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2012 Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL

Meeting Begins11/16/2012
Meeting Ends11/20/2012

Call for Papers Opens: 2/8/2012
Call for Papers Closes: 3/7/2012

Requirements for Participation

Violence and Representations of Violence in Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Session 1 (open call): Catastrophic Violence: Human and Divine. The current (and devastating) interactions of religiously inflected rhetoric, global catastrophe and endless war provoke a reconsideration of the theological underpinnings of ancient as well as modern reactions to war, famine, plague, earthquakes and eschatological disaster, which were (and are) so often credited to God. The Section welcomes theoretically informed, historically grounded and contextually sensitive explorations of literature from the Greco-Roman period on this topic, whether the calamity in question was interpreted as divine justice, as a proving ground of human excellence, or as a justification for human violence. Session 2 (invited): Embodiments of Violence. This special session highlights the work of Jennifer Glancy on the marks of violence, their representations and their significations.

Program Unit Chairs

Jennifer Knust
Kimberly Stratton

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