Conference
Exposed: interdisciplinary approaches to the Greek and Roman body
- Date
- Tuesday 24 September 2024 - Thursday 26 September 2024
- Address
- Various locations
Organised by Prof. Caroline Vout and dr. Suzan van de Velde
To mark the last year of Caroline Vout’s tenure as Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology at Leiden, the University is hosting a conference on the theme of the prize-winning book that she published during its tenure. Taking the book’s interdisciplinary approach to Greek and Roman bodies as its springboard and its spotlight on the often messy relationship of representation and reality, and the Greek and Roman with the rest of the world, it puts scholars from Leiden and Cambridge into conversation with each other to run with its agenda.
After a discussion of the book, and a plenary lecture from Robin Osborne, sessions will address the body in art, life, death, oratory, history and so on, as starting points for further thinking and ongoing collaboration between the Leiden departments and the two University institutions.
- More information on the keynote
- If you would like to attend the expert meeting on 25 and/or 26 september, please send an email to s.m.van.de.velde@leidenuniv.nl
Programme
Tuesday September 24 (National Museum of Antiquities - Tempelzaal)
19.30 – 21:00 Keynote lecture, prof. Robin Osborne ‘Exposure time: the moving body of art’
Wednesday September 25 (National Museum of Antiquities - Leemanszaal
Expert meeting / Round table – day 1 (all papers 20 minutes)
10:00-10:15 Walk-in & opening
Ways of seeing
CHAIR: Stijn Bussels
10:15 -11.35 Albert Bates (Cambridge) ‘Imagined bodies and embodied imaginings: Orestes sarcophagi and the philosophy of phantasia’
Glyn Muitjens (Leiden) ‘Inventing Skin. Rethinking body boundaries in ancient Greece’
BREAK (10 min.)
The sculpted body
CHAIR: Eric Moormann
11:45 – 13:05 Caroline Vout (Cambridge and Leiden) ‘Ongoing moments and direct encounters: neo-Attic bodies experienced’
Suzan van de Velde (Leiden) ‘A tiny colossus: innovative miniaturization in Roman sculpture’
13:05-14:00 LUNCH
Archaeology
CHAIR: Miguel John Versluys
14:00 – 15:20 Rachel Phillips (Cambridge / British School at Athens) ‘Theorising the Relationship between Body and Image in Early Mycenaean Greece, 1600-1400 BCE
Anouk Everts (Leiden) ‘Lifting Isis' Skirt - a Study of Nakedness, Nudity and the Female Body in Hellenistic Egypt through Terracotta Figurines’
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee
Ancient literature
CHAIR: Ineke Sluiter
15:40 – 17:00 Peter Martin (Cambridge) ‘The emergence of the body in ancient historiography and oratory’
Casper de Jonge (Leiden) ‘Analogies between texts and bodies in Aristotle, Dionysius and Longinus’
DINNER for speakers and chairs – 18.00
Thursday September 26 (RMO - Leemanszaal)
Expert meeting / Round table – day 2 (all papers 20 minutes)
10:00 walk-in/coffee
Social History
CHAIR: Ruurd Halbertsma
10:20 -11:40 Serafina Cuomo (Cambridge) ‘The body of the craftsman in archaic and classical Greek art’
Rafal Matuszewski (Leiden) title tbc
Conclusion
11:45 – 12:30 Concluding discussion chaired by Robin Osborne
LUNCH
13.30 – 14.30 Q&A of prof. Caroline Vout’s book Exposed: the Greek and Roman Body, chaired by Miguel John Versluys
Forum Antiquum Lecture (WAALSE KERK, Breestraat 62-64 Leiden)15:30 – 17:00 Forum Antiquum Lecture – prof Carrie Vout
Followed by drinks