[Archport] Outubro - Aditamento 3 - Zaragoza: Magia!

["Jose d'Encarnação" <jde@fl.uc.pt>]

"Magical practice in the Latin-speaking Empire (Late Republic-Late
Antiquity)", to be held at the University of Zaragoza on 30 September-1
October 2005.


Friday 30th September

SESSION 1: Magic in the Principate.
1. Matthew Dickie (Glenfarg, Scotland): "Magic and the Roman historians."
2. James Rives (Univ. of York, Toronto): "The meaning of 'magus' and related
terms in classical Latin."  3. Richard Gordon (Ilmmünster, Germany): "
'Solutus ambulat veneficae/ scientioris carmine' (Horace, Epod. V. 71-2).
Magic as a topos in Roman literature of the late Republic/early Principate."
4. Jaime Alvar (Univ. Carlos III, Madrid): "Magia y mitraísmo en el mundo
romano."

SESSION 2: Magical practitioners and Roman society (I).
1. Amina Kropp (Univ. of Freiburg/Mannheim): "How does magical language
function? The spells and formulae of the Latin defixionum tabellae."  2.
Juergen Blaensdorf (Univ. of Mainz): "Magical methods in the defixiones from
the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz."  3. Marina Piranomonte
(Soprintendenza Arch. di Roma): "Religione e magia a Roma. Nuove scoperte
dalla fontana di Anna Perenna."  4. Juergen Blaensdorf (Univ. of Mainz):
"Types and texts of the lead tablets of Anna Perenna."  5. Roger Tomlin
(Univ. of Oxford): "Defixiones from Britannia and Hispania."


Saturday 1st October

SESSION 3: Magical practitioners and Roman society (II).
1. Henk Versnel (Univ. of Leiden): "The 'prayers for justice' in Iberian
magical epigraphy."  2. Francisco Marco (Univ. of Zaragoza): "Magic as
resistance to Roman rule: the defixiones from Emporiae."  3. David Jordan
(Athens): "Defixiones from Roman Athens and Corinth."  4. Chris Faraone
(Univ. of Chicago): "Exorcisms and the wandering womb."  5. Sabino Perea
(Univ. of Murcia): "Magia sobre el mar: Amuletos para la navegación."  6.
Attilio Mastrocinque (Univ. of Verona): "Le ordalie magiche."

SESSION 4: Magic in the society of the Late Empire in the West.
1. Christopher Kelly (Univ. of Cambridge): "Patristic approaches to Old
Testament magic: Elijah and the priests of Baal."  2. M. Victoria Escribano
(Univ. of Zaragoza): "Codices y maleficium."  3. Pierre-Yves Lambert (Univ.
of Paris): "Rapports entre certaines prières populaires chrétiennes et les
prières magiques (parties du corps à protéger, dans les loricae celtiques,
ou à endommager, dans les defixiones)."  4. F.J. Fernández Nieto (Univ. of
Valencia): "La pizarra de Carrio y las perduraciones de la magia en el mundo
cristiano."  5. Isabel Velázquez (Univ. Complutense, Madrid): "Documentación
y literatura cristianas en torno a la magia en la Antigüedad Tardía
hispana."
Final discussion.

Who might be interested in attending is asked
to contact Prof. Francisco Marco Simón under <marco@posta.unizar.es>.