*Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009: “Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature”
University College London, 7–9 July 2009 (Archaeology Lecture Theatre)*

It is a great pleasure to announce that the annual Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009 will be coming to London this year.
It will discuss the topic of “Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature” and will be held at University College London, 7–9 July 2009 (Archaeology Lecture Theatre).

Programme

Tuesday, 7 July

from 9.30 registration
10.00 Welcome
10.15-11.00 NIALL W. SLATER (Emory University)
“Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis as Dystopic Prelude to a Neronian Golden Age”
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.15 PAUL BURTON (Australian National University)
“Cicero’s Utopian Amicitia:
Some Epistemological Problems with the ‘Friendship of Virtue’”
12.15-13.00 KATHRYN TEMPEST (Roehampton University)
“Cicero and the Rhetoric of Utopia: The Pro Marcello”

13.00 lunch

14.30-15.15 C.W. MARSHALL (University of British Columbia)
“A Perfect World: a sociology of sex slavery in Roman Comedy”
15.15-16.00 EMMA GEE (University of St Andrews)
“A Smattering of Science”
16.00-16.30 tea
16.30-17.15 BARBARA WEINLICH (Texas Tech University)
“The Dimension(s) of Utopia in Moralistic Discourse:
Mythic Past and Contemporary Rome in Propertius 3.13″
17.15-18.00 RHIANNON EVANS (University of Melbourne)
“Noble savages? Utopian others in Roman ethnography”

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

9.30-10.15 DOROTA DUTSCH (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“The Dynamics of Utopia in Vergil’s Eclogues”
10.15-11.00 ROBIN BOND (University of Canterbury)
“Vergil, Horace and Juvenal: Utopia/Dystopia”
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.15 SJARLENE THOM (University of Stellenbosch)
“The lyric utopia: taking a stand for lyric in Horace Odes 3.7–12”
12.15-13.00 JOHN GARTHWAITE (University of Otago)
“Recantations and Rejections: Martial’s New Rome in Book 10”

13.00 lunch (followed by free afternoon)

Thursday, 9 July 2009

9.30-10.15 JESSICA DIETRICH (Australian National University)
“The Ideal of Virtuous Female Suicide in Flavian Literature
10.15-11.00 PETER DAVIS (University of Tasmania)
“Journey to a better world?: Argo’s Voyage in Seneca’s Medea and Valerius Flaccus”
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.15 JOHN PENWILL (La Trobe University)
“Roman Dystopia and the Battle of Cannae in Punica 8–10”
12.15-13.00 FRANCES LEE MILLS (La Trobe University)
“Between Dreams and Realities: The Interpretation of Omens in Silius Italicus’ Punica”

13.00 lunch

14.30-15.15 ROBERT SIMMS (University of Otago)
“Statius’ Thebaid and the Absence of Great Men”
15.15-16.00 JEAN-MICHEL HULLS (Downside School)
“No place like Rome? Modelling utopia and dystopia onto Statius’ Silvan city”
16.00-16.30 tea
16.30-17.15 JACQUELINE CLARKE (University of Adelaide)
“Utopias and Dystopias of the Body in Prudentius’ Hymn of Fasting (Cath. VII)”
17.15-18.00 STEPHEN HARRISON (Corpus Christi College Oxford)
“Utopian Palaces in Apuleius and La Fontaine”

18.00-19.00 drinks reception

All are welcome. Those who would like to attend should register by sending an email to the conference organizer Gesine Manuwald at g.manuwald AT ucl.ac.uk (deadline: 15 June 2009).
There will be a small fee for participants (other than speakers and chairs) to cover costs for tea, coffee and lunch, payable in cash on the day. Full fee: £20 Day rate: £7

For further information, please contact the conference organizer Gesine Manuwald at g.manuwald AT ucl.ac.uk.

