IIHSA Events
Multisensory Approaches to the Ancient World (Dublin Day school 2023)
IIHSA 2023 Dublin Day School
'Multisensory Approaches to the Ancient World'
Our senses are at the core of human experience; they help us ‘make sense’ of the world. As sensing is not just a physiological process but is culturally conditioned, how can we investigate ancient sensory perception? To what extent can artefacts, buildings, landscapes, and texts be used to better understand life in the past? Join us at the dayschool of the IIHSA to explore the smells, tastes, sights, sounds and textures of antiquity through a range of case studies and approaches by contributors from Irish universities.
Location: University College Dublin (in person) and online (register below via Eventbrite)
Programme:
1 - 1.15: Welcome
1.15 - 1.45: Jo Day (UCD Classics) ‘Making Sense of the Past’
1.45 - 2.15: William Desmond (NUIM Classics) ‘The Feeling Soul: Aristotle’s Theory of the Senses’
2.15 - 2.45: Bridget Martin (UCD Classics) ‘Sensing the Dead in Dreams in Ancient Greece’
2.45 - 3.15 Coffee Break
3.15 - 3.45: Lauren Brown (UCD Archaeology) ‘Understanding the manufacture of Bronze Age metalwork in south-eastern Europe from workshop debris’
3.45 - 4.15: Franceso Ripanti (TCD Classics) ‘A Multisensory Journey: Therapeutic Sense-making of the Archaeological Landscape of Vignale, Italy’
4.15 - 4.45: Alan Peatfield (UCD Archaeology) ‘Grab and Stab! Discovering Practical Combat Techniques from Bronze Age Images’
Annual Lecture in Ireland: Dr. Evi Margaritis, ’Domesticity, craft production and ritual: changing patterns of human life in the 3rd millennium Aegean’
The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens Annual Meeting in Ireland. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Evi Margaritis from the Cyprus Institute to deliver her lecture Domesticity, craft production and ritual: changing patterns of human life in the 3rd millennium Aegean, co-authored with Michael Boyd and Colin Renfrew.
This lecture is co-organised by the UCD School of Archaeology Bronze Age seminar series. The meeting will be in hybrid format.
In person: UCD School of Archaeology, Ardmore Annex in Room ARD-AA1 in University College Dublin with a reception to follow, generously sponsored by Odaios Foods.
Please register via Eventbrite to attend online.
IIHSA Day School: Animals and Us, Human-Animal Relationships in the Ancient World
Animals and Us: Human-Animal relationships in the ancient world Saturday February 23, 2019
Programme
Gordon Campbell (Maynooth University)
Ideas of Human-Animal Communication in the Early Greek Philosophers Pythagoras and Empedocles
Ashley Clements (Trinity College Dublin)
Horsing around in the Americas and the elephant in the satirist’s room: Montaigne’s Of Cannibals and the myth of the New World centaur
Jessica Doyle (University College Dublin)
The hunted animal in Early Iron Age Greek art
Hazel Dodge (Trinity College Dublin)
A rhino, a hippo and an ostrich go to Rome ... exotic animals in Roman Spectacle
Kathryn Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
Parading Pachyderms: A Roman's guide to building an elephant army
Christine Morris (Trinity College Dublin)
From classical beasts to Heaney’s ‘lost ark’: the power of animals on coinageSimone Zimmerman (Trinity College Dublin)
Little midwives: Votive weasels as likely indicators of a female healing tradition in prehistoric Crete.
Pre-booking essential
Contact: Christine Morris - cmorris@tcd.ie Or Natalie Lough - natlough@gmail.com
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