New Media 800 BCE –

Princeton/Oxford Workshop, Jan. 9 & 10

Schedule:

thursday, january 9

welcome remarks (9:35 AM – 9:45 AM)

session 1: institutions of media (9:45 AM – 10:45 AM)
chair: jermaine bryant (princeton)
dan etches (oxford): Squabbling in the Birdcage of McLuhan: Media and Control from Herodotus to Posidippus
will pedrick (princeton): An Object Encounter at the Penn Museum: The Liberation of the Senses and the Authority to Interpret Material Culture

coffee (10:45 AM – 11:00 AM)

session 2: multi-media (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
chair: annee lyons (oxford)
mark paul (princeton): A picture of Greek art far more richly coloured’: photography and classical art history in the 19th and 20th centuries
gemma hammond (oxford): The Polis and the Beginnings of Coinage
ashton fancy (princeton): Media on the Move: Messages in Sulla’s Columns of Zeus’ Olympius

session 3: place media (1:30 – 2:30 PM)
chair: paul eberwine (princeton)
annee lyons (oxford): Textual Modelling of Geographic Space in the Ancient Greek World
michael economou (oxford): Landscape as Medium in the Late Second Temple Hill Country

coffee (2:30 – 3:00 PM)

session 4: media of self and other (3:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
chair: gemma hammond (oxford)
honor cargill-martin (oxford): Augustan Imperial Women as a Medium: Contents of Continuity and Messages of Metamorphoses in the Early Principate
daniel sutton (oxford): The Message as Medium: Correcting Names in Ancient Greek and Chinese Thought

dinner at chennai chimney (6:00 PM)

friday, january 10

session 5: performance media (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM)
chair: ben thorne (oxford)
chiara battisti (oxford): Media, Theatricality and Performance in the Dynastic Self-Representation of the Attalids
jermaine bryant (princeton): Spinning an Archive: Weaving and Writing in Metamorphoses VI
alex antoniou (oxford): Maybe Words do Speak Louder than Actions? Varro and Media in Roman Religion

session 6: bodies and media (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM)
chair: honor cargill-martin (oxford)
ben thorne (oxford): Sybille Krämer’s messenger model: Helot resistance and reprisal in the massacre at Thucydides 4.80.3-4
imogen whiteley (oxford): “Not a face, but a narrative”: How Greek perceptions of slave bodies lead to their use as a medium for transmitting messages about slaves and slaveowners
paul eberwine (princeton): The Vitality of Death: Perspectives on a Suicide Machine

coffee and snacks (2:30-3:00 PM)

art museum visit with will pedrick (3:00 PM) (optional)