CONF: War as Spectacle

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The Open University
Department of Classical Studies
Milton Keynes Campus
Michael Young Building, Meeting Rooms 1-4

War as Spectacle colloquium
15 June 2012

Programme

10:00-10:30 Morning coffee
10:30-10:45 Introduction

10:45-11:45 Panel 1: Homeric Spectacles of War
Chair: Chris Emlyn-Jones (Open University)

Tobias Myers (Columbia University): Spectatum Veniunt…: Iliadic Enargeia and the First Spectacular Duel

Jon Hesk (University of St. Andrews): Homeric Spectacles of War in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line

11:45-12:45 Panel 2: Ancient War Spectacles in Modern Greece
Chair: Lorna Hardwick

Gonda Van Steen (University of Florida): Parading War and Victory under the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974)

Anastasia Bakogianni (Open University): The Anti-War Spectacle: the
Condemnation of War in Michael Cacoyannis’ Euripidean Trilogy

12:45-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:15 Panel 3: Spectacles of War in Material Culture

Chair: Jessica Hughes (OU)

Sara Chiarini (Freie Universität Berlin): The Spectacle of War on Herakles’Shield

Andrew Fear (University of Manchester): An Unwinding Story: the Influence of Trajan’s Column on the Depiction of Warfare

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (City University of New York): Triumphal New York:the ‘Roman’ Arches of New York City

3:15-3:30 Afternoon refreshments

3:30-5:00 Panel 4: Modern Perspectives on Ancient Warfare

Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni

Claire Jamset (University of Cambridge) and Jeff Malone (Australian
Department of Infrastructure and Transport): Spectacular Atrocities and
Victory in War: the Long (?) Road to Post-Heroic Warfare

Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham) Dead Bodies on Display: the
Spectacle of the Death-Scene and the Epic Gaze

Emma Bridges (The Open University) The Greatest Runway Show in History: Paul Violi’s House of Xerxes and the Spectacle of War

Registration fee: £10 which includes a sandwich lunch and refreshments

A limited number of student travel bursaries are available.

With grateful thanks to the Faculty of Arts of the Open University for
supporting this event.

To register and for all other information please email Anastasia Bakogianni:
a.bakogianni AT open.ac.uk

Please send all payments to Yvonne Bartley: y.s.bartley
Cheques should be made payable to ‘The Open University’ and sent to:
Yvonne Bartley, Department of Classical Studies, Faculty of Arts
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA