Through the Animal Prism: Seeing Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Mediterranean Through their Animals, Theriomorphic Hybrids and Monsters
The field of ancient animal studies is currently flourishing across the world. Many excellent books, conference proceedings, and essay collections attest to this growth. Scholars from a great number of disciplines are learning the benefits of seeing antiquity through the medium of the ancients’ animals: philology, archaeology, anthropology, folk lore studies, history of art, veterinary science, zooarchaeology, zoology, and more. As is always possible in scholarly fields, though, it is quite easy for an individual to focus on her/his specialty at the expense of other disciplines and most of us would benefit from a wider sense of the field in order to bring several disciplines and their points of view to bear on individual problems. The proposed conference seeks to further this interaction by gathering together, via the Internet, scholars from around the world who are interested in the general subject matter of ancient Mediterranean animals.
Through the Animal Prism will be an international wide ranging conference whose aim is to present in a single place scholarship that deals with ancient animals across the span of the Mediterranean. As such, it calls for paper abstracts from scholars from across the world who study any aspect of ancient animals of the Mediterranean. Since these animals were involved with myriad aspects of ancient life, papers may address the subject from a variety of points of view, such as (but not confined to) those of philology, archaeology and zooarchaeology, anthropology, history of art, zoology, and more.
Its aims are thus:
To illustrate the breadth and depth of the field
To expose scholars of a given discipline to other, fruitful, disciplines
To foster cooperation among scholars in the field
To encourage across-discipline publication
Sponsored by: University of Haifa and University of Liverpool
Organized by: Kenneth Kitchell, Guendalina Taietti, Katia Margariti
When: 2-3 November 2024
Where: The entire conference will be held online. Prerecorded talks may be used by those whose time zones make live participation difficult.
The primary language of the conference is English but we will attempt to accommodate speakers of all languages.
Talks will be 20 minutes in length with 10 minutes for questions. Papers will be considered for publication.
Abstracts, in English only, of no more than 500 words are to be submitted electronically.
By: 15 March, 2024
To: gtaietti@liverpool.ac.uk.
Please indicate if your talk will be illustrated.
Decisions on abstracts will be announced via email by the end of May, at the latest. Please direct any questions you may have to gtaietti@liverpool.ac.uk.