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{Egyptian}

The Clothed Body in the Ancient World

The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
17-19 January 2002

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Programme & Abstracts :: Conference Photographs

DAY 1 - Thursday 17th January 2002

TIME Berrill Lecture Theatre
9-10 Registration and Coffee -Berrill Foyer
10.00 WELCOME: Mary Harlow & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
10.15-10.35 Mary Harlow & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones - Unwrapping Presents: (Mis)Representing Ancient Dress in Scholarship 1800-2000
10.35-10.55 Hero Granger-Taylor - The Display of Status Through Dress
10.55-11.35 Sue Blundell & Nancy Rabinowitz - Does My Bum Look Big In This? Doing Gender with Clothes in Attic vase-painting
11.35-12.15 discussion
12.15- 1.45 LUNCH - Pavilion Activity Room
1.45-2.05 Alex Croom - Roman Cosmetics
2.05-2.25 Joann Fletcher - The Decorated Body in Ancient Egypt: Hairstyles, Cosmetics and Tattoos or How False Hair and Eye-Paint Can Speak For the Majority!
2.25-2.55 Jeri DeBrohun - Scent as an Element of Ancient Dress
2.55-3.25 discussion
3.25-4.00 TEA - Berrill Foyer
4.00-4.20 Judith Sebesta - Verecundo praetexta decori: The toga praetexta of Roman Children and Praetextate Garments
4.20-4.40 Diana Wardle - Bare-Breasts and Codpieces
4.40-5.00 Discussion
5.10-6.00 Sally Pointer - Roman perfumes and cosmetics: presentation and display - follow this link to see photographs taken at this presentation.
Opportunity to examine Diana Wardle's exhibition of nineteenth century Balkan clothing; Judith Sebesta on wearing a toga; Dan Shadrake from History Today.
  Followed by Drinks reception - Berrill Foyer
7.30 DINNER - Sports Pavilion Activity Room

DAY 2 - Friday 18th January 2002

TIME SESSION A - Berrill Meeting Room 1 level 3 SESSION B - Berrill Lecture Theatre
9.30-9.50 Christopher Tuplin - Treacherous Hearts and Upright Tiaras Giuseppi Scala - Domestic Silk and Fabrics of Pompeii
9.50-10.10 Amy Barron - Ceramic Boot Vessels. A Mystery of Form and Function Rosanna Martorelli - Textile handicraft in the Early Christian Age
10.10-10.30 J. Green - Ritual and display in funerary contexts: the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Cemetery at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Kjordan Orit Shamir - Tunics from Kasr-al-Yahud
10.30-11.00: Discussion Discussion
11.00 - 11.30: COFFEE - Berrill Foyer
11.30-11.50: Ariane Marcar - Reconstructing Aegean Fashions Shaun Tougher - Clothing Eunuchs: Dress and the Identity of Eunuchs in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
11.50-12.10 Senta German - A reconsideration of Aegean Bronze Age Dress Janet Huskinson - All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go? Art, Dress and Later Roman Culture
12.10-12.30 Gina Muskett - Mycenean Female Dress and Identity: A Cognitive Approach A. Bowie-Snodgrass - Becoming Fire: Fashion, Christianity and the Unclothed Body in Byzantium.
12.30-1.00 Discussion Discussion
1.00 - 2.15: LUNCH - Sports Pavilion Activity Room
2.15-2.35 Naoko Yamagata - Silent Witness: Clothing and Identity of Homeric Bodies (dead or alive) Liz James - Get your kit on! High Fashion in Byzantine Art
2.35-2.55 E. Parisinou - Disguise and Military Ethics Lise Bender-Jørgensen - Roman or Germanic? Warrior Dress as Expressions of Identities in Late Roman/Migration Period Europe.
2.55-3.15 Francesca Zardini - Clothes and Accessories of Gods and Heroes Ron Newbold - Costume in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours: top gear and bottom gear
3.15-3.45 Discussion Discussion
3.45-4.15: TEA - Berrill Foyer
All the papers below will be in the Berrill Lecture Theatre
4.15-4.35 Emma Stafford - Viewing and Obscuring the Female Breast: Glimpses of the Ancient Bra
4.35-4.55 Shelly Hales - Men are Mars, Women are Venus?
4.55-5.15 Glenys Davies - What made the Roman toga virilis?
5.15-5.45: Discussion
7.30/8.00PM: CONFERENCE DINNER HILTON HOTEL

DAY 3 - Saturday 19th January 2002

TIME SESSION A - Berrill Meeting Room 1 Level 3 SESSION B - Berrill Lecture Theatre
9.30-9.50 James Robson - New Clothes, A New You: Transforming Makeovers in Aristophanes Amy Smith - The Pan Painter's Mannerism: Costume and Artistic License
9.50-10.10 Constance Campbell - The Gold-Coloured Belt in Ancient Tragic Costume Michael Duigan - Images of Women and Women as Images. Does the Iconography of Female Ornaments Comment on the Wearers as Agalmata?
10.10-10.30 Lorna Hardwick - The Narratology of Dress in Tantalus Benjamin Weaver - Ritual Disguise in Attic Portraits of Acteaon
10.30-11.00 Discussion Discussion
11.00 - 11.30 COFFEE - Berrill Foyer
11.30-11.50 L. Cleland - The 'Written Garment': Analysing inscribed catalogues of dedicated garments as description (with particular reference to Artemis Brauronia) Eleni Kornarou - Appearance of mourners in Ancient Greece
11.50-12.10 Silvia Milanezi - Rhakos: Rags in Aritophanic Comedy Parthena Karatzoglou - Clothing in the Atreid Family
12.10-12.30 Discussion Discussion
12.30 - 1.30 LUNCH - Sports Pavilion
All papers this afternoon will be in the Berrill Lecture Theatre
1.30-1.50 M. Aguirre - Dress and Seduction in Ancient Greece: Literature and Art
1.50-2.10 Margarita Gleba - Linen Corselets in Etruscan Art
2.10-2.30 Paul Christensen - Dress as Ritual: A reconsideration of the Emergence of Athletic Nudity in Ancient Greece
2.30-2.50 Discussion
2.50-3.00 Short Break
3.00-3.20 Mirielle Lee - Constru(ct)ing Gender in the Feminine Greek Peplos
3.20-3.40 Hans van Wees - Trailing Tunics and Sheepskin Coats: Dress and Status in Early Greece
3.40-4.00 Discussion
4.00-4.20 Final Remarks and Departure.