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Conference Announcement Theme: Those. Othering, Alterity, Appropriation in Ancient Art Type: Digital Conference Institution: Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Hamburg Location: Online Date: 20.–21.5.2021 __________________________________________________ Concepts of others, othering, self-representation or opposing worlds are topics of well-known conferences and publications over the last decades. Due to the relevance and width of the topic, the announced event would like to continue the investigations and furthermore consider the Greeks and Romans as strangers in other cultures and the location of the ancient world in global history. Dealing with others and the demarcation of the self is a determining phenomenon of human activity. Contact with others is an integral part of societies and allows each society to locate in a wider context. The disparaging characterization of others has always served to stabilize a group's identity but not only concepts of enemies, also excessive idealizations of those others. Antiquity is no exception. The confrontation with a close or distant counterpart serves the construction of social identities and usually exposes more about the ascribing group than about the portrayed. At the same time, the frequent presence of the stereotyped image of the foreign reciprocally constructs further conceptions. Consequently, the impact of depictions on further prejudices is worthy to be studied too. For this conference, the term others (“those”) is broadly defined; including neighboring and distant, real and mythical foreign peoples, individual populations whose demarcation serves to identify other groups: poor, sick, women, men, religious adherents. This also includes the Greeks and Romans themselves, who found their way into depictions and descriptions as others by their contemporaneous counterparts and later epochs. The aim of the conference is to consider dealing with others, contexts of othering and alterity, to question about center and periphery and the reversal of this view, while investigating the self-positioning of those presenting others, likewise the positioning of today's scientific perspectives. Conference Programme 20 May 2021 10:00 (CEST) Welcome 10:30 Hyun Jin Kim, Melbourne Were the 'Barbarians' the 'Other'? Classical Greek Representation of Non-Greeks 11:15 Kristina E. Fleischmann, Erlangen The Oriental's Fascination: Greek Presentation and Perception of the Persian Others 12:15 Tatiana Tereshchenko, Moscow Roman Representations of the Barbarians in Visual Arts 13:00 Ljuben Tevdovski, Skopje Pars Orientalis and the Invention of Oriental Other in Classical Antiquity 14:45 Diwakar Kumar Singh, Darbhanga Othering the Yavana: A Context of Yug Purana 15:30 Lilian Adlung-Schönheit, Hamburg To the End of the World: India and Indians as Allegory of Superiority in Roman Visual Art 17:00 Gretel Rodríguez, Providence, Rhode Island Looking at the Other: The Barbarian Captive in Roman Commemorative Art 18:00 Online Reception 21 May 2021 10:00 Victor Humennyi, Lviv "Alio ex orbe": Depicting Parthia and Armenia in the Visual Tradition of Early Imperial Roman Coinage 10:45 Richard Posamentir, Tübingen The Other World in the North 11:45 Richard Kendall, Edinburgh Lion’s Share? Emerging Hybridity in Roman Olbia Pontica 12:30 Savannah Bishop, Istanbul The Otherness of Gold in Ancient Roman Eyes: Gold in the Hands of Slaves, the Hair of Gauls, and the Talons of Griffins 14:00 Grzegorz First, Krakow Seer as Other. The Image of the Other as a Source of Knowledge in the Art 14:45 Burkhard Emme, Berlin Older People – Other People? Possible Meanings of Hellenistic 'Genre Figures' 15:45 Lorenz Winkler-Horacek, Berlin Scylla and Polyphemus: Two Grades of Liminality 16:30 Jacobus Bracker, Hamburg The Othering of Nature in Archaic Greek Art 17:30 Final Discussion Registration & Zoom-Link: lilian.schoenh...@uni-hamburg.de Contact: Lilian Adlung-Schönheit, Conference Convenor Institute for Classical Archaeology University of Hamburg Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (West) 20146 Hamburg Germany Email: lilian.schoenh...@uni-hamburg.de Web: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.uni-hamburg.de/ka.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________