Symposium:  Animals and Animal Imagery in the Ancient and Medieval World

Symposium: Animals and Animal Imagery in the Ancient and Medieval World

May 26, 2022 9:00 am

Event Details

Symposium May 26-27, 2022

We are excited to announce a two-day VIRTUAL symposium on May 26-27, 2022 with the theme: Animals and Animal Imagery in the Ancient World. The symposium is organized by Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. The conference is associated with the current numismatics exhibition on animals titled, Money Zoo: Fantastic Beasts in the History of Money.

Hosted by Marina Fischer (UCalgary) and Carolyn Willekes (Mount Royal University)

questions: m.fischer@ucalgary.ca

Registration: https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3673524

Full Program Details:  MoneyZooSymposium Program

Please note that all times are MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)

THURSDAY MAY 26

Animals, the Divine, and the Cosmos (9:00-10:45am) Chair: TBA

  • Marla Szwec (The University of Toronto): Howling for Sun-Worship: An Examination of Baboon Iconography in Ancient Egyptian Celestial Sky Maps
  • Raphaël Demes (Université de Lille):  The peacock as a vehicle of the soul. Reflections on a singular iconography in Rome during Antiquity and Late Antiquity
  • Victoria Györi (Institute of Classical Studies, London): The Tauroctony on an Augustan Armenia Capta Coin Type of c. 19-18 BC
  • Carolyn Willekes (Mount Royal University): Poseidon’s Horses and Hephaestus’ Mules: Equids and Social Attitudes in the Classical World

Philosophy and Semiotics (11:00am-12:30pm) Chair: TBA

  • Andre Kviatkovski (Universidade Federal de São Paulo): Why it’s Necessary to Abstain from Animal Food to Contemplate the Superior Realities?
  • John Dayton (Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai): The Rites of Carnivores and Cannibals
  • Thiago do Amaral Biazotto (University of Campinas): Alexander the Great’s lion hunt images and the question of animal consciousness in the Hellenistic World

Reptiles and Serpents in Thought and Practice (1:30-3:00pm) Chair: TBA

  • Carlo Canna (Independent Researcher): Crocodiles in Churches between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era: the Italian Remains
  • Jazz Demetrioff (SUNY Buffalo): Reptilian Remedies: Determining the Nomenclature and Usage of Snakes in Pliny’s Medical Corpus
  • Giovanni Piccolo (The University of Melbourne): Crocodiles, Basilisks, and Flying Snakes: Julius Solinus’ Monster Reptiles in the Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium

 

FRIDAY May 27

Animals in Numismatics (9:00-10:30am) Chair: TBA

  • Lora L. Holland Goldthwaite (University of North Carolina at Asheville): Deer and Graeco-Roman Coinage
  • Oliwia A. Ullrich (WWU Münster): Horsemanship on Greek Coins
  • Rosanagh Mack (University of Reading): From Imagination to Image: The Legend of the First Horse on Classical Thessalian Coinage

Animals, Ideologies, and Symbolism (10:45am-12:30pm) Chair: TBA

  • Aleksa K. Alaica (University of Alberta): Animal Apotheosis: Debating the Wild-Domestic Divide in Moche Artwork and Practice
  • Anastasija Ropa (Latvian Academy of Sport Education) and Edgar Rops (Independent Researcher): The Unicorn, the Serpent and Two Mice in the Parable of Human Life from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
  • Anuradha Gobin (University of Calgary): The Birds and the Bees: Laughter, Death, and Procreation in the Dutch Republic
  • Zahra Kouzeghari (Université de Lyon): Goats from Subsistence Economy to Mythology in Zagros Region: Mesopotamia and Western Iran

Animals and Humans (1:30-3:00pm) Chair: TBA

  • Amber J. Porter (University of Calgary): ‘Love is Rewarding’: Human Emotion and Companion Dogs in Greco-Roman Funerary Inscriptions
  • Silvannen Gerrard (The University of Manchester): What Should We Do with a Drunken Elephant? Exploring the Relationship of Hellenistic War-Elephants and Alcohol
  • Alison Clark (Independent Researcher): ‘Along the Whale Road’: Whales, Early Medieval People and Maritime Environmental Perceptions

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