| Date | 01 July 2022 |
| Time | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Location | Amsterdam |
| Organizer(s) | Merlijn Breunesse |
This interdisciplinary two-day workshop is devoted to the construction of fantastical worlds across various narrative media from antiquity to the present.
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).