Themes of Isolation in, and in the Study of the Ancient World - UWICAH 2020

Lampeter UWTSD

The 2020 Universities in Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History (UWICAH) Postgraduate Conference

* Tickets now only available through request via email : uwicahconference2020@gmail.com *The 2020 Universities in Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History (UWICAH) Postgraduate Conference entitled ‘Themes of Isolation in, and in the study of the Ancient World’, is scheduled for Friday 20th &amp; Saturday 21st November 2020. This year's conference will take place via Microsoft Teams, and is hosted by Lampeter University (University of Wales Trinity Saint David). Including the universities which are part of UWICAH: University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Lampeter (UWTSD), Swansea University and Cardiff University, we will have speakers from numerous national and international institutions. The variety of papers will span across a number of different disciplines, primarily coming from post-graduate students of Ancient History, Egyptology, Classics and Archaeology.The conference is completely free to attend. Once you have registered your interest and details, you will receive an email on how to access the conference a bit closer to the time. You will also be sent a digital booklet of paper abstracts nearer the time. Note: Please sign up using a gmail or outlook email address, as some email address are not supported by Microsoft Teams.

<h3>Friday 20th November </h3>General Room:10:00 – Introduction &amp; Welcome talk with Dr. Louise SteelRoom 1: Identity, Myth &amp; Epic:10:35 - Isolation and Social Interaction; Constructing localised identity in fourth century Arcadia - Thomas Alexander Husøy, Swansea University11:10 - Isolation through autochthony: the case of the Athenian heroes of the Acropolis - Ioannis Mitsios, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens11:45 - The Solitude of Anna Soror: Intertextuality and National Identity in Silius Italicus Punica 8.1 231 - Avi Kapach, Brown University12:15 – Lunch 12:50 – Cicero, De Finibus bonorum et malorum, II, 29: the screams of loneliness - Federica Boero, University of Genoa13:25 – Different loneliness, one single suffering: Penelope and other isolations in the Odyssey - Marika Strano, Independent Scholar14:00 - Unseen and Unseeing: Oedipus and Isolation in Statius’ Thebaid - Kate Barnes, Bryn Mawr CollegeRoom 2: Text and Historiography:10:35 – Being a Byzantinist: An Academic Discipline on the Periphery - Sean Strong, Cardiff University11:10 – Imperial isolation in the fifth-century western Roman empire – a reappraisal? - Tom Campbell-Moffat, University College London11:45 – Isolating a Textual Problem in a Fragment: the case of Enn. Ann. 470-471 Skutsch in Don. Ter. Phorm. 1028 - Camilla Poloni, Universoty of Pisa12:15 – Lunch12:50 – Dialectal Features in Greek Texts from the Delta: What (Isolated) Onomastic Variants Tell Us about the Provenance of Documents - Ana Isabel Blasco Torres, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven13:25 – Minor terminology of the Augustalitas: its geographic location and stagnation - Alberto Barrón Ruiz de la Cuesta, University of Cantabria14:00 – The verb ὑφίστημι and its 'isolated' connotation in Iliad, 9.160 - Giulia Roncato, Trinity College DublinGeneral Room:14:35– Closing talk/ End<h3>Saturday 21st November</h3>General Room:10:00 – Introduction &amp; welcome talk, with Dr. Katharina ZinnRoom 1: Egyptology10:35 – Imported Animals by War in the New Kingdom Period - Gehad Mohamed, Minia University11:10 – Alone in life, alone in death? - Anne Drewsen, University of Copenhagen11:45 – The Deceased’s Journey in the Afterlife as Depicted on the 21st Dynasty Coffin Set of Hori - Hala Mostafa, Ain Shams University12:15 – Lunch12:50: Classical temples in Egypt during Ptolemaic and Roman Times - Kholoud Aref, Ain Shams University13:25 – The Island Births of Ptolemy II and Apollo: Interrelating Themes in Egyptian Kingship and Greek Myth - Henry Bohun, University of Wales Trinity St David14:00 - Plato’s Stepchildren: Disability in Ancient Egypt &amp; the Hellenistic/Ptolemaic Period - Alexandra F. Morris, Teesside UniversityRoom 2: Social Experience &amp; Expression10:35 - Helping the Childless in Ancient Rome - Rhian Williams, Cardiff University11:10 - Isolated victims: theft, assault and seeking justice in the Roman Empire - Ashley Finn, Melbourne University 11:45 - Live Unnoticed, but not Alone: The Epicureans on Social Isolation - Wim Nijs, KU Leuven12:15 – Lunch 12:50 - Marble city: public reflection in the Augustan Rome - Goran Đurđević, Capital Normal University ,Beijing 13:25 – Foreign Influence and the creation of ‘isolation’: Wetland Deposition in Britain, with a select focus on Wales and Scotland - Tiffany Treadway, Cardiff University14:00 – Curse Tablets and Isolation in the Ancient World - Charlotte Spence, Exeter University General Room:14:35 – Closing Talk &amp; Round Table discussion with UWICAH Students