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Sponsors: Universität Rostock, Germany, UGA Department of Geology, UGA Department of Anthropology, UGA Department of Classics
Inaugural Lecture Celebrating 50 Years of Education Abroad
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ETA SIGMA PHI’S FOURTH ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE CLASSICS CONFERENCE: ECHOES OF THE PAST
WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. SANDRA BLAKELY, EMORY UNIVERSITY.
CALL FOR PAPERS.
The fourth annual undergraduate classics conference will take place on Saturday, March 23, 2019 in Athens, GA. We encourage you to submit an abstract. This conference will accept research from all disciplines regarding the classical world. All presentations will take place on Saturday, with the keynote Dr. Sandra Blakely. A detailed schedule will be published after speakers have been chosen.
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
Abstracts should be no more than 300 wordsdescribing your original research and will be anonymously read by a panel at the University of Georgia. Please include a title. Submissions will be via Google Form. (can we make the words Google Form a clickable link to the form? I have the link below) Abstracts are due by Wednesday, January 9, 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 9, 2019.
Any additional questions please contact Nikki Vellidis at nvellidi@uga.edu
Link to Google Form
EVENT CANCELLED
Molding Metaphors and Materialities in Plato's Republic Professor Worman 's research focuses on style and the body in performance in classical Greek drama and oratory, as well as ancient literary criticism and theory. She has published books and articles on these topics, including most recently Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (Cambridge 2015), which treats the "landscaping" of ancient literary aesthetics. Two current projects are on embodiment in Greek tragedy and Virginia Woolf's gendering of Greek tragic style.
"The APPEAR Collaboration: A Comparative Study of Ancient Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portraits"
Lamar Dodd School of Art Shouky Shaheen Lecture
Certainly the most vivid painted portraits to survive from antiquity are the more than 1000 painted portraits of men, women, and children that survive from mummy cases from Roman Egypt, commonly known as “Fayum portraits”. Dating from the first to third century AD and painted in nuanced combinations of wax encaustic and tempera, these portraits reflect the hybrid Egyptian, Greek and Roman culture of Roman Egypt. How and why were these images made? What can new imaging and scientific analysis reveal about the artistic choices and practices of their creation? Marie Svoboda, director of the international Getty-led APPEAR (Ancient Panel Painting: Examination, Analysis, and Research) Project, presents most recent discoveries on these exquisite works of ancient portraiture.
Willson Center for Humanities and Arts 30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer
In 1972 an amateur snorkeler on holiday at the isolated beach of Riace in Calabria (southern Italy) by chance discovered two exceptionally well-preserved monumental ancient bronze statues partially buried on the seabed. Dating from c. 460 BC and representing Greek warriors, the so-called Riace Bronzes remain the highest quality Greek bronze statuary to survive from the classical world. They arrestingly exemplify how fifth century Greek sculptors developed a new style of representation in bronze to create lifelike, spatially dynamic figures with acute psychological characterization. Yet, despite exhaustive study over the last forty-five years, there remains no consensus about whom or what exactly the Riace Bronzes represent. Nor is it clear where or how they were displayed in antiquity. Are there overlooked clues that might allow the riddle of these famous bronzes to be solved?
Join Vinzenz Brinkmann, one of the foremost international experts of classical Greek sculpture and Head of Antiquities at the Frankfurt Liebieghaus, for an innovative, if not revolutionary, reinterpretation of these iconic sculptural masterpieces from the fifth century B.C. Reception to follow.
This lecture is made possible by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the 30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series.
UGA Classics explores Greek and Roman culture (material; intellectual; religious) from Troy to Augustine; Classical languages and literatures (Greek, Latin, and in English translation); and the reception of Classical Antiquity with A.B. and M.A. Classics degrees with multiple areas of emphasis. Double Dawgs degrees focus on careers in Historic Preservation and World Language Education. Minor degrees in Classical Culture and Classics and Comparative Cultures complement degree programs across campus. New to Classics? Take a course with us on campus or in Europe and acquire future-ready skills.
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