Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 6-9, 2010
The first two days are held as the Exploratory Seminar on Comparative Mythology at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Major topics:
- Reconstruction: early stages of mythology
- Theory: polarities, motif, mytheme, etc.
- The Hero
- Myth and politics
Program
Allen, Nick
Oxford
University
Homer-Mahabharata comparison and the nature
of heroes
Al Maini, Dough
St.
Francis Xavier University, N.Scotia
The Evolution of
Zeus: From Helladic King to Hellenic Legislator
Antoni, Klaus
Tübingen
University
Kojiki, politics, and the comparative study
of Japanese mythology
Bek-Pedersen, Karen
Aberdeen
University
Síðu-Hallr and St. Michael
Berezkin, Yuri
Russian
Academy, St. Petersburg
announced
topic: Diffusion and Principal Components
Bengtson, John
ASLIP,
Minneapolis
announced
topic: Long range comparative linguistics
van Binsbergen, Wim
Leiden
University
Aspects of the hero in the comparative
mythology of Africa
Blazek, Vaclav
Brno
University, Czech Republic
Purusha and Pangu
Colarusso, John
McMaster
University
Ancient linguistic links in western
Eurasia
also: Shabby, old fertility gods in Indo-European
Davidson, Holly
Brandeis University
“Lives
of Poets” myths: Ferdowsi
Elmer, David
Harvard
University
announced
topic: Politics in the Iliad
Farmer, Steve
Cultural Research group, Palo
Alto
announced topic:
Myth and politics
Harrod, James
Center for Research on the Origins of
Art and Religion, Portland, ME
Evolution of symbol and myth
and spirituality: 4 ‘memes’ of cultural evolution from 2 mya
Hillers, Barbara
Harvard University
announced
topic:
Merseburger Zaubersprüche
Hirafuji, Kikuko
Kokugakuin University,Tokyo
Japanese
mythology and nationalism
Kawami, Trudy
Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
Pegasos:
the West Asian Origins of the Winged Horse
Lyle, Emily
Polarities
announced
topic:
Methods: discussion session
also: “The
hero who releases the waters and his dragon”.
Matsumura, Kazuo
Wako
University, TokyoZoological Mythology in the
Modern World
Miller, Dean
Chicago
University
The Hero: Late if Not Last Thoughts
Milne, Louise
Edinburgh College of Art
Visual
nonsense and infinity: a cross-cultural comparison (hero)
Nagy, Gregory
Harvard
University
“Lives of Poets”: Homer
Oguibenine, Boris
Strasbourg University
On the
concept of motif in comparative mythology
Ogunbayo, Sola
Redeemer’s University, Mowe,
Nigeria
Prophetic Myth in Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods and
In Arcadia
Olupona, Jacob; Harvard University
announced
topic:
On Yoruba myth, divination and ritual
Osada, Toshiki
Res. Inst. for Humanity & Nature,
Kyoto
announced topic:
On Munda myth
Oyeniyi, Bukola Adeyemi
Babaloa University, Ikeji,
Nigeria
Yoruba Mythological Hero-Gods and Its Utility in
Identity Construction
Pattberg, Thorsten
Peking
University
Holy Confucius! Some Observations in
Translating “sheng(ren)” in The Analects
Patterson, Nick
MIT/Broad Institute:
announced
topic:
Human population genetics
Petrosyan, Armen
Inst. of Archaeology and
Ethnography, Academy of Sciences, Armenia
Genocide and
Ethnogony
Pilbeam, David
Harvard
University
announced
topic:
On early human paleontology and archeology
Sandness, Adela
St. F. Xavier University,
N.Scotia
Splitting, Doubling and the Space in-Between: On
polarities and their transcendence in the Vedic Myth of Indra and
Namuci
Schwerda, Paul
Tübingen University
Trita
Aptya in the Veda
Vassilkov, Yaroslav
Russian Acad., St.
Petersburg
Epic heroes and gods: in India and beyond
Venbrux, Eric
Nijmegen,
NL
announced topic:
Australian myth
Wachutka, Michael
Doshisha University, Kyoto
Shinten:
The ‘Sacred Scriptures of Shintō as Cultural Memory and
Political Ideology”
Witzel, Michael
Harvard University
Deep
Reconstruction: applying the methods of historical comparative
mythology
Yamada, Hitoshi
Sendai, Japan
announced
topic:
Austronesian myth
Yanchevskaya, Nataliya
Harvard University
Afterlife
in Slavic and Vedic mythology
Zender, Marc
Harvard
University
announced
topic:
On reconstruction of Maya myths
Anticipated Participants
Foote, G.R., ASLIP, Boston
Gray, Elizabeth; Harvard
University
Hallisey, Charles; Harvard University
Manuelian,
Peter; Harvard University
Machinist, Peter; Harvard
University
Patton, Kimberley, Harvard University
Puett,
Michael, Harvard University
Skjaervo, Oktor, Harvard
University
Steinkeller, Piotr, Harvard University