Ημερομηνία έναρξης: 16-09-2021
Ημερομηνία λήξης: 17-09-2021
Τόπος: Online
16–17 September 2021
International conference hosted online by the British School at Athens
Funded by The British Academy
Organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
Programme for Speakers
Times
All times are UTC +1
Presentation format and timing
Each speaker has 15 minutes for a very short presentation (summary of pre-submitted materials) c.8 minutes and for questions c.7 minutes. If you present for longer than 8 minutes you will have less time to take questions. But we will have to move on to the next presenter after 15 minutes however you choose to use your time!
DAY -1 Wednesday 15 September 2021
13:00-14:00 Pre-conference informal meetings of speakers
Speed-meeting in small groups, 5 mins rotations. A chance to meet and break the ice!
DAY 1 Thursday 16 September 2021
13:00-13:15 Welcome
Professor John Bennet, British School at Athens, and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
13:15-14:15 PANEL 1: TRAVEL AS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Dr Estelle Strazdins, University of Queensland
Presentation 1
Traveling in Europe, exploring Greek identity: Orientalism and “Westernism” in Constantine Karatzas’ diaries
Dr Charalampos Minaoglou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Presentation 2
Simone Pomardi and the rediscovery of the modern Greek landscape
Dr Federica Broilo, Universitá Degli Studi Urbino “Carlo Bo”
Presentation 3
Edward Daniel Clarke and the mountains of Greece
Professor Jason König, University of St Andrews
Presentation 4
Local Greek travel-writing, antiquities, and the diverse social landscape in the post-revolutionary Ottoman Empire
Dr Ayşe Ozil, Sabanci University
14:15-14:30 Break 15 mins
14:30-15:30 PANEL 2: OTTOMAN SPACES AND IDENTITIES
Chair: Professor Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University and Collège de France
Presentation 5
Inside the villager’s house: Views of European and Greek authors on the vernacular architecture of late-Ottoman Greece (ca. 1800-1830)
Nikos Magouliotis, ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (PhD Candidate)
Presentation 6
From text to space: Mapping Sir William Gell and Edward Dodwell as data layers on an Ottoman landscape
Zafeirios Avgeris, Uppsala University (MA candidate)
Presentation 7
Orientalism in Ottoman Greece
Dr Emily Neumeier, Temple University, Philadelphia
Presentation 8
Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece: Multiple identities, contradictory encounters
Professor Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
15:30-16:00 Break 30 mins
16:00-17:00 ‘Emerging themes’, Closed session for speakers only
- 16:00-16:20 Break out rooms of c.4 people
- 16:20-17:00 Break out rooms reporting to whole group, and discussion
17:00-17:30 Break 30 mins
17:30-18:30 BSA Public Lecture
From Ottoman Smyrna to Georgian London: Travel, excavation and collecting of Levant Company merchant Thomas Burgon (1787-1858)
Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
DAY 2 Friday 17 September 2021
13:00-14:00 PANEL 3: INDIVIDUALS COLLECTING ANTIQUITIES
Chair: Dr Ayşe Ozil, Sabanci University
Presentation 9
Imagining Ethiopians in the age of revolution: Arrowheads from the Marathon sôros and the statue of Rhamnoussian Nemesis
Dr Estelle Strazdins, University of Queensland
Presentation 10
‘Je vois qu’à Paris on a une bien fausse idée des Grecs…’: Fauvel’s perception of the Greeks and of the Greek revolution
Dr Alessia Zambon, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Paris
Presentation 11
In search of antiquities: The travels of Alexandre and Léon de Laborde during the Greek war of independence of 1821
Dr Irini Apostolou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Presentation 12
Ancient inscriptions and British travellers to Ottoman Greece 1800-1821
Dr Michael Metcalfe, The Syracuse Academy
14:00-14:15 Break 15 mins
14:15-14:45 PANEL 4: ANTIQUITIES AND OFFICIAL DISCOURSES
Chair: Professor Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
Presentation 13
‘Viewing and contemplating’ (Seyr ü Temaşa): Foreign travelers and antiquarians and the Sublime Porte, ca 1800-1830
Professor Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University and Collège de France
Presentation 14
Andreas Moustoxydes (1785-1860) and Kyriakos Pittakis (1798-1863) and the rescue of Greek antiquities
Dr Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, King’s College London
14:45-15:15 Break 30 mins
15:15-15:45 PANEL 5: FORMS OF PHILHELLENISM
Chair: Professor Jason König, University of St Andrews
Presentation 15
Samuel Gridley Howe’s travels: Classical, romantic and philanthropic philhellenism (1800-1830)
Mélissa Bernier, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (PhD candidate)
Presentation 16
Greece in the age of revolution: An intimate poetics of landscape, travel and liberty
Dr Fernando Valverde, University of Virginia
15:45-16:00 Break 15 mins
16:00-17:00 ‘Conclusions and future directions’, for all conference participants
- 16:00-16:20 Break out rooms
- 16:20-17:00 Round Table Discussion
Close of the public conference
17:00-17:30 Break 30 mins
17:30-18:00 Closed session for speakers only
The conference is free and open to all who are interested, but registration is essential. Speakers’ full papers will be pre-circulated to registered participants at the end of August. To register for the conference please email Dr Jenny Messenger at jenny@atomictypo.co.uk by 20 August.
For Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis’ lecture registration is separate: a link to register will be available in the Events section of the BSA website (www.bsa.ac.uk) approximately one month in advance.
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