Experience Through Metaphor Symposium

Experience through metaphor: cultural histories of emotion and the body in antiquity. Online symposium taking place Friday March 18th. [email protected]

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

Registration for the Symposium is now live! You can find the schedule here: https://t.co/HBCz9t8HLe and sign up here: https://t.co/hmEwa3F2GU. We have some fabulous speakers lined up with a host of fascinating papers, so do come along on Friday March 18th! @ExeterClassics

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

I also hugely enjoyed @CbAnnabel's work on ancient Greek novels, and her detailed exploration of methodology and how exactly she went about compiling data - few scholars "show their working" in this way, but I find it informative and helpful when they do! @emotionbodyconf

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

Later in the same @emotionbodyconf panel, @brindasarma's excellent and multifaceted paper discussed bathing (as ritual and as metaphor) in female Neopythagorean authors and early Buddhist nuns' writings.

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

Really enjoying @ClareMcLDavis paper @emotionbodyconf - especially fascinated by the vibrant corporeal imagery (skin, flesh, veins...) which Pliny uses to depict (e.g.) trees and the earth itself. Also shout out to Clare for doing a fabulous job co-organising the conference!

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

Abigail Worgul closes the panel @emotionbodyconf by exploring how the liver is used metaphorically to explore and embody anger in Horace, Persius, Juvenal. *applause* to Abigail for delivering a very well-argued and fluent paper despite technical problems with handout upload!

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

Next in the first panel @emotionbodyconf is Rebekah Wallace with a fascinating and well-structured exposition of embodied cognition and how it can be used to move past mind-body dualism when approaching ancient texts - especially useful in reconsidering early theologians.

[Charlotte 👻🏺 @katadesmoichar]

The @emotionbodyconf is off to an awesome start!!

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

@AlexHardwick95 Thanks! It wasn’t the brightest idea I’ve ever had! (Kathryn)

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

It's conference day @emotionbodyconf ! The first panel opens with @emperorkathryn's paper analysing the meaning of Latin 'fastidium' by mapping the metaphors surrounding it in Tacitus. Kathryn argues convincingly that fastidium only partially maps onto the English "disgust".

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

@brindasarma We are looking forward to your paper!

[Keats @brindasarma]

Conference here today! Excited!

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

We’ve made a slight tweak to our programme on Friday-the final panel is now a three paper one and the keynote will start at 1700. Full details and link to sign up can be found here: https://t.co/maFlLTWsOd. Looking forward to talking experience, bodies and emotions with you all!

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

Excited to be speaking at this symposium on Friday! I’ll be discussing how groups are imagined as emotional collectives, and how emotions “spread” through groups, in classical-period Greek literature.

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

@AlexHardwick95 We are excited for your paper!

[Clare McLoughlin Davis @ClareMcLDavis]

Are you interested in the use of metaphor in experience of bodies and emotions in antiquity?
I have good news! 👇

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

Our opening address on March 18th will be given by Dr William Short from @ExeterClassics (https://t.co/HLcXg60tZX) who will draw together some of the themes that will arise throughout the conference to get us all enthused for the day ahead!

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

Delighted to announce the title for our keynote from @ChiaraBlancos- ‘Branded Bodies: Theorising and Somatising Shame in Ancient Greece’. Details on how to sign up to this online event on March 18th will be released by the end of Jan so watch this space!

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

The CfP and draft schedule can be found on our shiny new blog if you need a reminder: https://t.co/maFlLTWsOd.
If you are interested in an event on the cultural histories of emotion and the body in antiquity send us an abstract!
We are very excited by what we've had so far!

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

🌟Call for Papers 🌟
We are delighted to launch our CfP 👇: 'Experience through metaphor: cultural histories of emotion and the body in antiquity' @ExeterClassics
We are *very* excited that our keynote is the brilliant @ChiaraBlancos
We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

[Experience Through Metaphor Symposium @emotionbodyconf]

Hello! We are the Experience Through Metaphor Symposium team: @ClareMcLDavis and @EmperorKathryn . Our event will explore cultural histories of emotion and the body in antiquity. We will shortly be sending out our CfP and launching the blog. Follow us to keep updated!