The aim of this webinar is to present current research and perspectives covering Ancient Religion and Popular Culture. Within this vast thematic area, the webinar seeks to establish a dialogue between the different civilisations of Antiquity, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, focusing our interest on the representation and re-imagining of their divinities in popular culture (movies, TV series, comics, internet, video games, horror and fantasy literature…).
Program:
First session (10.00 – 11.30am)
Laureline Cattelain (Musée du Malgré-Tout):
Pazuzu: from protector to the personification of evil,
how Pop culture can change it all!
Jennifer Cromwell (Manchester, Metropolitan University):
Playing with Gods: Egyptian Deities in Board Games.
Julia Troche (Missouri State University):
Nuancing Imhotep and the Mummy Motif in U.S. Popular
Culture.
Questions and Debate (11.30 – 12.00am)
Second Session (12.00 – 1.30pm)
João Paulo Simões Valério (University of Lisbon):
“He took a face from the ancient gallery”. Jim Morrison
and Dionysus: from the beginning of the band to
Oliver Stone’s biopic.
Maciej Paprocki, Alexander Vandewalle, Joel Gordon,
Kate Minniti, Briana Jackson, David S. Anderson
(multiple universities):
Divinity and Imagined Antiquity in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe.
Xiangruo Dai (Leeds University):
Teyvat, Land of Divinity: How East Asian and Western
European’s Ancient Mythology and Tradition Manifest
in Genshin’s Places, Stories, and Characters.
Questions and Debate (1.30 – 2pm)
To register, you can send an email to [email protected]
A link will be provided a few days before the webinar.