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CATEGORIES:Lectures, Symposia, Etc.
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Humanities Center and featuring faculty fellow\, 
 Maggie Beeler.\n\nMonsters in ancient Greek art embodied alterity by challe
 nging corporeal norms\, their composite bodies mediating cultural and cosmo
 logical boundaries between divine/mortal\, human/animal\, and civilized/bar
 baric. Inspired by Near Eastern artistic traditions\, Greek monsters repres
 ent a promising site for investigations of identity and interaction across 
 the ancient Mediterranean world. My project examines the role of monster ar
 t in cross-cultural exchanges through close\, contextual analysis of the re
 levant archaeological evidence. I focus on two key inflection points in Gre
 ek history characterized by political centralization and intensive trade an
 d/or colonization: the rise of palaces in the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-110
 0 BCE)\, and the so-called ‘Orientalizing period’ during city-state formati
 on (ca. 8th-7th c. BCE). My interpretive framework moves beyond the Eurocen
 tric opposition of ‘western’ Greeks with ‘eastern’ peoples by describing co
 mmunities of practice that made monster art within an interconnected Medite
 rranean network. \n\nRespondents include Alison Mahoney from Theatre Arts +
  Emily Anderson\, Johns Hopkins University . This event will be hybrid\, so
  you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer. Pr
 ecirculated material for this colloquium will be available here about two p
 rior to the event.
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LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 602
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SUMMARY:Embodied Alterity: Monsters as Mediators in Ancient Mediterranean A
 rt
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URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/embodied-alterity-monsters-as-mediators
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