INSECTS IN THE PREMODERN WORLD

Ansprechpartner / Contact person

• Prof. Dr. Przemysław Marciniak
  (przemyslaw.marciniak@mzaw.lmu.de)
• Dr. Caroline Veit
  (mzaw@mzaw.lmu.de)

Tagungsort / Conference Venue

Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
Gabelsbergerstaße 35 • 80333 München

ANMELDUNG unter mzaw@mzaw.lmu.de
(Online-Teilnahme nach Anmeldung möglich)

 

PROGRAM

Thursday, 6 July

9.00 s.t.
Przemysław Marciniak: Opening Remarks

Naming Insects
Chair: Przemysław Marciniak

 

9.30–10.00
Isabelle Draelants (Paris):
Peut-on parler d’«insecte» dans les textes médiévaux? Les vermes entre naturalisme et exégèse

10.00–10.30
Grigory Vorobyev (Ghent):
Latin insect names introduced by Theodore Gaza

10.30–11.00 Coffee Break

Flies and Bees
Chair: Dominik Berrens

11.00–11.30

Thorsten Fögen (Durham) (online):
Ἔστω δέ τι καὶ τῇ μυίᾳ παρ‘ ἡμῶν γέρας: On the role of flies in Greek and Latin literature

11.30–12.00
Moa Ekbom (Gothenburg):
Lords of the flies: Emperors interacting with muscae

12.00–12.30
Frances Foster (Cambridge):
Virgil’s Bees in the Late Antique Classroom

12.30–13.30 Lunch

Philosophical Insects
Chair: N. N.

13.30–14.00
Yi Chen (Toronto):
The liminal cicada in Chinese and Greek Classics

14.00–14.30
Tatjana Aleknienė (Vilnius): Insekt sein in der Welt Platons

14.30–15.00
Dominik Berrens (Mainz)
Nullum est animal altero doctius – Insektengleichnisse in
Senecas philosophischen Schriften

Useful Insecst
Chair: Przemysław Marciniak

15.00–15.30
Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Munich): Insekten als Materia Medica?

15.30–16.00
Ana Cláudia Silveira (Lisabon):
A sumptuous insect: extraction and trade of grã in the
Setúbal Peninsula at the end of the Middle Ages

Friday, 7 July

Not very nice Insects
Chair: Katarzyna Piotrowska

9.30–10.00
Phoebe Lakin (Harvard):
Loving Leeches in Theocritus and Nicander

10.00–10.30
Marco Pouget (Munich):
Locust plagues and other insects in first-century China.
Humans and insects in the Lunheng 論衡 by Wang Chong 王充.

10.30–11.00 Coffee Break

11.00–11.30
Mona Zaki (Williamsburg) (online)
God’s Private Army: Insects in a Baghdad Bestiary

11.30–12.00
Ayşenur Mulla-Topcan (Katowice):
Being Consumed by Insects: Punishment and Horror in
Byzantium

Short Break

12.15–13.00
Przemysław Marciniak: Concluding Remarks