Workshop
Saturday 21st November 2015, 9.30am-6pm at Roehampton University
Organisers: Alessandra Abbattista (Roehampton) alessandra.abbattista@hotmail.it and Eleanor Betts (OU): eleanor.betts@open.ac.uk
This one-day workshop brings together postgraduate students and early career researchers interested in taking a multidisciplinary approach to sensory studies of Greek and Roman societies. We welcome a participative audience and with the support of the Classical Association are pleased to be able to offer a small number of student bursaries to eligible presenters and participants. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, please send a request to the organisers, indicating your status and the cost of your travel and/or accommodation expenses, when you register for the workshop.
The objective of the workshop is to explore the value of applying sensory approaches to the material and literary evidence of the ancient world, and to illustrate how they complement and/or contradict each other. In particular, the workshop will demonstrate a range of methodologies and approaches which may be applied to different literary and archaeological contexts, with a focus on how empirical sensory data may combine, or at times conflict, with that of ancient sources.
Programme
9.30-10 Registration and coffee
10-10.10 Introduction: Alessandra Abbattista & Eleanor Betts
Panel 1: Embodied Performance
Chair: Eleanor Betts
10.10-10.50
Alessandra Abbattista & Giacomo Savani
The Multisensory Metamorphosis of a Thracian King
Metamorphosis – ancient Greek tragedy – funeral mourning – myth of Procne
Fabio Lo Piparo
Blowing Through the Gorgon Mask: a Reading of the Cassandra Episode in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon.
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon – Cassandra – aulos – Gorgon mask – Tony Harrison’s Oresteia
10.50-11.30
Helen Slaney
Kinaesthesia as Methodology
dance – sculpture – movement – aesthetics – reception – cognition – enactment – embodiment – haptic – tactility – interactive
Anna Trostnikova
Multisensory Experience of Audiences at Roman Religious Festivals. Spectators or Participants?
theatre – collective experience – ritual vs performance – lex iulia theatralis – crowd behaviour – production of space
11.30-11.40 Coffee
Panel 2: Smell, Taste and Touch
Chair: Giacomo Savani
11.40-12.20
Catherine Hoggarth
Crossing the Multisensory Bridge
bridges – urban – rural – multisensory – multidisciplinary – risk – comparative approaches – value – reconstruction – methodologies.
Stuart McKie
Practical Magic: How, Where and When to Curse a Thief in Roman Britain
magic – Roman Britain – curse tablets – ritual – experimental archaeology – movement – gesture
12.20-1.00
Marta Garcia-Morcillo
Feeling the Market in Ancient Rome
smell – hearing – product recognition – competition – social status – performance – interaction – atmosphere – daily life
Patty Baker
Tasting Roman Food: Experimental Archaeology
taste – senses – reenactment – experimental archaeology – recipes – environmental remains
1.00-1.40 Lunch
Panel 3: Sights and Sounds
Chair: Alessandra Abbattista
1.40-2.20
Orestis Mitintzis
Visual Aspects in the Experience of Pilgrimage in the Ancient Greek World
pilgrimage – pilgrim – sight – nature – sanctuary – buildings – votives – cult statue – Classical and Hellenistic world
Matteo Olivieri
The Song of the Maidens of Delos: Homage to the Identities of the Pilgrims of Apollo?
Delos – sanctuary – religious festival – cult – regional sanctuary – Apollo, Artemis and Leto – Delian Maidens – Homeric hymn to Apollo – choral lyric – mimetic performance – dance – ethnic identity – polis identity – Ionian – Cyclades islands – Aegean sea – Greek language & dialects
2.20-3.00
Francesca Berlinzani
An Acoustic Problem of the Ps. Aristot. ΠΕΡΙ ΦΩΝΗΣ. Between Auditive and Visuospatial Perception
ancient acoustics – Aristotle – formants – echo – resonance – sound perception
Jeff Veitch
Hearing Architecture: Sound Samples in Architectural Context
aural architecture – acoustics – sound perception – Roman buildings – sound samples
3.00-3.30
Jasmine Parker & Eleanor Betts
A Phenomenology of Visual Perception
3.30-3.40 Coffee
Panel 4: Theorising the Senses
Chair: Jeff Veitch
3.40-4.20
John Harrison
The Stourhead Temple of the Nymph: a Multisensory Experience
grotto – Stourhead – nymphaeum – multisensory – synaesthesia – kinaesthesia – vision – audition – olfaction – thermoception
Hannah Platts
Sensing and Feeling at Home: Multisensory Approaches to the Roman Domestic Realm
multisensory – insula – domestic – home – status – identity (belonging) – Roman
4.20-5.00
Kelli Rudolph
Method and Theory in Ancient Sensory Studies
ancient methodologies: analogy – polarity – inference – theoretical positions: status of qualities – the relations between contraries – notions of elements; understanding of ancient approaches to study of the senses
Emma-Jayne Graham
Objective Senses and Sensory Objectives in the Graeco-Roman World
objective/subjective senses – texts/materials – metaphor/experience – perception/description
5.00-5.20 Closing discussion
5.20-6.00 Drinks reception
For further information please do not hesitate to contact us: Alessandra Abbattista (alessandra.abbattista@hotmail.it) or Eleanor Betts (eleanor.betts@open.ac.uk).
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The workshop which you are offering seems to be very interesting to me. I am sure that I will learn a lot of stuff with your presentations and pick up more facts about the Classical world. Unfortunately, I cannot attend your workshop, because I live in Canada. I cannot be flying to the U.K all the time, when a workshop takes place. It is very expensive to travel all the time.
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