Matthieu Stepec
Lars Hilles gate 3, 5015 Bergen, Norvège
Of queer bears, Bach and the Lily flower: what does anime have to do with classical music?
Since its inception in the 1960's, Japanese animation has used Western Classical music very often - much more so than Western cartoons. This talk will show how by reappropriating this older and foreign musical culture, anime has been able to develop new connections, new meanings, new connotations on the canvas of older classics. What can this popular culture that emerged from Japan teach us about high brow European musical tradition? What happens to music once it is animefied?
Magnus Arvid Boes Lorenzen
Universitetet i Bergen , Bergen, Norway, department of Archaeology, History, and Cultural and Religious Studies
Mirrors of the Heart: Ezekiel Traditions and Radical Embodied Religion in Second Temple Judaism
We know what pushes people into radicalization, but what pulls them? I present brief overview of my current research at UiB, under the RADHEART-project, about individual strong commitment, embodied religion, and emotions in antiquity and late antiquity. We combine history, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology to find new perspectives on ancient texts, and on radicalization, historic and contemporary. I will preface with my earlier work comparing Mesopotamian and Biblical literary parallels.