Classics/Art History Conference

Date
Fri April 24th 2015, 12:00am
Event Sponsor
Archaeology Center, Department of Classics
Location
Bldg. 110, Rm. 112

Friday, April 24 
Morning sessions
Building 110 - Main Quad (01-110) 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 110
Afternoon sessions
Margaret Jacks Hall (01-460) 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 460
9:00 – 9:15am
Welcome
9:15 – 10:00am
Milette Gaifman, “Phialai as Embodied Objects”
10:00 – 10:45am,
François Lissarague, “Body and Armour: Making it Alive”
(coffee break)
 11:00 – 11:45am
Guy Hedreen, “Artistic Self-Definition in Archaic Greece: The François Vase as the Shield of Achilles”
11:45 – 12:30pm
Nathan Arrington, “Orientalizing Vases and Poor Bodies”
         (lunch break)
  2:30 – 3:15pm
Benjamin Anderson, “How to Do Things with Boars”
3:15 – 4:00pm
Ruth Bielfeldt, “The Island’s Sun – Embodied. Thoughts on the Colossus of Rhodes”
(coffee break)
 4:15 – 5:00pm
Jennifer Trimble, “The Sleeping Hermaphrodite and its Roman Viewers”
5:00 – 6:00pm    Wine reception
Dinner
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Saturday, April 25
All sessions
Mcclatchy Hall (01-120) 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 120
9:00 – 9:45am
Michael Squire, “Embodying the Dead on the Attic 'Kallithea Monument'”
9:45 – 10:30am
Jas' Elsner, “The Embodied Object: Sarcophagi and Portraiture”
           (coffee break)
Verity Platt, “Orphaned Objects: Pliny’s Natural History and the Phenomenology of the Incomplete”
11:30 – 12:15am
 Patrick Crowley, “The Incredulity of Thomas and the Matter of Impassibility”
        (lunch break)
2:30 – 3:15pm
Richard Neer, “Small Wonders: Oil, Amber, Fire and the Like”  
3:15 – 4:00pm
Francesco de Angelis, “Balancing Artifacts: Furniture and Ponderation in the Etruscan World”
        (coffee break)
4:15 – 5:00pm
General discussion
Wine reception (location TBA)
5:00 – 6:00pm
Dinner
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