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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Note papers on narrative and belief!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Rask, Katie <rask.4@osu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, September 12, 2022 at 18:31<br>
<b>To: </b>Noyes, Dorothy <noyes.10@osu.edu>, Weiner, Isaac A. <weiner.141@osu.edu>, Swartz, Michael <swartz.69@osu.edu>, Urban, Hugh <urban.41@osu.edu>, Maynard, Rhonda <maynard.20@osu.edu>, Spitulski, Nick <spitulski.1@osu.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Hanne Eisenfeld <eisenfel@bc.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Myth & Religion Conference in Honor of Sarah Iles Johnston<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Can you please pass this on to your departments, emeritus lists, and/or relevant centers? Thanks, Katie</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><u><span style="color:black">Myth & Religion Conference in Honor of Sarah Iles Johnston</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">In honor of Sarah Iles Johnston’s 65</span><sup><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black">th</span></sup><span style="color:black"> birthday, we invited you to a two-day colloquium entitled “Myth and Religion: Changing Terrain” to
take place at The Ohio State University. Dr. Johnston’s colleagues and students will present papers inspired by and responding to her work in a conversation that represents current trends in the study of ancient religion and myth but also looks forward towards
new developments. The multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the conversation aims to further the productive cross-pollination that Dr. Johnston’s work on religion, myth, and ritual has always embodied and promoted. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><u><span style="color:black">Details:</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Date: October 28-29, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Where: Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University campus</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Location: 320 Pomerene Hall (the ‘Ideation Zone’)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">For online viewing (Zoom): </span>
<a href="https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F-EywxcKTWeU0d-i_XeSHQ"><span style="color:#1155CC">register here</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><u><span style="color:black">Presentations:</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Anton Bierl</span></b><span style="color:black"> - The Poetics of the Sacred in Sappho </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Katie Caliva</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Belief and Believability in Bacchylides 17 and 18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Hanne Eisenfeld</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Models for Joy in Greek Tragedy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Jack Emmert</span></b><span style="color:black"> -
</span><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Superheroes as American Myth</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">David Frankfurte</span></b><span style="color:black">r - Isis Charms in Christian Egypt: A Challenge to the “Belief” Model of Religion and Narrative</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Adria Haluszka</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Cerberus Unbound: Dogs and the Dead in Attraction Spells and Harmful Magic</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Warren Huard</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Heracles, Dionysus, and Damascius: Late Platonism and Early Mysteries</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Colleen Kron</span></b><span style="color:black"> - “It’s only a myth?!” On the word ‘μῦθος’ in Inscribed Eschatological Epitaphs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Laurie O’Higgins</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Hesiod's Winter Maiden in the Works and Days</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Max Paule - </span></b><span style="color:black">The Mythopoesis of Madeline Miller's Circe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Katie Rask</span></b><span style="color:black">: Etruscan Funerary Space and Eschatology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Carman Romano</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Innovation and Authority in the Orphic Hymns</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Eva Stehle </span></b><span style="color:black">- Women's Dancing for Dionysus: Madness or Flow?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Yannis Tzifopoulos </span></b><span style="color:black">- Fragments of the Hellenic world: Crete and Macedonia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="color:black">Jimmy Wolfe</span></b><span style="color:black"> - Syriac Ghost Stories: Squaring Belief and Experience in the Late Roman Empire</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">All are welcome, both in-person or online. If you plan to attend in-person, please RSVP to Katie Rask (<a href="mailto:rask.4@osu.edu">rask.4@osu.edu</a>) so that we can plan accurately for meals catering. Find the link to conference
information <a href="https://classics.osu.edu/events/myth-conference-myth-and-religion-changing-terrain">
here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><u><span style="color:black">About Dr. Johnston’s work</span></u><span style="color:black">:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Scholarship on ancient myth, ancient religion, and the complex relationships between the two has burgeoned in recent decades,
increasingly focusing on the critical function of myth and the inextricability of narrative from religious practice and belief. The work of Sarah Iles Johnston has been central to these conversations, advancing the terms of the debate and reframing approaches
to myth and religion in the ancient Mediterranean. From her most recent monograph,
<i>The Story of Myth </i>(2018), which draws on approaches from narratology and media studies to understand how myths promoted belief, to her work on religion and mortality, which includes a publication and reevaluation of a fundamental collection of funerary
inscriptions (<i>Ritual Texts for the Afterlife, </i>2007, with Fritz Graf) and a broader evaluation of the changing nature of death in the ancient world (<i>Restless Dead</i>, 1999), Dr. Johnston’s contributions have insisted on the interdisciplinary and
multifaceted nature of ancient religious experience as well as the interrelated roles of ritual and storytelling. Dr. Johnston’s work has also emphasized the multicultural and intercultural nature of ancient religion and made that complex ancient reality more
accessible to scholars and students through edited volumes like <i>Religions of the Ancient World
</i>(2004) and <i>Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination</i> (2005). Her work on Hekate and ghosts has found wide appeal among a popular audience and her forthcoming book
<i>Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers</i> will share the world of Greek and Roman myth with new readers and long-term fans alike.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Katie Rask<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Classics Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Ohio State University, Marion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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