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The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges
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19-20.9.2019 - There and Back Again: The Underworld in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture Inspired by Classical Antiquity
A part of the OMC team from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW took part in the CENTRAL Workshop at Humboldt University Berlin: Communication with the Underworld: From Ancient Literature to Modern Children’s and Young Adult Literature / Kommunikation mit dem Jenseits: Von der antiken Literatur bis zur modernen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, organized by PD Dr. Darja Šterbenc Erker (HU). The OMC group prepared a panel There and Back Again: The Underworld in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture Inspired by Classical Antiquity with the following lectures:
- Katarzyna Marciniak, Unterwelt oder Untergrund: Vom Hades zum Goblin-König in Jim Hensons fantastischem Universum,
- Karolina Anna Kulpa (video presentation), Have Fun with the Ancient Underworld! Some Examples of the Reception of Classical Antiquity on the Basis of the Products for Children and Young Adults,
- Agnieszka Monika Maciejewska, Cleopatra Reactivated! The Classic Image of Cleopatra VII Transformed in Animations,
- Viktoryia Bartsevich, True Love? Hades and Persephone in Comic Books.
We also meet our colleague Dr. Sonja Schreiner from the University of Vienna who gave a inspiring lecture on Tierische Hölle oder: Wie kommt ein Kater in die Unterwelt? Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariäs Murner in der Hölle im Vergleich mit der englischen Übertragung Tabby in Elysium und der lateinischen Nachdichtung Aelurias.