation in the fifth-century western Roman empire – a reappraisal? - Tom Campbell-Moffat, University College London
11:45 – Isolating a Textual Problem in a Fragment: the case of Enn. Ann. 470-471 Skutsch in Don. Ter. Phorm. 1028 - Camilla Poloni, Universoty of Pisa
12:15 – Lunch
12:50 – Dialectal Features in Greek Texts from the Delta: What (Isolated) Onomastic Variants Tell Us about the Provenance of Documents - Ana Isabel Blasco Torres, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
13:25 – Minor terminology of the Augustalitas: its geographic location and stagnation - Alberto Barrón Ruiz de la Cuesta, University of Cantabria
14:00 – The verb ὑφίστημι and its 'isolated' connotation in Iliad, 9.160 - Giulia Roncato, Trinity College Dublin
14:10 – Closing talk/ End
Saturday 21st November
10:00 – Introduction & welcome talk, with Dr. Katharina Zinn
Room 1: Egyptology
10:35 – Complexity and obscurity: the changing relationship between ‘god’ and‘demon’, Seth and Maga, at Ptolemaic Edfu - John Rogers, Swansea University
11:10 – Imported Animals by War in the New Kingdom Period - Gehad Mohamed, Minia University
11:45 – Alone in life, alone in death? - Anne Drewsen, University of Copenhagen
12:15 – Lunch
12:50: The Deceased’s Journey in the Afterlife as Depicted on the 21st Dynasty Coffin Set of Hori - Hala Mostafa, Ain Shams University
13:25: Classical temples in Egypt during Ptolemaic and Roman Times - Kholoud Aref, Ain Shams University
14:00 – The Island Births of Ptolemy II and Apollo: Interrelating Themes in Egyptian Kingship and Greek Myth - Henry Bohun, University of Wales Trinity St David
14:35 - TBC
Room 2: Social Experience & Expression
10:35 - Helping the Childless in Ancient Rome - Rhian Williams, Cardiff University
11:10 - Isolated victims: theft, assault and seeking justice in the Roman Empire - Ashley Finn, Melbourne University
11:45 - Plato’s Stepchildren: Disability in Ancient Egypt & the Hellenistic/Ptolemaic Period - Alexandra F. Morris, Teesside University
12:15 – Lunch
12:50 - Live Unnoticed, but not Alone: The Epicureans on Social Isolation - Wim Nijs, KU Leuven
13:25 – Marble city: public reflection in the Augustan Rome - Goran Đurđević, Capital Normal University Beijing China
14:00 – Foreign Influence and the creation of ‘isolation’: Wetland Deposition in Britain, with a select focus on Wales and Scotland - Tiffany Treadway, Cardiff University
14:35 - Curse Tablets and Isolation in the Ancient World - Charlotte Spence, Exeter University
15:10 – Closing talk