Workshop 'Constructing Fantastical Worlds' - Day 2

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This interdisciplinary two-day workshop is devoted to the construction of fantastical worlds across various narrative media from antiquity to the present.

Program

WELCOME

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome: coffee and tea

KEYNOTE

09:15 - 10:00 Rutger Allan
Framing Fantasy: Uncanny Encounters in the Odyssey

IMMERSION IN FANTASTICAL WORLDS

Chair: Caterina Fossi

10:00 - 10:25 Dianna Bartlett
The Impact of a 'Magic System' on Immersion in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica

10:25 - 10:50 Lola Bos
'A World of Monsters': Narrating the Fantastical World in Sophocles' Trachiniae

10:50 - 11:15 Questions and discussion

11:15 - 11:40 Coffee and tea break

FANTASTICAL WORLDS AS A MATTER OF BELIEF
Chair: Klazina Staat

11:40 - 12:05 Caterina Fossi
Narrating Beliefs: Fantastical and Actual Worlds in Plato's Eschatological Myths

12:05 - 12:30 Lieke Smits
The Daughter and the King: Fantastical Worlds in Medieval Religious Allegory

12:30 - 12:55 Questions and discussion

12:55 - 13:55 Lunch break

REALITY AND FANTASTICAL WORLDS
Chair: Merlijn Breunesse

13:55 - 14:20 Giovanni Piccolo
On the Wild Frontier: a World of Wonders at the Edge of the Empire in Solinus' Collectanae Rerum Memorabilium

14:20 - 14:45 Bé Breij
The Fantastical World of Sophistopolis

14:45 - 15:10 Questions and discussion

15:10 - 15:35 Coffee and Tea Break

15:35 - 17:00 Concluding discussion

17:00 Drinks offered by the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)


Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions: Caterina Fossi (c.fossi@uva.nl), Merlijn Breunesse (m.r.e.breunesse@uva.nl) and Koen Vacano (k.vacano@uva.nl).