Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities

Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities
Symposium with RSHA Visiting Academic in the Centre for Classical Studies

What would happen … if antiquity, no longer carved stone, turned liquid?

This provocation issued by Brooke Holmes almost a decade ago is an invitation to defamiliarize our vision(s) of the past, to imagine it not as a fragmentary solid object patiently awaiting reassembly, but as a mobile liquid phantasm, constantly in flux and eternally evasive of our firm disciplinary grip. Our symposium takes up this invitation to (un)think and invites contributors to imagine what a mobile, liquid antiquity might look like. The scope of contributions is deliberately expansive. Participants might attend to the kinds of liquid mobilities that “defined” life in antiquity (e.g., sea travel, water sourcing, flood management, etc.) or to how the liquid lexicon provided the ancients with a vocabulary with which to articulate mobility of all kinds (e.g., between categories, life stages, species, sexualities, etc.). Speakers might also explore how the deployment of a liquid disciplinary (meta-)language (e.g., of submerged texts, of the hermeneutic deep dive, etc.) might change, or not change, our engagements with the past.

Please join us for the symposium, Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities

Location: Room 4.03, Marie Ray Teaching Centre
Date and Time: 9am-5pm, 29th October 2024

NOTE: Registration is mandatory to attend this event

This event is supported by Research School of Humanities and Arts.