Friday, November 26, 2021 - 10:00 to 18:00
MS Teams (Online)
Conference Programme
Department of Ancient Classics, Maynooth University, 26 November 2021 (MS Teams)
| Time | Event | Speaker | University |
| 10.00-10.15 | Welcome & Introduction | Cosetta Cadau | |
| 10.15-11.00 | Keynote lecture: Representation and aesthetic evaluation of the barbarian body in Late ancient literature | Valerio Neri | Università di Bologna |
| 11.00-11.30 | Kind eyes and pretty feet: evolving evaluation criteria in Late Antique epic beauty contests | Cosetta Cadau | Maynooth University |
| 11.30-11.50 | Break | ||
| 11.50-12.20 | Look at this (fe)male: descriptive strategies for naked bodies in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis | Laura Miguélez Cavero | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| 12.20-12.50 | Paulus Silentiarius Between Painting and Poetry | Stamatia Dova | Hellenic College, Brookline (MA) |
| 12.50-2.00 | Lunch | ||
| 2.00-2.30 | Pagan Bodies of the Figurative Kind Finding Their Place in a Christian World | Paula James | The Open University |
| 2.30-3.00 | Whose Pleasure Should It Be? Some Observations on M. Valerius’ privata voluptas | Giovanni Trovato | Università di Genova |
| 3.00-3.30 | Beauty and Art in Plotinus | Andrew Smith | University College Dublin |
| 3.30-3.40 | Break | ||
| 3.40-4.10 | In the image of God and as a metaphor of the church: the human body in conciliar documents of the Christological controversy | Luise Marion Frenkel | University of São Paulo |
| 4.10-4.40 | The seeming beauty of Justinian and Theodora | Gioia Soldi | Università di Bologna |
| 4.40-5.10 | Concluding Remarks | Round Table |
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For the Conference Programme and Abstracts of all papers, please visit the Department of Ancient Classics at Maynooth University here.