‘The Experience of Ancient Festivals’
Three bursaries (covering all conference fees, meals and two nights’ accommodation at the conference centre) are available for postgraduate students who want to take part in ‘The Experience of Ancient Festivals’ conference, University of Warwick, July 6-8.
To apply, please email xavier.buxton@warwick.ac.uk describing your research interests and the anticipated benefits of your participation in the conference. Please also ask your supervisor to write directly to the organisers at the same e-mail address in support of your application.
Travel costs are not included in the bursary, and applicants are encouraged to consider institutional funding. UK applicants may apply to the Thomas Widemann Memorial Fund (http://www.thomaswiedemann.org.uk/).
Below is the latest version of the conference programme. To register your interest of taking part, please use this online form: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/festivals/expressionofinterest/
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
2:00 – 2:15 Welcome, E. Csapo (Warwick)
SESSION 1: FESTIVAL RE-ENACTMENTS, Chair: E. Bakola (Marburg/Warwick)
2:15 – 3:00 Martin Revermann (Toronto), ‘Comic Festivals and the Art of Re-Imagination’
3:00 – 3:45 Xavier Buxton (Oxford/Warwick), ‘Pathos and Drama: Reconstructing the Emotional Experience of Eleusis’
3:45 – 4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:00 Soi Agelidis (Bochum), ‘To What End? Festivals, Rituals and Death in Eleusis’
KEYNOTE and RECEPTION
6:30-7:45 Esther Eidinow (Bristol), ‘Sensuous Geographies and Divine Encounters’
7:45-10:00 Reception
THURSDAY, JULY 7
SESSION 2: ORDERING SPACE, TIME and EXPERIENCE, Chair: E. Eidinow (Bristol)
9:15 – 10:00 Erin Warford (Hilbert), ‘Festivals and Place-Making in the Athenian Sacred Landscape’
10:00 – 10:45 Naomi Carless Unwin (Warwick), ‘Experiencing Pompai: The Orchestration and Performance of Processions in the Greek East’
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Zahra Newby (Warwick), ‘Experiencing Festivals Through Material Culture: the Patras Mosaic in Context’
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
SESSION 3: THE SENSES and THE EMOTIONS, Chair: R. Seaford (Exeter)
1:30 – 2:15 Mali Skotheim (Ashoka), ‘Festivals and Fragrance: The Theater Festival as Smellscape’
2:15 – 3:00 Francesca Modini (Warwick), ‘Romancing Festivals: Festival Sounds and Other Senses in the Novels’
3:00 – 3:45 Daniel Hanigan (Cambridge), ‘Almost There: Enargeia and Experience at Aethiopica 3.1.1-3.5.2’
3.45- 4:15 Coffee Break
SESSION 4: CREATING COMMUNITY, Chair: O. Taplin (Oxford)
4:15 – 5:00 Michael Scott (Warwick), ‘Group-Think: The Experience of Being in a Group at Ancient Greek Religious Festivals’
7:00 – 10:00 Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, JULY 8
9:00 – 9:45 Athina Kavoulaki (Crete), ‘Ritual Synergy and Intimacy in Choral Festivities: Pindar fr. 75, Aristophanes’ Frogs and Euripides’ Cyclops’
SESSION 5: MANUFACTURING DIVINITY, Chair: D. Fearn (Warwick)
9:45 – 10:30 Hugo Shakeshaft (Oxford), ‘In Touch with the Divine’: Festive Beauties in Archaic and Classical Greece’
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Richard Seaford (Exeter), ‘Image Perceived as Deity in the Polis Festival’
11:45 – 12:30 Ian Rutherford (Reading), ‘Seeing Osiris: Egyptian Festivals in the Greco-Roman Period’
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
NOTE: All papers in regular sessions, coffee-breaks and lunches will be in the Scarman Centre. The Keynote Address and reception will be in and just outside the Faculty of Arts Building Lecture Theatre