Programme
FRIDAY 12 APRIL
14.30—15.00: Welcome & Introduction.
15.00—16.00: Elena Giusti (Warwick), ‘Rome’s African Monsters: Myths of Persecution and Resistance’.
16.00—16.15: Coffee (Room G.22)
16.15—17.00: Esther Meijer (St Andrews), ‘Processing Incorporation with the Bull of Phalaris’.
17.00—17.45: Bethany Haywood (Nottingham), ‘The Sabine Women: Familial Identity, Violence, and What it Means to be Roman’.
18.15: Dinner (The Tiffin Truck, Regent Street—please email if coming)
SATURDAY 13 APRIL
09.30—10.00: Welcome.
10.00—11.00: Adam Kemezis (Alberta), ‘Ammianus on Maximinus’ Reign of Terror, or the Tragedy of the Dancing Judge’.
11.00—11.45: Elisabeth Slingsby (Cambridge), ‘Indomitable or Ill-Advised? Conflicting Recollections of the Demise of Xanthus’.
11.45—12.30: Max Leventhal (Cambridge), ‘Against Antiochus’ Epiphanies: Resistance and the Spectacle of Persecution in 4 Maccabees’.
12.30—13.30: Lunch (Room G.22)
13.30—14.30: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (Cambridge), ‘Speaking Truth to Power: The Diabolical Accusation in Martyrial Speeches of Late Antiquity’.
14.30—15.15: Ben Kolbeck (Cambridge), ‘Surmounting the Skandalon: Social Embarrassment as a Motivation for Christian Persecution Accounts’.
15.15—15.45: Coffee (Room G.22)
15.45—16.30: George Oliver (KCL), ‘Road and Refuge: The Early Christian Use of Spatial Metaphors and Coping with Trauma’.
16.30—17.15: Marthe Becker (Bielefeld): ‘Like a Wolf Fell upon the Sheep: Deviant Bishops Persecuting the Peaceful in Ecclesiastical Historiography’.
17.15—18.15: Monica Hellström (Oxford), ‘Lactantius the Orator? De mortibus persecutorum as Performance’.
18.15—19.00: Closing Discussion & Drinks Reception.
19.00: Dinner (The Olive Grove, Regent Street)
Ben Kolbeck (bgrk2@cam.ac.uk) and Shushma Malik (sm2737@cam.ac.uk)