Call for Papers: Human/Animal Studies in Classics. Aisthesis/Aesthetics
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02. October 2025
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Call for papers
Human/Animal Studies in Classics. Aisthesis/Aesthetics
Kiel, 2–3 October 2026
Deadline for submission: 12 December 2025
The perception and assessment of beauty is a defining characteristic of the human species. Whether we like a person or an object significantly affects our reaction: we are either attracted or repelled; we either want to possess the object or despise it; we either feel proud or ashamed of our connection to the person. Our conference explores the role that perceptions of beauty (or the lack of it) played in human-animal-relations in antiquity.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we welcome contributions from various fields such as ancient history, classical philology, philosophy, religious studies, and archaeology which focus on the visual or literary representation of aesthetic aspects of human-animal relationships in antiquity. The conference languages are German, English, French and Italian. The publication of the contributions is planned. Researchers at all qualification levels are invited to submit an abstract.
Please send your proposal (max. 1 A4 page) by 12 December 2025 to isleme.sassi@email.uni-kiel.de and bettina.reese@uni-potsdam.de. We are seeking funds to contribute towards the speakers' (train) travel expenses.
Organisation
Prof. Dr. Islème Sassi
Fachdidaktik der Alten Sprachen
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Leibnizstrasse 8; Büro 415
24118 Kiel
Dr. Bettina Reese
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Professur Geschichte des Altertums
Historisches Institut | Universität Potsdam
The complete Call for Papers in German and English can be found here as PDF.
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