Crossovers, Covid-19 and Corporeality
06/12/2020 - 00:00 - 09/12/2020 - 00:50
הרשמה לכנס:
CROSSOVERS, COVID-19 AND CORPOREALITY
Life, Death and Rebirth in the Classical World and its Reception
in an Age of Academic Innovation
International Virtual Conference 6th and 9th December 2020
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2020
10:30 – 11:00 Virtual gathering & greetings
Eliezer Schlossberg, Dean of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University
Lily Glasner, Bar-Ilan University
11:00 – 12:00 The Classics is Crossing over, Chair: Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University
ANASTASIA BAKOGIANNI (Massey University, New Zealand)
Greek tragedy goes online: Classics as consolation in Modern Greece?
GIACOMO LOI (Johns Hopkins University)
The unwilling hero after the catastrophe: Aeneas in the time of the Holocaust and the Covid-19 pandemic
12:00 – 13:30 Heroes and Heroines , Chair: Ariadne Konstantinou, Bar-Ilan University
ELENI NTANOU (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Ovid’s Adonis as a hero of the modern world
ANCA MEIROŞU (Independent Researcher)
Rebirth and eternity
IOANNIS MITSIOS (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dying for ‘doing’: Mythical Athenian heroines in service of the city
13:30 – 14:30 Virtual lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Musical segment Introduced by Ariadne Konstantinou
ENSEMBLE MEZZO (directed by Doret Florentin)
Baroque music on mythical life and death
15:00 – 16:00 Life and Death in the Ancient World, Chair: Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan Univeristy
FEDERICA BOERO (University of Genoa)
Seneca and his ghosts: The dead condemn the living
T. H. M. GELLAR-GOAD (Wake Forest University)
How to watch a plague: Philosophical and satiric perspectives in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
16:15 - 17:30 Creative Writing Workshop
AMANDA POTTER (Open University, UK)
Crossing creative boundaries: Rewriting the Odyssey as female-centric YA fiction in lockdown
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 2020
11:00 – 12:30 Innovation and Pedagogy, Chair: Michal Ben Horin, Bar-Ilan University
ARLENE HOLMES-HENDERSON (Oxford University)
Crossing the boundary from research to curriculum policy: Classics education and Covid-19
GABRIELA DEBITA (University of Galaţi, Romania)
Through a labyrinth, brightly: Playing Le Guin’s Tenar in virtual learning environments
RONALD BLANKENBORG (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Surfing the waves first: Virtual reality and algorithms in ancient Greek epic
12:30 – 13:30 Virtual lunch break
13:30 – 15:30 Escape Room Workshop: Escaping from Covid-19
LILY GLASNER (Bar Ilan University/Kibbutzim College of Education)
Creating a classical escape room
To attend the conference and receive the zoom link please send an email to ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lisa Maurice, lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
Lily Glasner, lily.glasner@biu.ac.il
Ariadne Konstantinou, ariadni.konstantinou@biu.ac.il
Ayelet Peer, ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
For the recorded papers click here
- תאריך עדכון אחרון: 8/12/2020
