Gender and the Sacred in Cross-Cultural Perspective
One-Day conference, Roehampton University, Wednesday 19 March 2008 (room tbc)
I’m delighted to announce further details of this conference (originally advertised in the autumn as ‘The Sacred and the Feminine in Cross-Cultural Perspective’). It is the Inaugural event of ‘Literature and Culture of the Ancient World’, the new research cluster in Classical Civilisation at Roehampton:
CULTS IN COMPARATIVIST AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
* Dr Nick Allen (Oxford) – ‘The goddess Night in Orphism: a comparativist view’
* Dr Rosemary Barrow (Roehampton) – ‘The Aphrodite cult statue: aesthetics, erotics, religion?’
RELIGIOUS AVENGERS
* Dr Elpida Christianaki (Canterbury College) – ‘Female religious avengers: The metamorphosis of Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera’
* Kyriaki Konstantinidou (Nottingham) – ‘“The vampire hunts its own kindred”: Aeschylean Erinyes and Greek vampirism’
PARTHENOGENESIS
* Dr Lynn Thomas (Roehampton) – ‘Myths of male parthenogensis’
* Dr Barbara Underwood – ‘James MacMillan’s Parthenogenesis’
GODDESSES AND THEIR AGENTS
* Amanda Potter (Open University) – ‘Goddesses just wanna have fun: classical deities reinvented for US TV in Xena Warrior Princess and Charmed’
* Gina Ramsay – ‘The Gallae of Cybele and the creation of identity in the ancient world: an overview’
FOLKTALE AND LITERATURE
* Toni Badnall (Nottingham) – ‘And they lived happily ever after? The sacred marriage in Aristophanes’
* Dr Susan Deacy (Roehampton) – ‘“Woman, see also Wife”: the Aarne-Thompson classification and classical myth’
THE SACRED AND THE FEMININE
* Dr Tina Beattie (Roehampton) – ‘Antigone, natural law and women’s rights’
* Melanie Landman (Roehampton) – ‘Constructing Black Madonna narratives: between Real and Imaginary’
Further details, including conference poster, available from s.deacy AT roehampton.ac.uk
Dr S.J. Deacy
Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Literature
Roehampton University
One-Day conference, Roehampton University, Wednesday 19 March 2008 (room tbc)
I’m delighted to announce further details of this conference (originally advertised in the autumn as ‘The Sacred and the Feminine in Cross-Cultural Perspective’). It is the Inaugural event of ‘Literature and Culture of the Ancient World’, the new research cluster in Classical Civilisation at Roehampton:
CULTS IN COMPARATIVIST AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
* Dr Nick Allen (Oxford) – ‘The goddess Night in Orphism: a comparativist view’
* Dr Rosemary Barrow (Roehampton) – ‘The Aphrodite cult statue: aesthetics, erotics, religion?’
RELIGIOUS AVENGERS
* Dr Elpida Christianaki (Canterbury College) – ‘Female religious avengers: The metamorphosis of Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera’
* Kyriaki Konstantinidou (Nottingham) – ‘“The vampire hunts its own kindred”: Aeschylean Erinyes and Greek vampirism’
PARTHENOGENESIS
* Dr Lynn Thomas (Roehampton) – ‘Myths of male parthenogensis’
* Dr Barbara Underwood – ‘James MacMillan’s Parthenogenesis’
GODDESSES AND THEIR AGENTS
* Amanda Potter (Open University) – ‘Goddesses just wanna have fun: classical deities reinvented for US TV in Xena Warrior Princess and Charmed’
* Gina Ramsay – ‘The Gallae of Cybele and the creation of identity in the ancient world: an overview’
FOLKTALE AND LITERATURE
* Toni Badnall (Nottingham) – ‘And they lived happily ever after? The sacred marriage in Aristophanes’
* Dr Susan Deacy (Roehampton) – ‘“Woman, see also Wife”: the Aarne-Thompson classification and classical myth’
THE SACRED AND THE FEMININE
* Dr Tina Beattie (Roehampton) – ‘Antigone, natural law and women’s rights’
* Melanie Landman (Roehampton) – ‘Constructing Black Madonna narratives: between Real and Imaginary’
Further details, including conference poster, available from s.deacy AT roehampton.ac.uk
Dr S.J. Deacy
Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Literature
Roehampton University