9-10 May 2025, Cornell University
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and History of Art & Visual Studies, the Sage School of Philosophy, the Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities.
Friday, 9 May 2025
4:30 pm Introduction: Will Pedrick (Princeton University), Goldwin Smith Hall (GSH) 142
Keynote Address: The Power of Figuration on an Athenian Landmark
4:45 pm Milette Gaifman (Yale University), GSH 142
6:00 pm Reception in the Ruth Woolsey Findley History of Art Gallery, GSH
Saturday, 10 May 2025
9:30 am Welcome Breakfast, A.D. White House (27 E. Ave. Ithaca, NY 14853)
9:50 am Introduction: Mary Danisi (Cornell University)
Theme 1: Configurations of Pictoriality
10:00 am Will Pedrick (Princeton University): Figuring the Unseen: Crocodiles Below the Surface in Old Kingdom Egyptian Reliefs
11:00 am Evan Allen (Cornell University): Coloring Outside the Lines: Rethinking Figuration with Monochrome Second- and Fourth-Style Frescoes from Pompeii
Theme 2: Figures of Speech
12:00 pm Mary Danisi (Cornell University): Pindar's Dream of a Shadow: The Obscure Language of Figuration in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature (A Schematic Outline)
1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch in A.D. White House
Theme 3: Reckoning the Body
2:00 pm Ava Shirazi (Haverford College): Schēma and Schematics: Re-Configuring the Sporting Body in Ruins
3:00 pm Alexander Ekserdjian (Yale University): Schematic Figuration and the Limits of Mimesis: The Case of Central Italian Ex-Votos
4:00 pm Coffee Break
Response
4:30 pm Verity Platt (Cornell University)
5:00 pm Dinner Reception in the Ruth Woolsey Findley History of Art Gallery, GSH