Integration and Diversity in the Culture and Religions of Late Antiquity
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 21-24, 2009
www.LA-network.com

organized by
Michael Kulikowski, Knoxville, and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Heidelberg

We are pleased to announce the first workshop of the International Network for the Study of Late Antiquity: “Centralization and Particularism in Late Antiquity,” which will take place at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, May 21-24, 2009. The conference is open to the public: prior registration is not necessary, and there is no conference fee. Guests who need assistance in booking a hotel room are encouraged to write directly to Michael Kulikowski: mkulikow@ AT utk.edu.

Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference and present their dissertation topics in the form of a poster will receive financial support for their travel expenses and for room and board. Interested students should send a CV and a one-page summary of their dissertation to Michael Kulikowski or Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner: sebastian.schmidt-hofner AT zaw.uni-heidelberg.de.

The principal goal of the Network is the creation of a forum for academic exchange between Anglo-American and German scholars in all areas of Late Antique studies. Further information on the Network and its goals can be found at www.LA-network.com. The Network is open to everyone; if you wish to join or contact us, please write to Michael Kulikowski or Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner.

 
Conference Schedule

Thursday, 21 May

2:00-4:00 p.m. Registration and refreshments, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

4:30 p.m.          Welcomes (Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Susan Martin; Michael Kulikowski)

4:40 p.m.          Introduction to the Network: History and Goals (Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner)

5:00 p.m.          “Master Narratives of Late Antiquity: Centralisation, Particularism and the Historiography of the Later Roman Empire” (Michael Kulikowski, Knoxville)

6.00 p.m. Coffee Break

6.30 p.m.         Plenary Lecture: “Lists and Catalogues: A Late Roman Art Form” (John Matthews, Yale)

8.00 p.m.         Reception, McClung Museum Rotunda

Friday, 22 May

Section A1:      Divergent Elites: Imperial, Senatorial, Regional and Local (Chair: Michael Kulikowski)

9:00 a.m.          Fabian Goldbeck, Basel: Current Concepts for the Study of Elites

9:45 a.m.          John Weisweiler, Cambridge (UK): All the Emperor’s Men – Senators and Emperors in Fourth-Century Rome

10.30 Coffee Break

10:50 a.m.        Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Heidelberg: Reintegrating the Local Elites: The Emergence of the Notables

11:30 a.m.        John Dillon, Heidelberg: The Inflation of Rank and Privilege in the Later Roman Empire, its Causes and Consequences

12:15 a.m.        Clifford Ando, Chicago: Domesticating Change in Post-Antonine Law.

13:00 p.m.        Lunch Buffet, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

 

Section A2:      Change and Heterogeneity in the Representation of Elites (Chair: Danuta Shanzer, Urbana-Champaign)

2:00 p.m.          Christian Witschel, Heidelberg: Changing Spaces and Media of Elite Representation in Late Antiquity

2:45 p.m.          Julia Hillner, Sheffield: Domestic Space between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

3:30 p.m.          Michelle Salzman, Riverside: Symmachus and the Mysterious Case of the Number Seven

4:15 p.m.          Coffee Break

 

Section A3:      Elite Identities: Barbarian and Roman (Chair: Christian Witschel, Heidelberg)

4:45 p.m.          Philipp von Rummel, DAI Rome: Barbarians as Roman Elite: the Problem of Perspective

5:30 p.m.          Roland Steinacher, Vienna: Military Elites, Romans or Barbarians?

6:15 p.m.          Sebastian Gairhos, Augsburg: Raetia as Case Study for Changes and New Elite Identities

8:00 p.m.          Reception, Calhoun’s By The River

 

Saturday, 23 May

Section A4:      Paideia: the End of Shared Graeco-Latin Culture? (Chair: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Gießen/Brown)

9:00 a.m.          Edward Watts, Bloomington: Oral Traditions and Ethical Teaching among the Last Platonists

9:45 p.m.          Susanna Elm, Berkeley: Translating Roman Greekness for the Greek Romans

10:30 a.m.        Coffee Break

 

Section B

Section B1: The Making of Orthodoxy (Chair: Hartmut Leppin, Frankfurt)

11:00 a.m.        Winrich Löhr, Heidelberg: Defining Orthodoxy in the 4th Century: Constantius II and ‘Homoian’ Christianity?

