Thursday 26 May
1100-1130 Coffee, introduction etc
1130-1230 Tim Whitmarsh, ‘The Hair of the Dog: Rereading Dio’s Diogenes Orations’
1230-1330 Casper de Jonge, ‘On beauty: Past, Present, and Politics in Dio of Prusa, Oration 21’
1330-1430 LUNCH (for speakers)
1430-1530 Nir Stern, ‘Philosopher in Politics: Dio Chrysostom’s Prusan Orations’
1530-1630 Anna Peterson, ‘Taking Shape: Gender and Form in Dio of Prusa's Orations 21, 33, 61’
1630-1700 COFFEE
1700-1800 Francesca Iurlaro, ‘How Marginalia Marginalized Alternative Narratives: The Legacy of Classics in International Law’
1800- RECEPTION (Cast Gallery, Faculty of Classics)
Friday 27 May
0900-1000 Lawrence Kim, ‘Embodying “Archaic” Simplicity: Hellenism and Primitivism in Dio of Prusa, Orr. 2, 7, 36, 52’
1000-1100 Laura Viidebaum, ‘Dio's Plato: Philosophical Investigations and the Empire’
1100-1130 COFFEE
1130-1230 James Uden, ‘Dio Chrysostom and the Politics of Distrust’ (by zoom)
1230-1330 LUNCH (for speakers)
1330-1430 Anne Gangloff, Dio of Prusa and the Greek rhetoric of “mirrors to the prince”’ (by zoom)
1430-1530 Christopher van den Berg, ‘No sense of an ending? Abrupt conclusions as philosophical and political strategies in Dio’ (by zoom)
1530-1600 COFFEE
1600-1700 Alexander Petkas, ‘Hypatia's Dio’
1700-1800 Richard Hunter, ‘Dio “On the Good King according to Homer”: Oration 2’
Saturday 28 May
0915-1000 Coffee and General Discussion
1000-1100 Katarzyna Jazdzewska, ‘Dio’s Dialogues with Anonymous Speakers: Or. 55, 56, 60, 61 and Or. 14 & 15
1100-1200 Bryant Kirkland, ‘”A Longing for Tumult and Bustle”: Philosophical Provocation in Dio's Bithynian Speeches’
1200 CLOSE