"Medical Knowledge and its 'Sitz im Leben': BODY AND HORROR IN ANTIQUITY”, Kiel (18-20.11.2021)
List of speakers
Claire Bubb (New York University) At the Borders of Horror and Science: The Social Contexts of Roman Dissection
Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy | Czech Academy of Sciences) Recipes for Horror
Maria Gerolemou (University of Exeter, UK) Heracles’ Automatic Body: Madness, Horror and Laughter in Euripides’ Hercules Furens
Lutz Alexander Graumann (University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany) Overcoming Horror: Faintness and Medical Agents. Some Tentative Thoughts on Antiquity and Today
Sophia Luise Häberle (Humboldt Universität, Berlin) Naming the Monster: A Practice of Forensic Horror in Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
Lutz Käppel (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany) Roots of Horror: Environment, Bodies, Societies
George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece) Horror and the Body in Early Greek Paradoxography
Dunstan Lowe (Kent University, UK) Hot and Cold Blood in Lucan’s Civil War
Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) A Terrible History of Classical Horror
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy / Chicago, USA) The Horrific Body in Sophocles
Michael Puett (Harvard University) Demon Hordes and the Coming Apocalypse: The Limits of the Human in Chinese Late Antiquity
Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester, UK) Apocalypse: Horror and Divine Pleasure
Rodrigo Sigala (independent, Germany) The Thrilling Forces Behind Horrific Experiences: A Neuroscientific Approach
Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) The Visceral Thrills of Tragedy: Flesh, Blood and Guts Off and On the Tragic Stage Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete, Greece) Enargeia, Disgust and Visceral Abhorrence
Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany)
Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College) Fearful Laughter: Bodily Horror in Roman Sexual Humour
The event, sponsored by the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, will be hosted by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, and will be both in person and on Zoom.
For practical details and updates, please contact the organisers: Chiara Thumiger (ROOTS, Kiel University, cthumiger@roots.uni-kiel.de) / George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, kazanbile@gmail.com)
https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/old_calendar-events/roots-events/medical-knowledge-and-its-sitz-im-leben-body-and-horror-in-antiquity
