by Jon Lackman | 19 February 2010 | Ancient, Conferences
Coming to Bristol this September, “Seduction and Power is the second in a series of major international and interdisciplinary conferences focusing on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts.” Paper topics include: “Woman on Top? Semiramide and the Power of the ‘Oriental Woman’”; “‘Jewel-in-the-belly-button’ Orientalism in Oliver Stone’s Alexander: The Fantasy of the Harem and Hollywood’s Ancient World”; and “The Lure of the Hermaphrodite in the Poetry and Painting of the English Aesthetes.”
