Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Auditorium 3, Wohl Convention Centre
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SCHEDULE.
MONDAY 16th JUNE 2014
8.00-9.00 registration
9.00-9.15 welcome
9.15 – 10.45 Session One: Ancient Greece in Fiction
Chair: Professor Kinereth Meyer
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Carla Scilabra, (Università degli Studi di Torino), “From Greece with love. The construction of the classical past in Mary Renault’s novels”.
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Eran Almagor, (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “Going Home: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Sol Yurick’s The Warriors (1965)”.
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Joseph Roisman,(Colby College), “It’s Lonely Up There: Alexander the Great -- from Adventurer to Despot in Terence Rattigan’s “Adventure Story”
11.15-12. 15 Session Two: Detective Fiction
Chair: Professor Daniela Dueck
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Claudia Caia Julia Fratini, (University of South Africa), ““Open accounts from the past always need to be settled”: The Ancient Curse and receiving the past
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Anat Koplowitz-Breier, (Bar-Ilan University), “A Roman and a Foreigner: Lindsey Davis' New Roman Detective Series”
10.45-11.15 coffee break
12.15-13.00 Plenary Session One: Steven Saylor, “A Lacuna in the Incunabula, or Oedipus Rex, Mother (-Lover) of Us All”
13.00-14.00 lunch
14.00-16.00 Session Three: Ancient Jews and Christians in Popular Fiction
Chair: Professor David Schaps
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Milette Shamir, (Tel Aviv University) “Containing the Secular: Rome in Ben-Hur”.
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Emily Lord-Kambitsch, (University College, London University), “Emotionality and Reception of the Ancient World in Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ’”.
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Tal Ilan, (Freie Universität, Berlin), “"Jewish Women Writing Historical Novels Based on Rabbinic Sources".
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Haim Perlmutter, (Bar-Ilan University), “Massada, The Antagonists and Secondary Figures of History”
16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-17.30 Plenary Session Two: Professor Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, “Not Rome, but Gloucester: Finding the Origins of Christianity”
19.00 Dinner, Kfar Maccabiah
TUESDAY 17th JUNE 2014
8.30-10.00 Session Four: Classical References Recast
Chair: Dr Joanna Paul
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Elizabeth Gloyn, (Royal Holloway College, University of London), “A Common Thread: Representations of the Minotaur In London”ץ
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Sylwia Chmielewska, (University of Warsaw), “I want to tell the story again’: Jeanette Winterson's exploration of Atlas' punishment in ‘Weight’”.
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Olivia Fane, (Independent scholar and author), “‘Truth: ancient and modern”.
10.00-10.30 coffee break
10.30-12.30 Session Five: Comics
Chair: Mr Alexander McAuley
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Robert White, (Shaker Heights High School), “…In Vena Iugulari: Classical Influence in Mad Comics”
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Mathilde Cazeaux, (Université Montpellier), “JUGURTHA ! From Sallustius to Le Journal De Tintin: When Comics Get Back at History”
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Lily Glasner, (Bar-Ilan University), “Cleaning Up Dirty Mythology: A Love Story in Comics and Children's Literature”
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Tikva Blaukopf, (Independent Scholar), “Herodotus' Sketchbook: Challenges in Illustration”
12.30-13.15 Plenary Session Three: Caroline Lawrence, “The Joy of Writing Historical Fiction”
13.15-14.00 lunch
14.00-16.00 Session Six: Greek Myth
Chair: Dr Ariadne Konstantinou
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David Bullen, (Royal Holloway College, University of London), “21st Century Olympians: Realising Greek Gods in Popular Fiction”
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Hanna Roisman, (Colby College), “Thornton Wilder’s Alcestis”
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Anne Sinha, (Sorbonne) “Achilles, from epic hero to popular lord/lady-killer: the song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and Achilles, a love story by Byrne Fone”
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Owen Hodkinson, (University of Leeds), “‘My Big Fat Greek Hermaphroditism Crisis’: Greek Myths Constructing Diaspora and Sex/Gender Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex”
16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-17.30 Plenary Session Six: Dr Nick Lowe, Royal Holloway College, University of London, “The Imaginary History of Greece”
19.00 Dinner, Kfar Maccabiah
WEDNESDAY 18th JUNE 2014
8.30-10.00 Session Seven: International Perspectives
Chair: Dr Gabriel Danzig
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Ayelet Peer, (Tel Aviv University), “Muses …who hold the great and holy mountain of Fuji? Interpreting the Classics in Japanese pop-culture”
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Eduardo Erazo, (University of Nariño, Columbia), “Fiction Of Greece And Rome A Fiction In Latin America, Comparative Perspective”
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Rani Graff, (Graff Publishing, Israel), “Publishing Rick Riordan and More: Israel and the Ancient World”
10.00-10.30 coffee break
10.30-12.30 Session Eight: Science Fiction And Fantasy
Chair: Dr Danielle Gurevitch
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Luis Unceta Gomez, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), “When Classical Antiquity and Present Meet: Traveling Through Time In Science Fiction”
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Lemaire Pascal, (Independent scholar) “Uchronies In Ancient Worlds… That Never Happened”
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Dor Yacobi, (Tel Aviv University), “American Gladiator and the Hunger Games”
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Hamish Williams, (University of Cape Town), “‘Homecoming’ in Homer’s Odyssey and Tolkien’s The Hobbit”
12.30-13.15 Plenary Session Five: Simon Scarrow, “Apocrypha Now: Negotiating the Representation of Romans in Historical Fiction.”
13.15-14.00 lunch
14.00-16.00 Session Nine: Ancient Rome
Chair: Dr Stephanie Binder
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Joanna Paul, (Open University, UK), “The Vesuvius Club: Pompeii in Historical Fiction”
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Katarzyna Marciniak, (University of Warsaw), “From Zero to Hero (or Backwards). Cicero’s Afterlife and its Transformations in Popular Fiction after 1945”
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Adelheid R. Eubanks, (Johnson C. Smith University), “From Scipio’s Dream to The Dream of Scipio: Humanitas Romana and the Perennial Pursuit of Human Rights”
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Anna Foka (Umeå University) and Alexander McAuley (McGill University), “Blood in the Digital Sands: The Ancient Origins of Modern Gaming Fictions”
16.30-17.30 Plenary Session Four: Professor Edith Hall, King’s College, University of London (skype) “Greek Erinyes in Three Types of Modern Adult Fiction”
16.00-16.30 coffee break
17.30-17.45 final comments and closure of conference