FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS
Classical Pilgrimages, Consecrated Landscapes:
Travellers to the Mediterranean World in the Age of Enlightenment
At the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 4 April
2003
A one day interdisciplinary conference.
This conference will examine the phenomenon of western travel to the
"classical world" in the long eighteenth century. It aims to explore
neglected aspects of the cultural practice of travel and travel
writing, the
influence of the classics on the development of topographical
knowledge, and
Enlightenment perceptions of the sites of ancient civilisations. The
recreation of antiquity, as the paradigm of contemporary notions of
liberty,
patriotism and virtue, will be explored through the work of artists,
antiquarians and dilettanti. Landscape, the physical remains of
ancient
civilisations, and the cultural "decay" of modernity will serve as the
key
foci of the panels.
The conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of
disciplines,
including anthropology, art history, history and classics, literary
studies,
museology, political science and sociology, in an examination of the
emergence
of modern understandings of historical pasts and the cultural present.
Call for Papers
We would particularly welcome papers centred on the following themes:
- Discourses of hellenism: the politics of cultural origins.
- The creation of rational and Romantic narratives and knowledges.
- Reading the past: the influence of the classics on travellers
to the Mediterranean.
- Mapping the antique: topography, imbued landscapes and the
imagination.
- Political paradigms: representation of Athens, Sparta and Rome
in travel literature.
- "Glaring instances of stupid barbarism": pillage and preservation
of ancient relics.
- Moral decay and echoes of the past: travellers' perceptions
of modern populations.
- Recreating classical landscapes: literary and artistic
representation.
Contact Details:
Please send an abstract for proposed twenty-minute papers of about 300
words,
(preferably by email) to:
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Or:
Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris
Department of Classics and Ancient History
Queens Building
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4QH
United Kingdom
Organising panel: Dr. Kevin King (Department of English & American
Studies,
University of Manchester, UK), Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris (Department of
Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter, UK), Dr. James Moore
(School
of Art History & Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK), Dr
Catherine Tite
(The Henry Moore Foundation, UK).
For Microsoft Word or RTF copy of the flyer and conference poster,
please
email the above address.
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Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris
Honorary University Fellow
Dept. Classics & Ancient History
University of Exeter.
Phone +44 (0) 7815 310776
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