Frames and Framing in Antiquity II: Sources in Contexts - Materiality, Affordances, Entanglements, and Communicative Dynamics

Von
Sven Günther, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University

Frames and Framing in Antiquity II builds on the results and discussions of the first conference (IHAC & IfDH, 16–18 October 2020) and aims at linking different ancient source materials, contexts, and actors in order to explore entanglements, communicative dynamics, and affordances of frames and framing.

Frames and Framing in Antiquity II: Sources in Contexts - Materiality, Affordances, Entanglements, and Communicative Dynamics

The online conference Frames and Framing in Antiquity II builds on the results and discussions of the first conference (IHAC & IfDH, 16–18 October 2020) and aims at linking different ancient source materials, contexts, and actors in order to explore entanglements, communicative dynamics, and affordances of frames and framing. While ancient source categories (literary texts, inscriptions, coins, papyri/ostraca, archaeological remains) are often treated separately we seek to analyze interrelations, interdependencies, and entanglements of these sources within their respective contexts.

Based on frame and framing models from the field of sociology, psychology, and communication studies – and particularly inspired by the works of Erving Goffman, Charles Fillmore, and Marvin Minsky – we understand frames as descriptive tools to analyze how people understand, react to, and are influenced by situations and activities (frame analysis); while the phenomenon of framing assesses how individuals or institutions might use, modify, or challenge existing frameworks by creating new frames.

As methodological tool and heuristic approach, frames and framing offer the possibility to make ancient communication, discourse, and negotiation processes as well as practices visible. Hence, we see ancient sources not only as passive media but as active partners in various frame and framing processes. Ancient sources are frames with framing potential per se that link to actors producing or perceiving them, who themselves live, (re-)act, and rule their world within and through frames and framing.

Within the five panels, we will discuss the concept by looking at case-studies from ancient literature, epigraphy, numismatics, and archaeology. The keynote will be delivered by Prof Dr Alexander ZIEM (University of Düsseldorf). There is no registration fee. Registrations are welcome and shall be sent to Prof Dr Sven Günther (sveneca@aol.com / svenguenther@nenu.edu.cn). Upon registration you will receive abstracts and/or the full papers.

Programm

All times are CEST (Central European Summer Time). Papers last 15 minutes followed by equal time for discussion. After each session 30 minutes are reserved for overall discussion of papers and the panel-topic.

Friday, 15 October 2021

14.30–15.00: Elisabeth Günther and Sven Günther (University of Göttingen and IHAC): Theoretical Remarks

PANEL I: Framing (in) Ancient Literature

15.00–15.30: MA Jiancheng (IHAC): Framing accusations against Livia (Tacitus, Annals 1.3–6)

15.30–15.45: Break

15.45–16.15: Aaltje HIDDING (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich): The legend of Diocletian. „Naming and framing“ Diocletian in the hagiography of late antique Egypt

16.15–16.45: Dominik DELP (University of Tübingen): Framing threat. Procopius’ Anekdota in context of catastrophe

16.45–17.15: Panel Discussion

17.15–17.30: Break

17.30–18.30: Key-Note Lecture: Alexander ZIEM (University of Düsseldorf): Why frames matter: a cognitive approach to analyzing and understanding linguistic (and other) artifacts

Saturday, 16 October 2021

PANEL II: Framing (in) Ancient Epigraphy

10.00–10.30: Irene BERTI (PH Heidelberg): Framing the poletai inscriptions: some hypotheses on the stelai of the Hermokopidai

10.30–11.00: ZHANG Duoduo (IHAC): Hieron and hosion interaction: a case study on the Parthenon inventories

11.00–11.30: LUO Fuxing (IHAC): Integrating into family lives: frames and framing in the Dalmatian military inscriptions

11.30–12.00: Panel Discussion

12.00–14.00: Break

PANEL III: Framing (in) Ancient Religion

14.00–14.30: Sebastian BORKOWSKI (University of Bern): Exploiting religious frames for ideological terraforming in the 21st century BC: the dedication and branding of canals in Southern Mesopotamia by the kings of Ur

14.30-15.00: Iria SOUTO (University of Alcalà de Henares, Madrid): The case of personal beliefs in ancient Egypt: the framing theory in religious interactions

15.00-15.15: Break

15.15–15.45: Katelin MCCULLOUGH (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Sacred spaces and the framing of women’s social identities

15.45–16.15: Panel Discussion

PANEL IV: Framing (in) Ancient Art and Archaeology I

16.15–16.45: Yael YOUNG (The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana): Re-framing the mundane: The representation of domestic objects in violent situations in Athenian vase painting

16.45–17.15: Sven GÜNTHER (IHAC, NENU, Changchun): Reframing Roman imagery in Mesopotamian Edessa? The case of Ma‘nu VIII Philorhomaios

17.15–17.45: Panel Discussion

Sunday, 17 October 2021

PANEL V: Framing (in) Ancient Art and Archaeology II

10.00–10.30: Lidia CHINÉ ZAPATER (University Complutense of Madrid): Roman gardens: framing space and time

10.30–11.00: Tommasina MATRONE (University Ca’ Foscari, Venice): Middle Ground. Integration, hybridization and entanglement phenomena in pre-Roman Campania (Italy)

11.00–11.30: Rosemarie CORDIE, Torsten MATTERN, Maximilian RENSCH, Sascha David SCHMITZ (University of Trier): Expectation and augmented reality: frames and framing of ancient buildings in 3D reconstruction

11.30–12.00: Panel Discussion

12.00–12.30: Final Discussion and Perspectives

Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Sven Günther
E-Mail: sveneca@aol.com
E-Mail: svenguenther@nenu.edu.cn

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