Visit Greece with the UMBC Ancient Studies Department!!
Spring Break, March 16-25, 2018!
The UMBC Ancient Studies Department will conduct its 52nd annual study tour in Greece, March 16-25, 2018. The cost of $3,000 includes all air and land travel, twin-share accommodation for eight nights at four-star hotels, eight buffet breakfasts, three dinners, two lunches, and entrance to all archaeological sites and museums on the itinerary. Single rooms are available at an additional cost of $335. ANCS majors and minors, UMBC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community are invited to join us. The trip can be taken as a three-credit course taught by Dr. Michael Lane and Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis in the Winter 2018 term (ANCS 301). Scholarships to help pay for the costs of the trip are available to Ancient Studies majors who enroll in the course; one scholarship is available to pay the costs of the course. Places are limited, so reserve yours today! This is a wonderful opportunity to see Greece in the off season in fine spring weather. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Domonique Pitts (dpitts@umbc.edu) and include your registration form. An initial deposit of $350.00 will be due Monday, October 16, 2017.
The tour will begin with a three-night stay in Athens, followed by one night in Itea, two nights in Nauplion, and one night in Heraklion, on the island of Crete, before spending the last night in Athens. The stay in Athens will include visits to the Acropolis and the new Acropolis Museum, the Agora and Agora Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, and Cape Sounion, where we will view the temple of Poseidon and watch the sunset. We will then travel to Delphi, visiting the Archaeological Museum of Thebes and the mountain village of Arachova on the way. After spending the following day at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, we will travel to Nauplion for visits to bronze-age fortresses at Tiryns and Mycenae, as well as to the Nauplion Archaeological Museum. Then we return to Athens for a flight to Crete, where we will take in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum and Minoan sites at Knossos and Malia before returning to Athens and flying back to Baltimore the following day.
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Announcing the Final Examination of Jessica M. Floyd
August 25, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.
Announcing the Final Examination of Jessica M. Floyd (LLC Cohort 16)
Date and Location: August 25, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.
LLC Conference Room, Sherman Hall, Room 422
Title: Jib-booms, Barrels, and Dead-Eyes: Singing Sex in Sea Chanteys
The sailing ship, during the Great Age of Sail (roughly 1500-1860), was a floating, largely homosocial space that housed what historian Marcus Rediker calls a “motley crew” of sailing men. Within the cramped structure of the wooden sailing vessel, men were together for often long stretches of time at sea and, in order to create and maintain a shipboard culture, the sailing men employed many strategies to reinforce solidarity, inculcate new crew-members, and delineate themselves within the lonely, dangerous, and sometimes deadly maritime world. One of the chief modes of creating solidarity and identity was through the singing of sea chanteys (shipboard work songs) while seamen were employed in their various shipboard tasks. What complicates this mode of collective bonding and what serves as the chief object of interrogation in this project is the fact that a vast majority of the narratives in sea chanteys were sexual in nature and in their deployment created an erotically charged work space.
This project views a collection of unexpurgated sea chanteys, located in the once believed “lost” manuscript compiled by bawdy folklore collector Gershon Legman and sea chantey collector Stan Hugill, and investigates the songs as cultural products of the sea. Specifically, through the close analysis of the songs, this project uncovers how chanteys function both internally (within the narratives themselves) and also externally (as they are applied and employed in the work of the ship). Through a unique theoretical lens, formed through the intersection of the work of Michel Foucault and Sarah Ahmed, against the backdrop of Dorothy Smith’s theory of texts as agents of organization and re-embodied through Roland Barthes “Grain of the Voice,” this project is concerned with the way in which sailing men not only create a sense of identity and self-hood, but also how they bind together to create a unique sailing identity through the sea chanteys that helped structure and spur on their work. By the end, the project highlights how the sexual and erotic narratives of sea chanteys function with and deploy discipline, punishment, and orientation, in the service of structuring, forming, and policing identities and relationships within the constrained world of the sailing ship. Ultimately, I argue that the chanteys orient the sailing men to their work, to each other, and to a unique relationship with sex and erotic release. Within the project I contend that the intimate narratives of the sea chanteys mitigated and articulated the desire to be a part of the brotherhood of the forecastle, were a conduit through which the maritime bond was formed, and were a way through which the men experimented with taboo narratives.
To this point, very few projects look directly into collected sea chanteys in order to mine them for both their symbolic as well as historical possibilities and I seek to rectify the gap in current discussions of the genre. The confined, homosocial space of the ship, combined with the communal bonding through song, and the sexualized subject matter inherent in most of the chanteys creates an analytical space that raises new opportunities for discussion concerning the early modern maritime relationship with the subject of sex. This uniquely interdisciplinary project calls on many different disciplines in order to contextualize as well as interrogate this literature of the sea so as to ultimately venture the argument that sea chanteys are valuable cultural remnants of the Age of Sail, worthy of further scholarly inquiry.
Dissertation Committee:
Amy Froide, Chair
Laura Rosenthal, Co-Chair
Marjoleine Kars
Christine Mallinson
Kate Drabinski
The public is welcome to observe.
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Announcing the Final Examination of Jessica M. Floyd (LLC Cohort 16) Date and Location: August 25, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. LLC Conference Room, Sherman Hall, Room 422 Title: Jib-booms,...
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