Speakers & paper titles

Bednarek Bartłomiej	Postdoc Fellow	University of Warsaw	Some overlooked Orphic grave monuments and gems
Bershadsky Natasha	Lecturer in Classics	Harvard University	The mysteries of the Kabeiroi: following a thread between ritual and myth
Blankenborg Ronald	Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Literature and Linguistics	Radboud University	‘How to become a god’: Menelaus’ previewed deification in the Odyssey
Bosman Philip	Professor of Classics	Stellenbosch University	Julian the sacrificer
Buè Francesco	Postdoctoral Researcher	École Pratique des Hautes Études of Paris & THEMAM Nanterre	Comparing Eleusinian and Epinician Elements in the Pindaric Poetry
Christopoulos Menelaos	Professor of Ancient Greek Literature	University of Patras	Dionysus’ Katabasis and the Mysteries of Lerna
Clinch Alice	PhD Candidate	Cornell University	Epiphanic Encounters at Eleusis
De Poli Mattia	Assistant Professor of Classical Philology	Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna	Aeschylus and the Eleusinian mysteries: Further sources for a ‘famous’ accusation?
Di Serio Chiara	Research Assistant at the Department of Classics and Philosophy	University of Cyprus	Julian and the Statue of the Mother of the Gods
Fassa Eleni	Assistant Professor	Democritus University of Thrace	Internationalizing the Mysteries? The Eumolpid Timotheos between Athens and Alexandria
Gartziou-Tatti Ariadni	Professor in Ancient Greek Literature	University of Ioannina	Oath-rituals and peace treaties on the Athenian dionysiac stage
Giannuzzi Alessandra	Teacher Assistant of Greek and Latin	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore	Μονοκρήπιδες: the symbol of the barefoot
Harrison George W. M.	Contract Instructor	Carleton University	Rome’s Embrace of Herakles
Kafritsa Efthymia	Philologist in Secondary Education	–	Ἔρως as mystic initiation
Kousoulini Vasia	Adjunct Lecturer	University of Patras	Dionysian Choreia as a Multisensory Experience in Ancient Greek Theater
Koutsoukos Marios	PhD Candidate in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology	University of Liverpool	Visions of the ‘Mithras Liturgy’: The role of self-initiation in Graeco-Egyptian ceremonial magic and Neoplatonic theurgy.
Levaniouk Olga	Professor of Classics	University of Washington	Mystery Cows
Luchetti Claudia	Assistant Professor & Visiting Researcher at the EKU (Eberhard-Karls Universität)	Karl-Franzens Universität Graz & University of Tübingen	The Gods of Eleusis in Plato’s Noetic Mythology. On Phaidon 61b sequ. and 78b-81a.
Manakidou Flora	Professor in Ancient Greek Literature	Democritus University of Thrace	Rätsel über Rätsel: Pandora, Kekropides and the “race of women” in Attic Mysteries
Meineck Peter	Professor of Classics in the Modern World	New York University	The Mystery of Catharsis: A Cognitive Approach
Nikolaidou-Arabatzi Smaro	Assistant Professor	Democritus University of Thrace	Paizein in Hades: Blissful afterlife in Pindar’s fr. 129 and the chorus’ parodos in Aristophanes’ Frogs
Ntotsika Katerina	PhD Candidate	University of Patras	Time as a God in Proclus’ Elements of Theology
Papachrysostomou Athina	Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature	University of Patras	Mystery Cults in Greek Comic Fragments
Perkins Catherine	Hort Scholar in Early Christianity	University of Cambridge	Mystery cults in 1st Century A.D. Corinth and Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians
Redondo Sanchez Jordi	Full Professor of Greek Philology	Universitat de València	Literary evidence for gender crossing in the ancient Greek rituals
Sánchez i Bernet Andrea	Post-Doctoral Researcher	Universitat de València	Chthonic symbology of Ares in classical sources
Seaford Richard	Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History	University of Exeter	Mystic initiation and the Parmenidean One
Smith Charles	Independent Researcher & Former Lecturer in Ancient History	Balliol College, University of Oxford	‘Perfect Hosts’: Xenia at the Eleusinian Mysteries
Toomet Elo-Mall	PhD Candidate	University of Tartu	The mysteries of arrival and absence in the cults of the Argive plain
Yool Caitlin	PhD Candidate	University of Aberdeen	The Greek Mysteries: Magic, Pharmaka and Ekstasis
Zanetto Giuseppe	Adjunct Professor in Ancient Greek Dramaturgy	Università degli Studi di Milano	“Liturgical Eros”: Sacred Space as a Space for Love