New Classicists Conference

New Classicists Conference - Collaboration and/or New Techniques in the Classics

December 7, 2019 King’s College London

Program Outline

0930             Welcome

0940             Guest Speaker: Dr Abigail Graham (ICS) - Title tbc

1020              Paul Kelly (KCL) - Risk and return in Roman Egypt

1055              Break

1110               Konstantin Schulz (HU Berlin) - CALLIDUS: A database

of exercises for learning Latin

1145               Benjamin Wilck (HU Berlin) - Hidden messages in Greek mathematics: Results of a statistical analysis of linguistic regularities in Euclid's Elements

1230              Lunch & Poster Presentations

1340              Giulia Frigerio (Kent) - The impact of the laurel on Apolline divination: Affecting the mind without the use of drugs

1415               Noga Erez-Yodfat (Ben-Gurion) - Senses and the embodied mind of the mystes in ancient mystery cults

1450              Mark McCahill (Glasgow) - The ancient senses and Roman ritual: Considering imagines as memory objects in an interdisciplinary context

1525               Break

1540              Samuel Agbamu (KCL) - Classics and the Poverty of Philosophy

1615               Vivienne McGlashan (Bristol) - The Bacchants are silent: Applying cognitive approaches to explore ritual maenadism

1650              Nathalie Choubineh (Reading) - Kinetography: A methodological framework for reading kinetic motifs in the Greek vase-painting

1730              Drinks Reception

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