Dr. Pasquale Ferrara
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Dr. Pasquale Ferrara
Lehrbeauftragter an der Professur Geschichte des Altertums
Werdegang
- seit 01/2024: Postdoktorand am PRIN Projekt 2022 #EtiamEgo, Università degli Studi di Torino
- seit 04/2022: Doktorand am Lehrstuhl Geschichte des Alterums.
- 09/2018: Professional Development Seminar Cycle – Museum Curator ; UdK - Universität der Künste Berlin/Berlin Career College, Berlin.
- 06/2012: Promotion Klassische Archöologie, Seconda Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rom.
- 10/2007: MA Klassische Archäologie, Seconda Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome.
- 10/2005: BA Klassische Philologie, Università di Napoli Federico II, Neapel.
Forschungsschwerpunkte und Interessengebiete
- Gender and Women Studies
- Rezeption aus der Antike
- Religionsgeschichte
- Klassische Archäologie
- Antike Bildhauerei
Publikationen
Monographien
- Menadi e baccanti. Donne e riti dionisiaci in Grecia e a Roma, Roma 2024.
- Mainàs. Studi sulle menadi nella statuaria greca e romana (IRAW, 8), Roma 2020.
Aufsätze
- Bacchants, GROH: Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. (Forthcoming).
- Let’s get unconscious, honey. Erotic and Queer Afterlives of Dionysus and the Maenad, Pagan Pornotopias (Forthcoming).
- Dionysian Feminine, Water, and Wine in Archaic and Classical Attic Dionysian Ritual and Mythical Imagery. Deciphering Female Figures in Greek Myth and Ritual (Forthcoming).
- Pazze di dolore, pazze d’amore: menadi, donne e follia in Grecia e a Roma, Non era un paese per donne. Contesti (2024), 11–32.
- Il paesaggio sacro dei rituali menadici tra Grecia e Roma: trasformazioni e manipolazioni, Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3 (2024), 361–366.
- Baccanti ebbre e ninfomani tra la fine della Repubblica e la prima età imperiale, Graeco-Latina Brunensia 28, 1 (2023), 19–31.
- Il cratere di Europa di Assteas, Archeologia Classica 40, 10 (2009), 353–368.
Rezensionen und Tagungsberichte
- Pagan Pornotopias? The Reception of Antiquity in Eroticism and Pornography: Madrid, 27 – 29 September 2023, Cronache - Bollettino di studi latini LIV, I (2023), 143.
- John Boardman, A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far. An Autobiography, Anabases 37 (2023), 364–368.
- Reading History in the Roman Empire, Thersites 16 (2023), 178–183.
Vorträge
- 17.07.2025: Frauenorgien aus der Antike – scienceslam.de, Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin.
- 28–30.05.2025: Narrazione, manipolazione e alterazione: la menade secondo l’immaginario maschile – #EtiamEgo Academy, Università di Bologna.
- 10.05.2025: Vor Schmerzen verrückt: Mänaden, Frauen & Emotionen in der Antike – Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften, Potsdam Science Park.
- 04–06.09.2024: Physical Dionysian Pluralities: Maenadic Bodies over Time – Panel 21: Ancient Female Bodies in Reception. Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History 04.-06. September 2024 – University of Potsdam, Germany.
- 09–12.07.2024: Maenads, Eros, and Otherness: Unveiling the Multifaceted Sexuality of the Dionysian Feminine, Celtic Conference in Classics, Panel: Tearing a God Apart: New Approaches to Dionysus, Cardiff University.
- 20–21.06.2024: Rezeption der Mänaden in modernen Medien – 2. Jungmitglieder-Treffen der Mommsen-Gesellschaft, Forum Wissen.
- 31.05.2024: Frauenorgien aus der Antike –3. Brandenburger Science Slam, Berlin (First place as science communicator).
- 04.05.2024: Frauen, Rausch und Ekstase: von Altertum bis Pop-Kultur – Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften, Wissenschaftspark „Albert Einstein“, Potsdam.
- 18–19.04.2024: The Dionysian Feminine and the Sacred Authority of Historical Maenads. International Conference Oslo, Deciphering Female Figures in Greek Myth and Ritual.
- 21–22.03.2024: Von Menos zu Tryphe: die semantischen Veränderungen der Mänade zwischen klassischem Griechenland, Hellenismus und Rom, NDAW 2024, Göttingen.
- 25.02.2024: Μαινάς. Studio sulle menadi nella statuaria greca e romana – Tourisma, Firenze, Palazzo dei Congressi.
- 08–11.11.2023: Menadi e baccanti nella cultura pop: tre modalità di ricezione – VII Jornada Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores ANIHO – IX SHRA: La recepción de la Antigüedad desde el Medievo hasta el Mundo Contemporáneo. Vitoria Gasteiz, UPV-EHU.
- 19.10.2023: Lo slittamento semantico delle menadi nell’arte figurativa greco-romana: dal menos bacchico alla tryphe dionisiaca, Padova, Musei Civici degli Eremitani, Museo Archeologico.
- 03–04.10.2023: Greek Street and Mainades, The raving women. The reception of Ancient Maenads in Comics and Hentai – Drawing (on) the Classics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – Bar-Ilan University.
- 29–31.05.2023: Il paesaggio sacro dei rituali menadici tra Grecia e Roma. Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3 – III Convegno Internazionale di Antichità Classiche Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’.
- 25–26.05.2023: Pazze di dolore: donne, dolore e follia nel mondo antico – PAIN GAMES Sfida multidisciplinare al dolore, Piazza Ermete Novelli, Milan.
- 23.05.2023: Le menadi greche: una ricezione intricata. DAFNE. Divino al femminile. Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere – Università di Pisa.
- 09–10-12.2022: Contemporary Maenads. AIMS Antiquity in Media Studies – Annual International Online Conference December.
- 14–16.11.2022: La retorica della baccante. Laetae segetes – VIII International Ph.D. Student Conference November.
Konferenz-Organisation
- Co-Organisator bei Love and Frenzy: Dionysus and Aphrodite in Ancient Greece and Beyond, International Conference, Complutense University of Madrid, 18–20 Juni 2025.
- Co-Organisator beim Norddeutschen Doktorand:innenworkhsop 2025 (NDAW 2025) an der Universität Potsdam, 13-14 März 2025.