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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[CFP] Final Reminder: Corporal Obscenity in Antiquity - Deadline 25th September 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The Classical Body Split Open: Corporal Obscenity in Antiquity</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Edinburgh </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">23-24th October 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Alongside the well-known and reassuring image of the classical body as represented by its neoclassical reinterpretation, there stands a well-established classical tradition
that portrays that very same body as distorted, disembowelled, obscene. Shoulder to shoulder with <i>dios </i>Odysseus comes deformed Thersites; alongside the sublimity of choral lyric are the bodily fluids of the <i>Iambos</i>; the same years that produce
the Athenian ideology of <i>kalokagathia</i> also witness the obscenity of the comic genre. Obscenity looms large in the Latin world as well: not just in literary texts, but in inscriptions and artistic representations. Silver Latin literature famously turns
the golden lines of the <i>Aeneid</i> into brutal <i>Civil War</i> and sees Trimalchio concocting a stew out of Pentheus.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">In recent years, classical scholarship has focused on the topic from different viewpoints: linguistic obscenity (<i>e.g. </i>Worman 2008, <i>Abusive Mouths in Classical
Athens</i>), Attic comedy (<i>e.g. </i>Henderson 1975, <i>The Maculate Muse</i>), humour (<i>e.g.</i> Halliwell 2008, <i>Greek Laughter</i>), visual representations (<i>e.g. </i>Richlin 1992, <i>Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome</i>), the influence
of medical symptoms on the body-soul dualism (<i>e.g.</i> Holmes 2010, <i>The Symptom and the Subject</i>), and scholarly attitudes to obscenity in classical texts (Harrison - Stray 2012, <i>Expurgating the Classics</i>). Nonetheless, there has not been yet
an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. The present conference aims at filling this gap by inviting papers on the subject of corporal obscenity in Antiquity (Literature, History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Art and Archaeology, Epigraphy and Ancient Medicine)
which may attempt to answer the following and related questions: what happens when the classical body breaks open? What are its connections with popular culture, symbolism and collective rituals? How does ancient obscenity interact with the ethics, aesthetics,
common sense and legislation in its own historical context? How are bodies which do not conform to the classical ideal marginalised?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Possible topics/approaches include, but are in no way limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Symbolic and philosophical approaches
to ancient obscenity;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Sociological and anthropological implications
of corporal obscenity;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Obscenity and ideology;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Human and animal malformation, secretions
and scatology;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Ancient medical and legal approaches
to obscenity;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Sexual obscenity and perversions; </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Epigraphic and artistic representations
of obscenity;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Psychoanalytic readings of ancient
obscenity;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Reception of ancient obscenity.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract submission</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">: Abstracts of ca. 300 words for 20 minute papers are to be sent to <a href="mailto:corporalobscenity.conference@gmail.com" target="_blank">corporalobscenity.conference@gmail.com</a> <b><u>no
later than Friday, 25th September 2015</u></b>. Acceptance of proposals will be communicated by Wednesday, 30th September 2015. We intend to assess abstracts anonymously. In order to do so, please send the abstracts as PDF files with no identifying information
in the file content or file name. Please include name, degree currently under study, institution and the title of the talk in the body of the email. Papers will be considered for publication.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference rises from the collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews. Thanks to the generosity of the Scottish Graduate School
for Arts and Humanities and of the Classical Association, we are able to offer several student bursaries for the conference. In order to be considered for bursary, send an email to <a href="mailto:corporalobscenity.conference@gmail.com" target="_blank">corporalobscenity.conference@gmail.com</a></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">stating
your contact details (Name, Affiliation, Title/Topic of doctoral thesis) and how the attendance of the conference will be helpful to your research. Informal enquiries can be sent to the same address. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Keynote speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Amy Coker – University of Manchester </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Ian Ruffell – University of Glasgow</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Mark Bradley – University of Nottingham</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal">Sebastiano Bertolini (PhD - University of Edinburgh)</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal">Sarah May Wolstencroft (PhD - University of Glasgow) </span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal">Maria Giulia Franzoni (PhD - University of St Andrews)</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
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