Please join us for the International Conference on Ancient Magic.
This event is open to the public.
WORKING SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
Introductory remarks 9:30-9:45
Session 1, 9:45-11:15 Chair: Miranda Amey
•Korshi Dosoo: “Making Magic Before Frazer: The Nineteenth Century Construction of Ancient Greek Magic” (Virtual)
•Michael Swartz: "Kansas, I've a Feeling We're Not In Toto Anymore: Thirty Years of Dialogue on the Concept of Ancient Magic."
Session 2, 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."
Session 3, 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:
Session 4: 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”
Session 5: 11:30-1:00 Chair: Harriet Fertik
•Veronique Dasen: "'I Love You a Little:' Eros at Play in a Roman Glyptic" (Virtual)
•Carman Romano: "Therapy with Medea"
Session 6: 2:00-2:45 Chair: Tina Sessa
Lucy Grig “Magic as a Form of Lived Religion in Late Antique Gaul”
Session 7: 3:00-4:00
Conversation between David Frankfurter and Sarah Iles Johnston: what we’ve been doing and where we should go.
Session 8: 4:15-5:30
Responses to the papers by Fritz Graf, Megan Nutzman, Chris Parmenter, Katie Rask and Tina Sessa, followed by general discussion.