Cambridge Faculty of Classics, Room G.21
27-29 May 2010
Organised by Simon Goldhill, Richard Fletcher and Johanna Hanink
Thursday, 27 May
2:00-2:15 Welcome and Introduction
2:15-3:15 Constanze Güthenke ( Princeton )
‘”Lives” as Parameter. The Privileging of Ancient Lives as a Category of Research around 1900’
3:15-4:15 Miriam Leonard (UCL)
‘Freud, Renan and the Memory of Philology’
4:15-4:45 Tea & Coffee Break
4:45-5:45 Verity Platt ( Chicago )
‘Lives of the Greek Artists: Creating Creators in Ancient Texts and Modern Art History’
6:00-7:00 Reception in the Cast Gallery – all welcome!
7:30 Dinner for speakers at Sala Thong Thai Restaurant
Friday, 28 May
9.00-10:00 Richard Fletcher ( Ohio State )
‘Plato the Epicurean’
10:00-11:00 Kurt Lampe ( Bristol )
‘Philosophers in their Anecdotage: Life-Writing in the Socratic Epistles’
11:10-11:30 Tea & Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Polly Low (Manchester)
‘Constructing Lives from Stone(s): Inscriptions and Biography’
12.30-2.00 Lunch for speakers at King’s College
2:00-3:00 Anna S. Uhlig ( Princeton )
‘Life as Poetic Possession: Biographical Authorship in Fifth-Century Poetry’
3:00-4:00 Johanna Hanink ( Cambridge )
‘Athenian Phileuripideans’
4:00-4:30 Tea & Coffee Break
4:30-5:45 Pauline LeVen (Yale)
‘Reading Philoxenus' Life: Between Fish and Frank Speech’
Time TBC Dinner for speakers at King’s College
Saturday, 29 May
9:00-10:00 Andrew Laird ( Warwick )
‘Virgil: Performance and the Myth of Biography’
10:00-11:00 John Henderson ( Cambridge )
'ut ipse praescripserat: Nepos' script for a new biography – Atticus'
11:00-11:30 Tea & Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Closing Discussion, Led by Barbara Graziosi ( Durham )