Crossovers, Covid-19 and Corporeality: Life, Death and Rebirth in the...06/12-09/12/2020, (Online)
We would, therefore, like to reach out and invite you to an International Zoom Conference in which we will collaboratively explore new approaches to lecturing, teaching and academic writing, in particular those that cross boundaries. In this conference, we take as our focus the concepts of life, death and rebirth, both in classical sources and their receptions, but aim to examine these age-old ideas in light of the need for, and move towards, new and fresh approaches.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 06/12-09/12/202020
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Zoom (Online)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Lisa Maurice ; Lily Glasner ; Ariadne Konstaninou ; Ayelet Peer
INFO: ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
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Please note that all times are Israeli local time, which is GMT+2.
Sunday, December 6, 2020
10:30 – 11:00 Virtual gathering & greetings
Eliezer Schlossberg, Dean of
Humanities, Bar-Ilan University
Lily Glasner, Bar-Ilan University
11:00 – 12:00 The Classics is Crossing over, Chair:
Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University
Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)
Greek tragedy goes online: Classics as consolation in Modern Greece?
Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins University)
The unwilling hero after the catastrophe: Aeneas in the time of the
Holocaust and the Covid-19 pandemic
12:00 – 13:30 Heroes and Heroines , Chair: Ariadne
Konstantinou, Bar-Ilan University
Eleni Ntanou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Ovid’s Adonis as a hero of the modern world
Anca MeiroÅŸu (Independent Researcher)
Rebirth and eternity
Ioannis Mitsios (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dying for ‘doing’: Mythical Athenian heroines in service of the city
13:30 – 14:30 Virtual lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Musical segment Introduced by
Ariadne Konstantinou
Ensemble Mezzo (directed by Doret Florentin)
Baroque music on mythical life and death
15:00 – 16:00 Life and Death in the Ancient World,
Chair: Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University
Federica Boero (University of Genoa)
Seneca and his ghosts: The dead condemn the living
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
How to watch a plague: Philosophical and satiric perspectives in
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
16:15 – 17:30 Creative Writing Workshop
Amanda Potter (Open University, UK)
Crossing creative boundaries: Rewriting the Odyssey as female-centric
YA fiction in lockdown
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
11:00 – 12:30 Innovation and Pedagogy, Chair: Michal
Ben Horin, Bar-Ilan University
Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Oxford University)
Crossing the boundary from research to curriculum policy: Classics
education and Covid-19
Gabriela Debita (University of Galaţi, Romania)
Through a labyrinth, brightly: Playing Le Guin’s Tenar in virtual
learning environments
Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Surfing the waves first: Virtual reality and algorithms in ancient Greek epic
12:30 – 13:30 Virtual lunch break
13:30 – 15:30 Escape Room Workshop: Escaping from Covid-19
Lily Glasner (Bar Ilan University/Kibbutzim College of Education)
Creating a classical escape room