Department of Humanities

GODDESS AT THE CROSSING PLACE: A CONFERENCE FOR THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF CLASSICS AT MARSHALL UNIVERSITY

 

 

Our Keynote Speakers

Suzanne Lye
UNC: Chapel Hill. Suzanne will be the
Schmidlapp Lecture for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies on Wednesday, 5 March, speaking on
divine female anger.
Emily Jay
Ohio Northern University, an artist who
works on the navigation from pagan goddesses to Christian saints in Palermo, Thursday, 6 March.
Madeline Miller
NYT bestselling author of Circe and
Song of Achilles, will do a virtual Q&A Friday, 7 March.
Jeffrey S. Lidke
Barry College, will present on South
Asian goddesses in the context of sound and music, Saturday, 8 March.
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
CUNY: Stony Brook will give
a talk on “Goddess Traditions in India: What they can teach to the Modern World” Saturday, 8 March.
Travis Horseman
author, will talk about creating their graphic novel series about the priestesses at Delphi, Pythia Saturday, 8 March.
Jess Robinson
artist, will give a talk about creating their graphic novel series entitled “Earth Unquiet: Gaia, Apollo and Unfinished Business in Pythia, the Last Oracle” 8 March.

 

Tentative Schedule

Please note: all streamed panels and talks will only be open to conference participants.  In addition to the Virtual Session on Thursday there are a few virtual participants mixed in later panels. 

 

Wednesday, 5 March  

Marshall Student Center  

7.pm Shawkey Room Schmidlapp Lecture: Suzanne Lye “Crossing the  

Goddess: the Cosmic Power of Female Anger” 

 

Thursday, 6 March  

All Events in Visual Arts Center (VAC), 927 3rd Ave, Huntington, WV 25701 

 

2.pm VAC 209 Virtual session 

  1. Caroline Tully: Unsubstantiated Personal Gnosis and Hekate 
  2. Yuan Yue: Plato’s Myth of Creation: The Birth of Women and the Realization of Soul Justice 
  3. Liu Chunhong: The matriarchal aesthetic paradigm versus the “intuitive” aesthetic doctrine of Neo-Confucianism in China 
  4. Eliana Eisen: A Girl’s Transition Through the Various Rituals of Artemis in the Ancient Greek World 

4.pm VAC 209 Plenary 1: Opening Remarks Chrol, Keynote: Emily Jay 

“Speaking with the Saints: continuity and subversion in the veneration of Sicilian female saints” 

5:30 Carroll Gallery Opening reception 

 

Friday, 7 March 

Morning events Visual Arts Center, Afternoon events at the Brad D. Smith Center for Business and Innovation (SBUS), 1425 4th Ave, Huntington, WV 25701 

 

8.30 2nd Fl Flex Space Coffee 

9.am 2nd Fl Flex Space Undergraduate poster session  

VAC 209 Mary Anna Ball “The Goddess on Stage: Representations of the Divine Feminine in Classical Ballet” 

10.am VAC 209 Panel 1: Greek Goddesses 

  1. Marie Gruver: Agriculture and Cult: Archaic Corinth’s Urbanization and the Rise of the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore 
  2. Bill Tortorelli: Sappho’s Personal Goddess 
  3. Don Lavigne: Where are the Muses in Early Greek Epigram? 
  4. Jordi Alonso:  “Νύμφη ὄνομ᾽ ἐστί σοι” Your Name is Nymph: The Funerary Epigrams of Isidora and nymphification 

11.30-1 Lunch on own 

1.pm SBUS Classroom Panel 2: Reception 1 

  1. Nava Cohen: Sic transit gloria deae: The Transformation of Athena in Contemporary Young Adult and Middle Grade Fiction
  2. Raymond Roy: The 21st Century Resurrection of Epione 
  3. Kathryn Caliva: Speaking as a Woman: Authority and Magic from Hecate to #WitchTok 
  4. Margaret Toscano: The Mormon Mother God at the Crossroad where Paganism and Christianity Meet Elizabeth A. Sharp: Will the Real Domestic Goddess Please Stand Up? Comparing and Contrasting Contemporary Trad Wives and 1950’s Idealization of Betty Crocker

3 SBUS Classroom Nora Ankrom, Mike Murdock & Alchemy Theater: Monologue  

Workshop 

4.30 Encova Lecture Hall Keynote: Madeline Miller Reading and Q&A 

6 SBUS Foyer Reception 

6.30 Dinner on own 

7.30 Encova Lecture Hall Performances 

  • There are still slots for performances, please email if you are interested 

 

Saturday, 8 March 

All events at the Brad D. Smith Center for Business and Innovation (SBUS) 

8.30 SBUS Foyer Coffee 

9.am SBUS Classrooms Panel 4: The Many Faces of the Goddess 

  1. Sophia Hoang: The Oddity of Magna Mater in De Rerum Natura 
  2. Miranda Aebersold-Burke:The Goddess as the Crossing Place: Styx, the Dread River of Oath 
  3. Vaishnavi Patil: Imaging Motherhood: Evolution of the “mother-child” image in South Asia, 1st-8th century CE. 

10.30 SBUS Foyer Coffee 

11 Encova Lecture Hall Keynote: “The Hindu Goddess Comes to America” 

Discussion with Jeffrey Lidke and Sthaneshwar Timalsina, moderated by Jeffrey Ruff  

12.30 Lunch on own 

2 SBUS Classrooms Panel 5: Reception 2  

  1. Sabrina Jones: Goddess of Spring and Shadow: Persephone’s Liminal Identity in Lore Olympus 
  2. Jason Vivrette and Leticia Rodriguez: Cinematic Offerings at the Altar of the Goddess: Unearthing the Liminal Power of Kybele and Artume on Screen 
  3. Alicia Matz: Murderer, Maiden, Crone: Artemis/Diana in Modern Media 

4 Encova Lecture Hall Keynote: Travis Horseman and Jess Robinson “”Earth 

Unquiet: Gaia, Apollo and Unfinished Business in Pythia, the Last Oracle“ 

 

Snacks and some meals will be provided for conference attendees. We may be able to provide some financial assistance to graduate student attendees for travel and lodging. Some sessions of the conference will be available in a hybrid format. Conference organizers plan to solicit contributions for an edited volume from participants following the event.

Dates and themes for submissions can be found here.

Questions? Concerns about accessibility or affordability? Please contact Classics150th@marshall.edu and we will do our best to accommodate!

 

Cosponsored by

The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

The Drinko Academy

Herd Humanities

The Marshall University Libraries

Marshall University Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

 

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