Please join us for the International Conference on Ancient Magic.
This event is open to the public.
WORKING SCHEDULE
Friday October 17
8:30- 9:30 BREAKFAST AND CHAT
Introductory remarks 9:30-9:45
9:45-11:15 Chair: Miranda Amey
Korshi Dosoo: “Making Magic Before Frazer: The Nineteenth Century Construction of Ancient Greek Magic” (virtual participation)
Michael Swartz: "Kansas, I've a Feeling We're Not In Toto Anymore: Thirty Years of Dialogue on the Concept of Ancient Magic."
Coffee 11:15-11:30
11:30-1:00 Chair: Gaia Gianni
Georgia Frank: “'How to Acquire a Beautiful Voice': Singing and Sonority in Ancient Magic"
Joe Sanzo: "Early Christian Liturgical Singing in its Agonistic Context: A View from the Late Antique Magical Record."
1:00-2:30 LUNCH
2:30-4:00 Chair: Ben Folit-Weinberg
Radcliffe Edmonds “What is the Question?: More on Magic and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance”
Michael Beshay: “Ritual Storyboards? The Encomia of Coptic Magic.”
Saturday October 18:
8:30- 9:30 BREAKFAST AND CHAT
9:30-11:00 Chair: Katie Rask
Jessica Lamont: "Shared Rites and the Community of a Sacred Space in Late Antiquity: Corinth’s Fountain of the Lamps"
Drew Wilburn: “The Role of Architectural Magic in Protecting the Family from Illness and Misfortune”
11:30-1:00 Chair: Harriet Fertik
Veronique Dasen: "'I Love You a Little:' Eros at Play in a Roman Glyptic" (Virtual participation)
Carman Romano: "Therapy with Medea"
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-2:45 Chair: Tina Sessa
Lucy Grig “Magic as a Form of Lived Religion in Late Antique Gaul”
3:00-4:00
Conversation between David Frankfurter and Sarah Iles Johnston about what we’ve been doing for the past 40 years and where we should go, now.
4:15-5:30
Responses to the papers by some of the OSU ancient religion faculty (Megan, Tina, Fritz.), and then general discussion (presided over by Fritz Graf).