The conference Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Identity Formation in the Ancient World will be hosted at the University of Liverpool on the 4th and 5th of April 2024.
Programme:
Thursday 4 April – Wallbank Lecture Theatre (12 Abercrombie Square)
10.00 – 10.30 Registration
10.30 – 12.30 Panel 1: Controlling the Body
Mediating Power through Dress: The God’s Wife of Amun and State Discourse in Saite Egypt
John Rogers, Swansea University
Biometrics, Identity, and Identification in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Ella Karev, Turin Humanities Programme
Ritual Healing as Social Activity in Ancient Egypt: Perception, Practice, and Objectivity?
Clara Martinez-Moreno, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The Materiality of Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: the Body, Blood, and Bronze
Olivia Arkley, University of Liverpool
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Panel 2: Experiencing Space
Jewish Diaspora Synagogues as Public Spaces? Examining Cultural Milieu in the Synagogue of Dura Europos
Luis Maia-de-Freitas, Swansea University
Dionysus and the Delians. The Phallephoria as a Collective Space of Experience
Veronika Kolomaznik, IGS Graz/Erfurt
14.00 – 14.30 Coffee break
14.30 – 16.30 Panel 3: Experiencing the sensory world
A Second Touch: The Phenomenological Body in the Second Sophistic
Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University
Trophonius: Sensory Restriction for Resonant Identities
George Allen, University of Liverpool
The Difference of Experience: Sensory Architecture and Religious Community in Palmyra
Amy Miranda, Independent Researcher
Architectural Control of the Senses: The Case of Temple Smellscapes
Catherine Bishop, University of Liverpool
Friday 5 April – Wallbank Lecture Theatre (12 Abercrombie Square)
10.00 – 11.00 Panel 4: Identity and the Tomb 1
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Herakles and the Cattle of Geryon on the Tatarlı Tomb Eloise Jones, University of Liverpool
It’s a real grave situation: a conceptual framework to examine tomb reuse in the Old through early Middle Kingdoms.
Reuben Hutchinson-Wong, University of Birmingham
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30: Panel 5: Identity and the Tomb 2
Reconstructing Hybridity: ‘Third Space’ Identities explored through the Hawara Mummy Portraits Louise O’Brien, University of Liverpool
Memory and meaning in the sarcophagi of Roman Palmyra
Kate Honeker, University of Nottingham
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 15.30: Panel 6: Construction and Corrosion of Politics
The Phokaians in Iron Age Catalonia: Decolonising Migrant and Indigenous Identities
George Downs, University of Liverpool
Gestural expression of identity(ies) in ancient Egypt and the Aegean
Christos Kekes, University of Crete
History Didactics as an Approach to Identity in Ancient Greece
Thomas Husøy-Ciaccia, Norwegian Church Cardiff Bay
The materiality of the self: mental organs in Archaic Greece and in the Ancient Near East
Elena Limongelli, University of Oxford
15.30 – >16.30 Coffee and closing roundtable
This has been organised as a collaboration between PhD students at Swansea University and the University of Liverpool.
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