Historical Scripts and Systemic Contingencies in the Early Principate (3-day conference)
20 - 22 September 2013
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
The workshop is free to all participants, and a buffet lunch will be provided on the Saturday. Registration essential. Organiser: Ingo Gildenhard.
Programme:
Friday, 20 September:
2 pm: Welcome and Introduction
Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge) on behalf of the organizers
2.30 pm: Continuity and Rupture: Patterning Time in Discourse and Practice, from Sallust to Augustus
Benjamin Biesinger (Konstanz)
3.30 pm: Coffee Break
4 pm: The Faces of Discord in Sallust's Histories
Andrew Feldherr (Princeton)
5 pm: Dismantling the res publica
Louise Hodgson (Durham)
Saturday, 21 September:
9.30 am: The Creation and Destruction of Marcus Antonius
Kathryn Welch (Sydney)
10.30 am: How Do Civil Wars End? Some Roman Answers
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown)
11.30 pm: Coffee Break
12.00 pm: The Augustan Senate and the Reconfiguration of Time on the Fasti Capitolini
Amy Russell (Durham)
Buffet Lunch
2.30 pm: Augustus' Triumphalism and the End of History
Wolfgang Havener (Konstanz)
3.30 pm: Myth and the Forum Romanum
Hannah Price (Cambridge)
4.30 pm: Coffee Break
5 pm: When the Past is Present: Remembering the Bacchanalian Affair in Augustan Rome
Andreas Bendlin (Toronto)
Sunday, 22 September:
9.30 am: Aeneid 4 and Livy 21: Augustan Fama and the Linguistic Turn on the Hannibalic War
Elena Giusti (Cambridge)
10.30 am: The Destruction of History in Augustan Poetry
Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge)
11.30 am: Coffee Break
11.45 pm: The Invention of the Age of Augustus
Alison Cooley (Warwick)
12.45 13.00 pm: Concluding Remarks/ Discussion