A two-day conference at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
16th/ 17th April, 2009
Thursday 16th April
9:30 a.m. Registration
9:50 a.m. Session 1
Claudia Rapp, University of California, Los Angeles
Teachers and Students, Fathers and Brothers: Monasticism and the Classroom
David Gwynn, Royal Holloway, London
Athanasius of Alexandria in Oriental Tradition
11:20 a.m. Coffee/Tea
11:40 a.m. Session 2
Richard Flower, University of Cambridge
Nobody Does It Better: Epiphanius of Salamis and Heresiological Expertise
Sergio Knipe, University of Cambridge
Sacrifice and Self-Transformation in the Alchemical Writings of Zosimus
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Session 3
Catherine Ware, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Proserpina and the Martyrs: Christian Themes in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
Fotini Hadjittofi, University of Cambridge
Nonnos’ Dionysiaca: An Unclassical Greek Epic?
3:20 p.m. Tea/Coffee
3:50 p.m. Session 4
Tom Kitchen, University of Cambridge
Italia and Graecia: West versus East in the Rhetoric of Ostrogothic Italy
Andy Merrills, University of Leicester
How to be a Vandal (without even trying)
7:00 p.m. Conference Dinner at Clare College
Friday 17th April
10:15 a.m. Session 5
Michael Williams, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Who Writes to the Patriarch? New Problems of Protocol in Augustine’s Africa
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, King’s College, London
A Departure from damnatio memoriae: the Place of the Usurper Maximus in Pacatus’ Panegyric of Theodosius
Julia Hillner, University of Sheffield
Punishment as Reform in (late) Roman Law
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Session 6
Claire Sotinel, Université François Rabelais, Tours
Mending the Past: The Construction of Papacy in the Roman Liber Pontificalis (5th and 6th centuries)
John Curran, Queen’s University, Belfast
The Jewish Patriarchate: A State Within a State?
2:50 p.m. Conclusions and Closing Words
3:20 p.m. Tea/Coffee
Registration and all papers will be held in Room 1.04.