Faculty of Classics, Cambridge 29th-31st May 2012
Organisers: Prof Robin Osborne, Dr Michael Scott, Dr Daniel Jew
All sessions to be held in room G.21.
Tuesday 29th
11.30 Welcome
11.40 Dan Tompkins: The making of Moses Finley
12.55–2.10 lunch
2.10 Paul Millett The Impact of Studies in Land and Credit
3.25 Tea
3.40 Robin Osborne: Finley’s impact on Homer
4.55 Paul Cartledge: Finley’s Democracy
7.00 Reception: Jesus College Fellows’ Garden
Wednesday 30th
9.00 Kostas Vlassopoulos: Finley’s Slavery
10.15 Coffee
10.25 Gabi Herman: Finley’s archaic Greece
11.40 Jonathan Prag: Finley’s Sicily
12.55 lunch
2.00 Alessandro Launaro: Finley and the ancient economy
3.15 Nicholas Purcell: Finley and Rome
4.30 Tea
4.45 Jennifer Gates-Foster: Finley and archaeology
6.30 pm Reception in Old Library, Darwin College (along with exhibition on Moses Finley from the Darwin Archives and video of Finley interviewed by Keith Hopkins). All conference attendees welcome.
Thursday 31st
9.00 Wilfried Nippel: Finley’s impact on the continent
10.15 Dorothy Thompson: Finley and the teaching of ancient history
11.30 Coffee
11.40 Mary Beard: Finley’s journalism
12.55 Lunch
2.00 Geoffrey Lloyd: Finley in the University of Cambridge
3.15 Peter Garnsey: Finley and other scholars
4.30 Tea
4.45 Walter Scheidel: Measuring Finley’s impact.
6.00 Close of conference