Friday, April 8   -  Carpenter Library B 21

4:00-4:30

Tea in the Quita Woodward Room

4:30-4:45

Opening: Radcliffe Edmonds, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College

4:45- 5:15 

Radcliffe Edmonds

“We prefer to approach the gods in holy places”: Some Ancient Theorizations of Sacred Space”

5:15-5:45 

Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Religion Department at Haverford College

“Sacred Space and Divine Presence in the Jerusalem Temples”

5:45-6:15 

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Assistant Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid

“Inner sacred space: spacial metaphors for religious choice and conversion in ancient Greece”

6:15-6:45

Break in the Quita Woodward Room

6:45-7:15 

Steven Karacic, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College

“Inclusion, Exclusion, and Sacred Spaces in the Performance of the Opet Festival”

7:15-7:45 

Raquel Martín, Assistant Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid

“The Memnonia as a Sacred Space”

8:00

Dinner in the Ely Room (Wyndham)

Saturday, April 9   -  Thomas Hall 110

Coffee & Danish - The London Room

9:00-9:30 

James Wright, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College

“Architecture as Sacred and Cosmic Icon: The Case of Minoan Crete”

9:30-10:00

Paola Corrente, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Greek Philology and Indoeuropean Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid

“The ‘space’ of death in the family rituals in the Mediterranean world”

10:00-10:30 

Astrid Lindenlauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College

“‘Do not Drop Things here...’ - Waste Disposal Regulations in Sanctuaries and beyond”

10:30-11:00

Break in the London Room

11:00-11:30 

Fatima Díez Platas, Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela

“Where Dionysus Dwells: Greek Vases as a Virtual Sacred Spac”

11:30-12:00 

Jennifer Tracy, M.A. in Classics, Bryn Mawr College

“Liminal Spaces and Witchcraft in Roman Poetry”

12:00-1:30

Lunch in the Dorothy Vernon Room (Haffner Hall)

1:30-2:00

Robert Germany, Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Haverford College

“Contemplating Comedy: Augural Space in Early Roman Theater”

2:00-2:30  

Francisco Barrenechea, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College

“Making room for the new god: introduction of new cults and representations of religious space in Aristophanes' Wealth"

2:30-3:00 

Asya Sigelman, Assistant Professor at the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College

ἐπ’ ἔσχατα βαίνεις: Sacred Liminality in Sophocles’ Colonus”

3:00-4:00

Tea break in the London Room

4:00-4:30 

Johanna Best, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College

“Sacred Grounds: Green Spaces and Greek Sanctuaries”

4:30-5:00 

Ana Jiménez , Associate Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid

“Oreibasia: The Mountain as Sacred Space in Dionysian Cults”

5:00-5:30

Break in  the London Room

5:30-6:00 

Alberto Bernabé, Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid

“Spatial Ambiguity in Plutarch fr. 178 Sandbach and the Derveni Papyrus”

6:00-6:30 

Francesc Casadesús, Professor of Greek Philosophy at the University of the Balearic Islands

“Phaedrus 247c: Hyperouranios topos, the sacred and philosophical realm of Being”

6:30-7:00 

Marco A. Santamaría, Professor of Greek in the Department of Classic Philology at the University of Salamanca

“The Geography of Paradise: Elysium, Isles of the Blest and Hyperboreans”

7:00-8:00

Final roundtable discussion

8:00

Celebratory Dinner