Registration is now open for the following conference:
Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination
July 17-19 2007, Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol
This conference will explore popular representations and receptions of Pompeii since the 18th century, and aims to provide a stimulating environment in which academics studying the city and its reception can be brought together with practitioners who have tried to bring the city to life in a range of media. Panel topics include: Documenting the Ruins; Domestic Interiors and Architecture; Sex and Erotica; 19th Century Painting; Necromancy and Spiritualism; Pompeii in the USA: Pompeii’s Reception in Italy; 20th Century Arts; Aesthetics and Morality; Receptions of Gradiva; and Romantic Travellers.
Keynote speakers: Mary Beard, Victor Burgin, Stefano de Caro, Lindsey Davis, Stephen Harrison and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
Full details, including registration form, accommodation information, and provisional programme can be found online at http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pompeii/index_html.
For further information, please contact the conference organisers, Dr Shelley Hales (Shelley.Hales AT bris.ac.uk) or Dr Joanna Paul (Joanna.Paul AT liv.ac.uk).
Supported by:
The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA); The Marks Foundation; The British Academy; The Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition; School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, The University of Liverpool
Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination
July 17-19 2007, Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol
This conference will explore popular representations and receptions of Pompeii since the 18th century, and aims to provide a stimulating environment in which academics studying the city and its reception can be brought together with practitioners who have tried to bring the city to life in a range of media. Panel topics include: Documenting the Ruins; Domestic Interiors and Architecture; Sex and Erotica; 19th Century Painting; Necromancy and Spiritualism; Pompeii in the USA: Pompeii’s Reception in Italy; 20th Century Arts; Aesthetics and Morality; Receptions of Gradiva; and Romantic Travellers.
Keynote speakers: Mary Beard, Victor Burgin, Stefano de Caro, Lindsey Davis, Stephen Harrison and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
Full details, including registration form, accommodation information, and provisional programme can be found online at http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pompeii/index_html.
For further information, please contact the conference organisers, Dr Shelley Hales (Shelley.Hales AT bris.ac.uk) or Dr Joanna Paul (Joanna.Paul AT liv.ac.uk).
Supported by:
The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA); The Marks Foundation; The British Academy; The Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition; School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, The University of Liverpool