As part of the Panegyrici Latini Project, the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews are delighted to announce a one-day conference, to be held in the School of Classics, Swallowgate, St Andrews on Saturday 16th May 2009.
“Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity”
9.30 Introduction: Bruce Gibson (Liverpool) and Roger Rees (St Andrews).
10.00
‘A couple of things Pliny can’t help with: Panegyrici Latini XI(3)’
John Henderson (Cambridge)
10.45
‘Managing the past: Plinian strategies in late antique panegyric’
Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)
11.30 Coffee
12.00
‘Pliny and Symmachus’
Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh)
12.45 Lunch (in Swallowgate)
1.45
‘Pacatus, a poet doing Plinian prose’
Roger Rees (St Andrews)
2.30
‘Pliny’s Panegyricus and the Historia Augusta’
Diederik Burgersdijk (Amsterdam)
3.15 Tea
3.45
‘Salvian, Pliny’s Panegyricus and the Gallic Panegyrics’
David Lambert (St. Andrews)
4.30
‘Sidonius’ Pliny: from Constantius and Clarus to Firminus and Fuscus’
Roy Gibson (Manchester)
5.15 End
Registration
The deadline for Registration is 1 May 2009.
The conference fee of £10 covers conference documents, lunch and morning and afternoon refreshments. Postgraduate students may attend without charge, but need to register. Full details and a downloadable booking form are available at:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/panegyric/events.html
For further information, please email rdr1 AT st-andrews.ac.uk or bjgibson AT liverpool.ac.uk.