Our Mythical Nature: Lectures and Presentations
We invite you to listen to the lectures and presentations for the conference
Our Mythical Nature: The Classics and Environmental Issues in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture.
They are also available as a playlist on our YouTube channel.
Zbigniew Karaszewski, A Girl with Doves Googling Arcadia (2020)
Rachel Bryant-Davies
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London
“The frailty of sublunary things”: Classical Myth, Pedagogical Media, and Moral Education in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Krishni Burns
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Mythical Skyscapes: Constellation Myths in Educational Picture Books
Veronique Dasen
Department of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg
From Greek Amulets to Contemporary Jewellery: The Secret Agency of Nature and Animals in the Life Cycle of Young Individuals
Susan Deacy
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton
"Hercules [...] went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering" (Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.21): What Happened Here and Why It 'Speaks' to Autistic Children
Robin Diver
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham
The Problem of Animals and Rape: Children's Anthology Adaptations of the God Pan
Raimund Fichtel
Department of Greek an Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Venus Grotto of Ludwig II of Bavaria – The Childhood Dream of a Gentle Tiberius
Elizabeth Hale
School of Arts, University of New England
Witi Ihimaera’s “Whale Rider” and the Ulysses of the Pacific
Owen Hodkinson
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds
Shaggy Dog Stories: Two Novels of Odysseus' Dog Argos
Markus Janka
Department of Greek an Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
“Mens antiqua manet” – “The Mind of Old Remains” (Ovid, “Metamorphoses” 2.485): Humanized Animals in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and Contemporary Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature
Katarzyna Jerzak
Institute of Modern Languages, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
A Dead Bird and a Cenotaph: Echoes of Antiquity in Janusz Korczak’s “King Matt on the Desert Island” (1923) and Margaret Wise Brown’s “The Dead Bird” (1938)
Jan Kieniewicz
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mytho-picture: Combining Myth and Nature in the Patriotic Landscape
Przemysław Kordos
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Low Fantasy, High Conscience: Ecology in Some Exomimetic Worlds
Karolina Kulpa
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Antiquity Flavours in the Literary Cuisine of Małgorzata Musierowicz
Christian Laes
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
Antiquity's Childhood and Toys in Alfredo Bartoli's "Filius ad Matrem Reversus" (1950)
Helen Lovatt
Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham
Bernard Evslin and the Clashing Rocks
Katarzyna Marciniak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Geralt on Climate Strikes: Ancient Motifs and Ecology in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Short-Stories of the Witcher Cycle
Lisa Maurice
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
The God Pan in Children’s Fiction and Culture
Anna Mik
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mythical Labyrinthine Nature in Jan Bajtlik’s "Greek Myths and Mazes"
Sheila Murnaghan
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Secret Lives of Trees: Tales of Natural Transformation in Classical Myths for Children
Sonya Nevin
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Imagining Africa: Classical Antiquity in the Brontë Juvenilia
Daniel A. Nkemleke, Divine Che Neba, Eleanor A. Dasi
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Nature Dynamics: From Descriptive to Prescriptive Nature Images in Yael Farber's "Molora"
Elżbieta Olechowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Nothing Ancient Resonates with Children as Deeply as the Concept of an Animal Daemon. Philip Pullman’s Scenario for the Human-Animal Bond.
Beatrice Palmieri
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna / Erasmus Programme
Gianni Rodari and the Myth of Atalanta: The Role of Nature in Knowledge of Culture
Hanna Paulouskaya
Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Constellations of Gods in Soviet Animation
Amanda Potter
Open University
Save the Monster, Save the World: Living in Harmony with 'Monsters' in "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"(1984) and '"Princess Mononoke" (1997)
Marta Pszczolińska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Domestic Animals: Minimus the Mouse and Vibrissa the Cat as a Latin Learning Supporting Team in "Minimus. Starting out in Latin" Textbook
Babette Puetz
School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, AD 79, in Children's Literature
Deborah H. Roberts
Department of Classics, Haverford College
Natural Disaster, Social Change: Volcanic Eruptions in Children’s Literature and the Story of Thera
Krzysztof Rybak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Serving Ancient Nature in Informational Picturebooks: Natural Products and Their Consumption in Antiquity and Beyond
Sonja Schreiner
Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies, University of Vienna
Witty Education: Environment and Nature as Atmospheric Background in Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariä's (1726–1777) Mock Heroic Poetry
Michael Stierstorfer
Gymnasium Kloster Schäftlarn
Ancient Mythology as a Vehicle to Save Environment? The Islands of Atlantis and Helios in Current Future Fiction
Katerina Volioti
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton
A Post-humanist Perspective: Plants, Animals, and Things in Children’s Books about the Classical Past
BONUS
Alessia Borriello, University of Bologna
Ludovica Lusvardi, Fashion Design at Politecnico of Milan, Theatrical Tailoring at Accademia della Scala
Martina Treu, Ancient Drama and History of Ancient Art, Università IULM, Milan
Leo Nahmias Treu
Presentation of the Game “Olympus Ready-to-Wear”