This is a reminder that the Leeds International Classical Seminar for 2009 on the subject of ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’ will take place on Friday May 15th.
Those planning to attend should notify Penny Goodman (p.j.goodman AT leeds.ac.uk) BY FRIDAY MAY 8TH in order to secure lunch. The conference fee, which includes tea / coffee and a buffet lunch, is £15 (or £10 for students and unwaged), payable on the day.
A full programme of papers follows below.
Programme for LICS 2009, ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’:
10.30 – 11.30: Registration in the Department of Classics
(1st Floor, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds)
11.30 onwards: Papers in Seminar Rooms 3 and 4 of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI)
(29-31 Clarendon Place)
11.30 – 12.15: Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham)
Towards a new (space) syntax: Varro’s de Lingua Latina
12.15 – 13.00: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
Horace and Augustan monuments
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
(Room 119, Dept. of Classics, 1st Floor Parkinson Building)
14.00 – 14.45: Stratis Kyriakidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Rome and the fata Asiae, (Manilius, 1.512)
14.45 – 15.30: Andrew Zissos (University of California, Irvine)
Terra sub Augusto est: Augustan Rome and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
15.30 – 16.00: Coffee (in LHRI)
16.00 – 16.45: Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Augustus’ house on the Palatine
16.45 – 17.30: Alison Cooley (University of Warwick)
Contextualising Augustus’ Res Gestae
