Call for papers “Atena e Minerva. Tra Iconografia e Letteratura” (Velletri, 3-6 giugno 2020):

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Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”
Athena and Minerva
Between Iconography and Literature
June 3-6, 2020
Velletri (Rome)
Call for Papers
the current conference has two aims:
1) The analysis of ancient documentation, both literary and iconographic,
of mythical traditions and all narratives that have the goddesses Athena
and Minerva as protagonists. Another object of the analysis will be how
these narrations are later re-elaborated in the art and literature of later
eras, from Middle Ages to Contemporary Age.
2) How and why the two deities are identified with each other in antiquity.
What are the characteristics that induced this identification? What are the
differences between the two goddesses? Which are the peculiar traits?
On the whole, the conference intends to be an occasion for an
interdisciplinary confrontation that favours dialogue among different ways
of approaching documentation and the connected disciplines: anthropology,
archaeology, classical philology, history, art history, history of
literature, history of religions.
A specific section of the conference will be dedicated to the historical
and artistic analysis and the history of the Velletri Pallas, a statue
found in Velletri in 1797 and today preserved in Paris, at the Louvre
Museum.
Scientific Committee: Igor Baglioni (“Raffaele Pettazzoni” Museum of
Religions), Giuseppe Capriotti (Università degli Studi di Macerata),
Massimiliano Di Fazio (Università degli Studi di Pavia), Rachele Dubbini
(Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Andrea Ercolani (Istituto di Studi Sul
Mediterraneo – Napoli), Andrzej Gillmeister (University of Zielona Góra),
Valeria Merola (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Marco Nocca (Accademia
di Belle Arti di Roma), Francesco Ursini (Sapienza Università di Roma).
Administration: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”).
The scholars who would like to contribute may send a one-page abstract (max 2.000 characters) to Igor Baglioni, (igorbaglioni79@gmail.com) by April 1st, 2020.
Attached to the abstract should be: the title of the paper; the chosen
area; a short biography of the authors; email address and phone number.
Papers may be written and presented in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The acceptance of papers will be communicated (by email) only to the
selected contributors by 2020, April 10.
Please send the paper, complete with notes and bibliograpy, by email not
later than May 20. The delivery of the paper is required to participate in
the conference.
Important deadlines:
Closing of call for papers: April 1st, 2020.
Notification about acceptance: April 10th, 2020.
Delivery of paper: May 20th, 2020.
Conference: June 3 – 6th, 2020
There is no attendance fee. The participants who don’t live in Rome or
surroundings will be accommodated in hotels and bed-and-breakfasts which
have an agreement with the Museum of Religions Raffaele Pettazzoni to offer
discounted prices.
Papers may be published on Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle
Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar), and in specialized
journals. All the papers will be peer-reviewed.
In the evenings there will be free-of-charge visits to the museums and
monuments of the Castelli Romani area. The excursion programme will be
presented at the same time as the conference programme.
For information:

email: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com