1st Day: 6th of December – Reed Hall, Exeter University Streatham Campus
9.15-9.30: Registration
9.30.-9.40: Opening Remarks
Simple Moving Devices, Materials and Mechanized bodies
Chair: Lynette Mitchell
9.40-10.20: Deborah T. Steiner (Columbia), The Sorcerers’ Apprentices: cauldrons, bellows and the furnace in the early Greek imaginary
10.20-11.00: Maria Gerolemou (Exeter), Ἡφαιστότευκτα
11.00-11.40: Richard Seaford (Exeter), The Living Image: Mesopotamia and Archaic Greece
11.40-12.10: Coffee/Tea Break
Chair: Barbara Borg
12.10-12.50: Ruth Bielfeldt (Munich), The axe’s heart work. On Homeric technê-similes
12.50-13.30: Carol C. Mattusch (George Mason University), Dead or Alive? Giving Life to Bronze
13.30-14:30: Lunch Break
Chair: Rebecca Langlands
14.30-15.10: Maya B. Muratov (Adelphi University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), From “dolls” to puppets: mechanisms and purpose of articulated figurines in antiquity
15.10-15.50: Jane Draycott (Glasgow), Living Dolls: Articulation, Animation, and Prostheses
15.50-16.30:Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews), Votive toys: animation and value
16.30-17.00: Coffee/Tea Break
Chair: Christopher Gill
17.00-17:40: Jean De Groot (CUA), Imitation and life: Device in the fifth to fourth century
17.40-18.20: Colin A. Webster (UC Davis), Aristotle and the Artifice of the Living Heart
18.45: Wine Reception and Buffett (Forum Building)
2nd Day: 7th of December – Forum Exploration Lab 2, Forum Building, Exeter University Streatham Campus
Mechanical Devices
Chair: Maria Gerolemou
10.00-10.40: Arthur Harris (Cambridge), Does Mechanics Violate the Principle of Non-Contradiction?
10.40-11.20: Gabriele Galluzzo (Exeter), Automatic puppets, toy carts and robots. Aristotle’s metaphysics of artefacts and the question of automata
11.20-12.00: Isabel Ruffell (Glasgow), Trains and boats and planes: animating the ship in Greek culture
12.00-12.30: Coffee/Tea Break
Chair: David Braund
12.30-13.10: Tatiana Bur (Cambridge), The importance of the construct in viewing religious automata
13.10-13.50: Courtney Ann Roby (Cornell), Strange loops: experiment and program in Hero of Alexandria’s Automata
13.50-14.50: Lunch Break
Chair: John Wilkins
14.50-15.30: Antje B. Wessels (Leiden), (Living) Objects and their Aesthetic Experience in Petronius Satyricon
15.30-16.10: SeungJung Kim (Toronto), Visualising time: The Lysippan Kairos in the scientific landscape of the fourth century BCE
16.10-16.40: Coffee/Tea Break
Chair: Richard Flower
16.40-17.20: Karen ní Mheallaigh (Exeter), Mesomedes’ clock: technical animation and the choreography of the quotidian
17.20-18.00: Dunstan Lowe (Kent), Half Past Wonder: Automaton Clocks in Late Antique Folklore
18.00-18.20: Break
Chair: Irene Salvo
18.20-19.00, Sonya Nevin (Roehampton), Animating Artefacts: The Panoply Vase Animation Project
19.00-19.10, Closing Remarks
20.00, Drinks and Dinner