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9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Matthew P. Canepa and Nastasya Kosygina (UCI)
9:20 Anastasia Tchaplyghine (Independent Scholar) “The divine body, the human body, and the lived/natural world in Mesopotamia.”
10:00 Rita Lucarelli (Associate Professor of Egyptology, UC Berkeley) “‘When everything is human, the human is an entirely different thing…’ Animal powers in the ancient Egyptian demonic imagery and beyond.”
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 Verena Lepper (Curator, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin/GRI) “Worldmaking in Ancient Egypt. Elephantine as a Case study”
11:40 Sara Cole (Assistant Curator of Antiquities, Getty Villa) “Material Encounters with the Divine in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Faience Oinochoe of Berenike II (Getty 96.AI.58).”
12:10 Lunch
1:20 José C. Carvajal López (Lecturer in Historical Archaeology, University of Leicester) “Worldmaking through Material Culture and Con-Text: Islamization in the Persian Gulf and in Iberia.”
2:00 Bermet Nishanova (Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, UCI) “The Veiled World: Ontological Parameters of Early and Premodern Islamic Textiles”
2:40 Stephanie Langin-Hooper (Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair of Hellenic Visual Culture, SMU) “Worldbuilding in Miniature: the Social Agency and Embodied Experience of Seals and Seal Impressions in Hellenistic Babylonia.”
3:20 Coffee Break
3:40 Nastasya Koysgina (Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, UCI) “World in a Bowl: inscription as prosthetic agency in late antique Mesopotamia.”
4:40 Jeffrey Spier (Anissa and Paul John Balson II Senior Curator of Antiquities, Getty Villa) "Greco-Roman amulets: popular tradition versus scholarly innovation."
5:20 Remarks/Discussion
Matthew P. Canepa (Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, UCI)