The workshop “Multimodal Landscapes of Mediterranean Antiquity” was supported by and held at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Ruhr University Alliance, Essen on 25-27 April 2024. Several members of Imagines, including both organisers, participated in this exploratory event which catalogued and study existing and remembered imageries of ancient pasts in the city of Essen. Co-organised by Senior Fellow Marta García Morcillo (Durham University, UK) and her tandem partner Florian Freitag (University of Duisburg-Essen), this experimental project united researchers from different fields to investigate cultural artifacts and signs on site, including advertising, branding, photographs, and street art as well as permanent, ephemeral, and vanished architectural elements and recorded events that establish connections between ancient Mediterranean cultures and Essen’s modern cityscape (19th to 21st centuries). This pilot project will serve as a case study for an interactive digital resource that maps and visualises the multimodal landscapes of Mediterranean antiquity in the Ruhr metropoles as well as in other cities of the world.
News: Imagines 8 is coming! Here the poster, programme, and information to attend: Pagan Pornotopias? The Reception of Antiquity in Eroticism and Pornography, Madrid, 27 to 29 September 2023.
Volume 14 of the Imagines book series announced
The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media
by Gregory N. Daugherty
LECTURE
GIRL TO WOMAN: THE MYTH OF PERSEPHONE IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Cristina Salcedo González
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
5th July 2023 / 18.00 CAMPUS Am Neuen Palais House 9 / Room 1.02
This lecture investigates the representation of a very popular figure from ancient myth, Persephone, in young adult fiction, analysing a series of examples from a range of anglophone cultures and contexts (New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA). It will be shown that Persephone can represent and cover a broad range of diverse actual issues, ranging from LGBTQI+ desire to eating disorders, from partner violence to parental mental health, from PTSD to caring responsibility.
Through Persephone’s example it will be shown how relevant Greek mythology still is in contemporary cul- ture – and specifically in the entertainment and forma- tion of young adults in the anglophone world.
WORKSHOP
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
7th July 2023 / 10.00
WIS Bildungsforum Potsdam
10.00
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Katarzyna Marciniak Uniwersytet Warszawski
„Eye to Eye with a Cyclops: The Homeric Myth in Children’s Literature“
11.00 – 11.30
COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 13.00
PANEL 1
„Greek and Roman Antiquity in Children Books, Young Adult Literature and School Books“
Lea Fürst Universität Potsdam
Marta García Morcillo University of Durham / Universität Potsdam Cristina Salcedo González Universidad Complutense de Madrid Katharina Wesselmann Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Chair: Filippo Carlà-Uhink Universität Potsdam
13.00 – 14.30
LUNCH
14.30 – 16.00
PANEL 2
„Having Fun and Learning with Greek and Roman Antiquity“
Filippo Carlà-Uhink Universität Potsdam
Florian Freitag Universität Duisburg Essen
Martin Lindner Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Ricardo Rinne Universität Potsdam
Anabelle Thurn Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
Chair:
Cristina Salcedo González Universidad Complutense de Madrid
16.00 – 16.30
COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 17.30
FINAL DISCUSSION
Chair: Katarzyna Marciniak Uniwersytet Warszawski
Place:
Universität Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, House 9, Room 1.02,
14469 Potsdam
Organiser: Universität Potsdam
Historisches Institut. Geschichte des Altertums.
Prof. Dr. Filippo Carlà-Uhink
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www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-altertum/index
Antiquity in silent films from the Tom Stern Collection shown at the 5th Göttingen Night of Science (5 July 2022)
Cinema Méliès, Göttingen
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Multimodal Landscapes of Mediterranean Antiquity. Workshop, 25-27 April 2024, Essen
The workshop “Multimodal Landscapes of Mediterranean Antiquity” was supported by and held at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Ruhr University Alliance, Essen on 25-27 April 2024. Several members of Imagines, including both organisers, participated in this exploratory event which catalogued and study existing and remembered imageries of ancient pasts in the city of Essen. Co-organised by Senior Fellow Marta García Morcillo (Durham University, UK) and her tandem partner Florian Freitag(University of Duisburg-Essen), this experimental project united researchers from different fields to investigate cultural artifacts and signs on site, including advertising, branding, photographs, and street art as well as permanent, ephemeral, and vanished architectural elements and recorded events that establish connections between ancient Mediterranean cultures and Essen’s modern cityscape (19th to 21st centuries). This pilot project will serve as a case study for an interactive...
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News. Coming event. Imagines 8. Pagan Porntopias? Poster and Programme, Madrid 27-29 Sep. 2023
News: Imagines 8 is coming! Here the poster, programme, and information to attend: Pagan Pornotopias? The Reception of Antiquity in Eroticism and Pornography, Madrid, 27 to 29 September 2023.
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Lecture and Workshop: Greek and Roman Antiquity for Children and Young Adults, Potsdam 5 and 7 July 2023
LECTURE GIRL TO WOMAN: THE MYTH OF PERSEPHONE IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION Cristina Salcedo González Universidad Complutense de Madrid 5th July 2023 / 18.00 CAMPUS Am Neuen Palais House 9 / Room 1.02 This lecture investigates the representation of a very popular figure from ancient myth, Persephone, in young adult fiction, analysing a series of examples from a range of anglophone cultures and contexts (New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA). It will be shown that Persephone can represent and cover a broad range of diverse actual issues, ranging from LGBTQI+ desire to eating disorders, from partner violence to parental mental health, from PTSD to caring responsibility. Through Persephone’s example it will be shown how relevant Greek mythology still is in contemporary cul- ture – and specifically in the entertainment and forma- tion of young adults in the anglophone world. WORKSHOP GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS 7th July 2023 / 10.00 WIS Bildungsforum Potsdam 10.00...
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New: Imagines Book series, Vol. 14
Volume 14 of the Imagines book series announced The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media by Gregory N. Daugherty
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Antiquity in silent films from the Tom Stern Collection
Antiquity in silent films from the Tom Stern Collection shown at the 5th Göttingen Night of Science (5 July 2022) Cinema Méliès, Göttingen
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Conference: Performing Ancient Greek Literature in a Time of Pandemic (23-24 June 2022)
Organizers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand) and Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK)