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Conference Programme

Programme

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and intro

Dr Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow

09:15-10:15 Keynote

Prof Adrienne Mayor, Stanford University

10:15-11:15 Panel 1: Metamorphosis of Bodies

Dr Tanika Koosmen, University of Newcastle, Australia

[Dis]Playing Changing Bodies: Metamorphic Greco-Roman Myths as “Display” of Form

Dr Ryan Denson, University of Exeter:

Pickled Tritons: The Bodily Display of (Divine) Cryptids in the Roman Empire

COFFEE BREAK 11:15 – 11:30

11:30 - 12:30 Panel 2: First Impressions/Judgement of Bodies

Jasmine Sahu-Hough, PhD candidate - Yale University:

“The Sort of Man You All See Me To Be”: Visible Disability and Citizenship in Classical Athens

Dr Dan Mills, Georgia Institute of Technology:

Physiognomic Disability in Literary, Statuarial, and Numismatic Depictions of Claudius

12:30 - 13:30 Panel 3: Bodies of Servants

Dr Anastasia Meintani, Universität Wien:

Bodily Display in the Context of the Banquet

Shreya Sharma, Independent Scholar:

Visual Arts and British Imperialism in India

LUNCH BREAK 13:30-14:15

14:15 - 16:15 Panel 4: Bodies in Museum Collections

Prof. Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design:

Babies in Bottles: Personhood, Pregnancy, and Anatomical Preparations, 1880-1900


Dra. Carolina Valenzuela Matus, Universidad Autónoma de Chile:

Animals for Education: Taxidermy Display in School Cabinets in Chile (Twentieth Century)

Aoife Sutton-Butler, PhD candidate - University of Bradford:

Pathological Bodies: Visitor Attitudes towards the Display of Historical Potted Specimens at Two British Medical Museums

Cornelia Thompson, PhD candidate - UCL Institute of Archaeology:

Medical Bodies on Display: The History and Context of Medical Museums

COFFEE BREAK 16:15-16:30

16:30 - 17:30 Panel 5: Lived Experience of Bodies

Prof. Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal, Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Shanghai:

Displaying, Hiding: Narratives and Images of Sarcoma

Sarah Scaife, PhD candidate - University of Exeter:

Vexed Paradox in Historical Anatomical Display – One Artist-Researcher’s Perspective through Lived Experience

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 17:30-18:00

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