Program
Program
6th October, 2017
9.30-10.00 / Welcoming
Chair: Maria A. Stassinopoulou (University of Vienna)
10.00-10.45 Ava Shirazi (Princeton University)
The Liver and the Mirror: Visualizing Sensory Perception in Plato’s “Timaeus”
10.45-11.30 Mikhail Silian (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Reflection theory in Tideus’ “On Mirrors”
11.30-12.15 Christiana Andreou/Dimitris Portides (University of Cyprus)
From anthropomorphism to modern science: the case of optics
Lunch break
Chair: Maria Gerolemou
14.00-14.45 Mireille M. Lee (University of Vanderbilt)
Replicating Reflections: An experimental approach to ancient Greek mirrors
14.45-15.30 Isabella Bonati/Nicola Reggiani (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Mirrors in the Greek papyri: question of words
15.30-16.15 Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow)
Through a glass lightly: mirrors, lenses and artificial eyes in classical antiquity
Coffee break
Chair: Jannis Stouraitis (University of Vienna)
17.00-17.45 Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St. Andrews)
Mirrors as votive dedications in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: embodied interactions and cultural meanings
18.30-19.15 Tatiana Bur (Cambridge University)
Mirrors and the Manufacture of Religious Aura in Hellenistic Greece
19.15-20.00 Jan Ciglenečki/Borut Škodlar (University of Ljubljana)
Prayer is the Monk’s Mirror (John of the Ladder): Reflections and Mirror-Images in the Desert Fathers and Byzantine Monasticism
7th October, 2017
Chair: Christophe Erismann (University of Vienna)
10.00-10.45 Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens)
The Aristotelian position on the ontology of mirror Images
10.45-11.30 George Kazantzidis (University of Patras)
The Menstruant’s Gaze: Mirrors, Women and Dim Reflections in Aristotle and Pliny the Elder
11.30-12.15 Daniel Markovic (University of Cincinnati)
Capturing the Invisible: The Mirror of Nature
Lunch break
Chair: Lilia Diamantopoulou
14.00-14.45 Myrto Garani (University of Athens)
Derideantur nunc philosophi quod de speculi natura disserant” (Sen. Nat. Quaest. 1.17.1): Catoptrics in Lucretius’ DRN (4.269-323) and Seneca
14.45-15.30 Jeff Ulrich (University of Pennsylvania)
The Mirror, Narrative, and Erotic Desire in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
15.30-16.15 Anastasia Tsapanidou (University of Thessaloniki)
Mirrors in 19th century Modern Greek prose fiction. “The King of Hades” (Constantinople, 1882)
Coffee Break
Chair: Olga Kolokytha (University of Vienna)
17.00-17.45 Efthymia Priki (University of Cyprus)
Mirrors and Mirroring in Dreams: Self-reflection and Liminality in the Roman de la Rose and in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
17.45-18.30 Loreto Casanueva Reyes (Universidad de Chile)
Portable love: ivory mirror cases under the lens of Courtly Love
18.30-19.15 Nikolas P. Kakkoufa (Columbia University)
Mirroring pleasures: Tracing a trope of writing in homosexual literature
19.15-19.30 / Workshop conclusion
The workshop is supported by the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies and the Austrian Society of Modern Greek Studies (ÖGNS).