Man, machine, animal and monster:
The Post-human in ancient Greek literature?
27–28 October, 2016
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thursday, 27 October
9.00 Registration
9.20 – 9.30
Francesca Spiegel and Giulia Maria Chesi:
Welcome speech / opening address
“Theory” panel
Chair: Marco Formisano (Ghent University)
9.30 – 9.50
Luciano Nuzzo (Università del Salento / Rio de Janeiro University):
The challenge of Foucault and the rise of the monstrous
9.55 – 10.15
Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University):
Hagiography without humans
10.15 – 10.45
Discussion
10.45 – 11.00
Break
“Lyric and Epic” Panel
Chair: Lucia Prauscello (University of Cambridge);
Alexander Kirichenko (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
11.00 – 11.20
Marianne Hopman (Northwestern University):
Monstrous refractions in Homer
11.25 – 11.45
Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia):
Typhoeus: Cosmic retrogression
11.45 – 11.55
Break
11.55 – 12.15
Agis Marinis (University of Patras):
Art, life and the creation of machines. On Pindar’s O. 7.50-53
12.20 – 12.40
Thomas Poiss (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
Transcending boundaries. Anthropology and poetics in Pindar’s P. 12
12.40 – 13.30
Discussion
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch
“Historiography” Panel
Chair: Markus Asper (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
14.30 – 14.50
Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent):
The tyranny of the body: Ancient autocracy versus the human form
14.55 – 15.15
Roland Baumgarten (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
The sovereign as beast. Images of ancient tyranny
15.15 – 15.30
Break
15.30 – 15.50
Werner Tietz (LMU München):
Monstrosity in Thucydides: From Anecdote to mass phenomenon
15.55 – 16.15
Martin Devecka (University of California Santa Cruz):
Organism, mechanism, magic: Some early Greek histories of technology
16.15 – 17.00
Discussion
19.30
Conference dinner
Friday, 28 October
“Greek Drama” Panel
Chair: Renaud Gagne’ (University of Cambridge);
Susanne Goedde (Freie Universität Berlin)
9.30 – 9.50
Chiara Thumiger (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
Animality and illness in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
9.55 – 10.15
Giovanni Ceschi (Liceo Classico Giovanni Prati di Trento):
Διαβόρος νόσος: humans and demonic disease in Greek tragedy
10.20 – 10.40
Nancy Worman (Barnard College, Columbia University):
Tragic “nudity”, necrophilia and the edges of the human in Euripides
10.40 – 11.00
Break
11.00 – 11.20
Robin Mitchell-Boyask (Temple University):
Cyclopean Ajax
11.25 – 11.45
Manuela Giordano (Università della Calabria):
Flocks and monsters from Homer to Aeschylus
11.50 – 12.10
Antonietta Provenza (Università di Palermo):
Human transformations: Pursued by the harassing divine whip or Io the heifer-maiden
12.10 – 13.00
Discussion
Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge):
Closing speech