11:15 a.m.        Ralph Mathisen, Urbana-Champaign: Making Orthodoxies in the West: The Creed of Rimini and the Legitimation of Arianism

12:00 p.m.        Christina Shepardson, Knoxville: Locating Orthodoxy: Syrian Judaizers and Narratives of Imperial Christianity

12:45 p.m.        Lunch Buffet, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

 

Section B2:      Competing Authorites: Church and State, Bishops and Monks (Chair: Noel Lenski, Boulder)

2:00 p.m.          Kai Trampedach, Heidelberg: Forms of Interaction between Emperors, Bishops and Monks in Constantinople in the Fifth Century

2:45 p.m.          Steffen Diefenbach, Augsburg: Leadership, Charismatic Authority and Public Office: Bishops in Late Antique Gaul

3:30 p.m.          Rudolf Haensch, Munich: Ruling Holy Countries: an Easy Task? The Governors of the Three Palestines in Late Antiquity

4:15 p.m. Coffee Break

 

Section B3:      Christianization and the Integration of the Hinterland (Chair: Gunnar Brands, Halle)

4:45 p.m.          Judith Végh, Heidelberg: The Christianization of Spain: A Case apart?

5:30 p.m.          Roland Prien, Heidelberg: The Case of Early Christianity in the Northwestern Provinces: Archaeological Evidence versus Written Sources

6:15 p.m.          Richard E. Payne, Cambridge (UK): Hagiography and the Christianization of Local Elites in the Provinces of Late Antique Iran

Sunday, 24 May

9:00 a.m.          Summary, Overview, Questions Raised, Discussion (Christian Witschel)

10:30 a.m.        Prospect: LA Network Meeting 2010

12:00 a.m.        Conference Concludes

PCA Institute, Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, 2009.

Friday, March 27:
3:00-5:00 p.m. Reading the Latin Hexameter Workshop, Stephen Daitz
6:30-7:00              Welcoming reception
7:00-8:00              Buffet Dinner. Report from the Governor’s Institute for World Language Teacher, Mary Redline and Eleanor Brinker

Saturday, March 28:
8:00-10:00 a.m.  Mythology and Multiple Intelligence, Carrie Kennedy; Podcasting and the Latin Classroom, Chris Francese
10:30-12:00 Latin is a Dead Language — So Why Speak It? Some Historical and Practical Considerations, Terence Tunberg; Workshop on Active Latin in the Classroom: Strategies for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Students,Terence Tunberg
12:30-1:30           Buffet Luncheon

Questions? Contact Mark Clauser at clauserm AT eastonteachers.org

Download registration forms and further information at http://alpha.dickinson.edu/prorg/pca/Meetings.htm

CAM Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 4, 2009

CAM is pleased to offer its annual spring meeting, entitled “Nunc Te,
Bacche, Canam”, at Westport Rivers Vineyards in Westport, MA. The tentative
schedule is as follows:

9:30 ­ 10:00 Arrival and Continental Breakfast

10:00 Tour of the Vineyards led by Westport Rivers Staff

10:45 Wine Tasting (Not Falernian or Livia¹s favorite from Pucinum, but an
opportunity to taste what Massachusetts produces!)

11:15 Docens Cibum, Cenam, et Dapem: Food in the Latin Classroom

This open discussion will include topics of classroom lessons, projects,
sources, Latin Banquets and classroom logistics. Please bring with you
either a banquet-related lesson, recipe from the ancient world or hints and
ideas about how you present culinary topics in your classroom.

12:15 Lunch and Business Meeting: Katy Ganino Reddick, CAM President

Questions? Contact Katy Ganino Reddick at atyganino AT yahoo.com

Download the registration form and find more information at
www.massclass.org