Paisagens Imaginarios e Alens - Em breve

Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2023

Quando: 14 Junho

Onde: On-line

A Universidade de Exeter e a Canterbury Christ Church University organiçam uma conferência on-line a próxima  dia 14 de junho sob o titulo "Paisagens Imaginarios e Outros Mundos". Esta é uma conferência online de um dia que acontecerá no dia 14 de junho. 

A Viagem de São Brandão Eward Reginald Frampton, 1908

Os tópicos incluem uma ampla gama de materiais literários, mitológicos e folclóricos de uma variedade de períodos e culturas, centrados no tema da acessibilidade e mobilidade entre espaços conceituados como parte do mundo 'normal' e os espaços fantásticos de paisagens imaginativas e outros mundos . Muitos desses tópicos serão de interesse direto para outros folcloristas. O programa completo está incluído abaixo (todos os horários estão na hora britânica).

Et in Archadia Ego David Ligare, 2016

O orador principal será o professor Daniel Ogden (Universidade de Exeter). Suas publicações incluem Drakōn: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2013), The Werewolf in the Ancient World (2021) e The Dragon in the West (2021).

A conferência decorrera desde as 10:00-19:00 horas, o registo é gratuito e pode realiçar-se no seguinte enlace

Programa

Opening remarks from conference committee (10:00-10:15)

Alison Norton, Ph.D. Candidate, Canterbury Christ Church University

Dr. Ryan Denson, University of Exeter

Session One: The Individual’s Journey Within Medieval Otherworlds (10:15-11:30)

Imagining an Other World: A Creative-Critical Peregrination through Early Medieval England (Dr. Mike Bintley, Birkbeck, University of London)

The Green Children of Woolpit: A Weird allegory of Isolation, Otherness and Belonging (Dr. Sonia Overall, Canterbury Christ Church University)

Enchantment in Plain Sight: Journeys Within Numinous Landscapes in The Mabinogion (Dr. June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University)

Break (11:30-11:45)

Session Two: Transforming Imaginative Landscapes in Late Pre-Modern Literature (11:45-1:00)

The Unstable Magic of Sentient Spaces: Transformation, Liminality, and Subjectivity in Australian Middle Fantasy Fiction (Jessica Cook, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern Queensland)

William Stukeley and the Exploration of Paradise (Dr. Simon Wilson, Canterbury Christ Church University)

From Landscape to Cityscape: Reconstructing the Metropolis in Edward Falkener’s Ephesus, and the Temple of Diana (Sebastian Marshall, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge)

Lunch (1:00-1:45)

Session Three: Exploring Spirituality in Otherworlds (1:45-3:00)

The Otherworld Journey in Ancient Platonism (Dr. Nicholas Banner, Trinity College Dublin)

The Christian Mountain: Using Imagined Landscapes to Challenge Persecution in Late Antiquity (George Oliver, Ph.D. Candidate King's College, London)

Grotto-heavens (dongtian) in Medieval Chinese Daoism and Literature (Dr. Zornica Kirkova, State Library of Berlin)

Break (3:00-3:15)

Session Four: Journeying into Otherworlds through Roman Literature (3:15-4:30)

Accessing the Idyllic Reign of Janus in Augustan Rome: The Horti Caesaris, the Mythical Janiculan Hill and the Revered Nature 

(Dr. Thiago Pires, Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa)

Fictional Frolicking: Navigating Textual Mobility through the Pillars in Lucian’s True Story (Dhruvan D. Nair, Teaching Fellow, Ashoka University)

The Forest in the Roman Imagination (Josh Werrett, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford)

Break (4:30-4:45)

Keynote Lecture (4:45-5:45)

The Jewelled Castle of the Dragon (Professor Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter)

Closing Remarks (5:45-6:00)

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