Workshop
The Object Talks Back:
Bildwissenschaft and the Material Reception of Antiquity

09:15 Opening Remarks
Ruth Bielfeldt and Ulrich Pfisterer

09:20–10:20 Opening Lecture
Caroline van Eck
Zoomorphism, Camouflage, and the Origins of Image-Making

10:20–10:55
Albert Bates
Making Metaphor of Europa’s Rape: Achilles Tatius 1 and the Lullingstone Mosaic

10:55–11:30
Sophie Wardle
Speaking Pavements: Material Responses to the Bucklersbury Mosaic

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–12:20
Georgios Koukovasilis
Constructing femininities in Roman Olympia: Τhe case of the Heraion

12:20–13:00
Sofia Greaves
Antiquity and Purity in 19th-century Rome

Afternoon

14:30–15:05
Stella Wisgrill
Artful Soils: Overlaps of Sixteenth-Century Interest in Mining and Archaeology

15:05–15:40
Frances Hughes
Authorial Invention and the Fictive Heraldic Image

15:40–16:00
Coffee Break

16:00–16:35
Alice Blow
Gender Ambiguity in English Prints and Visual Culture

16:35–17:10
Francesca Dytor
Performing the past in early twentieth-century dance

Evening Lecture
18:15
Alexander Marr
Holbein’s Wit

The workshop is convened by Ruth Bielfeldt, Caroline van Eck and Ulrich Pfisterer.
It is supported by the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership.